Digital Accessibility

Natalie Patrice Tucker, Spotify, Senior Accessibility LeadNatalie Patrice Tucker talks about her early work as a political organizer in Washington, DC. She found her way into accessibility, first through work at the federal government, then into independent consulting. She talks about improving her skills through reading, networking, finding mentors, and conferences like CSUN. Now she is leading the effort at Spotify to make the experience delightful for all abilities. 

Chetan Bakhru, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Sr Accessibility SpecialistChetan Bakhru talks about the challenges of his early education as someone who was born totally blind. The emergence of accessible technologies made it possible for him to be independent in his studies and lead him into software engineering. His continued interest in technology and helping others brought to the National Industries for the Blind and consulting at Level Access. Now he works for JP Morgan Chase coaching and guiding product teams on how to meet accessibility requirements. 

Lucy Greco, U. California - Berkeley, Electronic accessibility expert Lucy Greco talks about always being a technology nerd and early adopter who is totally blind. Her first computer - an Apple IIe - transformed her ability to be successful with schoolwork. She started helping others during her college years, into consulting, and now back in the academic environment. She describes her work at UC Berkeley making sure the wide variety digital assets are accessible to all. 

Jack Nicolai, Adobe, Senior Product Manager, AccessibilityJack Nicolai talks about his experience working as a web developer in eLearning and then with accessibility at Starbucks. Now at Adobe, he describes how the compnay continues to build accessibility into their tools so that customers of all abilities are able to have an equitable experience. 

Karli Yeoman, Expedia, Senior Accessibility EngineerKarli Yeoman talks about her foundation background as a web developer. She describes the approach at Expedia for helping teams and individuals to bring accessibility into their project work. 

Ted Drake, Intuit, Global Accessibility LeaderTed talks about his early work in web development and how that led to building a program of Accessibility for engineers at Yahoo Finance. That led to his current position at Intuit where he brings accessibility into the customer experience across all their products and services. 

Pat Kogos, U. of Chicago, Director, Digital AccessibilityPat talks about her first work with accessibility as a college student and how she rediscovered it in her work as a writer. She describes how accessibility is supported in her current position as Director of Digital Accessibility at the University of Chicago. 

Ashley Firth, Octopus Energy, Author of Practical Web Inclusion & AccessibilityAshley talks about his early experience as a web developer - trying to find the resources to build accessible products. He describes his efforts to recruit team members for the effort and how those experiences contributed to the writing of his book. 

Blake Geyen, People First of Washington, Accessibility AdvocateBlake talks about his personal challenges from cerebral palsy and how that informs his consulting and advocacy work. 

Sheri Byrne-Haber,  Vmware, All around evangelistSheri and her daughter have disabilities and that provided a launching point for advocacy for accessibility. She brought that interest into her work as a software tester and now building out the comprehensive internal and external accessibility programs at VMWARE.