A11y Advocate

Overview

With my continued time with Insight, I’ve strived to become the go-to leader in accessibility throughout the Insight Cincinnati Office. I’ve had the privilege to give presentations to leader regarding how we could better sell accessibility and what it could do to improve companies’ overall perception. I continue to be the voice of accessibility with each new project I encounter.

During this time, I’ve conducted multiple accessibility audits for clients in the financial industry. This led to the creation of accessibility actions plans that would allow me to teach and train designers and developers the importance of accessibility and the correct way to markup HTML in an accessible way.

Leading from there, I’ve done work for clients in the Hospitality & Health Care industry also. This time, I went from teaching about accessibility to implementing best practices for accessibility. I was able to create and define color palettes to be used in multiple applications where accessibility was a must. With the palette defined, I took those colors and ran them through plugins to test their contract with the type scale that was laid out.

Most of my work in the accessibility realm revolves around building semantically correct HTML. This is just one foundation of accessibility, not to mention everything from the design standpoint of colors and typography. As designers and developers, we must become more aware of the sites and applications that we are publishing out into the world. We take for granted the luxury we have with navigation through websites and mobile apps, but we must always consider those who aren’t.