This week Kirk travels to WWDC for interviews:
What’s new from Apple - Sarah Herrlinger, director of accessibility programs at Apple
- Sarah shares the latest accessibility tech features available to the ASD community.
- Discussion about why Apple is so focused on accessibility.
- Insight on the importance of designing products for users of all abilities.
App Development for the Autism Community - David Niemeijer, CEO of AssistiveWare (maker of Proloquo2Go)
- In addition to being a great app developer, David has also become a thought leader in terms of inclusion around Autism and giving a great voice to Autistic adults, etc.
- How AssistiveWare is impacting families
- Ways AssistiveWare goes about developing apps; how do they incorporate perspective from the Autism community.
- Ways ACC is changing communication and engagement
- Possibly a quick demo / show-and-tell of how app works
About WWDC
Below is how Wikipedia describes WWDC. Think of the event as essentially the Super Bowl for apps.
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is a conference held annually in California by Apple Inc., primarily in San Jose, but also in Silicon Valley (WWDC was held in San Francisco from 2003 to 2016). The event is used by Apple to showcase its new software and technologies for software developers. Attendees can participate in hands-on labs with Apple engineers, and in-depth sessions covering a wide variety of topics.
Until 2007, the number of attendees varied between 2,000 and 4,200; however, during WWDC 2007, Steve Jobs noted that there were more than 5,000 attendees. The WWDC events held from 2008 to 2015 were capped, and sold out at 5,000 attendees (5,200 including special attendees).