This is a transcript of the video Shaw Media talks about David Berman Communications onsite accessibility course.
(TEXT ON SCREEN: David Berman Communications Review, November 15 2016, Shaw Media)
(TEXT ON SCREEN: Andrew Davies, Experience Design Manager, Shaw Media)
(A man in a sweater faces the camera, and continues to do so throughout the video.)
My name’s Andrew Davies, and I’m the Manager of Experience Design for Shaw Media. My team of web designers and user experience designers are responsible for the maintenance and enhancements to all of our brand websites and applications. Those brands include Global TV, Global News, Food, HGTV, Slice, History, and Showcase.
My team will be embarking on a redesign of one of our major branded websites, and there was an opportunity for us to incorporate accessibility as part of this redesign. So essentially David came in for a full day of training for about 30 developers, 10 graphic designers, and my UX team. I was concerned that taking that many people out of their daily work schedule was going to be really hard on the business, and also be hard to keep those people engaged.
David used real-life examples, got people up and interacting. It was an amazing experience. Tremendous amount of feedback. People stayed for the entire session. Often times people would be jumping up for meetings in other full-day sessions. Not the case with David’s.
I’m very confident that moving forward we’re going to be able to incorporate all the best practices to make sure that our new branded websites will be fully accessible, and that we’ll achieve web accessibility accreditation.
(TEXT ON SCREEN: David Berman Communications Review, November 15 2016, Shaw Media)
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