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Ben Tillyer – University of Oxford – Reflections on WCAG, AI, and Inclusion
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Ben Tillyer, Head of Digital Accessibility at Oxford, talks with Jessica about WCAG’s limits, the messy ethics of unpaid testing by disabled staff, and whether AI could ever help fix it.
From alt text to overlays to Oxford’s own machine learning research, this episode pulls no punches—and yes, there’s a cat.
Chapters
1. Intro - The Outer Circle (00:00:00)
2. Intro - Ben Tillyer (00:00:23)
3. Accessibility "Aha moment" (00:04:31)
4. Alternative text (00:09:05)
5. Top tip for someone new to accessibility (00:20:54)
6. Favorite website (00:22:35)
7. Pets (00:23:21)
8. One common accessibility mistake (00:24:01)
9. How to make forms accessible (00:28:17)
10. Debunking accessibility myths (00:32:27)
11. AI's impact on accessibility (00:35:52)
12. WCAG - What Ben would add (00:45:36)
13. WCAG - What Ben would remove (00:49:22)
14. Accessibility overlays (00:59:23)
15. The tech Ben is waiting for (01:06:04)
16. Automated testing platforms like Silktide (01:17:42)
17. Ben's biggest win (01:21:16)
18. Outro - Why are we called The Outer Circle? (01:24:42)
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