Summary
JeriBeth Stevens is a Senior UI/UX Designer and Accessibility SME with 12 years of experience blending front-end development, special education expertise, and digital accessibility practice to make the web more inclusive. She advises enterprise and Fortune 500 clients on WCAG, ADA, and Section 508 compliance, running accessibility programs that have reduced defects by measurable margins and informed corporate policy. Comfortable in both design and code, she prototypes and remediates interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and WordPress while integrating analytics and SEO to drive measurable impact. Her background as a special education teacher gives her a unique, user-centered perspective on accessibility that informs usability testing with assistive technologies. At EY she builds accessibility into SDLCs and trains cross-functional teams, and as a freelance developer she delivers responsive, compliant CMS solutions for small businesses. A self-described data nerd, she pairs qualitative accessibility advocacy with quantitative analysis to prioritize fixes that improve reach, reputation, and legal risk.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Marketing Public Relations Advertising and Applied Communication, Master's degree Marketing Public Relations Advertising and Applied Communication at University of Denver
Web Development, Web Development at CodeSchool
Certificate Front End Development, Certificate Front End Development at SCCodes.org
Certificate WordPress Development, Certificate WordPress Development at Boulder Digital Arts
Certificate Web Accessibility, Certificate Web Accessibility at Deque University
Teaching Licensure Special Education and Teaching, Teaching Licensure Special Education and Teaching at Metropolitan State University of Denver
Mass Communications Communication Journalism and Related Programs, Mass Communications Communication Journalism and Related Programs at Colorado Mesa University
Certificate WordPress Customization, Certificate WordPress Customization at Skillcrush
Front End Web Development, Front End Web Development at Thinkful
Master's degree Special Education and Linguistically Diverse Education, Master's degree Special Education and Linguistically Diverse Education at University of Colorado Boulder