Me.
I view accessibility as a critical civil rights issue that deserves far more attention than it currently receives. That conviction started early. At age ten I was lucky enough to be mentored by Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient James Brady (new tab) and later on by learning rights advocates David Flink (new tab) and Jonathan Mooney (new tab) and what they taught me about disability has never let go.
In 2021, during my UX studies at Georgia Tech, a neurological condition gave me firsthand experience of what it feels like when interfaces stop working for your body. I recovered, but the perspective stayed. It's baked into how I audit, how I write findings, and how I think about the people on the other side of the screen.
Today I wear two hats. I'm the Director of Accessibility at e9digital, where I lead accessibility work across dozens of client sites. I'm also the co-founder and CPO of Labrador, a manual-first accessibility auditing platform I built with my co-founder Grant Broome because the tools I wanted as an auditor didn't exist. I'm CPACC certified through the IAAP, and in 2022 I delivered Haiti's first UX design talk.
I'm based in midcoast Maine with my wife and three senior rescue dogs, including the five-pound chihuahua mix in the photo above.
If you want to talk accessibility, reach out.
-Sam
I view accessibility as a critical civil rights issue that deserves far more attention than it currently receives. That conviction started early. At age ten I was lucky enough to be mentored by Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient James Brady (new tab) and later on by learning rights advocates David Flink (new tab) and Jonathan Mooney (new tab) and what they taught me about disability has never let go.
In 2021, during my UX studies at Georgia Tech, a neurological condition gave me firsthand experience of what it feels like when interfaces stop working for your body. I recovered, but the perspective stayed. It's baked into how I audit, how I write findings, and how I think about the people on the other side of the screen.
Today I wear two hats. I'm the Director of Accessibility at e9digital, where I lead accessibility work across dozens of client sites. I'm also the co-founder and CPO of Labrador, a manual-first accessibility auditing platform I built with my co-founder Grant Broome because the tools I wanted as an auditor didn't exist. I'm CPACC certified through the IAAP, and in 2022 I delivered Haiti's first UX design talk.
I'm based in midcoast Maine with my wife and three senior rescue dogs, including the five-pound chihuahua mix in the photo above.
If you want to talk accessibility, reach out.
-Sam