Luis Garcia Email & Phone Number

Wakefield, Ma, Us

Contributing expertise to Silver, the proposed successor to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Currently focused on developing the conformance model to help determine how experiences will be considered "accessible."

Austin, Texas, Us

Knowbility's OpenAIR is a competition in which teams of designers/developers create and are judged on how accessible of a site they can make for a non-profits.I am one of several judges for the competition.

Cupertino, California, Us

Established a general accessibility approach for the Apple Online Store websites (pushing for team consistency, documenting issue prioritization, creating and documenting patterns, creating and maintaining relationships with product teams, balancing compliance with project priorities/deadlines, etc.)Worked within cross-functional project teams to deliver more accessible buy flows for all products through end-to-end involvement from design to releaseBoldly challenged inaccessible design patternsReviewed and gave feedback for design mockups and prototypesAdvised and implemented code solutions for accessibility issuesSet priorities for accessibility issuesProvided oversight for accessibility issues raised by other testers

San Jose, California, Us

Owned the accessibility of Cohesity's enterprise productsEstablished a roadmap and measured goals for product teamsEstablished and managed relationships with external accessibility vendorsWorked with clients to ensure their accessibility needs were satisfiedPartnered with sales and legal to help them understand customer needs and accessibility requirementsIntegrated accessibility into the Design System and the SDLC (annotating prototypes/mocks, design crits, designer support, verification testing, etc.)

Partnering with internal and third-party cross-functional product teamsDeveloping processes for partnering with cross-functional product teams

Mountain View, California, Us

Leading auditing projects for WCAG 2.1 AA conformanceDeveloping accessibility standards for product release and design handoffDeveloping new Intuit Accessibility GuidelinesProviding accessibility training to newly hired engineersMentoring accessibility team members on auditing/product management best practicesConsulting with stakeholders to recommend accessibility best practices

San Jose, Ca, Us

Leading accessibility efforts on the eBay website.Working with developers, testers, designers, management, and any other content or media authors to make sure eBay and its sister companies are as accessible as possible both externally and internally.Contributing to open source accessibility efforts such as the eBay MIND Patterns.https://ebay.gitbooks.io/mindpatterns/content/

Herndon, Virginia, Us

Training testers and developers in digital accessibility, inclusive design, and in how to establish accessibility training within their organizations.Performing "home inspections" on websites in regards to accessibility. Telling people what to fix and how to fix it.Contributing towards internal documentation for establishing enterprise automated testing and best practices for conformance with WCAG 2.0.

Simply put, the focus of this meetup (www.meetup.com/a11yATX) is to evangelize to the thriving tech community in Austin. We meet monthly, are very welcoming, and have some of the top accessibility experts in the world regularly in attendance.Along with Jackie Adam and Patrick Fox (with gracious hosting from Razorfish), we make sure the events happen.

Austin, Tx, Us

Performing in-depth EIR Accessibility assessments of both.purchased and to-be purchased software .Working with developers to review and address violations of WCAG 2.0 and Section 508.Recommending multiple options for remediation of accessibility issues using a variety methods, including:NVDA - JAWSValid/Appropriate HTML - WAI-ARIAProviding accessibility training, guidance, and consultative support to university web developers.Maintaining WorldSpace Sync enterprise accessibility scanning service and providing support to raise department scores.Filling team roles as needed. (e.g. Project Manager, Software Tester)Supporting website development for the university community:HTML - HTML5 - CSS - PHP - JavaScriptWordPress (multisite) - Drupal - SharePointFormalizing, improving, and documenting processes for various services provided by the central Web Technologies Team for the university, including:ConfluenceUrchin 6WordPress (multisite)1WorldSpace SyncHTML TemplatesMaps/Search

Austin, Tx, Us

Oversee training of part time and full time staff at the ITS Help Desk. Serve as tier two support for web operations team and Unix systems support.

Austin, Tx, Us

Training Supervisor at an Information Technology Help Desk that serves over 80,000 users.Supervising daily activities for staff of ~40 part-time student employees. Recommending various personnel actions including hiring, performance evaluations, promotions, and terminations.Providing technical support for a broad range of services and computer related issues including network configuration and application troubleshooting on both Mac OS and Windows platforms.In my time at the Help Desk, I developed a Training System to prepare part-time student workers to support all services and applications offered by the ITS department.Developed web applications to simplify the training process as well as other Help Desk functions.

Austin, Tx, Us

Supervised, Trained, and Managed part-time Administrative Assistants in a single-attorney Law Office specializing in Oil & Gas Law.Designed and Maintained physical and digital filing system for clients.Occasionally acted as both Computer Technician for office machines and IT Consultant for attorney and clients.

Austin, Tx, Us