Inclusive Design 24 (#ID24) 16 November 2017

As would be expected from a former manager of the Web Standards Project, Aaron Gustafson is passionate about web standards and accessibility. He has been working on the Web for two decades now and is a web standards advocate at Microsoft, working closely with their browser team. He penned the seminal book on progressive enhancement, Adaptive Web Design, and writes about whatever's on his mind at aaron-gustafson.com.

• @AaronGustafson
• aaron-gustafson.com

My name is Jesse Anderson, and I have been legally blind since birth. I have also been interested in technology and video games since the early days of the Atari 2600 and C64. Over the past several years, I have also really gotten into technology and gaming accessibility, including virtual reality. I have a Bachelors degree in Information Technology Management and a minor in Scientific and Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota Crookston, and a Masters degree in Instructional Design & Technology from the University of North Dakota. I currently work as an Assistive Technology Specialist with Minnesota's State Services for the Blind.

• @BGFH79

Patrick Burke is an independent accessibility consultant with over 20 years of experience in web accessibility, production of alternate format materials, and adaptive technology.

• @pattwit

Renaldi Gondosubroto is the Founder and CEO of GReS Studio. He leads the company with a vision of having an interconnected world where businesses and individuals can share big data with each other. His personal vision is to be able to get more young minds into taking leadership positions in the companies that will come. Through his passion of developing software and contributing to the opensource community, Renaldi wants to encourage the innovation of new solutions to usher forward and promote a new era of innovations that can be used by everyone. He enjoys sharing his knowledge regarding his experiences within the tech industry with many other people in order to also inspire and put them in the right track for success, both in conferences and in regular everyday situations.

Estelle Weyl is the Front End Engineer and Open Web evangelist. A web developer, trainer, author, blogger and speaker, she has consulted for Kodak Gallery, SurveyMonkey, Samsung, Yahoo, Visa, and Apple. While not coding, Estelle works in construction, dehippifying her 1960s throwback abode.

• @estellevw
• standardista.com

Taliesin Smith is an inclusive design research specialist with the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a front-end web developer by trade with several years of experience in online education and a passion for accessibility. In 2016, she completed a Masters of Design in Inclusive Design at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada for which she was awarded the Canadian Governor General's Academic Gold Medal. Her Masters research project focused on the research and design of accessibility features to provide non-visual access for the PhET Simulation, Balloons and Static Electricity, and received the Inclusive Design Research Award at OCAD University. Taliesin loves to bike, hike, and garden when she is not at her computer.

• @TaliesinSmith

Hidde de Vries is a freelance front-end developer. He helps governments and large business get accessible and usable websites for their end users. Hidde holds an MA in Philosophy, which hardly ever comes in handy when building websites.

• @hdv
• hiddedevries.nl/en/

Russ Weakley is a world-renowned CSS expert and UX developer. Russ chairs the Web Standards Group (WSG) and produced a series of widely acclaimed online resources and tutorials on CSS, HTML and accessibility.

• @russmaxdesign
• maxdesign.com.au

Mischa Andrews is a digital generalist with a background in psychology, computing, philosophy and game development. She previously worked as an accessibility advisor in the Australian Government and is now a web consultant in Sweden. Building on more than 8 years of professional experience in digital communications, Mischa believes that positive change requires a shared foundation of knowledge and understanding.

• @mischaandrews
• mischaandrews.com

Aurélien Levy is a digital accessibility and quality expert. He start his career as a webdesigner and then fall into the accessibility world. He was one of the main author of the first version of the web accessibility guidelines of the French gouvernement (RGAA) and is an international speaker.

• @goetsu
• temesis.com

Gunnar is a web design technologist, f/k/a frontend developer who cares more about user experience, inclusive design, accessibility, interaction design, performance, and typography than about the next shiny framework. He loves HTML code with as less divs as possible. He loves CSS magic over throwing JavaScript at styling. He loves Bruce Springsteen songs and plays one or two of them on guitar.

• @g16n
• bittersmann.de

David Caldwell is a Digital Accessibility Manager at Barclays. He joined the bank in 2011 on a graduate development programme and has been working in the Digital Accessibility Team since 2013. In his role he works alongside technology product teams across the organisation to help them to build better, more accessible products and services for Barclays customers and colleagues. David is also responsible for the Accessibility Academy - a training, development and communications programme focused on transforming the accessibility landscape at Barclays.

Outside of Barclays, David is a Founding Ambassador for PurpleSpace - the worlds leading disability network leadership development organisations. He's recently finished co-writing a new publication for PurpleSpace focused on the power of Allies and Champions within the disability agenda.

• @cfunn
• purplestarfishthrower.co.uk
• @barclaysaccess
• barclays.co.uk/accessibility/

Ruth is Scholarly Communications Licensing Manager at The University of Sheffield where she specialises in copyright and publishing.

• @thehearinglib
• librarianinlawland.com

David is an accessibility engineer at The Paciello Group. He joined the company in September 2016, and before that, he was an academic researcher in human-computer interaction at the University of York in the UK, where he specialised in designing, developing, and evaluating usable and accessible interfaces.

• @davidofyork

Mark is changing the way people think of email, they no longer have to be static pages of simple text and image but can now be fully interactive microsites. With REBEL he has built emails for a number of major brands and has consulted for a number of large email clients on developing their rendering capabilities.

• @M_J_Robbins
• gorebel.com

Rocio Calvo joined AbilityNet in 2014 and has worked on a wide variety of projects with clients including HSBC, Barclays, British Airways, BT, e-on or Sainsbury's Bank. Among her duties include: design reviews, user testing sessions, training and workshops, accessibility audits, etc. In addition, she has worked as a teacher and researcher in different Universities and she teaches accessibility and assistive technologies.

Nowadays, Rocio has done her Ph.D. at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid with the specialization in Human Computer Interaction and Software Engineering. The results obtained in this research can be found in different conferences and journals. Part of this Ph.D. has been awarded the Accésit Jesús Lorés Award given by AIPO (Spanish Association of Human Computer Interaction) and the proposal was validated jointly with ILUNION (Spanish organization for the blind).

• @MRocioCalvo
• @abilitynet
• abilitynet.org.uk

Raphael Clegg-Vinell works for AbilityNet as an Accessibility and Usability Consultant. He’s passionate about helping companies shift towards inclusive design to improve their products and services for a greater audience. Raphael has worked on a wide variety of projects (with services including strategy, research, training and testing) for clients including Barclays, HSBC, Lego and BT. He has a keen interest in emerging technologies and trends and has recently delivered presentations on inclusive VR.

• @Raphael_CV
• @abilitynet
• abilitynet.org.uk

Almero Steyn is front-end engineer and accessibility specialist at QDelft in the Netherlands. He has many years experience in building web applications, most recently in React. He spends his time finding solutions for accessibility issues encountered on actual projects, including projects for the Dutch government. Almero advocates for a11y in design, development and testing and has recently authored the page on accessibility in the React documentation.

• @kryptos_rsa
• almerosteyn.com

Vasilis van Gemert is a lecturer at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, where he teaches the next generation of digital product designers how to design things with the web as a material. He's also a student himself. He studies the appearance of randomness, the aesthetics of inclusive design, and the different definitions of quality.

• @vasilis
• vasilis.nl

John is an Accessibility Consultant trying to simplify and promote a11y. Formerly an intranet developer, he began promoting web accessibility at work when his co-workers thought it was an unnecessary risk. John's a fan of native semantic elements which give you accessibility for free. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two adopted mixed-breed dogs.

• @JohnKMcNabb

Raji is a Test Analyst, testing mobile and online banking applications. In the past, she has also worked as a bank teller, financial planner's associate, and compliance analyst. Her mixed professional background helps her in putting User Experience at the forefront of every application she is testing. She specializes in testing native mobile apps - including testing with screen readers, and more recently, Switch Control. She is always observant of how people with disabilities use technology and is curious about how technology can be made more inclusive. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons.

• @ps_raji

About Neil

Neil is a co-founder of #AXSChat he currently works for Atos as Head of Accessibility & Inclusion where his role is to help make the world a better place by delivering better technology for our customers and staff, embedding inclusive practice into the Business As Usual Processes of organisations with thousands of employees and turnovers numbering in billions.

He created the Atos Centre of Competence encompassing Accessibility, Inclusive Design and Assistive Technology Services. This team now services multiple accounts and delivers best practice, support and consultancy for the organisation. www.atos.net/iux

He delivers strategy and services working with a wide range of clients internally and externally helping them to develop policies, processes and technology solutions to meet the needs of their staff and customers. These clients include: BBC, Department of Health, Ministry of Justice, Insolvency Service, and NHS.

He is the Atos representative on the Business Disability Forum Technology Task Force and has successfully instigated the adoption of and implemented the Accessible Technology charter.

Neil is also an invited expert and contributor to theW3C Cognitive Accessibility Taskforce.

• @neilmilliken
• about.me/neilmilliken

About Debra

Debra Ruh is a seasoned entrepreneur that focuses on Global Disability Inclusion, ICT Accessibility, EmployAbility, Marketing and Communications Strategies and Digital Media. She has provided global leadership to governments, corporations, NGOs and DPO's (Disability Persons Organizations) all over the world supporting research, outreach, marketing strategies, policy and standards initiatives with public- and private-sector. Policy, Legislative and Technical Experience includes the United Nations Convention of Rights for People with Disabilities (CRPD), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 503, 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, W3C, WCAG 2.0 and ISO. Debra is also a seasoned Entrepreneur (founder of three firms): Ruh Global Communications, TecAccess, Strategic Performance Solutions.

Debra is passionate about Social Media and a Thought Leader and Blogger on ICT Accessibility and Disability Inclusion on social media channels with over 130,000 followers. Social media mediums include Twitter, Linked-In, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, G+ and other platforms. Work featured in major mediums including CBS, CNN, PBS, ABC, NBC, NPR, INC, Publishers Weekly, Fortune Magazine, US News & World Report, America's Best, Washington Technology, and Bloomberg Business Week. Debra has published many white papers, is a newsletter editor for IAAP and a Published Author of two books: "Finding Your Voice by Using Social Media" Published on Amazon and "Uncovering Human Capital" :How leading corporations leverage multiple abilities in their workforce. Publishing Date: September 2014 Publisher: G3ict

• @debraruh
• RuhGlobal.com

Marcy Sutton works on the axe-core team at Deque Systems, where she builds accessibility testing tools for developers. In 2016, O'Reilly gave Marcy a Web Platform Award for her work in accessibility. She loves co-leading the Accessibility Seattle meetup and a code club for Girl Develop It Bellingham.

• @marcysutton
• marcysutton.com

Joe O'Connor lives in Santa Monica, California. When Section 508 came into effect in 1999 he began leading web production teams creating accessible web environments in higher education. He also gave back to the WordPress community by helping the Accessibility Team. A stroke in December 2015 changed everything but Joe still helps educate people about accessibility.

• @AccessibleJoe
• accessiblejoe.com

Stefan started programming 6 years ago and quickly fell in love with web performance, new technologies, and automation.

He worked for several startups in Berlin and recently joined Contentful to tell the world how an API-first CMS can make you a bit happier.

He is also a curator of the web performance online resource Perf Tooling, organizer of the Web Performance Meetup Berlin, contributes to a variety of open source projects and enjoys sharing nerdy discoveries.

• @stefanjudis
• stefanjudis.com

About Ted

I smack accessibility bugs with the mother of all weed whackers. Intuit Accessibility Lead, Web Dev, Hacker, Speaker, and more.

• @ted_drake
• last-child.com

About Poonam

Poonam pursued her Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University and joined as a coop at Intuit in 2014. The amazing work and culture of the company brought her back as a software engineer in 2015. Since then, she has contributed to multiple projects across various platforms including Web, mobile (both iOS and Android). Her passion for accessibility has driven her to essay the role of the accessibility leader for Consumer Tax Group at Intuit.

• @poonamst14

While pursuing an MLIS during my employment at a rural Alaska public library, I rediscovered my interest in web design. Four years ago, I landed my dream job with the State of Alaska as a web designer. For the past four years now I've been enveloped in the world of web development without giving up my support for the world of libraries, archives, and museums. I strongly believe that everyone should have access to information for personal and professional improvement, and that access does not need to be comprised just because we want pretty websites and modern applications. When I'm not dreaming up designs or picking through code, I'm spending time with my husband and preschooler.

• @click2carney
• carneydevelopit.wordpress.com