Laurence Lewis
Accessibility Senior Specialist at Telstra
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurence Lewis is an Accessibility Senior Specialist with over a decade of experience designing and embedding inclusive digital experiences across government and enterprise products. Currently at Telstra, he builds proofs of concept, tooling (including the A11y Quick Check extension) and cross-functional training to help developers and designers adopt WCAG and WAI-ARIA best practices. His background spans front-end development, instructional design and accessibility leadership for the Queensland Department of Education, giving him a rare blend of technical implementation and organizational change expertise. Laurence pairs hands-on HTML/CSS/JS skills with evidence-driven advocacy, consistently turning accessibility research into practical, scalable solutions that raise internal capability and measurable user impact.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Business Management, Diploma of Business Management at Department of Education, Employment and TrainingGraphic Reproduction Apprenticeship, Graphic Reproduction, Graphic Reproduction Apprenticeship, Graphic Reproduction at Beith ProcessNational IT Diploma, Printing, High Distinction, National IT Diploma, Printing, High Distinction at Johannesburg Technical CollegeProfessional Certificate in Web Accessibility, High Distinction, Professional Certificate in Web Accessibility, High Distinction at University of South AustraliaJavaScript Automate Processes JPD, IT, Distinction, JavaScript Automate Processes JPD, IT, Distinction at Brisbane North Tafe
Github Skills (102)
http10
internet10
eventsource10
web-development10
javascript10
html10
wai-aria10
storage10
wai10
axe10
materialize10
accessibility10
bootstrap10
css10
sass10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
LaurenceRLewis/Accessible_Components
May 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 239 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 4 months
Decrepidos/SlickQuiz
Apr 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
javascriptquizzesjquery-pluginjquery
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