Francis Storr
Principal Engineer, Accessibility at Intel
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolFrancis Storr is a Principal Engineer specializing in software accessibility who leads Intel’s company-wide IT Software Accessibility Program and helped create its foundational policy and standards. With nearly a decade-plus background in UX design, he blends hands-on interaction design, user research, and WCAG expertise to embed inclusive practices across product teams, legal, and HR. He has driven vendor selections, authored training and accessibility requirements, and runs usability testing with employees with diverse abilities—including work addressing CVAA compliance. An active contributor to the W3C WCAG repository and a member of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, he improves guidance and examples used by the wider web-accessibility community. Based in Portland, Oregon, Francis has a track record of delivering measurable improvements in employee-facing applications and intranets across sectors, and he quietly amplifies accessibility through ERG leadership and community events.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Fundamentals Of Interaction Design undergraduate course, Usability, accessibility, human computer interaction, web-heuristics, personas, wireframing, Fundamentals Of Interaction Design undergraduate course, Usability, accessibility, human computer interaction, web-heuristics, personas, wireframing at The Open UniversityMaster's degree, Web site architecture, Master's degree, Web site architecture at University of Greenwich
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Github Skills (14)
html10
accessibility10
ria10
webaccess10
wcag10
wai-aria10
css-selectors6
git6
css6
hex6
macos6
hsl6
alias6
colors6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/wcag
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Role in this project:
Accessibility Specialist
Accessibility SpecialistContributions:74 reviews, 270 commits, 190 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Francis primarily contributed to improving the accessibility of the W3C's WCAG documentation. Their work involved updating various techniques with a focus on HTML and ARIA, including correcting typos, updating code examples to reflect best practices, and fixing broken links. They also removed outdated content and code, and added explanations and examples to improve clarity and usability.
a11yattributionaxeguidelineswcag
intel/AccessibilityPlaybook
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
The open source accessibility playbook is a resource for repo maintainers and contributors, consumers and end users of open source projects. Let’s create a future where all open source projects are inclusive and accessible to everyone.
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 3 months
accessibilityaccessibility-automationaccessibility-checkeraccessibility-testingdigital-inclusion
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