Dana is a recognized leader in User Experience and Inclusive Design, with a specialized focus on digital accessibility. Dana currently serves as Head of Accessible Design and Senior Creative Director at Level Access.
Drawing on personal lived experience of disability, Dana challenges designers to treat inclusion and accessibility as the foundation of richer, more immersive experiences.
What if accessibility and beauty weren't opposites? In this episode of Web Access Matters, host Pedro Velhinho sits down with Dana Randall, an executive creative director, content creator, and a leading voice at the intersection of inclusion, design, and accessibility to challenge the idea that accessible products have to be clinical or dull.
Dana explains why true accessibility starts at the brief rather than a WCAG checklist, the most common mistakes brands make when retrofitting accessibility and how AI is upending the software development lifecycle to the point that "shift left" may be on its way out.
She also shares how Ramsay Hunt syndrome left her suddenly physically disabled, and how a single flashing motion-graphic subway ad changed the entire course of her career.
