{"id":262596,"date":"2026-02-01T14:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/262596\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:56:08","slug":"sony-taps-employees-with-disabilities-as-accessibility-specialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/262596\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony taps employees with disabilities as accessibility specialists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/companies\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Advisers will be involved in product development from early stages<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260129N Sony Main Photo\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Sony employees with visual or auditory disabilities have begun offering guidance on products such as televisions and cameras, in an effort to improve usability for everyone. (Sony)<\/p>\n<p>KEIGO YOSHIDA<\/p>\n<p>February 1, 2026 23:01 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Sony has created specialist roles for employees with disabilities as part-time advisers on accessibility, who will be involved in the development of products and technologies from the earliest stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Companies Advisers will be involved in product development from early stages Sony employees with visual or auditory disabilities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14473,13516,4484,111,139,69,6361,9712,150326,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-262596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-accessibility","9":"tag-disabilities","10":"tag-employees","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-sony","15":"tag-specialists","16":"tag-taps","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}