Accessible Canada Act
Krista Pereira2024-03-26T20:12:56-04:00Fable helps you meet goals for the Accessible Canada Act’s three-year Accessibility Plan through consulting people with disabilities for web accessibility, policy, and practices.
Community spotlight: Rhonel Cinous
Kate Barton2024-03-27T19:10:42-04:00Learn about Rhonel's disability journey, his adventures beyond Fable, and his advocacy work.
Build cultural maturity in accessibility, like NBCUniversal
Kate Barton2024-03-25T18:21:18-04:00Lori Samuels, Senior Director of Accessibility at NBCUniversal, explored how accessibility involves the changing of habits at scale.
Customer spotlight: Wendy Reid, Accessibility and Publishing Standards Lead, Rakuten Kobo
Abid Virani2024-03-26T19:37:07-04:00Learn how Wendy Reid, Accessibility and Publishing Standards Lead at Rakuten Kobo is leveraging Fable to make ebooks more accessible to people with disabilities.
Contributing to AI Standards
Abid Virani2024-01-25T17:57:34-05:00Fable’s Head of Accessibility Innovation Kate Kalcevich is excited to join the Technical committee for accessible and equitable artificial intelligence systems for Accessibility Standards Canada. Fable has a long history of collaboration with committee chair Dr. Jutta Treviranus, including on a recent Future of work: Equitable Digital Systems project.
Spark cross-team collaboration through accessible research, like Booking.com
Jennifer Chadwick2024-03-25T18:22:39-04:00Maya Alvarado, Senior Accessibility Researcher at Booking.com, and Kevin Penny, member of Fable’s community of assistive technology users, discuss how collaboration happens on teams through accessible and inclusive research.
Insights: Accessibility challenges in travel
Abid Virani2024-03-26T19:47:03-04:00Fable conducted a survey of our community, all of whom use assistive technology, to learn what they’re thinking about as they plan to travel this holiday season. For these travelers, the potential challenges and frustrations go beyond crowds, delays and weather.
Community spotlight: Maryse Glaude-Beaulieu
Abid Virani2024-03-26T18:56:22-04:00A behind-the-scenes look into decades of lived experience that fuel Maryse's work at Fable.
Insights: Mobile accessibility
Abid Virani2024-03-18T19:31:50-04:00Mobile device usage is at an all-time high, but we hear from designers and developers that they are uncertain how to make native mobile apps accessible to people with disabilities. To better understand the accessibility barriers encountered on mobile devices, Fable surveyed our community of assistive technology users.
Fable webinar recap: unlocking the power of accessibility research
Kate Barton2024-03-26T19:55:56-04:00How should a UX researcher prepare for research involving people with disabilities who use assistive technology (AT)? How will the session flow? What do you need to keep in mind? Aimed at practitioners new to facilitating accessible UX research, Fable’s recent webinar “Unlocking the power of accessibility research” featured practical advice on how to get started. In this article, we’ll summarize the main takeaways from the session that will help you maximize the time spent with an AT user and how to structure the interview to get more insights out of it.