Kevin White
Accessibility Technical Lead at Accessibility Scotland
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin White is an Accessibility Technical Lead with 12 years of experience building inclusive digital services and web systems, currently shaping accessibility standards at W3C from Edinburgh. He blends hands-on web and system development skills (XHTML/CSS, Perl/PHP/Python, MySQL/Postgres/Oracle) with user-centred design and research leadership developed across roles in the Scottish Government and prior consultancy. Kevin has led accessibility strategy for government, co-organises a charity-driven accessibility community in Scotland, and serves as a non-executive director focused on diversity, equity and inclusion—showing a rare mix of technical depth, policy influence and civic commitment. Trained in mathematics, computer science and psychology/usability, he brings evidence-led usability practice to standards work and implementation. An early open-source entrepreneur, he has also run a consultancy and development firm, demonstrating both product delivery and organisational stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
1st Psychology and Usability, 1st Psychology and Usability at The Open UniversityDC Chiropractic, DC Chiropractic at McTimoney Chiropractic CollegeHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
Github Skills (65)
google-tag-manager10
gulp10
wcag10
lighthouse10
wai10
axe10
materialize10
w3c10
accessibility10
hosts10
javascript9
relationship9
chat9
watson-assistant9
css9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/wai-dynamic-planning
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:332 commits, 41 PRs, 382 pushes in 1 year 2 months
w3c/wcag3
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
WCAG 3
Contributions:19 reviews, 38 PRs, 116 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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