Shawn Henry
Accessibility, WAI
Shawn Henry leads World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) education and outreach promoting web accessibility for people with disabilities, and holds a research appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Prior to joining the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), she consulted with various organizations to optimize user interface design for usability and accessibility.
Shawn focuses her personal passion for accessibility on bringing together the needs of individuals and the goals of organizations in designing human-computer interfaces. Her recent book, Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design, advocates including people with disabilities in the design process.