Episode 4: Making Maps Accessible

Episode 4 Guest: Brandon Biggs Brandon Biggs is an entrepreneur, researcher, inclusive designer, developer, and life-long learner. He is the CEO of XR Navigation, an Engineer at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, Co-Founder and board treasurer at Sonja Biggs Educational Services Inc., and a PhD student at the Georgia institute of Technology. In 2016, he received his bachelors in music from California State University East Bay, in 2019 he received his masters in Inclusive Design from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, and in 2021, began his PhD in Human Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is almost completely blind from Lebers Congenital Amaurosis (LCA). His projects and ventures center around building tools to solve some of the most difficult problems in the blindness field. He leverages his lived experience coupled with human centered inclusive design principles to create solutions that create lasting and sustainable impact. To achieve this goal, Brandon is half entrepreneur and half academic. His current project, XR Navigation, makes maps everyone can use. Episode 4 Resources * XR Navigation: https://xrnavigation.io/ * Audiom Demo: https://www.audiom.net/#audiom-demo * Charles Minard’s March of 1812: https://ageofrevolution.waterlooassociation.org.uk/200-object/flow-map-of-napoleons-invasion-of-russia/ * Systematically Evaluating Equivalent Purpose for Digital Maps: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05310 * Brandon Biggs on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=brDhd98AAAAJ&hl=en Get full access to Making Work Accessible | Workplace Disability Inclusion at inclusivepixelation.substack.com/subscribe