Experience

Some key aspects of my work experience:

• I was part of the leadership of the group developing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, involved in designing the guidelines to advance accessibility meaningfully in the context of the technological capabilities of the time;
• For Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA), I found and helped resolve conflicting features and helped ensure that the eventual technology was coherent, worked to bring it to HTML 5, and wrote much of the explanatory text;
• Deep understanding of WCAG 2, including the background reasons the guidelines are as they are as well as how to interpret the resources;
• Involved in the inception of W3C Accessibility Guidelines 3 (WCAG 3) and creative rethinking of approach to allow it to address accessibility in a different way than WCAG 2;
• Ability to explain the technical and human issues of accessibility to audiences who are not directly involved in the field;
• Familiarity with global accessibility laws and regulations, how they relate to each other, and how they impact information and communications products and services;
• Broad view of the field of disability access, with an ability to understand how specific needs can be met by technology solutions and guidelines, and a drive to expand the set of disabilities for which accessibility accommodations are known and implemented;
• I can understand the points of view of multiple stakeholders, and come up with ways to help them understand each other and work to common solution;
• With currently one year of American Sign Language (ASL) study, I have insight into the communication and cultural challenges that have challenged Deaf participation in the broader accessibility industry.