Marc Johlic
Program Director, IBM Accessibility at W3C
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Johlic is a Program Director leading IBM Accessibility with 11+ years focused on making enterprise products and workplaces inclusive through strategy, tooling, and standards adoption. He combines deep hands-on engineering roots—from software development and systems administration to product management—with a decade of specialized accessibility leadership driving WCAG conformance, open-source samples, and enterprise checklists. An active contributor to the W3C AGWG and Mobile Accessibility Task Force, he helped shape WCAG guidance (including orientation techniques) and publishes practical resources like the Verified Accessibility Samples and IBM’s Equal Access Toolkit. Known for translating standards into developer-friendly tooling and workflows, he also led IBM Accessibility’s shift to modern collaboration tooling and learning platforms. Based in Florida, he keeps a maker’s curiosity alive—building TJ Bots and experimenting with React, Vue, and Swift—bridging research, standards, and pragmatic product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at University of South FloridaAssociate of Arts (AA), Associate of Arts (AA) at St. Petersburg College
Github Skills (5)
accessibility10
wcag10
documentation10
html9
css5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/wcag
Oct 2014 - Feb 2019
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Role in this project:
Accessibility Specialist
Accessibility SpecialistContributions:24 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to the project by updating and expanding the documentation related to accessibility, particularly focusing on the "Orientation" guideline within WCAG 2.1. They added and updated examples, resources, and techniques related to screen orientation and its importance for accessibility. Furthermore, the user made editorial changes to the Understanding Identify Input Purpose document and modified the working examples. They also updated the content in other understanding docs, like label-in-name, and searchresults.html to correct any validation issues.
a11yattributionaxeguidelineswcag
marcjohlic/Mobile-A11y-TF-Note
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
task-forcea11yapplyw3cwcag
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