The Accessible Brand Podcast
Featuring pacesetters in digital accessibility and search
About the podcast
The Accessible Brand Podcast brings you the latest industry stories through human voices driving meaningful change and impact in digital accessibility, brand discoverability, and content performance in an Agentic world. Hosted by Siteimprove, this podcast goes beyond trends and headlines to spotlight real humans, leaders and changemakers shaping how organizations show up, get found, meet standards and earn trust along the way. Listen to the podcast series to gain fresh and honest perspectives from leaders committed to building digital experiences that is accessible and discoverable for everyone. Interested in being a guest speaker or would like to have more information, please send us an email at corpmarketing@siteimprove.com.
Episodes
Episode Two: How Harvard goes beyond compliance in making the digital world accessible
What does it take to make one of the world's most storied universities digitally accessible to everyone? In this episode, we sit down with Janell Sims, leader of Digital Accessibility Services at Harvard University, to explore what equitable digital experience really means in practice. Janell shares how her background in marketing communications and publishing shaped her human-centered approach to accessibility — and why she believes disability is never the barrier; broken technology is. From managing accessibility across more than 10,000 websites to embedding inclusive design into vendor contracts and development workflows, Janell offers a candid look at how Harvard is shifting from reactive compliance to proactive strategy that performs. She also weighs in on the promise and limits of AI agents in accessibility, the risks of "vibe coding," and why WCAG is the floor, not the ceiling. A must-listen for anyone building digital experiences that leave no one behind.
Episode One: The realities of inaccessible digital experience
Digital accessibility isn't just about meeting requirements -- it's about building better human experiences for everyone. Join Sheri and Linh on this episode to hear more about what it means to not have accessible digital experience, and true stories behind real people. Learn from Sheri's expertise to tackle digital accessibility regulations, how AI agents don't understand the why in accessibility and vibe coding presents a massive challenge without accessibility in mind.
About Sheri Byrne-Haber:
Sheri Byrne-Haber is a global thought leader and award-winner advocate for digital accessibility. Sheri has built and scaled global accessibility programs at Fortune Global companies such as McDonald's, Kaiser Permanente, Albertson's, VMWare. She has a unique background spanning computer science, law and business and holds many ADA certifications. She serves on multiple IAAP and WC3 global councils and committees.
About the host
Linh Ho leads global corporate marketing at Siteimprove where she is responsible for communications, customer innovation program, and thought leadership. With more than 20 years in technology marketing, she has played a critical role in helping organizations through some of the industry’s most significant transformations, including the rise of agentic AI. Linh previously held leadership roles at ServiceNow, SAP Concur, Compuware Dynatrace among others.