Carie Fisher
Senior Accessibility Program Manager at GitHub
United States
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Top SchoolCarie Fisher is a Senior Accessibility Program Manager with a decade of experience designing and scaling accessibility programs that blend AI-enabled systems, policy, and human-centered research. She builds measurable governance and compliance frameworks (MAS/WCAG), runs large-scale accessibility champion networks, and translates user and community feedback into product improvements. As founder of A11yTalks and a long-time consultant, she pairs curriculum design and public education with hands-on auditing and frontend development to uplift teams across industry and higher education. Her work spans enterprise roles at GitHub, Testlio, and Deque as well as authoring Google's evergreen "Learn Accessibility" course, demonstrating rare expertise in both technical implementation and accessible pedagogy. Carie’s PhD research in Human-Computer Interaction informs a research-driven approach to inclusion, and she intentionally centers marginalized voices to drive practical, systemic change.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Human-Computer Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Human-Computer Interaction at Iowa State UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Communications, Master of Science (MS) Communications at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science (BS) Biology Anthropology History & Philosophy of Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Biology Anthropology History & Philosophy of Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (46)
accessibility10
eleventy10
css10
effort10
axe10
mobile-web10
user-experience10
wcag10
backend10
react10
electron9
javascript9
typescript9
fastest9
gatsby9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cehfisher/a11y-style-guide
Sep 2017 - Oct 2021
Accessibility (A11Y) Style Guide
Contributions:232 commits, 320 PRs, 303 pushes in 4 years 2 months
style-guidea11yaxewcagaccessibility
cehfisher/accessibility-talks
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Github repo for organizing speakers/resources for Accessibility Talks
Contributions:155 commits, 22 PRs, 143 pushes in 2 years 1 month
accessibilityorganizinga11yspeakers
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