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The Accessibility Advantage

Advocating for more accessibility for and inclusion of people with disabilities through communication & collaboration instead of compliance & shame.

Podcast · By The Blind Blogger Maxwell Ivey · American English · US · Official site

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Sep 19, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 19, 2026

    Inside the American Council of the Blind: My Conversation with Michael Babcock (opens the original)

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    Hello again, I hope you have had a good week. On this episode, I caught up with an old friend, Michael Babcock, who is now the Membership Engagement Specialist for the American Council of the Blind. Michael has been blind since birth and has spent 26 years working with assistive technology, dating back to when he was 10 or 11 years old and first started troubleshooting his way around the internet. We hadn't recorded together in about a decade, so this conversation was overdue in more ways than o

  2. Episode · Sep 17, 2026

    Digital Accessibility as a Right: My Conversation with Mellissa Green (opens the original)

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    Hello again, I hope you are having a good week so far. On this episode, I sat down with Mellissa Green, a digital accessibility advocate and host of the podcast Uniquely Abled: Disrupting Disability. Mellissa was born with retinopathy of prematurity and has been blind since birth. We swapped a lot of stories from our early years navigating assistive technology, and talked candidly about what it takes to break into digital accessibility work without a traditional professional background in it. On

  3. Episode · Sep 12, 2026

    Visible and Invisible Disability: with Jennifer Chassman Browne and Dr. Arielle Dance (opens the original)

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    On this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with two remarkable women: Jennifer Chassman Browne, a lifelong educator and author currently finishing her book See Us Know Us: Profiles of Disability, and Dr. Arielle Dance, an award-winning children's book author, poet, and disability advocate. Both women are contributors to Jennifer's book project, and our conversation ranged from the very different experiences of visible versus invisible disability to storytelling as a tool for advocacy, to wha

  4. Episode · Sep 8, 2026

    Neuroinclusive Leadership: My Conversation with Ron Sosa (opens the original)

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    Hello again, I hope your week is getting off to a good start. On this episode of The Accessibility Advantage, I sat down with Ron Sosa, a neuroinclusive leadership coach, author, speaker, and Executive Director of the Uncharted Veterinary Conference. Ron and I talked about invisible disability, masking, and what it actually takes to build workplaces that don't burn people out for being wired differently and we ended up in a genuinely open, back-and-forth conversation rather than a straight inter

  5. Episode · Aug 22, 2026

    Lauren Harris Is Accessibility A Strategy Or A Tactic (opens the original)

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    Hello again, I hope you are having an enjoyable weekend wherever you are watching, listening, or reading from. On this episode of The Accessibility Advantage, I sat down with Lauren Harris, co-founder of Reliable PR & Marketing. Lauren and I found a lot of common ground I didn't expect going in not just between marketing and accessibility, but in how both fields are being reshaped by AI in ways most business owners haven't caught up to yet. And I found the thread of strategy over tactics applies

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