Accessibility programs
that actually stick.
You care about building accessible products. The challenge is building the infrastructure, ownership, and process that turn good intentions into consistent, verifiable progress. Especially in EdTech, where institutional contracts depend on it.
Good intentions aren't
the same as a working program.
Most digital product teams genuinely want to get accessibility right. The gap is not motivation. It is the organizational infrastructure that turns good intentions into consistent, verifiable progress.
When there's no real program
- Remediation is reactive, triggered by complaints rather than process
- No one can answer what the current conformance status is
- Engineers get accessibility tickets without criteria or context
- Vendor procurement relies on unverified self-reported claims
- Progress resets with every team restructure or leadership change
- The same issues resurface in every release cycle
When the foundation is right
- Accessibility is embedded in architecture, design, and code review
- Your team can document conformance status at any point
- Engineers have clear standards and catch issues before QA
- Vendor evaluation uses criteria your procurement team can reuse
- Progress survives personnel changes because the process owns it
- Each release is measurably more accessible than the last
The Program Audit
The Foundation Engagement
Ongoing Oversight
The 90-Day Foundation
Engagement
For teams that are ready to build the program infrastructure that makes real progress possible. You will leave with a documented accessibility program, a team that owns it, and a 12-month roadmap tied to your actual release schedule. Priced for organizations ready to commit to getting this right.
Current state audit
A systematic review of your product portfolio, existing efforts, vendor contracts, and team ownership gaps. You will know exactly where you stand, not what an automated tool flagged, but what a program manager with 10 years of experience sees.
Program infrastructure
Ownership model, governance framework, vendor evaluation criteria, and accessibility standards embedded into your SDLC. The structural work that makes progress repeatable rather than reactive.
Internal team training
A focused session for your engineering, design, and product stakeholders, built around your stack, your workflow, and the gaps your audit surfaced. Not a generic WCAG overview.
12-month roadmap
A prioritized roadmap tied to your actual release schedule, with compliance milestones, vendor action items, and clear ownership at every step. Built to be executed, not filed away.
30-day check-in
A structured follow-up one month after handoff to review progress, unblock early obstacles, and confirm the program is running as designed.
| Program Audit | Foundation Engagement | Ongoing Oversight | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $1,500 | $12,000 | $3,000/mo |
Common questions
Q: Where should I start?
A: If you are not sure how mature your current program is, start with the audit at $1,500. It gives you a clear picture of where you stand and what the right next step looks like. Most teams that complete the audit move into the Foundation Engagement within 60 days. The audit fee is credited toward the Foundation Engagement if you move forward within 90 days.
Engineering instincts.
Program management rigor.
"Most accessibility consultants come from a testing background. They can tell you what is broken. Building the program that keeps it from breaking again is a different skill."
I started as a software engineer. I have spent the last decade building accessibility programs at companies like W.W. Norton and Smartsheet, embedding standards into architecture decisions, CI/CD pipelines, and vendor procurement frameworks.
That combination of technical depth and program management experience means I work with your engineers, not around them. I understand the trade-offs they are navigating and how to make accessibility a natural part of how your team already works.
Led enterprise-wide accessibility integration across 400+ digital titles. Helped unlock $3M+ in projected recurring revenue by clearing compliance blockers on state educational institution contracts. Embedded accessibility into architecture and the SDLC as a core part of how the team ships.
Led cross-functional engineering and design teams delivering accessibility features across a complex enterprise SaaS platform. Built shift-left testing into CI/CD pipelines and executive dashboards that gave real visibility into program health, making leadership conversations proactive rather than reactive.
Designed accessible educational tools for students with neuromuscular disabilities. Conducted usability research with occupational therapists. Built a gamified AAC application, accessibility work grounded in the real experience of the people it serves.
What separates accessibility programs that stick from ones that don't
A practical guide for digital product leaders. Five diagnostic questions that reveal whether your program has the foundation to make real, lasting progress.
Five questions inside the guide
- 1Does accessibility have a named owner in your organization, someone with authority, not just awareness?
- 2Can your team produce documented conformance evidence when a procurement audit requests it?
- 3Do your vendor contracts include verifiable accessibility criteria, or just a VPAT checkbox?
- 4Is accessibility part of your design and architecture review, or does it arrive at QA?
- 5Would your accessibility program survive a leadership change or team restructure?
Let's spend 30 minutes on
your specific situation.
No pitch. No proposal until we both agree it makes sense. A direct conversation about where your program stands and what a realistic path forward looks like.