About

I got into accessibility in 2018, at Bottle Rocket, when WCAG 2.1 landed with real cognitive criteria.

IAAP CPACC certified.

The measurable side - low vision, contrast - made sense to me already. The cognitive side was the part I couldn't put down: ADHD, dyscalculia, age-related decline, aphasia. The guidelines were describing how real minds actually work, and almost nobody was building for it.

Since then I've brought accessibility into three companies that didn't have it - a program designed from scratch at Bottle Rocket, a product-centric transformation at Cariloop, quiet embedding in the work at Alto - and scaled the program at Hilton across 7,500 sites, 17 languages, and a 24-person team. My Hilton title, Lead Accessibility Analyst, undersold the scope. That happens a lot in this field, and it's part of why I work independently now.

What I want is scale and continuity: a team stronger than me in the areas I'm not, and a product I keep iterating on after launch - because the interesting accessibility work doesn't happen at launch.

Outside the work

Dallas. I make short videos about the operator's view of accessibility - real fixes, the business case, no jargon. I also paint and teach painting classes.