Hearing - Larry Goldberg & Tyler Heaton

Join Sound Expert Tyler Heaton as he interviews leading accessible media and technology expert Larry Goldberg. In this interview, they discuss Larry’s role in the production and prevalence of closed captioning, how the senses can play a role in sharing media will all audiences, and future innovations in accessibility tech. Larry Goldberg is a leading accessible media and technology expert and consultant. With more than 35 years of experience as an innovative leader, entrepreneur, inventor, advisor and mentor, he has advanced access to a wide range of media and technology for people with disabilities, driving inclusive policies, processes and organizational infrastructures for large and small, for-profit and non-profit, public and private sector institutions. Larry began his consulting career after eight years at Yahoo, as Senior Director and eventually, Head of Accessibility. As Head of Accessibility, he directed a dedicated team of accessibility professionals and coordinated with thousands of designers, developers, engineers, product managers and executives to ensure that Yahoo’s many products, services and media offerings were as accessible as possible to people with disabilities.