So that was very interesting as well, to take a fresh look at things. For many of them, it was the first time they ever thought about accessibility. They were an eclectic mix of designers, of all different kinds of backgrounds. I just gave them the opportunity to think about it, because usually these people, these were not accessibility experts. It’s actually the people there who came up with the really good ideas. Nic: You’ve built the tools to get to something really impactful. So it’s not really an achievement yet, but once I start investigating and looking at it in more detail, this might turn into something really, really interesting. And actually, what they came up with was really, really good. I had four teams working, and three of them worked on a person with a disability, but the last team, they worked on how do we get accessibility into the agenda of senior management. Vasilis: And maybe the workshop I did this weekend, that we talked about briefly in the last episode. I like the idea of teaching youth and teaching people about something that is going to have an impact on a wide variety of people. Nic: I think teaching students about accessibility and having that kind of an impact is a major achievement in one’s career. Teaching my students about accessibility, that’s probably the biggest achievement. Organizing the event with Leonie Watson was nice. It’s not fine tuned at all, but … I’m not really somebody who has big achievements in accessibility. Dark yellow is nonexistent, it’s not a color. It can say things like, “really unsaturated dark yellow,” which doesn’t exist as a color. Vasilis: That would be the script I told you of in the previous episode, that translates HSL color into human readable text, even though it’s not really finished. What would you say your greatest achievement is in terms of web accessibility? So I said, my kid is allowed to draw on cars. Vasilis: Well, it’s something I always wanted as a kid, but I was not allowed to draw on cars. I think it’s very quirky, and I did not expect that at all. Vasilis: So that’s something that not everybody knows. I have a car where you can draw on, so I painted my car with a chalkboard, blackboard paint, so me and my kids can draw monsters on it. Vasilis: Well, that wouldn’t be that I’m lazy, because most people know that.
What is one thing that most people would not know about you?
Shall we continue where we left off last week? You should check out the first part of our conversation if you have not already done so. This week we’re continuing our conversation with Vasilis van Gemert. I’m Nic Steenhout, and I talk with people involved in, one way or another, with web accessibility. This episode has been sponsored by patrons like you. Nic: Welcome to the Accessibility Rules podcast.
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