Bryan Garaventa
Founder And Developer at WhatSock.com
Pacifica, California, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Garaventa is an accessibility product leader, developer, and founder with over two decades of experience helping enterprises embed inclusive design and conformance into product lifecycles. He founded WhatSock.com to publish open-source training and frameworks—like Visual ARIA and Apex 4X—that make ARIA and WCAG concepts practical for developers and educators worldwide. Bryan combines hands-on technical expertise (ARIA, accessibility trees, AccName) with enterprise enablement experience at companies including Workday, Adobe, Disney, Meta, and Wells Fargo. He has contributed directly to W3C ARIA work and co-edited the AccName specification, bridging standards work with real-world implementation. Based in Pacifica, CA, he focuses on shifting accessibility left into design and culture, not just remediation, and is known for translating complex accessibility policy into developer-friendly tooling and training.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Political Science and Creative Writing, Political Science and Creative Writing at Notre Dame de Namur University
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WhatSock/accdc-react
Aug 2018 - May 2020
BETA release of AccDC 4X + React for building advanced accessible ARIA widgets within the React IDE
Contributions:7 PRs, 56 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
reactaccessibleideariawidgets
WhatSock/accdc-jquery
Dec 2012 - May 2021
Contributions:184 commits, 48 pushes, 2 comments in 8 years 6 months
apijavascriptreference-guidejquery
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