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Steve is a human-centred front-end developer and user experience designer. He helps software teams have happier customers by making more user-friendly and engaging software. He’s been building things for the web professionally since 2005 (and built things for fun for a while before that). Accessibility has been a part of his work for many years, but now it’s part of his job title too! He makes sites and apps that everyone can use, regardless of their device, the network they’re on, or any disabilities they may have.

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Jan Maarten (he/him) is a designer and accessibility specialist living on unceded Duwamish lands. He has worn many hats, from full stack design and branding to strategy and IT operations. He is currently a Senior Accessibility Designer at GitHub, helping product teams shift left and improving design infrastructure.

Daniel Henderson-Ede (he/him) is a leading voice in accessible design at scale. He has built and evolved design systems at Pinterest and CVS Health, and his annotation toolkits are used by design teams around the world. Daniel is Principal Consultant at Mantis & Co. He helps organizations bring design and engineering together to embed accessibility into every layer of the product. He has spoken at Axecon, CSUN AT, AccessU, and Figma, sharing practical strategies that make accessibility efficient, impactful, and people centered.

• janmaarten.com
• @janmaarten.com
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• daniel.hendersonede.com
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Dom Parker (she/her) is an eLearning designer and accessible game specialist at Cerebral Palsy Alliance. Passionate about making digital experiences more inclusive, she collaborates with game developers, clinicians, and players with disabilities to create accessible learning content and video games.

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Misaki Tanaka is a design leader and DEI practitioner working at Panasonic’s Transformation Design Center, where she heads the DEI Design Division. With over a decade of experience in inclusive design, social entrepreneurship, and disaster response, she also leads SOLIT, a fashion brand pioneering co-creative and inclusive business. Her work bridges corporate innovation with social impact.

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Nic Chan is an independent front-end web developer and accessibility specialist from Hong Kong. She has recently co-founded Ultramarina, a digital studio which has just launched an accessible Shopify theme called Primavera.

• nicchan.me
• @NicMakesStuff@indieweb.social

Matthew has been in and around the disabled community for decades. He is currently responsible for digital accessibility at the S Group, Finland's biggest retail chain. Since 2020, his work has focused exclusively on digital accessibility, working with organizations in the scope of Europe’s new digital accessibility requirements, before joining the S Group last year. His work time is spent coaching the teams building digital products for the S Group through developing their own accessibility skills with a focus on understanding the needs of our disabled customers and colleagues.

Elina is a mobile developer at S Group, where she started her career four years ago as a junior mobile developer while still finishing her studies. Since then, she has been working with React Native, gaining hands-on experience in building cross-platform mobile applications. In 2022 her thesis on accessibility in React Native mobile applications sparked a lasting interest in mobile app accessibility. Today, she focuses on mobile development with a strong interest for accessibility and user experience, supporting both app development and accessibility efforts in her team.

• mallonbacka.com
• @Mallonbacka@hachyderm.io

Rubina Singh is a social designer and design justice practitioner based in New Delhi, India. She values designing programmes and co-learning experiences through a feminist, participatory, and intersectional lens. She currently works with Ignite Philanthropy, a global philanthropic fund dedicated to ending violence against children, where she leads network weaving across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America. Rubina is also one of the co-leads of Design Justice Network's India node and an advisor with the Inclusive Design Jam. She enjoys dabbling in projects that push the boundaries of conventional design like The Rights Market (a speculative design experiment), Rafunaama (facilitating textile art made in resistance), or Rafooghar & Stitching Futures (stitching-inspired community building projects).

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Sam is a product designer at a Japanese securities platform, dedicated to making investing intuitive and accessible. Early in her career, she discovered that screen-reader users couldn’t access her product’s core features, sparking her passion for accessibility. She then founded the A11y Village Project to fill a resource gap for Chinese readers in 2022—now drawing over 1,000 monthly reads.

Jo is a product designer in fintech, now based in the UK. She’s passionate about how digital technology can improve lives through great user experiences. That curiosity led her to dive into accessibility and join Coseeing, where she focuses on designing digital experiences that are truly inclusive for everyone.

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• jochsuanyun

Sergei is a certified Web Accessibility Specialist (IAAP). He fell in love with web development at the high school level, then got a degree in Information Technologies from Haaga-Helia University in Helsinki and spent his professional career working for tech companies in Finland and Germany. Sergei's focus areas are UI development and digital accessibility.

• sergeikriger.com
• @sergeikriger.com

Kaye is MD of DRUM, an agency with a mission to craft accessible user experience, by overcoming barriers and inequality, for brands leading the way. Kaye set up the agency in 2006 and then became disabled herself.

This fuelled her passion for digital accessibility. Since then DRUM has been providing support, toolkits, talks and accessible design to help reshape the industry into an inclusive space. In 2025, Kaye believes there should be an empathic inclusive, welcoming world wide web.

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Stewart Hay is the Managing Director and one of the co-founders of Intopia, a specialist inclusive design and accessibility consultancy working towards creating a more inclusive digital world. He is also one of the original founders for A11y Bytes and A11y Camp Australia. He has made a career helping organisations to successfully embrace technology for improved business and social outcomes. Stewart has a passion in the convergence of topics around strategy, innovation, technology, culture, diversity and inclusion.

• intopia.digital
• stewarthay
• @intopia@mastodon.social

John works on accessibility of media, broadcasting and gaming for blind and partially sighted people with a focus on technology and policy work. John has a wealth of experience of accessibility technology for people with sensory disabilities as he has worked at sensory loss charities for the last 18 years. He previously worked on accessibility and technology for RNID and the deafblindness charity Sense. He also has a Master’s Degree in Computer Systems Engineering and an interest in the accessibility potential of emerging technologies.

Jonny is a Research Officer in the Media, Culture and Immersive Technologies Team at RNIB. His main responsibility is to ensure that blind and partially sighted people have the best user experience. To achieve this, he runs research projects incorporating focus groups and interviews. This involves collaborating with industry professionals and regulators to ensure positive outcomes for end users. He also works with researchers to explore solutions that enhance user experience across various services and platforms.

• rnib.org.uk

Victoria Nduka is a Nigerian UX designer, open source contributor and accessibility advocate. She has contributed to several open source projects, including Prometheus, caMicroscope, CHAOSS, Oppia, AsyncAPI, and Layer5, where her work has spanned design, UX research, accessibility improvements, and community management.

Outside of design, she writes, speaks, and shares her journey to encourage more representation in tech.

• nwanduka.vzy.io
• victorianduka

Piper A. Hutson, EdD, is a neuroarts researcher and arts and health specialist focused on cognitive accessibility, neurodiversity, and inclusive design. Her work bridges neuroscience, creativity, and technology to promote belonging and innovation in digital spaces. Piper advocates for sensory-aware, neuroinclusive frameworks that support diverse learning and engagement styles.

• researchgate.net
• piper-hutson-77829925

Lola is a multidisciplinary artist and standards technologist. She contributes to open standards through the W3C Technical Architecture Group and serving as co-chair on the W3C Docs Community Group both as an invited expert. Lola is currently using photography and creative writing to explore themes that come up in her technical work.

• lolaslab.co
• @lolaodelola@mastodon.social
• @lolaodelola.bsky.social

Mark is Head of Marketing at AbilityNet, a £5m UK social enterprise that works with blue-chip companies in all sectors and runs a network of 500+ volunteers who help disabled people use technology.

Lui Asquith is a regulatory and public lawyer at Russell-Cooke LLP advising both claimants and defendants on all aspects of public law and regulatory matters. They have a particular interest in public interest issues and litigation. They are the lead on files relating to the European Accessibility Act at the R-C.

• abilitynet.org.uk
• markwalkerbrighton
• russell-cooke.co.uk
• lui-asquith-b31650169

I am Dev & UX Accessibility Specialist at Atos. After graduating University in Musicology and Japanese Studies in summer 2020, I started learning front-end development and specialized in the topic of web accessibility early on. Since then, I take every opportunity to spread awareness on the topic by regularly creating content in form of writing blog articles and such.

I have been certified by IAAP as a Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) in 2022 and got accepted in the Google Developer Expert Program in 2023.

• accessibilityfirst.at

Graduated in design and graphic computing, with a postgraduate degree in hypermedia design from Anhembi Morumbi University in São Paulo. Has worked in web development since 1998. Leads web accessibility initiatives at NIC.br, including ABNT standards and WCAG 2.2 translation to Brazilian Portuguese. Teaches an extension course at PUC-SP on Accessible Interface Design and has authored four books, two focusing on Web Accessibility.

• reinaldoferraz.com.br
• reinaldoferraz
• @reinaldoferraz.bsky.social

Hannah is a UX leader and accessibility strategist with over a decade of experience designing inclusive digital products. She helps organizations—from civil service teams to companies like GM—scale accessibility through empathy, systems thinking, and a commitment to lasting impact.

• hannahwagnerdesign.com
• hannahwagner008

Beau is the Technical Lead for TTC Global's Digital Accessibility Practice, and formerly the Lead Auditing and Testing consultant for the digital accessibility team at Vision Australia. Beau has been working in digital for 20 years, as an accessibility consultant since 2019, and formerly as a Web Developer and Senior/Lead Front End Developer for digital agencies in Melbourne.

• accessibility.ttcglobal.com
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Shawn is Director of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and leads worldwide education and outreach activities promoting digital accessibility. Shawn focuses her personal passion for accessibility on bringing together the needs of individuals and the goals of organizations in designing human-computer interfaces. Her book 'Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design' offers an approach for developing products that are more usable for everyone.

Kevin is Senior Principal Accessibility Specialist at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and leads W3C's accessibility technical work. In this role, he contributes to internationally recognized standards that support accessibility. Kevin provides support and oversight of the accessibility working groups and is the staff contact for the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group that develops Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

• w3.org/People/Shawn
• @shawna_slh@w3c.social
• w3.org/People/kevin

Jonathan Zong is an Assistant Professor in Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Data & Design Group. In his research, Jonathan partners with blind collaborators and study participants to co-design interfaces for non-visual data exploration. Jonathan's work has been recognized by the MIT Morningside Academy for Design Fellowship, the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, and Forbes 30 Under 30 Scientists.

• jonathanzong.com
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• @jonathanzong.com

Anthony Vasquez is among the first blind Americans to study Mandarin in university. He worked with Knowbility from 2014-2023 as an accessibility tester and communications specialist. Between 2017-2022, he taught journalism at Cal State Long Beach. He has a master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and bachelor’s degrees in journalism and Chinese studies from Cal State Long Beach. He lives in Southern California and enjoys hiking, exploring new restaurants, and traveling.

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