Speaking & writing
Twenty-nine talks around the world — CSUN, WebAIM, EuroSTAR, M-Enabling, Agile Testing Days and more — plus standards work at the W3C and publications on the business case for access.
Upcoming engagements
- Upcoming · Sep 2026 Moderator, Ask the Professionals: accessibility careers, recruitment and mentoring OZeWAI
- Upcoming · 2026 Guest host Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
- Upcoming · 2026 Mapping Accessibility: Making Inclusive Places Easier to Find Host to be announced
Featured talk
Win with Metrics
How to track and show the value of your accessibility program — recorded at the 2025 WebAIM Conference. The research behind it: a single unresolved accessibility issue costs an estimated $2,480 in the backlog.
On stage
Selected talks
| Year | Talk | Event |
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| 2026 | Inclusive Testing with AI, A to Z | EuroSTAR Conference, Oslo |
| 2026 | AI as Your Accessibility Co-Pilot (workshop) | CSUN Assistive Technology Conference |
| 2026 | Negotiating Accessibility: How to Turn Pushback into Progress | CSUN Assistive Technology Conference |
| 2026 | Winning with Metrics | Perth Digital Accessibility Conference |
| 2026 | Voices Move Society: How Accessibility Became Policy Overseas — and What’s Next for Cognitive Diversity | Ledesone, Japan (online, opening session) |
| 2025 | Accessibility as a Human Right | A11y Osaka |
| 2025 | How Accessibility is Security | M-Enabling & Agile Testing Days, Germany |
| 2025 | Winning with Metrics | WebAIM Conference |
| 2025 | Public Inclusion in the Digital Sphere | Journée de l’inclusion numérique, Benin (ISOC, online) |
| 2025 | The Accessibility SME is Dead — and That is a Good Thing | A11yBytes Melbourne |
| 2025 | Don’t Make a Case — Make a Brand | CSUN Assistive Technology Conference |
| 2025 | Shifting Left: Embedding Accessibility Engineers on Development Teams | Portland A11y Meetup |
| 2024 | Creating Accessibility Vendor Monitoring Programs (keynote) | Perth Web Accessibility Camp |
| 2024 | Reaching Leaders Where They Are | Congreso Latinoamericano de Accesibilidad |
| 2024 | Creating Accessibility Vendor Monitoring Programs | A11yTO Toronto & A11y Camp Melbourne |
| 2023 | Creating Your Very Own Role-Based A11y Training Program | CSUN Assistive Technology Conference |
| 2022 | An Update on WCAG 3.0 | San Francisco Drupal User Group |
Full history — 29 talks since 2022 — available on request, or see empoweraccessibility.com/talks.
Standards & community
Helping write the rules of the web
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W3C
Accessibility Guidelines, APA and ARIA working groups; WCAG 2.2 & 3.0 contributor; Advisory Committee representative 2022–2025; subgroup lead.
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Internet Society
Outreach Officer; delivered digital-accessibility training to the Government of Benin; building an accessibility-engineer bootcamp program.
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IAAP
Training author; wrote many of IAAP’s self-paced courses, including Accessible Design, Accessible Development, Accessibility Tester and Digital Accessibility.
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globa11y
Director of globa11y, a social enterprise training and employing disabled technologists across the Global South.
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Meetups
Founder of A11y-DMV, the DC metro region’s largest accessibility meetup, and of its Melbourne sibling, A11y A11ies.
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OZeWAI
Leadership committee of Australia’s web accessibility initiative; moderator of its Ask the Professionals panel series.
In print
Publications
- The True Cost of Inaccessibility and Why Metrics Matter More Than Ever (external site)
- HUD Releases Its Proposed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule
- Ulta Beauty Code of Business Conduct: Beauty from the Inside Out (PDF) (external site)
Need a speaker or trainer?
Keynotes, workshops and panels on accessibility, AI and inclusive technology — in English or French, in person or remote. Speaker bio, headshot and session abstracts available on request.