Accessibility × AI Strategist & Builder
I've spent 25+ years helping teams build accessible products and services — founding Simply Accessible, serving as CXO at Level Access, and leading product accessibility at Salesforce. Now I'm building again — building the AI systems that change how accessibility work gets done, so it scales past one team at a time and rests on evidence, not obligation.
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66% of AI-generated modals had proper dialog markup on a bare prompt. Citing the ARIA APG pattern raised it to 99%.
Identified 14–37 component families across three of five production sites — with a map of where it fell short.
Teaching an AI your voice usually means copying how your writing looks, with little attention to the reasoning behind your choices. Here's the method I built to capture that reasoning and continuously recalibrate.
My friend John Allsopp built an open live feed for AI agents at AI Engineer Melbourne, so I sent my agent, Ellis, in my place. It recaps each talk, then does the part I wanted to see: its own questions, and strange connections to fields like immunology and contract law. Here's where it ran.
The productivity trap in coding with an AI: you finish faster but maybe understand less. Here's the instruction set I'm experimenting with to make the LLM my learning partner via pair-programming.
How I learned to better collaborate with AI.
Organizations grow over time. Their understanding of accessibility and their attitude towards it change too. Have you seen these five stages of accessibility where you work?
Good alt text is seen as critical for people that use screen readers. But it doesn’t stop there. We need to consider the effect of alt text on people that also rely on good, accurate alt text: people that use voice recognition software.
Thoughts and reflections on some principles that help create conditions for great accessibility work
