Scott Bellman
Scott Bellman is the program manager at the DO-IT Center at the UW. Scott's primary interests relate to career development and transition to college for people with disabilities.
Terrill Thompson
Terrill Thompson is the manager of the IT Accessibility Team at the UW. He promotes information technology (IT) accessibility by developing resources, delivering lectures and workshops, providing consultation to a wide variety of constituents, and conducting research.
Richard Ladner
Richard Ladner is a professor emeritus in computer science and engineering at the UW. In addition to organizing programs for students with disabilities in computing, his research interests include accessibility technology research, especially technology for people who are deaf, deaf-blind, hard-of-hearing, and blind. He was the previous PI for AccessComputing.
Roadshows, Tours, and TechNights for Children with Hearing Impairments
For several years, Carnegie Mellon’s Women@SCS (School of Computer Science) has hosted a series of computing-related informal learning events and activities for local children. They successfully extended this outreach program to students from the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (WPSD). Activities included interactive roadshow presentations to children and teachers, weekly technology skills sessions called TechNights, tours of Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) computing-related departments, and a one-day workshop.
Nicole
My name is Nicole. I am blind, and I’m a senior majoring in computer science at Stanford University with a focus in human computer interaction.
Lewis
My name is Lewis. I graduated with a Masters degree in computer science at the University of South Carolina.
Kavita
My name is Kavita. I am a PhD student in computer science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and I plan on graduating in three years.
Katie
My name is Katie. I am a program manager (PM) for a user experience team at Microsoft. I manage software features, rather than people.
Jonathan
My name is Jonathan. I am the Chief Accessibility Officer at SSB BART Group a company that specializes in accessibility standards compliance. Although most people imagine that a career in computing is about programming, only about 25% of my time is spent programming. The rest of my time is divided between technical writing, research, management, and consulting. I am responsible for maintaining our accessibility testing methodology, creating best practices, and staying current on new standards. I write blogs, reports, and provide consultations to large and small organizations.
John
My name is John. I'm a PhD student in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington, and I hope to complete my program within the next three years.
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