Vice President and Principal Strategy Consultant
Patrick Sturdivant
Patrick has worked in information technology for over 30 years. An experienced software engineer who is blind, Patrick deeply understands the technical challenges our customers and the disabled community face when it comes to accessibility. Coupled with his testing, team building, training and DE&I strengths, Patrick is a consulting force to be reckoned with.
Patrick’s bio
For the last eleven years, Patrick has been dedicated to promoting digital inclusion for all through awareness and the benefits digital equality brings to all users by sharing his own personal story of leading a digital lifestyle using multiple screen readers on both desktop and tablet platforms. Patrick’s accomplishments include accessibility lab and disability employee resource group establishment experience, US Patent holder for several bank products designed for the blind and his ability to influence at all levels of an organization’s business and technical teams.
Posts from Patrick
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How to design great alt text: An introduction
Images need alternative text (alt text). This is often one of the first things designers and developers learn about accessibility. On the surface, it’s a…
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Patrick’s European vacation: My experience traveling internationally as a person with a disability (Part Three: The Conclusion!)
Welcome back! If you read Part One and Part Two of my European vacation series, you’ll know that my trip involved flying from Texas to…
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My experience voting as a person with a disability
Voting is a human right. But are all voting experiences created the same? Unfortunately, not always. For someone like myself who has a disability (I…
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Patrick’s European vacation: My experience traveling internationally as a person with a disability (Part Two)
Thank you for joining me to learn about the second part of my journey overseas. In this post, I’ll cover my experiences on the plane…
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Patrick’s European vacation: My experience traveling internationally as a person with a disability (Part One)
International travel poses many fascinating challenges for travelers and the companies transporting them. When you take off in one country and land in another, the…
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Housing, It’s a Human Right (Part 3)
A 3-Part Series on the digital accessibility of the housing process experienced by people with disabilities. In this 3-part series, we will look at the…
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