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Holistic Accessibility Management and the Banyan Tree

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Holistic Accessibility Management and the Banyan Tree

We’re at a stage of digital growth where we need new ways to scale accessibility beyond the current efforts of passionate advocates and software builders. No, I am not suggesting overlays or AI automation. Rather, I advocate for accessibility to be viewed as a leadership imperative, where organizations make it a part of their business strategy and operations. I’d like to present a seven-point framework that addresses the education sector but could well be adapted to suit any business. Using the metaphor of a banyan tree, which grows not so much up but out into its environment, reaching and including its surroundings, I will drive home how adopting a holistic accessibility management framework can help organizations include everyone.

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Sambhavi Chandrashekar
CEO, The Valuable 500

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Dr. Sam is an accessibility champion and an award-winning inclusive educator/researcher with over 15 years of strategic and operational experience in implementing technology-based accessibility projects in academia, non-profit sector and industry. She holds academic positions with 3 universities in Canada and supervises Masters and Doctoral research.

Dr. Sam actively influences policy and legislation as Vice Chairperson of Accessibility Standards Canada’s Accessible & Equitable Artificial Intelligence Committee, Vice Chair of Global Leadership Council of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals, Advisory Council Member of the Canadian Accessibility Network and many more.

Sambhavi Chandrashekar

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