02/05/2022 – Ace-Ed
“JoAnna Hunt, Head of Accessibility for Books and Retail at Amazon, leads a team of people who are working to ensure that all of Amazon’s reading, shopping and publishing experiences work effectively for people with disabilities. Her perspective on how to make significant changes – especially in educating engineers and designers – is the kind of effort that can have a lasting positive change in the work we do.
WHAT DOES THE TERM ACCESSIBILITY MEAN TO YOU AT THIS MOMENT?
Accessibility means that every human being on the planet has the same opportunities and access as everyone else has to engage with society – be it access to information, to physical or digital locations, to product experiences, or to anything that they want to do. It means that physical or cognitive limitations caused by medical conditions are no longer stigmatized and societal barriers are no longer keeping these individuals from successfully living their lives. It means society really, truly creates an equal playing field for everybody.” …Read the exclusive interview with JoAnna Hunt here.