Wendy Chisholm

Current

• Senior Accessibility Consultant at American Foundation for the Blind
• Owner at Wendy Chisholm Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
• Research Consultant at University of Washington

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Past

• Web Accessibility Specialist at World Wide Web Consortium

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Elmhurst College

Recommended

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Connections

152 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My RSS feed

Wendy Chisholm’s Summary

I am an author, activist and developer. I co-wrote “Universal Design for Web Applications” with Matt May (O’Reilly, 2008). Before that, I co-edited Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and 2.0–the basis of most web accessibility policies. My work has taken me around the globe as I connect with managers, purchasers, advocates, designers, developers, and anyone else interested in making the web accessible to everyone. I recently appeared dressed as Wonder Woman in a web comic and as myself in interviews on Minnesota Public Radio and Puget Sound Public Radio.

Universal design helps you create products that will work for a larger number of potential customers. Too often, people shy away from making their products accessible because they don't know how or they are afraid if they do it wrong they will upset someone. Some folks aren't aware of the benefits of universal design.

I am here to make accessibility accessible, innovative, interesting, and fun.

Wendy Chisholm’s Specialties:

Universal Design, accessibility, web design, WCAG 1.0, WCAG 2.0, U.S. Section 508, international accessibility standards, consensus building, human factors, HTML, XML, CSS, XHTML, AJAX, volunteer management, programming

Wendy Chisholm’s Experience

• Senior Accessibility Consultant

  American Foundation for the Blind

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

• Owner

  Wendy Chisholm Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

• Research Consultant

  University of Washington

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

  I work on the AccessComputing project whose goal is to increase the number of students with disabilities who are pursuing computing-related degrees and careers. I help with the development of WebAnywhere--a screen reader that runs within any browser on any machine without the need to install specialized software.

• Web Accessibility Specialist

  World Wide Web Consortium

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2006 (7 years )

Wendy Chisholm’s Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  M.S. , Industrial Engineering , 1995 — 1997

• Elmhurst College

  B.S. , Computer Science , 1989 — 1993

Additional Information

Wendy Chisholm’s Websites:

• My Website
• My RSS feed

Wendy Chisholm’s Groups:

•    Puget Sound SIGCHI
•    Assistive Technology Professionals

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