Making Digital Accessibility Work In The AI Era With Dr Michele A Williams 2026
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Making Digital Accessibility Work In The AI Era With Dr Michele A Williams 2026
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Dr Tuboise Floyd hosts Dr Michele A Williams to explain why digital accessibility failures present across 97 percent of the web create equity resilience and trust risks that AI can magnify at scale. Williams contrasts medical vs social models of disability addresses ableism and language person first vs identity first and argues checklists cannot replace lived experience or disabled participation in UX research and leadership. They discuss how inaccessible code tools and AI trained on inaccessible data produce issues like missing labels broken keyboard paths and poor semantic structure and warn against disability dongles that add tech instead of removing systemic barriers. Williams outlines a practical 90 day plan establish a baseline with scans and process mapping change defaults via accessible design systems procurement questions and human in the loop reviews then run inclusive research bring evidence to executives and document shipping decisions so accessibility becomes a normal feedback loop.
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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Email: tuboise@humansignal.io
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TRANSCRIPT
Full transcript available upon request at support@humansignal.io
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
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