GUEST

Dr Michele A Williams

Making Accessibility Work UX and Accessibility Consultant Author of Accessible UX Research Smashing Media

https://mawconsultingllc.com

Accessible UX Research

Publisher Smashing Magazine

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/accessible-ux-research-pre-release/

00:00 Accessibility Wake Up Call

00:57 Meet Dr Michele Williams

02:07 Equity Resilience Trust

04:01 Disability Mindset Shift

05:59 Why Lived Experience Matters

07:14 Person First vs Identity First

13:01 AI Promise and Harm

15:23 Social Model In Practice

19:58 Beyond Screen Readers

25:02 Exclusion Inside Real Teams

26:58 Semantic Code Chaos

28:32 Standards Lag Tech

29:12 Siri Zoom Panic

31:23 Disability Dongles

33:36 AI Hype Reality

37:25 Beyond Checklists

40:32 90 Day Baseline

42:30 Change Defaults

44:17 Normalize Inclusion

46:47 Nothing About Us

49:13 One Action This Week

50:35 Closing Credits

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ABOUT THE HOST

Dr. Tuboise Floyd is the founder of Human Signal, a strategy lab and podcast for people deploying AI inside government agencies, universities, and enterprise systems. A PhD social scientist and former federal contracting strategist, he reverse-engineers system failures and designs AI governance controls that survive real humans, real incentives, and real pressure.

PRODUCTION NOTES

Host & Producer: Dr. Tuboise Floyd

Creative Director: Jeremy Jarvis

Tech Specs:

Recorded with true analog warmth. No artificial polish, no algorithmic smoothing. Just pure signal and real presence for leaders who value authentic sound.

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TRANSCRIPT

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TAGS/KEYWORDS

AI Governance, Risk Management, Innovation, Project Cerebellum, CIO Leadership, AI Ethics, Military Technology, Cybersecurity, AI Policy, Enterprise AI, Government AI, Technology Leadership

HASHTAGS

#AIGovernance #RiskManagement #Innovation #AIPolicy #CIOLeadership #AIEthics #HumanSignal #MilitaryTech #Cybersecurity #ProjectCerebellum

LEGAL

© 2026 Dr. Tuboise Floyd. All rights reserved.

Content is part of the Presence Signaling Architecture (PSA™) and L.E.A.C. Protocol™.

As a podcast host exploring the intersection of humanity and technology I keep asking: Are we really including everyone in our digital transformation?

Dr Michele A Williams, Owner & Accessibility Consultant, new book Accessible UX Research challenges us to move beyond checklists and truly design with not for disabled users.

Coming soon to the Human Signal podcast: Dr Michele A Williams PhD joins us to break down how to make digital accessibility work in an AI world.

https://mawconsultingllc.com/

Accessibility is not just about digital spaces. Accessibility is about fundamental human rights.

What Gen X leaders and professionals need to know:

✓ How to spot invisible exclusion in UX research and code

✓ Moving beyond compliance checklists to build truly inclusive systems

✓ Using AI for captions and alt text without creating new barriers

✓ 90 day accessibility practices your team can sustain

Because real inclusion means ensuring everyone has access to the places and systems they need whether digital or physical.

Production notes:

Tech Specs:

Recorded with true analog warmth. No artificial polish, no algorithmic smoothing. Just pure signal and real presence for leaders who value authentic sound.

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Email: tuboise@humansignal.io

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📜 Transcript

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🏷️ Tags

#HumanSignal #DigitalAccessibility #ArtificialIntelligence #InclusiveDesign #UXResearch #GenXLeaders #TechLeadership #Accessibility

🧠 About Human Signal

Human Signal monitors governance patterns across frontier AI labs, tracking the gap between stated safety commitments and operational reality. Through the L.E.A.C. Protocol and tools, like Noise Discipline and Workflow Thesis, we identify where governance erodes under capital pressure and where external oversight needs to be applied.

Production notes:

Tech Specs:

Recorded with true analog warmth. No artificial polish, no algorithmic smoothing. Just pure signal and real presence for leaders who value authentic sound.

📧 Contact & Subscribe

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tuboise

Email: tuboise@humansignal.io

GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/117dd0d3d

Support Human Signal:

Help fuel six months of new episodes, visual briefs, and honest playbooks.

🔗 https://gofund.me/117dd0d3d

Every contribution sustains the signal.

📜 Transcript

Full transcript available upon request at support@humansignal.io

🏷️ Tags

#AI #FutureOfWork #ResponsibleAI #AIGovernance #AIActivism