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 currently at Naughty Dog where I’ve contributed my skills and expertise as Accessibility QA and Development Support. I am a disabled individual myself. I am blind and deaf on my right side along with some motor constraints, and I am also Autistic.
I’ve worked on four released titles. I’ve contributed to design, narrative, studio culture and engagement. I’ve also assisted with production, UXR, focus tests and development of titles by means of consulting other Sony studios and working with 3rd party vendors. I was also invited to speak at an accessibility summit that took place at Insomniac Games in 2024.
I am a former User Experience Design lead turned accessibility and inclusive design advocate within the private and public sectors. My passion is task-planning with teams to create awareness, ownership and comfort around accessibility efforts so they create better digital products, customer and employee services. Change management. I'm an invited W3C expert (ARRM, ACT 1.0 and AGWG), spoken at United Nations COSP 2018 and 2022 and IAAP member.
Jennifer X Zhang focuses on embedding accessibility skills, processes, and governance into everything she does with a focus on Human Centered Accessibility so customers and clients can eventually learn to sustainably fish for themselves in the digital accessibility ocean. She was formerly on the central accessibility team at Microsoft running accessible design and has a strong track record of innovation in accessible design and hackathon projects. She has won awards for her contributions to eye gaze in Windows and mental health applications. She also received a special stock award from Microsoft for her contributions to accessible and inclusive design.
She is passionate about teaching accessibility in approachable ways. Her strengths help her spur ideas and initiatives seemingly out of thin air as her zone of genius is innovation and creation. She has credibility with designers, developers, and program managers, and creates strong, enabled accessibility teams.
Jen has 30 years of experience as a designer, developer, strategist, and researcher, across enterprise, government, and non-profits. She is Black, Native Mexican, white, and disabled, with a nontraditional education and career background. This lived experience sparks empathy and creativity.
They are an Invited Expert with the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) developing the Web Contact Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) used in regulations, and contribute in multiple other W3C working groups including the new Sustainable Web group and serve as the Chair of the Equity Community Group.
Jen volunteers to serve local government with The U.S. Digital Response.They are on the Community Leadership Committee for the Technologists for the Public Good. They are a frequent speaker on a range of design and development topics. In 2023, Jen presented, “Save Our World with Accessibility & Progressive Enhancement,” at Inclusive Design 24.
Jessica has been freelancing for 12 years. Carving her own work environment has brought meaningful connections with community spaces! Jess' focus is on design identity + websites, accessibility, and illustrations.
Joe has taught accessibility at the University of Washington and he has been a co-organizer of the Seattle Area Accessibility & Inclusive Design meetup. From the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP), Joe is a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC). Joe is a Section 508 Trusted Tester.
Experienced BBC journalist. Chair of the BBC's disabled staff network. Conference speaker and author of Journalism A11y. Passionate about making news accessible to everyone. Fellow of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.
Jonathan Kaufman is an innovative thought leader, business educator and strategist who recognizes the impact of personal development on organizational growth. Born with Cerebral Palsy, Kaufman’s disability has been a profound part of his personal, academic and professional life. Building on his past experience as a former policy advisor to the White House on diversity and disability, Kaufman has grown his work even further as an executive coach, licensed psychotherapist and strategist working with C-Level Executives, Fortune 500 and 1000 companies, and non for profits through his company J Kaufman Consulting. He develops new strategies and initiatives by combining ideas from management theories and applications to entrepreneurial thinking with the knowledge of human capital through increasing motivation and skills to achieve greater success both personally and professionally.
Jon Farrell is the Technical Software Lead on the Brailler Innovation Team at Perkins School for the Blind, where he leads the development of software solutions to advance braille literacy. An IAAP Certified Professional in Web Accessibility with over a decade of frontend development experience, Jon has built inclusive educational platforms across industries and now pioneers tools for learners who are blind or visually impaired. He collaborates closely with designers, engineers, and users with disabilities to deliver scalable, WCAG-compliant technologies shaped by real-world feedback and testing.
Joy is a Fractional Content Marketing Officer with more than a decade of marketing and communications experience. Her passion and creativity gives accessibility the attention it deserves. She is a forward-thinking team player with marketing strategy, communications, public relations, email, content marketing, and social media marketing experience.
Joy's work has scaled website traffic and social media engagement by up to 4x, increased email engagement rates, and provided accessible content, opening new verticals for businesses who were unknowingly disregarding the disabled community. She has written speeches for multiple higher education professional conferences, and ghostwritten articles for College Services Monthly magazine.
She lives in Maine, where she enjoys three seasons outdoors and winter inside with her husband, their cat, and a woodstove.
I'm an digital accessibility tester, trainer, consultant and college lecturer. I'm certified IAAP Web Accessibility Specialist and member of IAAP. I'm passionate about every aspect of accessibility and would like to make world more accessible in every way that I can. I will be happy to collaborate on interesting projects in the field of digital accessibility.
I am an accessibility specialist who cares about working with and for people who care about user centred design. I’m not interested in process, kudos or what you had for your lunch, but I am interested in how we make a difference to make the world better together. I share accessibility jobs, tips and opinions on LinkedIn — someone called me a thought leader recently. Bit embarrassing.