- From: Bim Egan <bim@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:26:13 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
Dear EOWG participants, It's a real pleasure being with you in EOWG. As you may know, I'm new in more than one way, as I'm also the newest member of the WAI Team, joining Shadi in the WAI-ACT project. Here's a pocket biography so that everyone has access to the information given in my verbal introduction last week. Until June this year I was the technical lead consultant in the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) Web Access team. My day-to-day duties included evaluating the accessibility of (mainly UK) corporate and local authority web sites, as well as developing and delivering web accessibility training courses. As technical lead it was my pleasure to guide the team in both legal and technical issues, which as you can imagine, meant a lot of research when the law and standards relating to web accessibility changed. Before RNIB I worked for the BBC as a web author on one of the regional web sites. Here I made such a noise over inaccessible techniques, which were, (eight years ago), quite common at BBC, that I was co-opted onto their Web Accessibility Working Group. The first contact I had with WAI and web accessibility was at university, reading for a (very late) degree in IT. It became the focus of most of my studies, all of my presentations and of course the final dissertation. I really needed the Web, as my library and for completing course work, but In 1998 it was getting more and more inaccessible. Thank heaven for WCAG! When I'm not beating my web accessibility drum I bake and make chocolates. At the same time i like to read well-written, well-researched historical fiction and crime thrillers. I'm really looking forward to meeting you all in the calls and working with you, sharing ideas, experiences and knowledge to help make the Web accessible to everyone. Kind regards, Bim
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