Welcome to my portfolio! On this page, you can read about some of my various projects and case studies. Where available, links to the actual project are provided.
Case Study 1 — ART (the Accessibility Reporting Tool)
- Problem
- Accessibility testers often rely on a patchwork of spreadsheets, documents, issue trackers, screenshots, browser extensions, and testing tools to document their findings.
- These tools may support individual parts of the testing process, but they aren’t necessarily designed around the way accessibility testing actually happens.
- The result is a reporting process that can be time-consuming, repetitive, difficult to standardize, somewhat disorganized, and ironically, sometimes inaccessible to the people doing the testing.
- I saw an opportunity to approach the problem differently:
- What if the accessibility reporting process itself were designed as an accessible experience?
- Rather than creating another accessibility testing tool, I conceptualized an accessible reporting environment designed specifically around accessibility testers and the teams responsible for remediation.
- at several points:
- Testers may have to move information between multiple tools.
- Findings can be difficult to organize consistently across projects.
- Screenshots, reproduction steps, WCAG references, severity, and remediation guidance may live in different places.
- Reporting interfaces are not always optimized for keyboard or screen-reader workflows.
- Teams receiving reports may have difficulty translating individual findings into actionable remediation work.
- Organizations often need customizable reporting formats to fit their existing workflows.
- Accessibility testers may be expected to document barriers using tools that weren’t themselves designed with accessibility as a primary requirement.
- This suggested a broader design opportunity:
- The reporting experience should reduce cognitive and operational overhead rather than add another layer of work.
- Some of the User groups most impacted by the irregularity, disorganization, patchwork accessibility, and lack of dedicated reporting tools in the professional accessibility space include:
- • blind accessibility testers
- • low-vision testers
- • screen-reader users
- • accessibility teams
- • organizations managing remediation
- My solution
- An accessible, customizable, open-source reporting platform.
- My contribution
- • identified the problem
- • defined the user experience
- • conceptualized the feature set
- • designed workflows
- • identified accessibility requirements
- • built the solution using AI-assisted development
- • iterated based on usability/accessibility considerations
- The result
- ART (the Accessibility Reporting Tool) was born from a dream, creative problem solving, some project management, and many hours of prompt engineering and collaborative AI development.