Mike Gifford
About
Mike Gifford is a CivicActions Accessibility team member and a Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer. He has been actively involved in the accessibility unconference community and founder of Ottawa's A11yYOW meetup. He's also a certified IAAP WAS (Web Accessibility Specialist) and has completed the DHS Section 508 Standards for Web certification.
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Posts
- Five reasons to get excited about governmentwide Section 508 assessment criteria, August 8, 2023
- Treat accessibility issues as bugs, not feature requests, August 8, 2023
- How OMB can improve .gov accessibility, May 5, 2023
- Mike Gifford gave a presentation at FOSDEM on Accessibility & Open Source, February 5, 2023
- Mike Gifford Presented in at Inclusive Design & Accessibility Meetup in the Netherlands, February 1, 2023
- CivicActions Accessibility Pledge, May 19, 2022
- CivicActions creates Open Product Accessibility Template (OPAT) with the GSA, August 13, 2021
- CivicActions wins contract to produce a machine-readable Voluntary Product Accessibility Template® (VPAT®), August 11, 2021
- What we learned about accessibility by scanning more than 2 million federal .gov web pages, July 30, 2021
- HEART: Ensuring government digital services accessibility, June 1, 2021
- Pre-GAAD event: Authoring tools with built-in accessibility, May 20, 2021
- Smashing Magazine: 'How To Bake Layers Of Accessibility Testing Into Your Process', April 27, 2021
- CivicActions Accessibility Playbook now available, April 14, 2021
- Mike Gifford interviewed on the AT Banter Podcast, March 30, 2021
- Improving government accessibility through open source, February 8, 2021
- WhiteHouse.gov: Beginning an accessibility journey, February 5, 2021
- 4 ways to improve government accessibility through open source, October 5, 2020