AXSChat Podcast

Microsoft Treats Accessibility Like Security And Privacy

AI is everywhere right now, but the most useful question isn’t “what can it do?” It’s “who does it work for?” We sit down with Neil Barnett, Microsoft’s new Chief Accessi

How Japan Is Rethinking Web Accessibility Without Laws

A single smile can explain web accessibility better than a thousand audits. Makoto Ueki joins us from Japan to share the moment that changed his career: watching an 80+ y

What If Disability Rights Led Innovation First

“Inclusive” is one of those words everyone loves to say and almost nobody builds all the way through. We sit down with Jamie Cooke, Executive Director of Inclusion Intern

If Inclusion Depends On Your Boss, Is It Inclusion

A clunky accommodations process can undo years of diversity work in a single bad moment. Neil Milliken sits down with disability inclusion consultant Deb Dagit to get spe

How The European Parliament Can Make Accessibility Real

Accessibility is not a “nice to have” add-on to the economy. It is consumer protection, civil rights, and a growth strategy, and it only becomes real when disabled people

A Blind Founder Builds An AI Assistant You Can Trust

Your inbox is where productivity goes to die, especially when the tools assume you can constantly scan a screen, hunt for tiny buttons, and triple-check every draft. We s

How To Build Accessibility Into Business Systems

AI is rewriting job descriptions, regulators are getting sharper, and accessibility teams are being asked to prove value faster than ever. So we put Neil Milliken in the

How WelcoMe Lets Guests Share Access Needs Before Arrival

A power wheelchair user reaches the gangway on a dream cruise, looks down, and realises there is no safe way off the ship. Everyone cares. Nobody knows what to do. That s

What If Event Accessibility Were The Default?

93% of disabled delegates facing barriers at events should be a wake-up call, not a footnote. We sit down with Catherine Grinyer, (Attendable), Shani Dhanda (accessibilit

How Amazon Builds Workplace Accessibility For 1.5 Million Employees

Accessibility at work is easy to talk about and hard to deliver, especially when your “office” includes fulfillment centers, delivery stations, corporate teams, and cutti

The Job Hunt When You Are Blind

One sentence can flip an interview from warm to frozen: “I should tell you I’m visually impaired.” That moment sits at the heart of our conversation with Steve Tyler, Dir

Inclusion Works Best When Everyone Plays Together

A theme park where wheelchair users do not get parked in the front row, where sensory needs shape the design, and where “accessible” is not a single modified option, it i

What If Disability Inclusion & Community Care Starts In A Stable

A horse does not show up with preconceptions about disability, status, or what you can do. It meets you as you are, responds to your body and energy, and somehow makes sp

Building Workplace Resilience For Neurodivergent Minds In The Age Of AI

AI is changing work faster than most humans can comfortably process, and that speed is colliding with already exhausted nervous systems. We sit down with Marie-Hélène Pel

How A Berlin Museum Makes Science Touchable

A museum can hold 30 million objects and still feel inaccessible if the experience depends on sight alone. We sit down with Tina Schneider from the Natural History Museum

Employers Cannot Fix What Workers Fear To Share

“We have no employees using drugs or alcohol.” Georges Petitjean has heard versions of that line for years, even while treating people who are quietly disappearing into d

Building Disability Inclusion Into AI Policy And Practice

The scariest part of AI isn’t the sci-fi stuff, it’s how fast it can change the tools people already rely on to live and communicate. We sit down with Dr Julie Eshleman,

Who Audits The Auditors When Disability Groups Miss Accessibility

If we can name every brand that gets accessibility wrong, why do so many disabled people still avoid working for disability organisations? That question drives our conver

Inside ReelAbilities The Disability Film Festival Changing Culture

Movies have taught us what disability is supposed to look like for more than a century and too often the answer is a tired binary: tragedy or inspiration. We sit down wit

An Emmy, A Dream, And A Dance Class

A dance class can be a mirror or a wall, and too many families know what it feels like to be shut out. We sit down with filmmaker and former dancer Dan Watt to unpack how