


So it really helps me to watch people building products and services and concepts and to figure out like, okay, what would it mean to have someone who’s deaf use this? What would it mean to have someone who is blind use this or someone dyslexic like me? So accessibility touches all of us. People from all different backgrounds using your tech, what else they need. Also, accessibility is a topic that impacts every single product, not just at Microsoft, but actually in the world, because you actually have no idea. And like, you know, micromanaging needle. And I have to see what other Devs are doing. I think for me at heart, I’m a Dev right. So in my mind, like you go to Director of IT, you go to the top floor and you kind of check out all the technical stuff, but you’re here at hackathon.ĭona: Oh no, no. You’ve done, you know, Dev Manager of Advocacy, Power Platform, and now you are Director of Technology, Microsoft Accessibility, but you’re here, you’re at the Power Platform hack. Tom: So you’ve come from the Windows Insider Program. So, I mean, you’ve just had a, you’ve done lots and lots of things. I’m Tom Morgan, Microsoft MVP, I’m at South Coast Summit, and I’m with the fantastic Dona Sarkar.ĭona: Hello, everyone. Thanks so much to Dona for being so gracious with her time.īy the way, if you want to know what South Coast Summit was like my Day 1 video is out now. This was such a fun interview to do and very informative for me as well: for instance, I had never really thought about accessibility as a SEO tool.
