Web Developer Accessibility Professional CPWA Certified
I am a web accessibility professional with 5 years of web development experience. I have a passion for making the web more inclusive for people with disabilities and I am certified in two International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) competencies: Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) and Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS).
WTFocus is a React app built using Gatsby that I built as a demo for a White Paper that’s being submitted to the ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium. The purpose of the app is to demonstrate to users the variety of options they have when creating focus indicator styles for their website. There is also an indicator that tells the user whether or not their currently applied styles are in violation of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Working Draft.
The Cross.Team website was a project where we wanted to create a website with accessibility in mind from the very start. The project was a React app built using Gatsby with A Wordpress CMS for the backend. Gatsby uses GraphQL to query its data, so I was able to use a plugin to query for post data from our Wordpress page to populate our content.
I have been working on creating a suite of Figma plugins, starting with Tidy Components, a component organizer for cleaning up your Figma files with components and variants; and Tidy Ruler, a plugin that can wrap your layers in a ruler with pixel measurements. You can find them here:
I’ve also contributed to the Figma Tokens plugin, adding a new feature.
The Critical Alphabet is a Flutter mobile application that takes a set of words related to critical theory, diversity, and iclusion, and pairs them with a definition and thought provoking questions. The app is a digital version of a deck of cards created by Dr. Lesley-Ann Noel, which you can get here. This was a very fun and unique project because I didn’t know anything about Dart or Flutter before I started it. I began the project by learning and developing at the same time and in less than two weeks I was able to create a fully-functioning MVP. Now on the Apple AppStore and Google Play Store!
Cross.Team is a selective group of senior product designers and developers focused on getting meaningful experiences with Accessibility in mind.
Certified by the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) as:
Main responsibilities include:
Working with NextStep was my senior capstone project for my Information Technology Major ay UNH, which comprised of working on a health and wellness app startup. My responsibilities included:
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Freelance Wordpress Real-Estate Site
A freelance wordpress site that I created for the listing of a high-end condo. I was responsible for:
The UNH Interoperability Laboratory (IOL) is a conformance testing lab. The consortium I worked in focused on the conformance of the precision time synchronization of audio being sent between ethernet switches. My responsibilities included:
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NHDSA
I am a member of the New Hampshire Down Syndrome Congress (NHDSA), a group very near and dear to my heart. The work I’ve done to help out my local Down Syndrome community includes:
An article where I look at some of the most common accessibility issues plaguing the web today. I explain why they’re bad, who they affect, and how to resolve them.
In this article I talk about my main takeaways from watching Marcy Sutton’s wonderful lecture on accessibility in JavaScript. I go over a number of things such as focus management, and accessibility testing and debugging.
In this series of articles, I go over an in-depth tutorial on how you can build your own pattern library using Gatsby and Netlify CMS. Here are the links to each part:
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University of New Hampshire Durham, NH GPA: 3.15