014: Accessibility Projects with Shreyans Jain

This week Shreyans Jain, Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, joins me to discuss  his passion for technological equality. This drives him to continue to work on and innovate on the Salesforce Platform and other technologies on accessibility.  Together we talk about the use of various AI technology and APIs to achieve the goal of broader equality across the internet and platforms.   Show Highlights: Shreyans’ experience and passion for making information accessible through a variety of modes (other than visual) and some of his research on audio versus spatial language Using the Einstein Vision AI as inspiration to create a Chrome extension which converts images into text, even when alternative text for an image does not exist Shreyans’ quip voice assistant and its ability to interact with your documents and some ways you can extend the assistant by using the quip API platform or Quip Live Apps platform   Resources:Shreyans on Twitter Shreyans on LinkedInShreyans on Github Shrey’s WebsiteThe Chrome Extension The Voice Assistant Catchafire   Shout Outs: Adam Rodenbeck Adam Rodenbeck on Salesforce Developer Podcast QingQing LiuQingQing Liu on Salesforce Developer Podcast   *** EPISODE CREDITS: If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment. He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com