Painting the Back of the Apple Accessibility Fence with Rene Ritchie

In this podcast, Allison and Robert speak with Rene Ritchie; writer, podcaster and creative force behind the very successful iMore website. In June of 2014, Rene wrote an article entitled Apple and Accessibility: Pushing back against unacceptable realities. In the podcast, we learn how Rene became interested in accessibility. He explains how Apple’s focus on accessibility is resulting in better products for everyone and not just benefiting people who have a disability. Rene explains the importance of Apple’s commitment to accessibility coming from the top down. This is a major factor in Apple having become the world leader in designing and producing devices that are useable by everyone. We discuss the future of accessibility and Rene emphasizes the idea that we can all do more for accessibility. To this end, Rene has created a Disability Hub at iMore.com. We encourage everyone to go there and participate. By helping each other, we can make Apple accessibility even better. Thanks Rene for your commitment to accessibility and for providing a place where stimulating and important discussions can take place. If we bring our experience and expertise to the iMore disability discussions, we can improve Apple accessibility for everybody.