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Katie Haritos-Shea is an information and communications technology architect with Deque Systems, an accessibility products and services company. Since 2015 she has been on the board of Knowbility. She is fascinated with science and emerging technologies and with their potential to improve the lives of all, particularly people with disabilities, the under-served, and the elderly.

The inaugural Knowbility Accessibility Leadership Symposium (KALS) took place earlier this year on May 15-16 at the Driskhill hotel in Austin, Texas. Knowbility board chair Rich Schwerdtfeger invited leaders in business, academia, and the legal profession to discuss ways to improve digital accessibility and challenges to inclusion for people with disabilities.

On June 9, a dozen volunteers from Deloitte’s Austin office spent the day at Knowbility as part of Impact Day, Deloitte’s annual day of service. They were tasked with improving Knowbility’s communications strategy for the upcoming OpenAIR competition.

The 2018 OpenAIR accessible internet competition is fast approaching. This year, Jayne Cravens, a communications and community engagement specialist and long-time friend of Knowbility, will lead recruitment of nonprofit organizations for the online competition.

Panel voting for South by Southwest (SXSW) 2018 is underway, and we’d love to have your support for PM-Led Accessibility: Leading Teams to Inclusion. In this panel, Robert Jolly will share his experience and advice for how interactive project and product managers can be leaders of accessible design and development teams. With accessibility baked into the process, our projects can be more innovative and inclusive!