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Sarah leads Apple's accessibility programs, including support for disability communities worldwide, accessibility technologies built into all Apple hardware, software, and services, as well as other initiatives that promote Apple’s culture of inclusion.
Chris Coyier is a web designer and developer that tries to help other people get better at those things.
He is the co-founder of CodePen, a social development environment for web designers and developers. CodePen is a front-end focused IDE in the browser allowing people to write HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related languages. It’s as much of a community and social network as a coding platform.
Along with Dave Rupert, he is the co-host of a podcast called ShopTalk, a show about (you guessed it) building websites. We’re over 10 years and 500 episodes strong!
Chris also built CSS-Tricks, a website all about building websites, and ran it for 15 years, from 2007 to 2022, before selling it to DigitalOcean.
Jennison co-founded Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) in 2012, after happening upon a blog post by a developer, Joe Devon who called for such a day of digital accessibility awareness. The event takes place on the third Thursday each May. On the occasion of the 10th GAAD, Joe and Jennison co-founded the GAAD Foundation, whose mission is to disrupt the culture of technology and digital product development to include accessibility as a core requirement.
A member of the Consumer Technology Association Foundation Board of Trustees, Jennison has been recognized for his industry contributions. These include:
featured by Business Insider in 2020 among 30 "power players and rising stars" helping new CEO Ryan Roslansky run LinkedIn; recognized at the 2024 axe-con with the Jim Thatcher Lifetime Achievement Award; and named in 2025 and 2026 to the Forbes Accessibility 100 and 200 Lists of Top Innovators and Impact Makers in accessibility.
Jennison founded Accessibility Camp Toronto in 2011, Accessibility Camp Bay Area in 2014, and helped found the Boston Accessibility Conference and Accessibility Camp L.A. in 2010 and 2012 respectively. These free, day-long events provide a less formal atmosphere for designers, developers, other tech pros, and people with disabilities to come together and discuss digital accessibility issues. He also founded the Bay Area Accessibility and Inclusive Design (A11yBay) Meetup Group.
Andraéa LaVant is the founder and president of LaVant Consulting, Inc., an access-centered consulting firm that helps organizations build accessibility into their events, spaces, content, and systems. Her clients have included Google, Netflix, the Obama Foundation, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where she has served as an accessibility consultant for the Oscars for five years. She was the impact producer for the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary Crip Camp, a contributing author to Wake Up America, and in 2021 became the first visibly disabled Black woman on the Oscars red carpet. She speaks internationally on access as a mindset, not a checklist.
Brad Frost is a design system consultant, web designer & developer, speaker, writer, teacher, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. He helps people establish & evolve design systems, establish more collaborative workflows, and design & build software together.
He is the author of the book Atomic Design, which introduces a methodology to create and maintain effective design systems. He co-hosted the Style Guides Podcast and has helped create several tools and resources for web designers, including Pattern Lab, Styleguides.io, This Is Responsive, Death to Bullshit, and more.
TJ Pitre is the Product Architect for AI and Design Systems at Figma, and Founder/Owner of Southleft, a design systems consultancy. He works with teams to bridge design and engineering using structured context, modern tooling, and practical experimentation.
For more than three decades, Aaron Gustafson has worked to make technology more accessible, resilient, and equitable. He’s a Principal Technical Program Manager in Microsoft Accessibility Engineering, where he guides work on AI evaluation & benchmarks, agentic tooling, and design software. Previously, Aaron directed Microsoft’s $25m AI for Accessibility portfolio and helped deliver speech-AI and custom neural-voice experiences with people who have disabilities. Earlier at Microsoft, he shaped Progressive Web App strategy for Edge and edited several W3C specifications. Aaron wrote Adaptive Web Design, co-authored the sixth edition of Learning Web Design, managed the Web Standards Project, and served as Editor in Chief of A List Apart.
Manuel is a frontend developer, consultant, accessibility auditor, blogger, book author, and speaker from Vienna, currently living in Graz. He believes in web standards, progressive enhancement, and user-centric web design and development.
He also specializes in web accessibility and enterprise CSS.
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Preety is the CEO of Deque Systems and founded Deque in 1999 with the vision of unifying Web access, both from the user and the technology perspective. Under Preety’s leadership, Deque has grown to be a market leader in the field of information accessibility, serving corporate and government clients with the highest standards in information technology, 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 foster information accessibility through mutual cooperation.
Leslie Gordon is Chief Accessibility Officer at Cisco, leading efforts to embed accessibility across products, digital experiences, business processes, and the employee experience. She brings deep expertise in accessibility, HR, operations, and enterprise change management.
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Dylan is the Chief Product Officer at Deque. He has almost 20 years of experience in technology development, technical sales, product management, product marketing, and corporate development. Dylan founded a startup in 1989 that was acquired. He then went public with OpenText and helped grow revenues to over $400 million. He later led the effort to create a digital center within a Borders store and to begin the transition from purely physical products to digital and physical product mix delivered in a cross channel online and in-store way. In addition to his work experience, Dylan has an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BS from the University of the Witwatersrand. Dylan believes in leading through action to create value for shareholders and the community.
Chet Frith joined the Office of Information Technology at Department of Veteran Affairs in May 2022 and is the Director, Office of 508 Compliance. He began his career in the United States Navy where he served 21 years on active duty and another 7 years as a DoD civilian. While working with seriously wounded, ill and injured service members, he developed a passion for accessibility and personally utilized assistive information and communication technology upon his return from Iraq in 2011. Chet assisted the realignment of the Section 508 office, ensuring the 508 Playbook was implemented through a robust Plan of Action and Milestones. He holds a Master’s Degree in Operations Management from the University of Arkansas.
Laura Boniello Miller is a Senior ICT Accessibility Specialist with the Office of Government-wide Policy at the General Services Administration (GSA) providing technical assistance to federal agencies on Section 508. On behalf of the Governmentwide IT Accessibility Team, Miller manages acquisition-related products such as the Solicitation Review Tool and the ACR Repository. She works with agencies and acquisition leaders to incorporate Section 508 into federal procurement in all stages of the acquisition process.
Miller serves on various working groups addressing self service transaction machine accessibility. She has knowledge of closed system accessibility as it relates to hardware, software, and accessible technology and she works on the Hardware Baseline with members of the Access Board and other members of the Governmentwide IT Accessibility Team.
Senior regulatory and governance specialist with extensive experience translating complex EU and national requirements into operational governance frameworks, controls, processes, guidance and monitoring arrangements.
Specialist in implementation of the EU AI Act and other technology-related regulation, with experience spanning governance design, risk classification, compliance assessment, audit readiness and regulatory enforcement.
Recognised for bringing together legal, technical, policy and operational experts, creating alignment across different perspectives and turning multidisciplinary collaboration, particularly at the EU level, into practical, high-quality outcomes.
Hanneke van Rooijen is project leader for the European Accessibility Act at the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), where she leads the team that oversees digital accessibility for companies providing e-commerce and electronic communication services.
In its capacity as a regulator, the ACM monitors whether consumers—including those with disabilities—are able to make purchases or communicate without encountering any obstacles.
Caitlin has ten years of experience in the UX field, spanning design, content strategy, and digital accessibility. Currently, they are Digital Accessibility Lead for Sanofi, a large, global biopharma company, leading operations and strategy for the company’s growing digital accessibility practices. Outside of work, they enjoy collaborative storytelling through Dungeons & Dragons and supporting their cat's luxurious lifestyle.
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Ted Drake is the Head of Intuit Design System and Inclusive Design at Intuit, a financial software company that creates Credit Karma, Mailchimp, TurboTax and QuickBooks. Ted leads a distributed team of Designers and Accessibility Champions; working together to power prosperity. Prior to Intuit, Ted co-founded Yahoo’s Accessibility Lab and was a developer evangelist. Ted speaks regularly at technology and design conferences and is a board member of Magical Bridge Foundation, steering committee for Web4All, and Co-Program Chair for CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. Ted is also the author of Community-Driven Accessibility Leadership.
Charlie is leading accessibility operations at a Fortune 500 company. He wrote The Book on Accessibility, your guide to building an enterprise scale program. He also invented AtomicA11y, the AI (and human) skills builder for design, Web, iOS and Android. Oh, and he recently contributed the design systems chapter to Inclusive Design for Accessibility. He's kinda busy.
Andrew Puchle is a Senior Director of Digital Accessibility at Eli Lilly, where he helped build the company’s accessibility practice. His work spans WCAG auditing, accessible design systems in Figma, AI-driven testing automation, and MCP adoption. He holds a Master of Design in Inclusive Design from OCAD University, where his research focused on how workplace collaboration tools shape the experiences of neurodivergent employees, a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction from Indiana University, and a BS in Computer Science.
Marcie Roth is Executive Director and CEO of the World Institute on Disability and a global leader in disability rights, accessibility, and disaster resilience. From 2009 to 2017, she served at FEMA, where she established and directed the Office of Disability Integration and Coordination. She advises governments, corporations, health systems, and the United Nations on disability inclusion and building accessible, resilient communities.
Corvette Harrison is part of KPMG’s Digital Accessibility team, with responsibility for assistive technology and accessible culture. Before moving into accessibility, Corvette worked as a software engineer, and now uses that technical background across accessibility testing, guidance and support.
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Harris is a web developer with a strong passion for digital equality. He works at Deque Systems as the Director of Product Management, building awesome web applications. He wrote Cauldron (Deque’s pattern library), Dragon Drop, and is the lead developer on Axe DevTools Pro. When he is not at work, he still finds time to contribute to numerous open source projects.
Watch Harris’ axe-con 2024 talk here: “How Do You Make Accessibility Testing as Efficient as Possible?“
Dr. Michele A. Williams is the author of "Accessible UX Research" and owner of MAW Consulting, LLC – Making Accessibility Work. With 20 years of experience, she has influenced top tech companies as a Senior User Experience (UX) Researcher and Accessibility Specialist. She holds a PhD in Human-Centered Computing with a focus on accessibility and is an international speaker, published academic author, and patented inventor. Michele is passionate about designing technology that does not exclude disabled users and about building a research culture that centers disability equity.
Thao McKenna (she/her) is a design leader with a user-centric mindset. With over a decade of experience as a creative problem solver and a team collaborator, Thao loves to deliver experiences that can make an impact in people’s lives. Currently, she leads the design foundation workstream at global pharmaceutical company, Sanofi, which includes digital accessibility and inclusive design. In addition to healthcare, she previously led product design in the e-commerce and tech industry. Outside of work, you can find Thao at a local bubble tea shop or strolling on a community bike path with her family.
Devin Owsley (They/Them) is a digital accessibility professional with a particular emphasis on native mobile applications and design systems. With over seven years of experience, they lead accessibility strategy across digital products, helping teams integrate accessibility from the earliest stages of design and development. Devin is passionate about building scalable frameworks, systems, and processes that make accessibility a shared responsibility from day one. Right now, they are the Mobile Accessibility Lead at McDonald’s, helping global product teams integrate accessibility earlier in the product lifecycle and enhance design system infrastructure.
Emily is the Digital Accessibility Lead at KPMG UK. Her team is responsible for ensuring the accessibility of technology developed by or procured for KPMG, which includes setting standards, accessibility testing and remediation, delivering training, and managing assistive technology. They also support clients to improve the accessibility of their products and services.
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Kurt Iobst is a passionate advocate and leader for disability inclusion and empowerment. As Global President and co-founder of Salesforce's Neuroforce BRG and Customer Accessibility Advisory Lead, he breaks down barriers, fosters understanding, and creates pathways for neurodivergent and disabled communities to thrive.
A natural storyteller, Kurt draws from his experience being late-diagnosed as autistic to build workplaces where differences are celebrated and embraced. His dual background in education and technology provides deep insight into both the challenges faced by the disability community and their unique potential to contribute meaningfully to the world. He has spoken at major events including CES, M-Enabling, Disability:IN, and Dreamforce.
Kaelynn is a Mobile Accessibility Developer at Fidelity Investments who specializes in User Experience Research and UI design/development. In her short time in the accessibility field, Kaelynn has taken the opportunity to jump into the native mobile space and truly dive into the user experience by focusing on complex components and edge cases for mobile accessibility. She is also an advocate for getting development and design teams to own accessibility through simple usage of tooling and process changes.
I’m Mark “Steady” Steadman, an accessibility leader, public speaker, and general accessibility nerd with a focus on scaling accessibility across large organizations and within product teams
My goal is to bridge the gap between accessibility theory and engineering reality. Using my own experience, starting from an arrogant developer and growing into a leader, to show others that accessibility isn’t an exclusive discipline reserved for experts. It’s a skill any developer can learn, a practice any team can adopt, and a responsibility every organization can embrace.
Janell Sims (she/her) has worked as a content strategist, UX advocate, and accessibility practitioner for over 15 years in higher ed. She currently manages a team of Digital Accessibility Consultants at Harvard University as part of an initiative to incorporate the principles of accessibility and inclusive design into all aspects of the digital experience. She is also the accessibility lead on the university's first platform-wide design system.
Nina Roby is the Digital Accessibility Program Lead at Red Hat, where she works across teams to embed accessibility into everyday practices. Her work spans accessibility strategy, education, champion networks, and collaboration with designers, developers, and content creators. She focuses on helping people build the skills, support, and shared commitment needed to sustain accessibility through organizational and technological change. Nina has presented at the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference.
Megan Biddinger (She/Her) approaches accessibility through the lens of autonomy, both for the people using products and those creating them. Drawing on 15 years in digital technology, a decade focused on accessibility, and a background in research and teaching, she helps teams identify what matters most, make confident accessibility decisions, and create space to go beyond compliance. Today, she leads a team of accessibility designers and analysts who partner across the product lifecycle to create experiences that help more of us feel that products were designed with us in mind.
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Jonathan Thurston (JT) is the founder of iAccess and a global accessibility leader who has led programs at Walmart, Atlassian, and Pearson. His work integrates accessibility strategy, inclusive design, and product development. He is developing Companion, a personalized emergency-communication proof of concept, and exploring how technology can adapt to individual needs, preferences, and circumstances to give people greater choice and control.
Justin is a senior product designer at Deque Systems, where he works on design systems and accessibility tooling, including Axe DevTools, Axe Monitor, and Axe Auditor. His work sits where design systems, front-end code, accessible component specification, and UX writing meet. When he's not doing web stuff, he makes documentary films.
Kelly Ferrell is a program Director on the Environmental, Social, and Governance team, where she leads the Red Cross's enterprise digital accessibility program. Kelly also co-sponsors the American Red Cross Ability Network Team Member Resource Group.
Pawel is a designer with twenty years of craft behind him and a soft spot for making accessibility feel effortless. At Atlassian he helps design teams build accessibility in from the start, and he has spoken at CSUN, axe-con and A11y Camp. When he is not talking about inclusive design, he is teaching Zumba in Sydney.
Kevin Andrews is the Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) Accessibility Coordinator at Georgetown central IT, where he leads enterprise accessibility strategy, governance, and policy. Kevin is known for translating complex accessibility requirements into clear, actionable direction that leaders can act on, and for building the cross-team relationships that make that direction stick. His work focuses on creating sustainable, institution-wide approaches to inclusive technology.