I've been giving several talks opportunities about Digital Accessibility for Deaf and Sign languages users at A11y Camp Conference, Festival of Business Analysis, Deloitte Digital, The UX Design Group of Melbourne, Design Thinking Brisbane, Academy Xi and many more.

Nikhil Bora lost his hearing at the age of 2 years due to meningitis. He was 3 years old at the time and he hold a significant place in Cochlear history. He was their 10th commercial paediatric recipient in the world. 

He started his career in digital. However quickly realised the gaps of support, discrimination, and lack of awareness there was around accessibility and inclusiveness and became very passionate about wanting to bridge the gap between the "hearing" community and the Deaf community by becoming a Digital accessibility advocate providing support to the tech community, “hearing” community and as well as partnering with digital/tech organisations to ensure they were providing the right level of support to their Deaf and Hard of Hearing users and raise Deaf Awareness, Deaf Culture, Auslan, accessibility and breaking barriers in digital. 

Having more than 11 years of digital experience, Nikhil decided to advocate, educate and provide a consultancy service for the digital/tech community around Auslan and accessibility at several tech & digital organisations.

Speaking Topic Include:
- Helping you create Deaf-friendly Experiences
- Improving Deaf Accessibility in Usability Testing
- My journey from Deafness to Designer.

Consultancy service include:
- Deaf Accessibility Advisory & Coaching
- Deaf Accessibility (Design and UX) Audit report
- Usability Testing with Deaf participant

Testimonials

I’d just like to say how interesting and informative this session was- thank you to Nikhil for his presentation! It would be to have the list of accessibile examples he shared as reference and the recommendations for being more inclusive to Deaf / hard of hearing audiences at the end - I would like to share with my UX colleagues! 

- Delottie Digital

Nikhil! Nikhil! Nikhil!  I absolutely loved your presentation and I am so proud of you. You have really opened our eyes to an aspect that most of us have conveniently ignored. I am so glad to have met you through my colleague.  Love your work. Love your presentation.

- IIBA Australia Chapter

I enjoyed your excellent presentation at the UX Design Group of Melbourne. I teach web design at Swinburne and I want to ensure accessibility is embedded in all areas of our design courses. Your insight into designing for the Deaf community was very valuable.

- Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology

Thanks for such asn insightful talk. As a UX student at the moment it really opened my eyes to how much more I could be doing to ensure real accessibility. Would be great to connect and see what other amazing things you do!

- UX Student at General Assembly

I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation, it was definitely the best UX presentation I've seen!!

- Human-Centred Designer at Justice Connect

Thank you so much for creating and sharing that with us! We can be doing so much more at Cbus in improving digital accessibility. Thank you!

- Content Team Leader at CBUS Super

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Auslan Sign language Hand illustration animation by Deaf artist Gonketa