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S13:E6 - How to think about accessibility and empowerment (Sareh Heidari)

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4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

There is more that the tech world could be doing in terms of accessibility and empowering communities of different backgrounds

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Code to be podcast, where we talk to people on their coding journey

0:08.7

in hopes of helping you on yours.

0:10.8

I'm your host, Aron, and today we're talking about accessibility in tech, and how tech

0:15.9

can be used to empower people from a variety of backgrounds with Sarah Hadari, software engineer at BBC.

0:22.4

Accessibility can mean so many different things. It can be access to resources even.

0:28.3

Sarah talks about transitioning from physics to development, how networking and meetups

0:32.7

helped to land her first job, and how the BBC integrates accessibility in their workflow.

0:40.3

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1:06.9

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1:14.4

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1:45.8

Thanks so much for being here.

1:47.5

It's a pleasure to be on the show.

1:53.0

So before working as an engineer at BBC, you were well on your way to getting a doctorate in physics, which is very, very different.

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