Emily Kay
Senior UX Accessibility Specialist at Edward Jones
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Kay is a Senior UX Accessibility Specialist with 8 years of experience building inclusive digital experiences across finance, hospitality, and enterprise services. Currently at Edward Jones, she blends technical accessibility engineering with client-facing advocacy, informed by a Full Stack Software Engineering certification and hands-on Mean Stack skills. Her background includes leading accessibility programs at U.S. Bank and Hilton, where she translated complex compliance needs into practical, testable UX solutions. Emily’s career began in client education and child services, giving her a distinctive empathy-driven approach to user research and stakeholder collaboration. Based in Houston, she combines public speaking and collaborative problem solving to drive accessibility adoption across cross-functional teams.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Child and Family Services- Child Life, Bachelor's degree, Child and Family Services- Child Life at Missouri State UniversityFull Stack Software Engineering Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Software Engineering Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Prime Digital Academy
Github Skills (14)
clarity5
wcag5
accessibility5
css5
javascript4
web-components4
typescript4
react4
angular4
component-library3
html3
scalable3
ui-components2
javascript-framework1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
emily-kay/emily-kay.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 62 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
emily-kay/solo-project
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:13 PRs, 18 pushes, 14 branches in 11 days
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