David Kennedy
Managing Staff UX Designer, Accessibility at Ad Hoc LLC
Apex, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Kennedy is a Managing Staff UX Designer specializing in accessibility with 13 years of experience designing and auditing inclusive web experiences for enterprise clients and products. He leads cross-functional teams at Ad Hoc LLC, mentoring designers, running remediation programs, and creating prototypes and training to embed WCAG and Section 508 best practices into design and engineering workflows. Previously he shaped front-end experiences and theme design at Automattic, contributing accessibility improvements to the widely used _s (Underscores) starter theme. Based in Apex, NC, he combines hands-on HTML/CSS/JS expertise with strategic program management and business-facing accessibility materials. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex compliance requirements into pragmatic, testable solutions that make the web faster, more usable, and more beautiful.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Interactive Media, M.A., Interactive Media at Elon UniversityB.A., Journalism, B.A., Journalism at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (9)
accessibility10
html10
css10
wordpress10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
user-interface9
javascript7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/_s
Aug 2013 - Mar 2018
Hi. I'm a starter theme called _s, or underscores, if you like. I'm a theme meant for hacking so don't use me as a Parent Theme. Instead try turning me into the next, most awesome, WordPress theme out there. That's what I'm here for.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:95 commits, 120 PRs, 74 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the _s starter theme by making accessibility improvements and refining the user interface. Their work involved modifying the `header.php` and `footer.php` files and adjusting styles in `style.css`. The user focused on improving the skip-link, dropdown menu, and custom logo implementation, enhancing the theme's usability and user experience.
wordpresswordpress-themeturningunderscoresstarter-theme
davidakennedy/a11yweekly.com
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:289 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 3 months
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