Voice Content, Multimodal Accessibility, and the Story of Ask GeorgiaGov

For decades now, the realms of content strategy, user experience, and accessibility have revolved first and foremost around core tenets and tropes of the web:

• Links
• Calls to action
• Navbars
• Sitemaps

Screen readers have long unlocked written web content for people with disabilities, though still rooted in the strictures and limitations of the visual medium the web represents.

Increasingly, Blind technologists are looking to voice interfaces and voice content as conduits that deliver information in time rather than space — and in the speech and sound rather than unwieldy windows. Can voice interfaces offer compelling alternatives for communities of people with disabilities when it comes to web content and websites writ large?

In this presentation, Preston So, author of the first-ever book on voice content and A Book Apart's first book on voice, voice content, and usability, will take you on a tour through the assistive potential voice interfaces and voice content unlock, with insight from Ask GeorgiaGov, among the first content-driven voice interfaces in existence and the first conversational interface built for residents of the state of Georgia.

And there will be time for your questions.

PRESENTER BIO
Preston So (he/him) is a product architect and strategist, digital experience futurist, innovation lead, developer advocate, three-time SXSW speaker, and author of Voice Content and Usability (A Book Apart, 2021), Gatsby: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly, 2021), and Decoupled Drupal in Practice (Apress, 2018).

A globally recognized subject matter expert on omnichannel content strategy, immersive digital experiences, conversational design, and the decentralized web, Preston is Senior Director, Product Strategy at Oracle, where he oversees developer experience, developer relations, headless CMS strategy, and open-source strategy for Oracle Content Management.

ACCESSIBILITY
The presentation will have Captions [CC]. Streaming transcript:
https://tcc.1capapp.com/event/equalentry

LIVESTREAM
Provided by Internet Society Accessibility SIG.
https://youtu.be/iOUbt-Hhc0Y

ACCREDITATION
All A11yNYC meetups are pre-approved for IAAP Continuing Accessibility Education Credits (CAEC).

SPONSORS
Thanks to Adobe, Equal Entry, and Fable for sponsoring.