I’ve had the opportunity to chat about accessibility with many wonderful people. This page lists all the people who have appeared as a guest on the A11y Rules Podcast.
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Aderinokun, Ire
Ire is a User Interface Designer & Front-End Developer based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Ausbun, Michael
Michael Ausbun is a blind accessibility specialist working in the tertiary education field.
https://twitter.com/michaelausbun
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Averitt, CB
I am with Deque Systems. It's a pleasure to be here. I am a senior consultant with them. I do mostly work with dot-com clients. My client right now is a Fortune 50 company and I do a lot of volunteer work with trainings and things like that as well. It's a pleasure to be here.
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Bahram, Sina
Sina runs an accessibility firm called Prime Access Consulting. We do a lot of work with organizations especially in the cultural heritage sectors, like museums, and non-profits oriented around that space but also with start-ups and universities and larger companies on digital accessibility, whether that's web accessibility, iPhone apps, digital interactives that involve large touch interfaces in museums, and applying the principles of inclusive and universal design to that so those types of experiences and technologies are available to the widest possible audience.
View all episodes with Sina Bahram
Bailey, Eric
Eric is a designer who works for an agency in Massachussetts. He also writes about usability and accessibility for publications such as CSS-Tricks and Smashing Magazine.
View all episodes with Eric Bailey
Berry, Alli
Alli is the SEO and content lead for the Ascent by the Motley Fool. Her part of the business, they are a sub-brand of that, and they’re focused on creating free personal finance content, and her job is really to make sure our site is accessible … as accessible as possible for search engines, and to help our pages rank well, and to get our content to as many people as possible. And what’s fortunate about SEO is that often what is accessible for search engines is also what is accessible for humans so by approaching websites from an SEO perspective they’re at least on our way to helping make websites more accessible for humans too.
View all episodes with Alli Berry
Boudreau, Denis
I'm from Montreal, Canada. I work for Deque Systems. I've been working in Accessibility for about 17 years, doing mostly consulting, and training, and strategy with different clients, and that's about it.
View all episodes with Denis Boudreau
Brenon, Alex
Alex is a recent graduate of Smith College, a developer who works in blended learning and teaching
View all episodes with Alex Brenon
Brown, Dave
Dave Brown is a disabled radio show host.
davebrownradio
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Burke, Patrick
Patrick Burke is a screen reader user.
@PatTwit
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Byers, Kelsey
Plant scientist.
@plantpollinator
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Calvo, Mike
Chief Executive Officer at Pneuma Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikecalvo/
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Carney, Amy
I’m a web designer and developer. I’m also an Alaskan and Kansan. Mum, wife and middle child.
View all episodes with Amy Carney
Cheeseman, Alyssa
Alyssa is a blind expert screen reader user and accessibility tester
View all episodes with Alyssa Cheeseman
Chua, Mel
Mel Chua is a Deaf tech worker who describes herself as a hacker.
Her twitter is: https://twitter.com/mchua
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Clark, Tori
Tori Clark has been immersed in the accessibility world for over 8 years, focusing on high contrast modes and text-to-speech as a native user of both. She currently works at Digital A11ies, an emerging nonprofit which aims to normalize web accessibility at a grassroots level.
@cymbrygirl
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Coelho, Tony
Former House Majority Whip. Lifelong disability rights advocate. Epilepsy patient. Disability Council Chair and DNC Member.
@HonTonyCoelho
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Colley, Nick
Disabled access designer and developer working between disabled politics and accessibility.
NickColley
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DeMars, Chris
Chris is a front-end developer and public speaker from Detroit, MI. He is a Google Developer Expert in web technologies and a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies. He works at Tuft & Needle
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Devon, Joe
Founder of Diamond, and of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day. His mission is to make accessibility as ubiquitous in Software Development as Agile Methodology is.
@joedevon
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Eggert, Eric
Eric is a W3C fellow and works at Knowbility. He also teaches accessibility at university. He tells us about his work and the redesign of the WAI site to make things easier to find and understand.
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Eller, Meagan
Accessibility analyst, information architect, cosplayer, reader, gamer, wife, mom, so much more.
@mmeller
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Elliott, Courey
I am a software engineer at Lonely Planet and I do general engineering as well as I participate on our accessibility team.
View all episodes with Courey Elliott
Evans, Sam
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Feingold, Lainey
Lainey is a disability rights lawyer who has been helping blind people and organizations for the best part of 20 years. She stresses that the right to an accessible website is a civil right.
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Fenwick, Paul
Paul is a developer, public speaker, and game moder.
@PJF
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Ferraioli, Julia
Hacker, Feminist, Knitter, involved in open source.
https://twitter.com/juliaferraioli
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Feuling, Andy
One handed gamer!
OneHandOnlyAndy
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Finnegan, Shannon
An artist who has recently been doing work around web accessibility through a year-long residency that she's doing at an arts organization in Brooklyn, New York called Eye Beam. That’s an organization that kind of supports artists who are working around the intersection of art and technology.
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Fisher, Carie
There are many sides of Carie Fisher, but me in particular, I work with Drupal specifically, and then accessibility. I've been making websites professionally since 2005. And just in the past few years, really gotten deeper into the world of accessibility and trying to spearhead that inside the Drupal community.
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Fortin, Jillian
I am the development and communications director with Knowbility. I have a background in digital project management, interactive marketing, social media, all the fun stuff.
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Galanos, Ted
Ted Galanos provides accessibility and disability consulting.
@tedgalanos
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Gibbins, Jon
Jon Gibbins is a developer and designer who took the plunge into accessibility many years ago.
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Gibson, Becky
Becky is a self-confessed computer geek who has been a developer for a very long time. She has been working in accessibility around 2003. She is involved with the W3C and works for Knowbility
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Gool, Nash Van
Nash is a developer.
@vangool_it
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Gouveia, Arthur
I'm a front-end developer here at Shopify. I've recently started working here, and I say recently as in two years ago because it just feels like a short amount of time, given so many things that happen when you change country. I'm originally from Brazil. And yeah, I've been involved into accessibility really early on in my career here at Shopify, given that I found some space to do so. And been enjoying a lot making sure that not only I have this always in the back of my head, but also like educating some people here.
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Gregory, Billy
I guess I wear a few hats. I've been known as the director of training for the Paciello Group. I am the co-organizer of A level YTO, which is a meetup group based out of Toronto. We do camps, meetups, and conferences. And I've also been called a lumberjack in my day. So yeah, pick a hat and I can wear that one.
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Head, Val
Val Head, Design Evangelist of UX Innovation at Adobe, is a web animation expert and author with a talent for getting designers and developers alike excited about the power of animation. Val leads workshops at companies and conferences around the world to connect Adobe directly to the UX design community.
Prior to joining Adobe, Val spent years as an independent UI animation consultant helping companies embrace UI animation as part of their design system and processes. She is the author of Designing Interface Animation, published by Rosenfeld Media, teaches CSS Animation on lynda.com and curates the weekly UI Animation Newsletter. Earlier in her career, Val was the Design Director at Northmaple Studio and Interactive Design Director at Agency 1903.
As a proud supporter of the web community, Val co-founded the Web Design Day conference and is a leader of Pittsburgh’s Girl Develop It Chapter.
View all episodes with Val Head
Hill, Barry
Barry is blind and passionate about web/mobile/tech a11y and usability.
@blindbarry
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Hunt, Taylor
Taylor describes himself as a webspinner and lapsed artist. He also happen to have ADHD.
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Hussey, Kelly
Kelly is a disability rights advocate and a paralegal.
@Kelll_belle
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Ivins, Jessica
I’m a faculty member at Center Centre, the UX design school here in Chattanooga, Tennesse in the US, and we offer a 2-year full-time program that offers you as a student to be an industry ready designer. So you attend school for 2 years. We model the work… school environment more like a work environment, so you’re in school Monday through Friday, 9-5. About two-thirds of your time is spent working on real-world projects.
https://twitter.com/jessicaivins
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Jackson, Liz
I am a disability advocate. I’m somebody who found my way into disability right before my 30th birthday. So, I’ve been a disability advocate for going on 7 years now, and my advocacy has sort of caused me to fall into the design world. And, so, increasingly I’m also starting to see myself as, what I’ve been saying, as a design strategist.
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Jarvis, Alicia
Alicia is the inclusive design practice lead within the RBC digital design team.
A11yAlicia
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Jessier, Myriam
SEO trainer with a flair for accessibility!
@myriamjessier
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Jolly, Robert
Robert Jolly is an accessibility-focused product manager working for the U.S. government on GSA’s 10x Delivery Team. Robert was previously at Knowbility and was a member of the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative Education and Outreach Working Group.
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Kalbag, Laura
Laura is a designer and front-end developer. She works as part of a tiny little two-person organization called Indie where they build technology for social justice. She is also the author of the book from a Book Apart called Accessibility For Everyone.
View all episodes with Laura Kalbag
Kim, Albert
Albert is an accessibility lead.
@djkalbert
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King, Julieanne
Julieanne is an UX Researcher, Usability Engineer and Accessibility Advocate from Austin, Texas. She's a native Texan. She has many interests including a love for board games, swimming in the jewel Barton Springs, Zip-lining and helping make the world a more accessible and inclusive place.
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Kinney, Kris Anne
Kris Anne Kinney works as an accessibility specialist for Educational Testing Services, a company that is a leader in assessments.
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Kisel, Guy
Guy is a build engineer at Riot Games.
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Knight, Jamie
An autistic developer and accessibility specialist at the BBC. Most people know me as Jamie and Lion, because I've got a four foot lion that goes everywhere with me. And I've been involved in the web and accessibility for about 15 years now.
View all episodes with Jamie Knight
Kouznetsova, Svetlana
Consultant, Author, Speaker: I help businesses make UX & accessibility 2nd nature for their products, media, events.
https://twitter.com/svknyc
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Lembrée, Dennis
I work as a senior accessibility consultant at Deque Systems, about 3 and a half years now. Before that, I was at eBay and PayPal and I am pretty well known for a blog and a Twitter account called Web Axe and a web-based accessible Twitter app called Easy Chirp.
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Lesh, Ben
Ben is a developer and podcaster.
@BenLesh
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Lewis, Emily
Emily is a coder that works in accessibility and universal design. She's also an author, writer, and editor.
@emilylewis
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Littman, Ian
Ian is a developer and conference organizer who happens to be very nearsighted and color blind.
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Luker, Jen
Jen Luker is an engineering manager with Formidable who specializes in accessibility auditing and just making the web better in general. She is an avid knitter. She likes to say that she knits and then she's a programmer. Other than that just a nerd like all the rest.
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Major, Kirsty
Kirsty is an online English teacher who specialises in business English for adults. In her spare time she runs Unseen Beauty, a beauty and lifestyle blog from the perspective of someone who is blind. Kirsty has two blogs, two podcasts, and she’s working on her second book.
View all episodes with Kirsty Major
Mar-Molinero, Kevin
Kevin is the Director of Experience technologies at Kin + Carta.
@Kevmarmol_CT
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Marositz, Alex
Alex is a blind screen reader user, an accessibility specialist, and an assistive technology educator.
View all episodes with Alex Marositz
Mason, EJ
EJ Mason is an accessibility specialist with Pearson. He also happens to have Cerebral Palsy, is hard of hearing, and has undiagnosed ADHD
View all episodes with EJ Mason
May, Matt
Matt is Head of Inclusive Design at Adobe.
@Mattmay
https://adobe.design/inclusive
http://afuturedate.com
View all episodes with Matt May
Mazdur, Desi
Desi used to work as a programmer but due to his disability is no longer able to work. He is an avid user of Dragon Naturally Speaking, a speech recognition software.
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McDonnell, Adrienne
Adrienne is a self-taught developer and accessibility specialist who works at Elsevier
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McLeary, Iris
Iris is a senior software engineer at Mixpanel in San Francisco. She was the founding lead of Mixability, Mixpanel’s disability ERG, and went on to co-lead WeRQ, the LGBTQ+ ERG. She’s also a prolific knitter and lives in a San Francisco apartment with her husband, their cat, and a closet full of craft supplies.
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McNamara, Lē Silveus
Lē Silveus McNamara is the Founder and CEO of Larunda Accessibility Solutions, offering talks, training, and consultancy on digital accessibility, neurodiversity, and their intersection, as well as the founder and Chairman of Supported Living, a non-profit organization committed to the creation of supported community living programs for neurodivergent adults.
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McQuigge, Michelle
Michelle is "totally blind". She has been a reporter with the Canadian Press for the last 12 years. She is also a contributor to AMI Audio.
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Meyer, Eric
Web standards, HTML/CSS, microformats, community, writing, speaking, signing guy. Husband, father, agnostic in principle, atheist in practice
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Nic, Ruben
Ruben is a senior accessibility engineer who has low vision and ADHD.
@RubensSandwich
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Nolan, Dacey
Software Engineer at Trainual.
@dacey_nolan
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Norman, Greg
Web consultant looking for projects to rescue.
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Norton, Bri
Bri is an Australian woman who has been involved with the internet for "quite a few years". She is the Director of Accessibility and Inclusivity at the Australian Digital Transformation Agency.
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Nourry, Olivier
Olivier est consultant d'accessibilité Web à son compte, en France.
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O'Mahony, Dan
I work for a charity called Child Vision. I’ve been there for 12 years and I work with accessible documents and creating visual accessible materials for kids who are blind and visually impaired throughout the country of Ireland. In my other life I kind of like to talk about web accessibility and basically assistive technology… things like that.
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Paige, Katriel
Kit is a non-binary professional with chronic illnesses who works in digital accessibility as well as in tabletop gaming spaces.
@kit_flowerstorm
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Palmer, Mark
I'm an accessibility consultant with 11 years experience. I've worked in both consultancy, both as an employee, freelance. I currently work in a large public sector organization in Edinburgh, where I work in the user experience team. My main focus within that team is web accessibility.
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Persing, Devon
Devon is an accessibility specialist and educator. She works at Shopify.
@devonpersing.
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Pullan, Thane
Thane is a disabled businessman, designer, author, and programmer.
@thanepullan
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Raduenzel, Beth
Beth is an accessibility specialist and a UX interaction designer. She was part of an award winning team at United.
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Rietveld, Rian
I'm from the Netherlands, so it's good evening for me. I am a WordPress developer and an accessibility consultant and I work for a WordPress agency. I'm also team leader of the accessibility team for WordPress. There, I do project management and I try to keep everybody happy and informed. If I'm not doing that, I'm working in my garden.
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Romo, Amberley
I'm a software developer based in Austin, Texas in the U.S. And I'm currently working on the Gatsby team. I touch a lot of different things, but I'm currently aligned with the learning team.
@amber1ey
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Roy, Brennan
Brennan Roy is an artist working in the overlaps of dance, circus, disability consulting, and mobility technology. They are interested in the ways individuals in these fields construct bodyminds, what influences them, and how to dream beyond.
They have trained with companies including Full Radius Dance, Kaeja D’Dance and REAson D’Etre Dance Productions.
Bren on Wheels
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Rush, Sharron
Sharron is the executive director of a non-profit organization based in Austin Texas. It's called Knowbility, we spell it with a K. Knowbility has been advocating, teaching, and really tried to encourage people to care about accessibility since 1999
View all episodes with Sharron Rush
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Sabev, Negoslav
Negsolav is a blind developer
View all episodes with Negoslav Sabev
Schmitt, Christopher
Christopher is a designer, developer, author, speaker, event organizer, and beginning the accessibility work.
Find him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/teleject
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Schroeder, Holly
Insights & Empathy Researcher & UX Writer. Codergirl Mentor. Humanist. Community-builder.
@314UXHolly
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Scott, Jason
Jason Scott works at the Internet Archive. Previously he worked at textfiles.com. He does documentary films and announcements for the Internet Archive. He "basically try to get out there and talk about old stuff to people".
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Senger, Damien
Damien Senger is a designer and self-professed HTML/CSS lover who works at Castor EDC.
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Simmons, Josh
I am a longtime web developer, been coding professionally for maybe, going on two decades now. These days I do less development work and more outreach work, as I am on the Google Open Source Outreach Team and I also sit on the Open Source Initiative Board of Directors. A lot of what I do these days is about connecting with open source communities and supporting them, and less direct development.
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Sims, Glenda
Glenda Sims is Deque's lead of Accessibility Methodology Practice and Quality. She has been doing digital accessibility since before 2000, and it's her passion. She used to say she was the self-appointed accessibility Godess!
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Skeries, Andrea
I'm a huge lover of art and technology, and bringing the two together, as a front end web developer and designer. I'm being playing with HTML, since that first Bondi Blue iMac came out, using table layouts, and Angelfire for hosting. I've been learning about web accessibility for a little over 10 years. I was among the first group of people to become certified professional, and accessibility core competencies, or CPAC from the IAAP a couple of years ago.
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Sloïm, Elie
Elie is the CEO at Opquast, a French company working on the quality of the web. A chemical engineer by trade, he doesn't have formal traning in IT or on the internet. He started working on quality management in the oil industry and later in the wine industry. When the web arrived, he understood the web was going to be big. He started Opquast to examine web quality. They've been working on that for the last 20 years.
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Sorak, Jean Luc
JL is a software engineer with Holiday Extras in the United Kingdom.
@JLSorak
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Spertus, Ellen
Ellen is a feminist computer science professor. She can be found on twitter at: @ellenspertus
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Staples, Margaret
Margaret is a developer evangelist at Twilio, who has been working hard at spreading the message about the importance of accessibility. A self-taught programmer, she says that the resources about accessibility are sometimes difficult to find, being scattered in many places.
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Steenhout, Nic
Speaker, trainer, podcaster and consultant about accessibility, Nic is the host of the A11y Rules Podcast.
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Sutton, Marcy
Marcy is a developer advocate who works at Deque Systems. She spreads the word about accessibility testing.
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Tarnoff, Nat
I am a technical consultant with Level Access. I've been doing web development and accessibility for about 15 years now and my current client is also a Fortune 50 company. I'm spending a lot of time getting them up to speed to requirements. When I'm not doing anything accessibility-wise, I'm usually playing with synthesizers and records and trying to DJ a little bit.
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Thompson, Cherry
Cherry Thompson is an accessibility and inclusion consultant who works in the game industry.
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Trask, Matt
Developer, cyclist, photographer, not necessarily in that order!
@matthewtrask
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Tubbs, John
John Tubbs is an educator working for about thirty years in the area of high tech, digital education, online learning.
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Ueki, Makoto
I'm a Japanese web accessibility consultant. I've been participating in W3C accessibility guidelines working group. I was chair of Japanese National Standards working group for web accessibility. Plus, I'm a chairman of a web accessibility infrastructure committee in Japan.
View all episodes with Makoto Ueki
Umstead, Alex
Alex is an accessibility professional in Philadelphia.
@MrA11yx
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Vitan, Donna
Donna is a user experience interaction and visual designers committed to inclusive design. She's currently working on the TELUS design system for TELUS digital.
@donnavitan
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Walter, Stephanie
I’m a user experience designer currently based in Luxembourg. I’m super interested in a lot of things, especially mobile design and also a little bit of accessibility.
https://twitter.com/WalterStephanie
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Yarbrough, Justin
Blind. Accessibility advocate. Occasional writer. Lover of sports and travel. Nerds out over airplanes.
FatElvis04
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Zeldman, Jeffrey
A Book Apart. A List Apart. An Event Apart. The Big Web Show. Designing With Web Standards. studio.zeldman. Friend of the Japanese children.
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Zhang, Jessie
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van Dulken, Diana
Diana is an Australian web developer with ADHD.
BartholomewD
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van Gemert, Vasilis
I'm a lecturer at University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam in The Netherlands where I teach the next generation of web developers and web designers about designing digital products. I'm focused on accessibility. I also do a study, a master's course at the university in Rotterdam in design research and my subject is accessibility.