Episode 38: A World of Feeling

Kimberly talks with Danielle Burton, Communications Accessibility Editor for the American Printing House for the Blind. They talk sports, public transportation woes, and haptics, which is a standardized system for providing and or receiving visual and environmental information as well as social feedback via touch signals on the body.

For more about haptics, visit: Helen Keller Haptics Video Series.

iCanConnect, also known as the National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program.

Thanks to Chris Ankin for use of his song, “Change.”

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Transcript:

Welcome to demand and disrupt the disability podcast here.

We will learn to advocate for ourselves and each other This podcast is supported with funds from the Advocato press based in Louisville, Kentucky Welcome to demand and disrupt a disability podcast.

I am your host Kimberly parsley and I'm Lisa McKinley.

Thank you for joining us Yes, thanks.

Everyone.

We are interviewing or I'm interviewing today Danielle Burton.

She is the Accessible communication accessibility editor for the American printing house for the blind and That's a mouthful but what it is is she's the person who they have a lot of people with people who are blind and deafblind and such in at American printing house and so she's the person who edits all the documentation and things they send out to make sure that it's accessible for screen readers and the like and I Want my own personal communications accessibility editor.

What about you?

So do I?

And I want I want every company to have an editor Like wouldn't that be cool?

Yes, that where they have to make sure that all the stuff they put out is accessible.

That would be yes That would be equally awesome.

So Danielle Burton is Wonderful, and she's amazing and you're really gonna enjoy my interview with her.

She told me something about a I Don't guess you call it a language but a form of communication called haptics.

And so basically what this is is where someone will will give you signals on the body to convey information about like the environment or social feedback or something like that like like if say your boss walk you're given in a presentation and your boss walks in and like that might be information that would be good for you to have but if you're blind you Can't see that right?

so a person like assisting you would be up there and would like Tap on your back in such a way as to let you know that hey, the boss just walked in Wow, that would come in really really handy, wouldn't it?

It would It really would and I I can't really figure out if it's I think there's an aspect to it That's formalized like I think there are certain things that mean certain colors or or things you know, I think there is a it's not formal