Alan Smith

About Alan Smith

Training and Auditing for Web and Mobile Accessibility is my passion. • Certified Department of Homeland Security DHS Trusted Tester. Certification number TT-24•••••54 • In my 11th year as a Web and Mobile App Accessibility Expert • Over 25 years of QA testing and management • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Invited Expert Taskforce member for Mobile, Low- Vision and Conformance Testing of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group • Recently joined as a participant in the W3C’s Educational Exercises and Activities Community Group • Made recommendations to the Refresh of the ISTE Standards for Computer Science Educators • • Experienced in applying accessibility guidelines for all stages of the software development lifecycle in Agile and Waterfall environments from design, code and testing accessible websites and mobile applications • Trained hundreds of designer, developers, testers on accessibility best practices and using screen readers for testing • Authored on-line LMS courses on WCAG 2.0 Testing and Repair Techniques, JAWS 17 Accessibility Testing and Overview of Web Accessibility and Web Accessibility for Designers • Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) to do formal curriculum development and teaching on accessibility and help build their accessibility program • Presented papers on Ergonomic Workstations for Engineering Computers in the 80’s. • UI design industry expert and consultant in the 80’s Technical Skills JAWS NVDA VoiceOver TalkBack Narrator ChromeVox AMP Siteimprove WCAG 2.0 Section 508 User Interface Design HP ALM for Requirements Management and Defect Tracking JIRA HTML ARIA WAVE Numerous accessibility testing bookmarklets Familiar with XCode PAC2 for PDF Testing SQL ETL Professional Experience Humana - Accessibility Subject Matter Expert - 01/16 to Present Criterion 508 (Part-time)- Accessibility Subject Matter Expert - 11/15 to Present NTT DATA on assignment at TIAA CREF - Accessibility Lead/Specialist - 07/12 to 12/15 Perform other accessibility testing and remediation services part-time and on a consultation basis. Numerous Full Time and Part Time positions in the computer space since 1996

Experience

1. Accessibiltiy Subject Matter Expert

   Criterion Partners

   Nov 2015 — Present

   Provide NVDA and JAWS testing of various web sites on an as-needed basis o Performed over 200 individual client site audits • Provide remediation support to clients working with their development teams • Created On-line LMS training courses for o WCAG 2.0 Testing and Repair Techniques o JAWS 17 Accessibility Testing o Overview of Web Accessibility and Web Accessibility for Designers

Education

• Butler Community College

  Novel Networking and Computer Security, A's

• Prairie State College

  Mechanical Engineering, A's

• Corning Community College

  Computer Aided Design

  1981 — 1983

• Central Piedmont Community College

  Management Information Systems and Mobile App Development, A's

  2001 — 2014