Accessibility Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought | Catalyst Education on Building Better EdTech

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What happens when a commitment to accessibility gets baked into a company's DNA from day one?

In this episode of Access Granted, Mike sits down with Jamie Caras, CEO of Catalyst Education, and Mandy Dark, product owner, to talk about what accessibility commitment looks like inside a company that serves a quarter million students a year. Jamie is a chemist-turned-entrepreneur who has spent three decades building learning technology, and Mandy brings both scientific training and hands-on product experience to the work of making digital education usable for every student.

Jamie shares how watching his mother navigate higher education with progressive hearing loss shaped his thinking long before accessibility was a legal requirement, and how that experience became one of the founding pillars of Catalyst Education. Mandy walks through the work of writing alt text for complex chemistry problems, redesigning table navigation for screen readers, and learning firsthand that accessible design almost always makes the product better for everyone. This conversation is an honest look at what it means to treat accessibility as a standard of quality rather than a compliance checkbox, and why the companies that figure that out early are the ones that end up ahead.

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