CEO, Founder and Board Member
Preety Kumar
Preety Kumar is the CEO and founder of Deque Systems. She invented the category of automated digital accessibility testing over two decades ago and established the vision of unifying Web access, both from the user and the technology perspective. Preety is a visionary leader and she attracted numerous luminaries as she built a mission-driven company.
Preety’s bio
Today, Deque is a recognized market leader in the field of digital accessibility with a breadth and depth of innovative products serving enterprise and government clients such as Veteran Affairs, Department of Education, Humana, Intuit, HSBC, Target, and others. She collaborated with the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative and is a nominated member of the Accessibility Forum’s Strategic Management Council: a GSA sponsored group with representatives from the IT industry, academia, Government Agencies, and disabled user groups that fosters information accessibility through mutual cooperation.
Preety was a developer, test manager and engineering manager for companies like Verizon and holds a Masters in Computer Science from George Washington University. She has served on boards like Disabiity:In and Yes I Can. Preety is a digital nomad and when she is not on a plane, she loves to surf, climb mountains and fly planes.
Posts from Preety
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Axe DevTools Extension Updates: Buy Multiple Subscriptions Online, Provision, and Manage Your Own Users
Need to buy more than one subscription of axe DevTools Pro at a time? Now, you can purchase subscriptions for your teams online. You can…
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Axe DevTools Extension Updates: Rules & Standards Control, Sign In/Up within the Extension, and More
In the 4.18.2 release of the axe DevTools browser extension, Pro users now have full control of what they are testing when it comes to…
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Axe DevTools Updates: UI Improvements, Edge Browser Extension, and a brand new Structure Intelligent Guided Test™
Ahoy! We have made some exciting updates in the 4.17.x release of the axe DevTools browser extension. In this release, you will find that Intelligent…
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Axe DevTools Updates: New Interactive Elements Intelligent Guided Test™ (IGT) and What’s Left to Test
Ahoy! We have very exciting updates in the 4.11.0 release of the axe DevTools browser extension. This release increases coverage and provides a clear answer…
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Axe DevTools Extension Updates: New Share Issue Feature & Improved Issue Summary
We have a lot of exciting updates included in the 4.9.3 release of the axe DevTools Browser Extension. This release was all about implementing improvements…
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Deque to shift its CSUN 2020 presence to virtual
We’ve been debating internally for a few weeks now as myself and the collective Deque employee base has been closely monitoring COVID-19, but have decided…
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