Hello again, I hope you are all having a good week so far. Today, I am writing to share the latest episode of my podcast The Accessibility Advantage. This time, I am speaking with Missy Sue Mastel of Masstel Communications. She oversees the financial function of non-profit organizations. She also has a passion for inclusivity, accessibility, and equality for everyone. We began our conversation by talking about her background as a CPA for for profit companies where she wasn’t personally satisfied. And how this lead to her moving to working with nonprofits where she teaches them to focus on the value they offer the world. Her work with nonprofits lead to her exposure to many people with disabilities or with different abilities as she prefers to call them. We had a lively discussion about the difference between the meanings attached to disabled verses differently abled. How disabled means different or foreign to a lot of people where differently abled speaks to challenges everyone may face in their lifetimes. We talked about how differently abled also makes it easier to reach people who have physical, mental, and emotional problems related to aging. As many people have the same issues as disabled people when growing older but will never identify as being disabled. We also talked about how changing the discussion could help reach employers and online developers. I don’t expect you to agree with me, but I do hope you will listen to the discussion with an open mind. I also hope you will take my thoughts and opinions as an honest attempt to find what works going forward. The whole purpose of my podcast is to move accessibility forward by focusing as much on the practical benefits of inclusion as on compliance and other traditional methods of gaining more accessibility. Notes About The Podcast 1: I sing on the intro. The song is called The Accessibility Advantage, and I wrote it. However, due to issues with Zoom and my lack of accessible editing software I had to edit out about half of it. 2: I don’t edit the podcast. I sometimes trim off the beginning and ending like in this case. But generally my podcasts have the recorded live feel of classic television shows. On To The Show Or on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbNXo0Ezf8g Maybe someone can tell me where I go to grab the embed code for my youtube videos now? I will be updating this with Missy's bio info and links shortly, but have another meeting to go to. Tried to set this up to go live automatically this morning, but I forgot that doing something after not doing it for a while online is almost like starting from scratch. Hope you will check out the podcast and follow as I relearn this stuff. Thanks and take care out there, Max