Inclusive Design 24 (#ID24) 19 May 2016

Molly E. Holzschlag is a colorful and recognized character working the Web since there was a Web to be worked! A multi-award winning leader in Web Platform and Accessibility, she has written or co-written 35 books on Web technologies, software and standards. A writer, educator and public speaker, the focus is always on OPEN. Be it humans, societies or software, Molly is intent on bringing a clear, humanistic viewpoint to our increasingly complex social and technical world.

• @mholzschlag

Amelia Bellamy-Royds is a Renaissance girl, whose education and career have moved sideways from bioinformatics to government science policy to journalism to data visualization to web graphics. In web development circles, she is mostly known for her work with SVG. She is an Invited Expert on the W3C's SVG and ARIA working groups, and has co-authored multiple books on SVG from O’Reilly Media. One day, she hopes to put her web graphics skills to work making journalistic data visualizations to promote science-based decisions in government policy. For now, she's focused on improving graphical communication on the web for everyone.

• @AmeliasBrain

Bryce is a designer at Xbox. Back in his homeland, he designed the first digital library for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Now he has the greatest job in the world applying the Microsoft inclusive design practice to gaming. He is locked in a mutually-assured destruction scenario with the secrets he can tell you about Billy Gregory's youth, but for now he's keeping his mouth shut.

• @brycej

Sarah is cofounder and Director of Accessibility Services at Intopia. Sarah has extensive capabilities in helping organisations at both a strategic and a technical level. These capabilities include providing expert technical advice, stakeholder engagement and implementation of strategic work plans and product development that enable organisations to meet their accessibility requirements. She is the founder of A11y Bytes and A11y Camp, Australia's largest community events focused on increasing awareness of inclusive design and digital accessibility.

• @sarahtp
• intopia.digital

Luis Garcia is a Senior Product Manager for Accessibility at eBay. In his spare time, he participates at Accessibility Camps, evangelizes accessibility to anyone that will listen, and works on various accessibility related side projects. He sometimes plays video games.

• @garcialo
• garcialo.com

An accessibility-focused Project Manager with nearly 20 years in the web design industry, Robert has managed projects for clients including Zappos, Georgetown University, Nintendo, Time Inc., American Airlines, JetBlue, and many others. When not online, Robert may be found with his family, riding his bike, or at a nearby Waffle House.

• @iamjolly
• jollypm.com

Michiel Bijl recently joined The Paciello Group (TPG) as an Accessibility Engineer. He is a member of several groups at the W3C, including the HTML WG, APA WG, and ARIA WG where he acts as co-editor of the Authoring Practices Guide. Michiel has an extensive background as a front-end developer.

• @MichielBijl
• michielbijl.nl

Shadi Abou-Zahra is the Activity Lead of the International Program Office at the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). He is the lead editor and maintainer of several educational and awareness-raising W3C/WAI resources on web accessibility. He also coordinates the conformance evaluation and testing efforts at W3C/WAI.

• @sabouzah
• w3.org/people/shadi

Marco is a senior accessibility quality assurance engineer and evangelist at Mozilla Corporation. His responsibilities include testing new accessibility features as well as provide guidance in implementing those features. Prior to his work at Mozilla, Marco worked at a big assistive technology vendor for blind and low vision product. He is a screen reader user and knows many aspects of the accessibility stack from user to assistive tech to browser.

• @MarcoInEnglish
• marcozehe.de

David Swallow is a researcher in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of York, UK, where he specialises in the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies for older people and people with disabilities. Before this he was a web developer, creating usable and accessible websites for clients in the property business. His current research draws on this experience to identify how best to integrate accessible web development practices into the existing workflows of web developers.

• @davidofyork
• davidswallow.co.uk

Russ Weakley is a author, speaker and CSS expert, with a detailed knowledge of web design and development. Russ runs the Web Standards Group and has produced a series of widely acclaimed online tutorials on CSS, Responsive Web Design and web development.

• @russmaxdesign
• maxdesign.com.au

Adrian is a member of the W3C HTML Working Group as well as the W3C Accessibility Task Force. He has written articles for trade journals and web sites, and participated as an author and editor on five web-related books. In 1998 he founded and successfully ran a software development company until he decided to leave and go solo at the start of 2016. Adrian has been developing for the Web since 1993.

• @aardrian
• adrianroselli.com

Julie has studied design and human behaviour for over a decade with a growing enthusiasm and research in AUX and IDX. Currently holding the position of UX / UI Designer in Toronto, Canada. Julie also co-runs a community based skateboard shop in the heart of Toronto.

• @hellojulielane

Jeanne Spellman recently joined TPG from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. She still works on the W3C Mobile Accessibility Task Force and Low Vision Accessibility Task Force.

Kathy Wahlbin is an accessibility expert in ADA, Section 508 and W3C WCAG 2.0 compliance and CEO and founder of Interactive Accessibility. She is an experienced digital media designer with extensive knowledge of accessibility and usability issues and solutions. She is passionate about creating a world where online communications and technology are simple and universally accessible to all people regardless of ability. Kathy leads the Boston Accessibility group, is chair of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) Individual Professional Development Committee, co-chair of the W3C Mobile Accessibility Taskforce and is an invited expert on the W3C WCAG 2.0 Working Group.

• @jspellman
• @wahlbin

Makoto Ueki (Infoaxia, Inc.) is an Independent consultant in Tokyo, Japan. He Has consultancy work experiences including evaluation of websites, development of in-house guidelines, QA, training, user testing and localization of evaluation tools. He is the Chairman of Web Accessibility Infrastructure Committee in Japan and participates in the WCAG working group as an Invited Expert.Japan has the national standard(JIS) for web accessibility which was updated to be identical with ISO/IEC 40500:2012(= WCAG 2.0) in March 2016. Makoto was the chair of the JIS update working group.

• @makoto_ueki
• infoaxia.com

Kel Smith is a longtime author, speaker and practitioner in all things related to technology and behavior. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, and his presentation credits span over 100 cities in seven countries. In 2013 he launched Aisle Won, a nutrition support and mobile food distribution product that currently serves 14,000 families in 30 pickup locations. His work has been profiled by CBC Radio’s “The Current,” Yahoo News, Globe & Mail Canada, WBAL Radio and the BBC. Kel is the author of the book Digital Outcasts: Moving Technology Forward Without Leaving People Behind, published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2013. He lives and works in Philadelphia and New York City.

• @kelsmith
• kelsmith.com

Lainey Feingold is a disability rights lawyer who has worked with the blind community on digital accessibility since 1995. Practicing the alternative dispute resolution process known as Structured Negotiation, and without filing any lawsuits, she has negotiated accessible web, mobile, and technology agreements with Bank of America, Major League Baseball, Anthem, CVS and twenty other organizations. Lainey believes the law can be a positive force in the quest for inclusion in the digital age. Her book about Structured Negotiation will be published by the American Bar Association in the Fall of 2016.

• @LFLegal
• lflegal.com

• playstation.com
• naughtydog.com
• unchartedthegame.com

Jon is Technical Director and Accessibility Consultant at Dig Inclusion, where he helps organisations to understand accessibility and deliver accessible products and services through training, accessibility testing and technical solution finding. A passionate advocate for accessible design since 2003, Jon is widely recognised for his work in the accessibility community.

• @dotjay

Karl "The Viking" Groves and Billy "The Lumberjack" Gregory use humour to take accessibility to the next level.

• @vandlshow
• Viking & Lumberjack (YouTube)

Following background in accessibility across both gaming and web products at the BBC, Ian now works in the wider games industry as an advocate and consultant, working with developers, publishers, platforms, academia and industry bodies to raise the profile and understanding of accessibility issues in the games industry. Examples include co-authoring a White House policy briefing, organizing global accessibility hack events, leading work on industry best practice guidelines, and advising on government funding processes.

• @ianhamilton_
• gameaccessibilityguidelines.com

Ashley Bischoff is an Accessibility Consultant and Copy Editor with The Paciello Group. With her expertise across assistive technologies, she has helped scores of online businesses as well as federal and state agencies upgrade their accessibility. And with her copy editor’s pen in hand, Ashley keeps her eyes peeled for buried verbs and dangling modifiers while she wrangles stray homophones. Ashley lives in Dallas, and she likes listening to metal and drinking tea.

• @handcoding
• friendlyediting.com

Marc is a user experience professional with 20+ years experience designing and building interactive applications for mobile, web and desktop users. He draws for a diverse background as a product manager and technical evangelist at startups, mid-size and large companies. Marc is the champion of accessibility within his company, acting as evangelist, partner developer, product manager, project manager and lead UX designer for all things A11y. Marc has taught a variety of graduate courses at University of Massachusetts Lowell, Bentley University and Harvard Extension School. He holds a B.S. in Computer Graphics from UMass Amherst and a MBA from Bentley.

• @mcajolet
• kronos.com/accessibility

Jon Metz is an information architect at The Paciello Group. He specializes in helping organizations integrate accessibility into their processes. Jon is also an expert in PDF accessibility, and he participates in PDF standards with the International Standards Organization and Association for Information and Image Management’s North American Committee for PDF/UA. Previously, he was an invited expert on the W3C’s Education & Outreach Working Group.

• @jonbmetz
• paciellogroup.com