Timothy Creagan


Senior Accessibility Specialist
U.S. Access Board

Biography


Timothy Creagan is a Senior Accessibility Specialist with the Access Board. Creagan provides technical assistance and training on the Revised Section 508 Standards and Section 255 Guidelines. Creagan serves as co-chair of the Education subcommittee of the Accessibility Community of Practice (ACOP) of the Chief Information Officers’ Council. Creagan also serves on the Disability Advisory Committee of the Federal Communications Commission.

Creagan has over twenty years of experience in disability policy. Prior to joining the Access Board, Creagan was the Director of Consumer Training for the Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center (ITTATC) at Georgia Institute of Technology. Creagan was the Director of Public Policy for Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) (formerly SHHH). Before joining HLAA, Creagan was a litigator in the courts of D.C. and Maryland.

Creagan received his J.D. from The Catholic University of America and B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.

Contact


1331 F Street NW, #1000
Washington, DC 20004-1111
202/272-0016 (v)
202/272-0082 (tty)
202/272-0081 (f)
creagan@access-board.gov
www.access-board.gov

Session History

01/30/2024 - Highlights from the new Government-wide Section 508 Assessment
11/28/2023 - Returning to the Office – Accessible Hybrid meetings
11/29/2022 - DEIA: What Does It Mean to Have Accessibility in the Federal Workplace?
03/29/2022 - Section 508 Questions and Answers
03/30/2021 - Review of the Revised 508 Standards (Part II): Requirements for Hardware and Software
01/26/2021 - Review of the Revised 508 Standards (Part 1): Requirements for Federal Websites and Electronic Content
01/28/2020 - Section 508 Questions and Answers with the Access Board and GSA
11/26/2019 - Section 508 in the Acquisition Lifecycle
04/30/2019 - Open Question and Answer Session on the Revised 508 Standards
11/27/2018 - Making the Business Case for Accessibility: How to develop a Section 508 Communication Plan using different media to communicate the benefits of accessible ICT
09/26/2017 - Revised Section 508 Chapter 5 Software (including Mobile)
07/25/2017 - CIOC Revised Section 508 Chapter 4 Hardware (including Mobile)
05/30/2017 - Old versus New: Original Section 508 Standards (2000) compared to the Revised Section 508 Standards (2017)
03/28/2017 - WCAG 2.0 and the Revised Section 508 Standards
01/31/2017 - Section 508 Refresh- ICT Final Standards and Guidelines (2017)
11/29/2016 - Getting Social: Best Practices for Social Media Accessibility
05/24/2016 - The Basics of Manual and Automatic Testing for Section 508
02/03/2016 - Managing Partial Compliance with Section 508
07/14/2015 - Audio Description
03/31/2015 - Section 508 ICT NPRM - an Overview
07/29/2014 - Wireless Technology and 508
05/22/2014 - Assistive Technology and 508
05/28/2013 - Implementing Section 508 Into the Procurement Process-How one agency does it