Chief Information Accessibility Officer
Glenda Sims
Glenda Sims is the Chief Information Accessibility Officer at Deque, where she shares her expertise and passion for the open web with government organizations, educational institutions, and companies ranging in size from small business enterprise.
Glenda’s bio
Glenda is an adviser and co-founder of AIR-University (Accessibility Internet Rally) and AccessU. She serves as an accessibility consultant, judge, and trainer for Knowbility, an organization whose mission is to support the independence of people with disabilities by promoting the availability of barrier free IT. In 2010 Glenda co-authored the book InterACT with Web Standards: A holistic approach to Web Design.
Posts from Glenda
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New Accessibility Guildelines in the WordPress User Manual
WordPress has just posted guidelines for Accessibility on WordPress. They cover the basics – headings, alt text on images, descriptive links – as well as…
Read Article#a11ychat – Making Video and Audio Accessible to All
Welcome to the second web accessibility chat, AKA #a11ychat! The “Accessibility Avengers” @nethermind and @goodwitch will be your high energy hosts and moderators for this…
Read ArticleStoked about Sports!
Folks who are blind have long listened to sports on the radio for a better description than those offered on television. However, if one travels,…
Read ArticleAccessible Client-side Form Validation with HTML5, WAI-ARIA, & the jQuery Validation Plugin
Old browsers? Old AT? JavaScript to the rescue! In the last part of our series on accessible form validation and usability enhancements we’re adding the…
Read ArticleAccessible Client-side Form Validation with HTML5
Connecting labels to inputs is easy! But what about required fields, error messages, and keyboard focus? In this three part blog series we’ll learn to make…
Read ArticleAccessibility Around the Web
Every week we come across interesting articles related to the disability and accessibility world. They can be informative, funny, interesting, and even sad. Here are…
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