Harris Schneiderman
Director, Product Management at W3C
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolHarris Schneiderman is a product and accessibility leader with 12 years of experience advancing inclusive web experiences from hands-on UI engineering to director-level product management at Deque Systems. Based in San Diego, he has progressed through technical roles into strategic leadership, currently directing product management while remaining active as a W3C ARIA Working Group member. His open-source contributions to the W3C ARIA specification—clarifying aria-live usage for error messaging, refining role definitions, and adding the code role—reflect deep domain expertise in assistive technologies not always visible in product titles. Harris combines pragmatic engineering chops with product strategy to ship accessible features that meet both user needs and standards compliance. He holds a degree in Media Arts and Technology from Michigan State University and brings a designer’s sensibility from early e-commerce and webmaster roles to complex accessibility problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Media Arts and Technology, Bachelor's degree, Media Arts and Technology at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (10)
accessibility10
html10
wai-aria10
documentation9
css6
firefox6
javascript6
background-image6
jquery6
operator6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/aria
Dec 2018 - Aug 2021
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)
Role in this project:
Accessibility Specialist
Accessibility SpecialistContributions:1 review, 23 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Harris's contributions primarily focus on refining the WAI-ARIA specification documentation. They removed default values for `aria-checked` from role definitions across multiple components such as switch, radio, and menuitemcheckbox, and added the `code` role, providing details on its purpose and usage. They also added explanations of `aria-live` usage for error messages within the context of the `aria-errormessage` example, and removed `aria-level` from the `grid` role.
accessiblewaiwai-ariainternetaria
schne324/csun-advanced-aria
Feb 2017 - Apr 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
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