24 Accessibility is a series of articles on all subjects related to digital accessibility. During the first 24 days in the month of December, we offer a daily dose of accessibility wisdom and insight from a wide array of knowledge experts throughout the world.
Whether you are new to accessibility or a veteran, a developer, designer, user experience professional, quality assurance analyst or project manager, you’ll find an article of interest during the run of the series.
We hope you enjoy the series. Like a particular article? Share it with your friends and colleagues, and on the interwebs and social media. You can follow us on Twitter at @24accessibility and use hashtag #24a11y. You can also follow us on Facebook.
Lastly, we’ve attempted to make this site as accessible as possible. If you experienced something that is just not right, please contact us. We will attempt to address it as quickly as possible.
Meet the 24 Accessibility team
Dennis Deacon – Founder
The site was created by Dennis Deacon, an Accessibility Engineer with The Paciello Group. He organizes the Chicago Digital Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meetup and posts digital accessibility news, resources, and other valuable information on various social media platforms. Find him on Twitter at @deconspray.
Carie Fisher – Sr. Editor
Carie Fisher is a Senior Accessibility Consultant at Deque Systems. She has been building websites professionally since the early 2000s and is passionate about front-end development, accessibility, and promoting diversity in the tech world. She founded both the A11y Style Guide and the YouTube series Accessibility Talks to help educate others on website accessibility.
Outside of work, she likes to spend time with family and friends, traveling, gardening, or making a mess with her latest DIY project, and volunteering time/code to the accessibility and dev communities.
You can follow Carie on Twitter at @cariefisher or see what else she’s up to on cariefisher.com.
Scott O’Hara – Sr. Editor
Scott O’Hara is an accessibility engineer at The Paciello Group, who comes from a background in website design and UX development. Professionally working on the web since 2003, Scott is happiest when building accessible user experiences, and kicking ARIA’s tires (metaphorically speaking).
When not working, he can be found engaging in some sort of family activity, having a nice quiet drink, or again, mucking around with building accessible UI components.
You can follow Scott on Twitter @scottohara or on GitHub.
Liz Davis – Editor
Liz Davis is a User Experience Designer at SPR Consulting. She has a Master’s Degree in Human Computer Interaction and has worked as a designer for over 7 years. She presents about inclusive design, disability rights history, and how to better engage the disability community. View past talks at her website lizdoesdesign.com. She rolls around Chicago in a wheelchair and enjoys yelling at rideshare drivers blocking the curb cuts!
You can follow Liz (and her dog Hagrid) on Twitter at @lizdavis__.
Sarah Higley – Editor
Sarah Higley is a web developer who works on accessibility at Microsoft. She has been convincing people to give her money in exchange for code since 2011 and is happiest when working on web components. She is always happy to listen to or participate in rants about accessibility, devaluing front-end skills, and diversity in tech.
You can follow Sarah on Github, CodePen, or on Twitter at @codingchaos.