Accessibility and AI: Bridging the Disability Divide

Accessibility and AI: Bridging the Disability Divide

34mBeginner2024-06-14

Authors

Ioana Tanase

Ioana Tanase

Kartik Sawhney

Kartik Sawhney

Course details

Building a future where everyone can access the benefits of technology has never been more important. If you’re a product developer, AI makes it possible for you to do your job faster and more efficiently, but how do you get your skills up to speed? In this course, instructors Kartik Sawhney and Ioana Tanase provide a brief overview of the importance of inclusive product development and show why developers and product makers should focus on accessibility if they truly want to innovate.

Get an introduction to an innovation framework designed to promote accessibility, which you can put to use at your organization. Along the way, learn how to adopt and use AI to build more accessible products by integrating APIs, enriching APIs with your own data, harnessing generative AI, and more. By the end of this course, you’ll also be prepared to bridge the accessibility gap by using AI copilots and applying responsible AI practices.

Skills covered

AccessibilityDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)Artificial Intelligence FoundationsUser ExperienceArtificial Intelligence (AI)One-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Breaking barriers in accessibility and AI

Design and Innovation

  • The case for AI innovation
  • Adopting an innovation framework, part one
  • Adopting an innovation framework, part two

AI and Accessibility

  • Integrating APIs
  • Enriching APIs with your own data
  • Harnessing generative AI

Accessible Copilots

  • Copilot accessibility considerations
  • Applying responsible AI practices

Conclusion

  • Bridging the disability divide
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