W IA Café: Integrating Accessibility into Product-Making

World Information Architecture Association (WIAA) is hosting this event and the Rutgers MBS program is supporting this event.
   
The speaker for this interactive event is Nandita Gupta. Nandita is an Accessibility Product Manager at Microsoft where she works on a product that empowers users to create inclusive and accessible experiences for all users. She has been named Influential Women of Manufacturing 2019 by Putman Media. She is a Board member on different boards within the community including Lime Connect, an organization with a mission for rebranding disability through achievement where she serves on the Community Engagement Committee. Furthermore, she also serves on the Accessibility Leadership Council for Disability: IN. As a Board Member for a non-profit organization – Caroline Calouche & Co, she leads the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee as the Chair where she is working on creating inclusive spaces within the dancing communities. She has been actively involved in various mentoring organizations over the past years and was inducted into the Susan M. Daniels Disability Mentoring Hall of Fame. She has been a speaker at numerous conferences including Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing, Assistive Technology Industry Association 2020, and World Information Architecture Day.
   
LinkedIn profile -https://www.linkedin.com/in/nandita-gupta/
   
Accessibility needs to be included in every aspect of the product-making process, from research & design all the way into development. What are some tangible ways we might integrate accessibility into the product process?
   

You can find more information about the event here - https://lu.ma/wiacafe007
   
   Please join our W IA café for a wonderful session on designing better products.