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 Kumar

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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New Accessibility Guildelines in the WordPress User Manual

Caitlin Cashin
October 1, 2012 By Caitlin Cashin

WordPress has just posted guidelines for Accessibility on WordPress.  They cover the basics – headings, alt text on images, descriptive links – as well as…

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#a11ychat – Making Video and Audio Accessible to All

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June 18, 2012 By Deque Systems

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…

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Stoked about Sports!

June 5, 2012 By Pat Pound

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,…

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Accessible Client-side Form Validation with HTML5, WAI-ARIA, & the jQuery Validation Plugin

May 25, 2012 By Paul J. Adam

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…

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Accessible Client-side Form Validation with HTML5

May 3, 2012 By Paul J. Adam

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…

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Accessibility Around the Web

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April 23, 2012 By Deque Systems

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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