Over the past couple of years, my professional development has increasingly centered on understanding web accessibility and the challenges of its implementation.
Today, I still recognize how difficult it is to cover all the standards, regulations, and perspectives involved. Web accessibility is like a starry night sky of multitudinous perspectives. Finding the right balance between achieving user-friendly, accessible web projects and the time and budget allocated often fades during communication between an organization’s departments and due to insufficient client engagement, especially with development teams.
Before I started working in London on a permanent basis, I was a consultant and leader, working directly with clients to support them with their web-based challenges. In most cases, I aimed to make their projects easier for a wider audience to find and to design information architecture that clarified the meaning of the content.
Looking back at my career, I sometimes think that I was more like a developer with a disability when it came to prioritizing effort and workload for the functional and non-functional (including web accessibility) aspects of projects.
Now, with 20 years of experience in web development—gained knowledge and intuition from working on various, diverse projects, and having great support from experts and partners—I have decided once again to support other initiatives of people for whom values related especially to web accessibility are most important.
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