Peter Korn
Director of Accessibility for Amazon\'s Devices & Services
- Role
- Director, Accessibility at Amazon Lab126
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Peter Korn
Software Accessibility expert and Assistive Technology expert with a twenty-five year track record of defining and implementing accessible software solutions and accessibility standards. Highly effective at leading diverse global development teams delivering accessible platforms and operating systems, office suites, web browsers, and assistive technologies. Equally effective in legislative and regulatory domains, driving governmental policies and regulations on accessibility that maximize social benefits while being achievable at the lowest operational cost to industry.
Experience
Director, Accessibility
Oct 2013 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US
Helped deliver the new FireOS screen reader VoiceView, on our new Fire Tablets- Invented and helped deliver the VoiceView for Kindle screen reader and the Kindle Audio Adapter, making e-readers accessible to blind and visually impaired readers for the first time ever- Helped deliver the VoiceView screen reader to Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, and Fire TV Edition smart TVs, enabling blind and visually impaired folks to enjoy movies, TV shows, and other video content- Helped deliver magnification to Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, and Fire TV Edition smart TVs, enabling low vision folks to enjoy movies, TV shows, and other video content- Helped bring Audio Description to Amazon Video- Helped make Kindle Reading on PC accessible, improve Kindle Reading accessibility on Fire Tablets
Education
University of California, Berkeley
BA, Mathematics
1984 — 1989
Skills
- Open Source Software
- Evangelism
- C++
- Device Drivers
- Disability Management
- Architecture
- Software Development
- Open Source
- Wcag
- Web Standards
- Shell Scripting
- Enterprise Architecture
- C
- Linux
- Perl
- Odf
- Identity Management
- Accessibility
- Agile Methodologies
- Software Design
- Scalability
- Software Engineering
- Standards Development
- Virtualization
- Distributed Systems
- Operating Systems
- Iaccessible2
- Java Accessibility Api
- Solaris
- Mobile Devices
- W3c Accessibility
- Daisy
- Unix
- Cloud Computing
- Gnome
- Aria
- Java
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