Imagining How Other People Experience the World
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Joanne Lastort, Booz Allen Hamilton, Digital Accessibility Specialist Joanne talks about her first career as a professional pastry chef. The loss of use one of her hands moved her to working in IT. Her desire to still be a keyboard user brought her into accessibility testing at the IRS and the FCC. Now she is part of the Section 508 team at Booz Allen Hamilton at the Department of Labor.
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