Ben Moxey
Emerging Technology and Accessibility Manager
Guide Dogs NSW/ACT
Ben is the Emerging Technology and Accessibility Manager at Guide Dogs NSW/ACT. He is responsible for finding, influencing and implementing technologies that benefit people with low vision or blindness into Guide Dog’s services. He is also responsible for ensuring a high standard of accessibility across the organisation, and supporting external accessibility related advocacy and training.
Ben has extensive experience assessing and teaching blindness related assistive technology and is totally blind himself. This everyday practical exposure, combined with professional expertise and a slightly obsessive interest, has enabled him to provide unique accessibility consultation that goes beyond official standards.
Sessions
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Panel: Putting lived experience at the heart of digital design
Are digital tools genuinely improving accessibility, independence, and participant experience, or unintentionally creating new barriers through poor design and assumptions?
Learn how to move beyond consultation to meaningful co-design, embedding lived experience into system development to create more intuitive, inclusive, and effective solutions
Primal Fernando, Vice President- Digital Accessibility and Inclusion, VPS Enablers Network
Jeramy Hope, Government Advisor & Disability Policy & System Reform, Chief Executive Officer, SDA Alliance & Non-Executive Director, InLife Independent Living
Nicholas Kapirnas, Senior Training Officer and Video Production Lead, Centre for Accessibility Australia
Ben Moxey, Emerging Technology and Accessibility Manager, Guide Dogs NSW/ACT