Accessibility Advocate and Educator
jongund@illinois.edu
Session: Open Source Web Accessibility Tools from the University of Illinois
Time: April 9th, 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Dr. Gunderson has over 40 years of experience in technology and disability. He most recently served as the Coordinator of Accessible IT Group in the Division of Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES) at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana for over 30 years. At Illinois, he was responsible for helping the campus understand the accessibility issues of its online administrative and instructional resources and worked with campus IT professionals and instructors to improve accessibility. He has participated in the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) since its inception in 1997. He is the past chair of the W3C WAI User Agent Accessibility Working Group and currently a participant in the W3C WAI ARA Authoring Practices Task Force. He develops open-source web accessibility evaluation tools, including AInspector for WCAG Evaluation, Headings, Landmarks, and Links browser extensions, OpenA11y Evaluation Library, and SkipTo.js project.