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 Williams

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

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The business case for accessibility

Greg Williams (GW)
November 19, 2019 By Greg Williams

In an ideal world, organizations would inherently practice accessibility because it is the right thing to do and because it is good for business. While…

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Where Accessibility Fits in an Organization: Decentralized vs. Centralized Model

Greg Williams (GW)
September 10, 2019 By Greg Williams

Building an accessibility program is key for maintaining a culture of accessibility in the workplace. It also ensures that accessibility is scalable and cost-effective. Depending…

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Accessibility Program Fundamentals: 3rd-Party Vendor Management

Greg Williams (GW)
August 21, 2019 By Greg Williams

Those who are new to accessibility oftentimes think it’s a one-and-done assessment and remediation process. But in a world of rapidly changing websites and applications,…

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Accessibility Program Fundamentals: Choosing the right accessibility metrics

Greg Williams (GW)
August 7, 2019 By Greg Williams

Choosing the right digital accessibility analytics is critical to the long-term success of your accessibility testing efforts. To hold weight, these metrics need to be…

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The Cost of Accessibility False Positives

Greg Williams (GW)
January 16, 2019 By Greg Williams

Pause: before you read this blog post it is important to understand what an accessibility false positive is. It will also be helpful to play…

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