John Foliot
Web Accessibility Consultant Strategist
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Foliot is a veteran web accessibility consultant and strategist with 14 years of formal experience and a career spanning back to the late 1990s, who recently transitioned from full-time work to retired consulting as of March 2025. He founded and led accessibility-focused firms and programs—from WATS.ca and Foliot Digital Accessibility Services to Stanford’s Online Accessibility Program—and has been a long-standing invited expert contributing to W3C accessibility standards including WCAG 2.1/2.2 and emergent WCAG 3.0 work. As a former Principal Accessibility Strategist at Deque and accessibility lead at JPMorgan Chase, he combines hands-on remediation, training and program-building expertise with deep standards fluency. He co-founded community initiatives like Open Web Camp and has repeatedly advised governments and major institutions, reflecting a rare mix of policy influence and practical delivery. Based in Ontario, Canada, John brings a steady, standards-first approach and a knack for translating complex accessibility requirements into usable training and scalable programs.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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English, French
Github Skills (93)
describe10
testing10
websocket10
eventsource10
web-development10
javascript10
safari10
browser10
voiceover10
semantics10
microsoft-edge10
firefox10
testcafe10
visual-regression-testing10
personalization10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/adapt
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
Semantics to describe user personalization preferences.
Contributions:83 commits, 10 PRs, 64 pushes in 1 year 3 months
describepersonalizationsemantics
johnfoliot/Bookmarklets
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
accessibilitya11ybookmarklets
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