Jory Cunningham
Accessibility Specialist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, United States
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Top SchoolJory Cunningham is an accessibility specialist and UX engineer with a decade of experience designing and building inclusive design systems for companies like AWS, Salesforce, and Google. He architects and implements production-ready React component libraries and styleguides—having led Vimeo’s Iris system and contributed accessibility fixes to widely used projects like Cloudscape Design. Jory blends hands-on front-end development with leadership in design-technology teams, driving standards, documentation, and cross-discipline workshops to scale consistent UX. He’s known for pragmatic prototyping and for surfacing subtle accessibility issues (e.g., HTML validity and ARIA corrections) that improve real-world product quality. Based in New York, he pairs a liberal-arts background with deep engineering craft to make complex interfaces more usable for everyone. Colleagues rely on him to translate design intent into robust, accessible UI primitives that ship.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Religious Studies and Anthropology, BA, Religious Studies and Anthropology at University of Oregon
French
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Github Skills (22)
accessibility10
ui-components10
typescript10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
component-kit10
front-end-development10
sys10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
html9
css8
sc7
scs7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cloudscape-design/components
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
React components for Cloudscape Design System
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 15 commits, 20 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jory primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of React components within the Cloudscape Design System repository. Their work focused on improving HTML validity by converting `div` elements to `span` elements in various components, including `select` options and `AbstractSwitch`, while ensuring accessibility. They also addressed accessibility issues within the Flashbar component by adding an `aria-label` attribute for icons and added the `visualSearch` type to text inputs. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the breadcrumb component, ensuring the last item does not have an href attribute to comply with accessibility standards.
reactdesign-systemreact-componentstypescriptscss
jorycunningham/components
Aug 2022 - Nov 2024
React components for Cloudscape Design System
Contributions:47 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 3 months
reactdesign-systemreact-components
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