{"id":130497,"date":"2022-12-12T17:04:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=447888"},"modified":"2022-12-12T17:04:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:04:57","slug":"jenny-lay-flurrie-build-in-inclusion-to-build-better-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/12\/jenny-lay-flurrie-build-in-inclusion-to-build-better-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Lay-Flurrie: Build in inclusion to build better products"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/jenny-lay-flurrie-build-in-inclusion-to-build-better-products.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>In this episode of \u201cDigital Now,\u201d Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Microsoft chief accessibility officer, explains that organizations and executives are beginning to infuse accessibility into their products and services, but often at a slower pace than at Microsoft, where disability inclusion is built into everything. \u201cWe\u2019re on the journey, but we\u2019ve got to speed up,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Lay-Flurrie also discusses why the core principles of privacy, security and accessibility should be equally prioritized within every company, and shares a valuable lesson from her experience: \u201cIf you don\u2019t know if it\u2019s accessible, it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDigital Now\u201d is a video series hosted by Andrew Wilson, chief digital officer at Microsoft, who invites friends and industry leaders inside and outside of Microsoft to share how they are tackling digital and business transformation, and explores themes like the future of work, security, artificial intelligence and the democratization of code and data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLeNd0KyIiRNmz-3bpIjtxOqlvjvgOeZMR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Visit Digital Now on YouTube to view more episodes<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of \u201cDigital Now,\u201d Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Microsoft chief accessibility officer, explains that organizations and executives are beginning to infuse accessibility into their products and services, but often at a slower pace than at Microsoft, where disability inclusion is built into everything. \u201cWe\u2019re on the journey, but we\u2019ve got to speed up,\u201d she says. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1403,50],"class_list":["post-130497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-digital-now","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}