George Kerscher
Chief Innovations Officer
Missoula, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Kerscher is a longtime accessibility and publishing innovator who has led efforts to make information usable for people who are blind or have print disabilities since 1987, coining the term "print disabled" and producing the first digital books for persons with disabilities. As Chief Innovations Officer of his own firm and a senior advisor on global literacy, he blends technical acumen with standards leadership—chairing DAISY/NISO committees and steering web accessibility work at the W3C. He advocates for semantically rich, digitally published content that empowers assistive technologies and improves access for all readers. Based in Missoula, Montana, and holding a Ph.D. in humane letters from the University of Montana, he pairs academic rigor with practical standards development. Less obvious: his career consistently bridges grassroots implementation and international policy, ensuring that technical specifications translate into real-world reading experiences.
10 years of coding experience
Ph.D., humane letters, Ph.D., humane letters at University of Montana
Github Skills (59)
accessibility10
epub10
reader10
workspace10
redux10
vocabulary10
discoverability10
readium10
ontology9
schema-org9
react9
wcag9
nvda9
screen-reader9
wpf9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GeorgeKerscher/Hello-World
Jan 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:9 PRs, 10 pushes, 8 branches in 7 years 11 months
marisademeglio/sandbox
Feb 2020 - Jun 2024
Test repo
Contributions:1 PR in 4 years 4 months
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