Michael Blume Email & Phone Number

Pleasanton, California, Us

Continuing to make accessibility happen at Workday. So many amazing things going on - I contributed to a 400% increase in the company's VPATs (basically accessibility conformance reports) over the last 2 years, helped with numerous design, development, and remediation projects, and continued to move the needle across Workday's suite of products.Looking forward to continuing to guide and shape this journey together with my Workday colleagues!

Pleasanton, California, Us

Continuing to drive accessibility across Workday through providing accessibility insights on products and services throughout the company.Throughout my time at Workday so far I've guided numerous scrum teams on how to incorporate accessibility into their development processes and new features, refreshed existing processes and documentation to incorporate accessibility, inclusion, and usability across all areas of the organization, and together with David Sexton, built the Accessibility Research and Training (ART) Lab program that's already had more than 1,000 enrollments for training on accessibility fundamentals.While Workday's accessibility program has already significantly evolved and grown since I first arrived, I've shared with colleagues my vision for how we can further guide and accelerate Workday's accessibility journey. My goal with this position is to continue bringing accessibility to the next level at Workday, not only ensuring we produce accessible interfaces but also empowering every developer, designer, and leader to create intuitive and innovative experiences for everyone.

Pleasanton, California, Us

Driving accessibility at Workday through providing accessibility insights on projects throughout the company and connecting developers, designers, and leaders to the resources they need to create accessible software. My goal with this position is to bring accessibility to the next level at Workday, not only producing accessible interfaces but also creating intuitive and innovative experiences for everyone.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Consulted on the accessibility of software products for companies like Microsoft, Google, and Zoom with Hadi Rangin, suggesting code solutions to improve the products' accessibility while doing so. The University of Washington (UW) must purchase software products for classroom/departmental use, and these products must be accessible and ideally efficient for all people to use, including people with disabilities (blindness, color blindness, movement impairments, etc.). We ensured this functional criterion was met through collaborating with developers and designers to improve accessibility prior to deployment on UW campuses.

Wrote articles for the UW student newspaper, describing technical research for non-technical audiences and writing detailed accounts of UW Seattle campus events. Find articles at http://www.dailyuw.com/search/?q=michael+blume/

Managed GDTC webpages, updating to HTML5 and manipulating the CSS to make UI more user friendly and enhance interactions with under-represented texts from the country of Georgia. Cooperated with team members to achieve project deadlines.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Utilized various means of data collection and analysis in a web-scraping project for Assistant Professor Abhishek Borah.

Ba In Linguistics, Computational Linguistics Focus

High School Diploma