SXSW 2025

Driving Lasting Change With Holistic Digital Accessibility

Description:

Many organizations want to be more accessible but do not know whose responsibility it is or how to scale it. This session explores how the responsibility cuts across all layers – individuals, teams, communities, culture, and policy – and change is interdependent on one other. Accessibility is amplified by coordinated, connected, and consistent efforts at each level, including involvement of People with Disabilities (PwD). Discover how we might use public health tools, like the Socio-Ecological Model, to create a holistic systems approach and drive lasting change in digital accessibility.


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Takeaways

  1. Learn at least 1 new public health tool that can be applied to accessibility initiatives
  2. Name at least 3 of the 5 levels in the Socio-Ecological Model and how they relate to more accessible and inclusive work, live and play
  3. Describe who is responsible for digital accessibility in organizations and how to support sustainable, diverse and inclusive products and initiatives

Speakers


Organizer

Sonya Lewis, Product Designer and Accessibility Lead, Sunflower UX


Meta Information:

  • Event: SXSW
  • Format: Panel
  • Track: Health & MedTech
  • Track 2
  • Level: Beginner


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