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Microsoft Chief Accessibility Officer Jenny Lay-Flurrie Talks This Year’s Ability Summit, Responsible AI In Interview
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Mar 7, 2024,11:15am EST
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Jenny Lay-Flurrie is Microsoft’s chief accessibility officer.
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When I sat down last year with Jenny Lay-Flurrie, chief accessibility officer at Microsoft, to talk about the company’s Ability Summit, she explained the event has come a long way over the years. What began as an internal initiative in 2010 with 20 people in a room has ballooned to tens of thousands today. Last year’s event, in fact, was headlined by the likes of transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg and American Association of People with Disabilities president and CEO Maria Town.
“Way back when, I thought that was magical because the level of conversations that people having [about accessibility] were just beautiful,” Flurrie said of Ability Summit’s humble origins.
Flurrie and I reconnected via videoconference earlier this week to discuss this year’s edition of Microsoft’s Ability Summit, being held today. The one-day [...]
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