Eric Eggert

Eric Eggert is a Web Developer turned Accessibility Expert. While studying Media Informatics at the University of Vienna, Austria, he discovered his passion for accessibility. His personal blog can be found at yatil.net and he’s on Twitter as yatil.

• 2005: Joining the W3C¹ HTML5² Working Group
• 2009: Contributing to W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative’s Before and After Demo
• 2009: Contributor to the official translation of WCAG³ to German, on behalf of Accessible Media
• 2010: Golden BIENE Award for Accessibility, carried out as a small non-profit community project in Essen/Germany
• 2011: Co-founder of web design and consulting agency “outline”
• 2013: Consultant for W3C WAI⁴, working on several projects, including:
  • WCAG Quick Reference
  • Web Accessibility Tutorials about Images, Tables, Forms, Page Structure, Menus, and Carousels
  • Laws & Policies Overview
  • Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List
• 2016: Consultant for Knowbility, with 50% of the time as a “W3C Fellow”
  • Working on teaching, advising and assessing for web accessibility
  • Some technical and design work around Knowbility properties
  • W3C/WAI Website redesign work
  • Contributing to several W3C/WAI resources