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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The State of Accessibility: GAAD 2019
In celebration of this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), let’s take a look at the state of accessibility. Accessibility is continuing to grow and…
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Reflecting on the Deque-Microsoft collaboration
I’m writing this post to provide some added color and personal opinions you may have missed in our recent joint press release with Microsoft titled…
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