Snap Partner Summit: Accessibility, D.E.I., and Drones
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My company’s touch screen accessibility project for Snap’s A.R. smart glasses made an appearance in the video from today’s Snap Partner Summit (Thursday 28 April 2022). Such an honor!
Here’s the time-coded link to the bit about Echobatix:
https://youtu.be/OlPey4WxY1Q?t=2395
Accessibility & ASL
There’s also a great segment about Snap’s work in American Sign Language (ASL). They’ve started with fingerspelling, a feature you can incorporate in a Lens (a Snapchat app).
https://youtu.be/OlPey4WxY1Q?t=1703
Lenses are created with Lens Studio, a free development environment. Here’s the link:
https://ar.snap.com/lens-studio
Accessibility Tech
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, has said that accessibility is a human right. I agree wholeheartedly.
Here is a link to a YouTube video in which Cook discusses accessibility with Deaf advocate and social media influencer Rikki Poynter:
The video was made on Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2017. This year’s GAAD falls on Thursday 19 May 2022. It’s the third Thursday in May every year.
https://accessibility.day/
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
In my experience using Snap tech, attending their events, and communicating with their employees, Snap is serious about diversity, equity, and inclusion. For a sample of the Snap’s 2021 DEI Summit, here’s a chat between actor Idris Elba and Snap’s VP of DE&I, Oona King:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b69OgKZVdrM
Drones
If you haven’t heard of Pixy yet, check out this closing segment of the SPS video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlPey4WxY1Q
