Claire Houston, FTC Volunteer
SPEAKER
Claire is a Senior Accessibility Specialist at the National Center for Accessible Media at GBH, a national leader in making digital media accessible for people with disabilities, and based at Boston's public media (PBS/NPR) station. At NCAM, she leads work consulting on all types of digital accessibility, from websites and apps, to robots and hardware. She has been a part of FIRST for over 20 years in just about every capacity: as a FLL and FTC (Techno Chix, #18) participant, coach, tournament volunteer, judge, and judge advisor. Claire is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she completed a self-designed major in Disability Studies, with minors in entrepreneurship and data science.
NEMC Presentations:
4-149
Saturday
11:30 AM
SESSION
Accessibility in Robotics
Accessibility is more than wheelchair ramps. It belongs everywhere: from a team website and Instagram page, to an app built for an Innovation Project, to a humanoid robot your company is building now or in the future. This session will cover the how and why behind making accessible digital content, and how infusing accessibility into everything you make is an embodiment of the FIRST Core Values. Finally, we’ll talk about the career opportunities that come from knowing terms like “WCAG”, “screen reader”, and “aria-live="polite"
Leave feeling prepared to make a digital difference!
