My Work

Since 2016, I have worked with various organizations, individuals and projects. On this page I’ve listed some of my previous clients and the projects that I worked on. It should give you a glimpse of the things that we can accomplish together.

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Product Accessibility at Walmart

Since August of 2023, I’ve been an accessibility product manager at Walmart. I work on the accessibility of internal products that are used by over 1 million Walmart associates. In this role, I get to be the accessibility lead, create requirements for projects, interact with all stakeholders to make sure there is an end-to-end accessibility process that includes accessibility.

Since starting at Walmart, I am no longer taking on consulting opportunities. However, accessibility is my passion. I am available for free 30 minute consultations. I am also open to pro bono work on a case by case basis.

RISD Museum Alt-text

In February of 2022, I consulted with the digital team at Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art. They wanted me to test the functionality of the alt-text in some of their publications. They publish magazines with art and culture related content.

On the project, I was responsible for identifying areas where alt-text was missing or not used appropriately. I conducted my testing with a screen reader and submitted a report outlining my findings.

It was followed by a two hour virtual meeting where I demonstrated my findings to the RII team. Even though the scope of the work was alt-text, we ended up covering other things as well. It is in these calls that developers get answers to questions that they would otherwise spend hours researching.

You can schedule a free 30 minute consultation with me to discuss alt-text by using the button below.

TogetherNet Accessibility Testing

In March 2022, I conducted testing for a project called TogetherNet. It’s a website to promote the TogetherNet software.

On this project, I tested the TogetherNet website for screen reader and keyboard access. Some of the changes I suggested include missing alt-text, adjustments to the heading structure and unique page titles for every page. Another simple change I suggested for them was to change the way the name of the product was written. Originally, it was Togethernet which is not read correctly by screen readers. I suggested to use camel case and write it as TogetherNet. This was a simple change but one that improved the overall experience of the website for screen reader users because the name is repeated many times on every page.

This website was not very complex and did not take a lot of time to audit. As a result, I was able to test, submit feedback, as well as do follow up testing to verify accessibility fixes for just six hours of work.

You can schedule a free 30 minute consultation with me and we can perform a brief accessibility testing session of your website or app so you can get started.  Use the button below to send me a message.

Townsend Consulting Accessibility Testing

Catherine Townsend consults on disability related projects. She created Townsend Consulting using the Wix platform. Catherine wanted someone to make sure that her consulting website was accessible to people with disabilities.

In 2018, I audited Catherine’s consulting website. The website contained information about Catherine, her previous work, the services that she provides and a method to contact her.

I tested all pages on her website and shared feedback regarding images, heading structures, and access barriers in the navigation drop down menus. Catherine and I then worked on an accessibility statement for her website that was transparent regarding the issues that we were not able to fix because of the limitations of the Wix platform. Since her website was not loaded with a lot of content, we were able to accomplish this in just a few hours.

You can schedule a free 30 minute consultation with me to go over how you can use Wix, Squarespace or other website building platforms to create an accessible website. Use the button below to get in touch with me.

Kenya Digital Accessibility Report

At the end of 2021, I consulted with Technoprise, an accessibility auditing company. The Technoprise team had audited a list of Kenyan websites because they were interested in putting together a report to capture the state of digital accessibility in the country of Kenya.

The accessibility audits included government websites, education websites, telecommunications websites, banking websites and transportation websites. A team at Technoprise created testing methods based on the WCAG 2.1 Level AA standard to conduct these audits.

On this project, I took all of the audits that were conducted and wrote a report to summarize the results. The 20+ page report includes introduction to WCAG, testing methods, a system for measuring accessibility, a list of websites and apps tested and the results of the audits. The report showed that a significant number of websites across all sectors were failing to meet the WCAG 2.1 Level AA standard. To go along with these findings, I also created some goals to jump start the digital accessibility of Kenyan websites and apps. I used data from the audits and created a list of the top five accessibility barriers for both websites and mobile apps. This report was submitted to the Kenyan government and is currently being used as a starting point to advance their digital accessibility efforts.

You can schedule a free 30 minute consultation with me to discuss what you should include in your accessibility reporting. Use the button below to get in touch with me.