Experts Directory
Last Updated: August 23, 2026
Listed below are more than 135 experts, speakers, trainers, and presenters who primarily specialize in subjects related to accessibility and disability and educate others about said subjects. Individuals are added through self-submission.
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I'm a specialist in accessible social media, design, and communications. As a disability and neurodiversity advocate with lived experience, I help drive inclusive workplaces, fostering environments where everyone can thrive.
I am a digital accessibility specialist with hands-on experience in evaluating websites, mobile applications, and electronic documents. I believe accessibility is a fundamental right and must be ensured for everyone—without exception. In both my work and values, I advocate for “accessibility for all.” I firmly believe accessibility must be tested regularly. I do not support testing just to get a green checkmark from an automated tool—only thorough manual testing can reveal real barriers that disadvantaged users face. Accessibility is not just my job; it is my value, my stance, and my commitment.
I am a Lead Accessibility Analyst and developer dedicated to human-centric design and inclusive engineering. My work is driven by the philosophy that there are no "edge cases," only "invisible users," a theme I explore in my book, The Invisible User: What Your Code Assumes. I focus on bridging the gap between technical standards and real-world usability, particularly within the Indian ecosystem.
An active member of the W3C IDAAN and Metaverse groups, I also authored Talkback - Android Balasuva Sarala Maargadarshi in Kannada. I am an experienced speaker, having presented at the CSUN, UX India, and Digital India conferences on topics ranging from WebGL and 3D accessibility to inclusive UX design. My technical background includes developing NVDA screen reader add-ons using Python. When not advocating for inclusive software, I am likely following T20 cricket or spending time with my high-energy Golden Retriever.
Reginé Gilbert is a Systems & Change Strategist, NYU professor, and author of five books including Inclusive Design for a Digital World (1st and 2nd editions), Human Spatial Computing, and Digital Accessibility Ethics. She holds a Japanese translation of Inclusive Design and serves on the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council and W3C Advisory Board. Reginé has delivered 400+ workshops and strategic engagements across four continents for organizations including Netflix, Condé Nast, JP Morgan, and Mastercard. Her work sits at the intersection of accessibility, AI ethics, and organizational systems.
I'm an IAAP-certified Web Accessibility Specialist. I have worked in the field of accessibility since 2004. My core activities are training stakeholders to raise their maturity in accessibility, auditing and testing interfaces with disabled people. Additionally, I have extensive experience in the adjacent fields of User eXperience design, UX writing and Search Engine Optimisation.
Rikki Poynter is a content creator, writer, accessibility consultant, and public speaker.
She started her YouTube career in July 2010 being a makeup vlogger until her shift to more educational and lifestyle content in late 2013.
She is known for her video, “Sh*t Hearing People Say,” which now has over 530,000 views, as well as her efforts for proper closed captioning on YouTube. In September 2016, she launched a closed captioning campaign called #NoMoreCRAPtions in hopes to get a large group of people promoting captions at the same time. The campaign is still ongoing today.
On YouTube, in writing, and at public speaking, Rikki covers a variety of topics including disability (deafness, chronic pain, and fatigue), accessibility, mental health, child abuse, and more.
Rikki has worked with the following companies: Apple, Google, Samsung, Spotify, had an invitation to the White House, and more.
I’m a digital accessibility consultant helping organisations move from good intentions to structured, mature solutions, having supported clients for over 25 years with practical implementations and long-term capability building.
A key part of my expertise is organisational accessibility maturity. Bringing your organisation from a hero-driven and fragile effort to structured and predictable everyday practice. My work combines compliance with strategy and capability building.
I am an access-first arts producer, curator and project manager, passionate about telling stories about what it means to be human. Since 2003 I have produced and delivered interdisciplinary exhibitions and public engagement projects bringing together art, the humanities and science. My clients include UK museums, galleries, scientific organisations, and higher education institutions. In recent years my work has expanded to focus on accessible exhibition making, including overseeing the production of audio described tours, BSL tours, Visual Stories and Easy Read resources. I also co-project manage Accentuate, a disabled-led programme that aims to amplify the representation, participation and leadership of disabled people in the arts and museum sectors. Anti-ableism and anti-racism are at the heart of my practice.
As a seasoned professional and active contributor in the field of accessibility, I bring a unique blend of educational expertise and gaming industry experience to the table. My journey began in the classroom, where I spent over a decade as a special education teacher, honing my skills in creating inclusive learning environments. This foundation paved the way for my current role as a Senior Accessibility Quality Lead in the gaming industry, where I’m dedicated to ensuring that video games are enjoyable and accessible for all players.
As a neurodivergent individual, I understand firsthand the importance of accessible design and am committed to advocating for inclusive practices that accommodate diverse cognitive experiences.
CEO of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (enei) since 2020, Sandi is a passionate human rights advocate and the only blind female CEO in the UK. She is a visionary leader and change agent, with experience in the commercial and charity sectors. After registering as blind in 2008 and being diagnosed with ADHD in 2009, she began advocating equality and inclusion, working at the intersection of Government, Industry and the Third Sector. In 2011, Sandi wrote the “Ten Principles of Inclusive Web Design”—an update of the design principles she used when co-writing the Government’s e-Accessibility Action Plan, a set of principles still in use today.
Sarah Bricker is an award-winning journalist and marketing expert with a hearing disability. Her focus the last decade has been to bring accessible social media and content marketing campaigns to life for some of the biggest brands in healthcare including Starkey Hearing Technologies, UnitedHealthcare, Alpha-Stim and more. She has won numerous journalism and marketing awards, and was named the 2024 Social Media Manager of the Year by the American Business Awards. Now, she's expanding her business and mentoring both young professionals in marketing and individuals with hearing loss.
Hi! I'm Sarah Fossheim, and I work freelance as an accessibility specialist, front-end developer and inclusive designer. I help companies build accessible and inclusive products, through (dataviz) accessibility reviews, training and advisory sessions, mitigation work and implementation.
I take a holistic approach, so depending on what the project needs, I can perform: high-level accessibility reviews to understand areas for improvement, detailed and informative dataviz/web accessibility audits, ongoing feature reviews, accessibility strategy and planning, training or workshops, or front-end development.
During the past years, I have worked with companies like FINN.no, WHO, Inspera, GreenInfo, ReMarkable, and more. I have also delivered sessions for amongst others Hyper Island, Emory University and Oda, spoke at conferences such as SmashingConf, axe-con and Outlier, and contributed with an essay about screen reader accessibility to the Do No Harm Guide by the Urban Institute.