Senior Vice President and Chief Architect
Greg Williams
Greg “GW” Williams is the Senior Vice President & Chief Architect at Deque Systems, Inc. He oversees program development and operations for some of Deque’s largest customers, helping them to build mature, sustainable accessibility programs.
Greg’s bio
Prior to joining Deque, Greg spent more than 30 years in the information technology field focusing on large, complex program operations for Fortune 40 companies and before that served in the United States Navy for a number of years. He had great success as the founder and owner of the Digital Accessibility Program Office for State Farm Insurance, building their practice from the ground up into one of the highest maturity level programs in the world between 2013 and 2018.
Greg has always been passionate about diversity and inclusion and has extended this passion to the disability and accessibility community – joining Deque Systems in 2018 to help launch and mature similarly successful programs across the globe.
Posts from Greg
The Unruh Act: Understand the lawsuits and how state and federal regulations could combine to create blockbuster settlements
For over a decade, I’ve been monitoring and analyzing federal and state lawsuits related to digital accessibility. One thing I can say about this space…
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Digital accessibility and the cost of exclusion
In my previous Proactive Perspectives article, I explored lessons from the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), discussed what to do when digital accessibility…
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Lessons from AODA and the roadmap to 2035
I want to begin this post on a very positive note and say that I believe the next decade will be a truly historic era…
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There’s more to digital accessibility than policy
Digital accessibility advocates often face tremendous challenges at their organizations when trying to motivate and encourage digital content creators to build accessibly. If you’ve been…
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Doing the numbers: Digital accessibility and shifting left
Here’s the good news: Every day, more and more organizations are becoming aware of digital accessibility and beginning to practice it at their companies. They…
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When it comes to EAA compliance, to delay is to pay
In some ways, I just want to make this a very short post. If I did, it would read something like this: The European Accessibility…
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