Glenda Sims
Chief Information Accessibility Officer (CIAO)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGlenda Sims is a seasoned accessibility leader with over two decades of experience and nine years in senior accessibility roles, currently serving as Chief Information Accessibility Officer at Deque Systems in Austin. She combines strategic planning, hands-on testing, and assistive-technology expertise to drive enterprise accessibility programs, tooling, and thought leadership. A longtime advocate in higher education and nonprofits, she co-founded Knowbility’s AIR-University and has led accessibility initiatives at the University of Texas and in government and Fortune 500 clients. Glenda is also an active contributor to WCAG guidance, refining core success criteria language and examples that shape web standards. Her approach blends universal design, usability, and web standards with a belief that digital technology should be joyful and usable for everyone.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Management, BBA Management at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (5)
accessibility10
wcag10
documentation10
html9
css6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/wcag
Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Role in this project:
Accessibility Specialist
Accessibility SpecialistContributions:61 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
Contributions summary:Glenda primarily contributed to updating the `user-interface-component-contrast-minimum.html` file, which is a core component of the WCAG documentation. Their commits involved refining the wording of the proposed Success Criterion (SC), adding clarifications, and incorporating feedback from reviewers like Michael Cooper, Greg, David MacDonald, and Jared Smith. They also worked on the understanding document for the SC, adding examples and linking to related research.
a11yattributionaxeguidelineswcag
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