First to the Party

It ain’t easy being the first blind employee. Sometimes the title alone, produced in a staff meeting or, often, when the person isn’t around to hear – is enough to make you cringe. Thank goodness for trailblazers like Victor Tsaran. Victor was the first blind employee on the Yahoo campus, and has a whole bunch of other “firsts” under his belt from a 20 year accessibility career that starts with the first Ukrainian screen reader and involves, most recently, the first screen reader from Google. Victor chatted with us from Mountain View this week to talk about everything from the state of accessibility in Southeast Asia to our best bets for the accessible future.