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Greg Williams

Greg “GW” Williams is the Senior Vice President & Chief Architect at Deque Systems, Inc. He oversees program development and operations for some of Deque’s largest customers, helping them to build mature, sustainable accessibility programs.

Greg Williams

Greg’s bio

Prior to joining Deque, Greg spent more than 30 years in the information technology field focusing on large, complex program operations for Fortune 40 companies and before that served in the United States Navy for a number of years. He had great success as the founder and owner of the Digital Accessibility Program Office for State Farm Insurance, building their practice from the ground up into one of the highest maturity level programs in the world between 2013 and 2018.

Greg has always been passionate about diversity and inclusion and has extended this passion to the disability and accessibility community – joining Deque Systems in 2018 to help launch and mature similarly successful programs across the globe.

Posts from Greg

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Die Zunahme von KI-gestützten Rechtsstreitigkeiten durch Selbstvertreter und das Plädoyer für proaktive Barrierefreiheit

Greg Williams (GW)
29. Januar 2026 Von Greg Williams

Die Zahl der von Privatpersonen selbst geführten Klagen nach Titel III des ADA auf Bundesebene stieg im Jahr 2025 im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 40 %, und aktuelle Untersuchungen zeigen, dass die Mehrheit der Prozessparteien KI-Tools nutzt. Was bedeutet dies für Unternehmen, und was sagt dies über KI und digitale Barrierefreiheit aus?

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Abbildung eines ChatGPT-ähnlichen Fensters mit einer Beispielanfrage, die lautet: „Entwerfen Sie ein eigenständiges Aufforderungsschreiben gemäß Titel III des ADA“

Das Unruh-Gesetz: Ein Überblick über die Rechtsstreitigkeiten und darüber, wie staatliche und bundesstaatliche Vorschriften zusammenwirken könnten, um Vergleichszahlungen in Rekordhöhe zu bewirken

Greg Williams (GW)
September 17, 2025 By Greg Williams

For over a decade, I’ve been monitoring and analyzing federal and state lawsuits related to digital accessibility. One thing I can say about this space…

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Geschäftstreffen zwischen Kollegen. Der Begleittext lautet: „Unruh-Gesetz“, „Barrierefreiheitsvorschriften“, „Klagen wegen digitaler Barrierefreiheit“ und „Einhaltung des ADA“.

Digital accessibility and the cost of exclusion

Greg Williams (GW)
February 20, 2025 By Greg Williams

In my previous Proactive Perspectives article, I explored lessons from the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), discussed what to do when digital accessibility…

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Person looking frustrated while using a laptop, with callouts about digital accessibility value, ROI, business impact, and inclusive marketing.

Lessons from AODA and the roadmap to 2035

Greg Williams (GW)
January 23, 2025 By Greg Williams

I want to begin this post on a very positive note and say that I believe the next decade will be a truly historic era…

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Proactive perspectives Jan 22 blog

There’s more to digital accessibility than policy

Greg Williams (GW)
December 12, 2024 By Greg Williams

Digital accessibility advocates often face tremendous challenges at their organizations when trying to motivate and encourage digital content creators to build accessibly. If you’ve been…

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Proactive perspectives blog Dec 12

Doing the numbers: Digital accessibility and shifting left

Greg Williams (GW)
November 21, 2024 By Greg Williams

Here’s the good news: Every day, more and more organizations are becoming aware of digital accessibility and beginning to practice it at their companies. They…

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Doing the numbers GW blog