Chris Loiselle
Owner at Able, LLC
Reading, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Loiselle is an accessibility-focused web engineer and founder with nine years of experience helping organizations create inclusive digital products across the software development lifecycle. As owner of Able and a long-time contributor to W3C working groups, he blends hands-on technical expertise (HTML5/ARIA/CSS/JS) with standards-level influence, including active participation in WCAG 2.1 and ACT Rule efforts. At Oracle he led enterprise accessibility strategy, approving thousands of conformance reports, training thousands of employees, and driving measurable product improvements across major platforms. He pairs UX research and assistive-technology testing with engineering pragmatism to reduce risk, cut costs, and expand market reach for clients and product teams. Based in Reading, MA, he also writes about AI/ML for accessibility and uniquely bridges policy, tooling, and developer workflows to make accessibility operational at scale.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Design Thinking, Design Thinking at Cooper Professional EducationEducation/Teaching of Individuals with Vision Impairments Including Blindness, Education/Teaching of Individuals with Vision Impairments Including Blindness at The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Toronto Metropolitan UniversityProfessional Certificate Path (verified track), Front-End Web Developer, Professional Certificate Path (verified track), Front-End Web Developer at edXHuman Computer Interaction, Human Computer Interaction at RWTH Aachen UniversityMaster of Education, Educational Media and Technology, Master of Education, Educational Media and Technology at Boston UniversityContinuing Education, Information Technology, Continuing Education, Information Technology at Office of Accessible Systems & Technology Training (DHS)Certificate of Completion, Accessibility / Section 508, Certificate of Completion, Accessibility / Section 508 at Section508.gov - Section 508 Universe TrainingWeb Accessibility Curriculum, Web Accessibility Curriculum at Deque UniversityWoburn HighExecutive Education, Engineering Leadership, Executive Education, Engineering Leadership at UC Santa BarbaraBachelor of Science, Business Administration, Management, Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Management at Merrimack CollegeEducational/Instructional Technology, Educational/Instructional Technology at SUNY Empire State CollegeDesign, Design, Design, Design at University of California, RiversideCertificate (In progress), User Experience, Certificate (In progress), User Experience at Bentley University
English
Github Skills (22)
accessibility10
wai10
hosts10
axe10
google-tag-manager10
wcag10
materialize10
act10
w3c10
testing9
css9
snapshot-testing9
html8
backbonejs8
openui57
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisLoiselle/act-rules.github.io
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Accessibility conformance testing rules for HTML
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
testingconformancea11yaxerules
ChrisLoiselle/GitHubTraining
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Training Repo for GitHub interactions
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
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