Biography

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Dr. Gunderson has been the Coordinator Information Technology Accessibility in the Division of Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES) at the University of Illinois. He leads the IT accessibility efforts on the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign campus. He is the chair of the Open Accessibility Alliance and co-chair of the OpenAjax Accessibility Task Force and a member of the W3C Protocols and Formats Working Group work on the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) and the W3C Web Content Accessibility ARIA/HTML techniques task force. He is the former chair of the W3C User Agent Accessibility Working group that produced the W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 specification. He has given numerous presentations, workshops and courses related to web accessibility. He leads the development of open source web accessibility evaluation tools: AInspector Sidebar for Firefox and the Functional Accessibility Evaluator 2.0 (FAE) to audit and report on the accessibility of entire websites. He works with campus web developers and companies who the university purchases web based resources and applications to improve the accessibility of campus web resources to students, faculty and staff with disabilities.