Michael Cooper
Accessibility Working Group Co-chair @Metaverse Standards Forum
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WORK HISTORY
Accessibility Working Group Co-chair @Metaverse Standards Forum
The “Accessibility in the Metaverse” working group seeks to generate insights, identify risks, and recommend strategies and best practices to ensure that virtual environments, experiences, and interactions are accessible to all, regardless of abilities or disabilities. The group will also explore the accessibility needs of metaverse content creators and developers in addition to end users and how accessible experiences benefit the organizations creating them. By promoting accessibility, we can achieve interoperability and full participation across metaverse experiences for everyone. I bring my experience in managing distributed groups and my knowledge of how accessibility standards are formed to help this group in its ambitious mission.
EDUCATION
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Ed.M.
University of Denver
Bachelor of Arts - BA
ABOUT MICHAEL COOPER
My objective is to make emerging technologies accessible to people with disabilities by identifying user experience and technical challenges and developing solutions that move the global technology industry forward in meaningful ways for users in all parts of the world and with any challenges. Highlights of this work so far:* Editor of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)(versions 2.0 - 2.2), a worldwide benchmark for web accessibility.* Editor of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)(versions 1.0 - 1.2), a technology to allow assistive technology to interact with web content.* Managed Bobby, the first web accessibility checking tool, and helped create the web accessibility evaluation industry by leading colleagues from other organizations towards an open and standards-based approach. I am experienced working in global, multilingual, and multicultural environments. Language skills are English native, French intermediate, German and American Sign Language beginner.
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