Eric Bailey
Senior Designer, Accessibility & Design Systems at GitHub
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolEric Bailey is a Senior Designer specializing in Accessibility and Design Systems with 13 years of experience crafting inclusive, modular interfaces across government, media, and enterprise products. Currently at GitHub, he blends design, front-end development, writing, and public speaking to advance accessible component libraries and tooling. His background includes maturing large-scale design systems like HealthCare.gov and Medicare.gov, and hands-on work improving accessibility for community projects such as the A11Y Project and overlayfact sheet. Eric’s practice emphasizes parity between design and code—creating Sketch components that map cleanly to production—and he routinely trains teams to embed sustainable accessibility practices. Based in Somerville, MA, he pairs a BFA in Graphic Design with deep practical experience auditing WCAG compliance and shipping dark-mode, responsive, and assistive-technology-friendly experiences. Colleagues know him as a design systems wonk who also rolls up his sleeves to tweak CSS and markup for better usability.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Graphic Design, BFA, Graphic Design at Montserrat College of Art
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Github Skills (10)
accessibility10
html10
css10
exp10
javascript10
user-experience10
front-end-development10
eleventy9
webaccess9
screen-reader6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
a11yproject/a11yproject.com
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
The A11Y Project is a community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 192 reviews, 845 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the A11Y Project website. Their contributions included adding and modifying navigation elements, such as integrating event listings into the primary navigation, adding a table of contents, and improving the structure of the checklist. The user also updated the website's social sharing features and incorporated dark mode functionality.
effortinclusive-designeleventydigital-accessibilityuser-experience
karlgroves/overlayfactsheet
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on front-end development, starting with the initial setup of the project's CSS. They moved the CSS to a dedicated file and added color variables to improve the styling consistency. Subsequent commits involved cleaning up the markup in the HTML and enhancing the site's styling, including adding a decorative logo and social share information. They also made design tweaks to enhance the layout.
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