Laura Kalbag calls on businesses using people’s data for profit to examine the ethics of that model, and talks practical inclusive design and digital accessibility.

Highlights include:

⭐ How are accessibility and inclusive design different? ⭐ What does the inaccessible state of the web say about technologists? ⭐ What’s wrong with companies profiting from our behavioural data? ⭐ Why have you gone to great lengths to live up to your values? ⭐ What can we do to help our organisations to make more ethical decisions?

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Who is Laura Kalbag?

Laura is a designer and developer, as well as the Co-Founder of the Small Technology Foundation, a two-person and one-husky, not-for-profit, that strives for a more ethical, more private, and more just technology industry.

From 2016 until December 2021, the Small Technology Foundation made and supported Better, a digital privacy tool for Safari - across Apple’s operating systems.

Laura is also a passionate proponent for creating a web that is inclusive and accessible. In 2017 she published her first book, “Accessibility for Everyone”, through A Book Apart.

The book is a guide to the accessibility landscape. Helping people to understand disability and impairment challenges; get a handle on important laws and guidelines; and to learn how to plan for, evaluate, and test accessible design.

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Find Laura here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurakalbag/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LauraKalbag Website: https://laurakalbag.com/

Small Technology Foundation:

Website: https://small-tech.org/ Email: hello@small-tech.org

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