Marco Salsiccia
Accessibility Consultant at OpenAI
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco Salsiccia is a blind accessibility consultant with nine years of experience helping teams build inclusive, usable products beyond basic WCAG compliance. He coaches designers, engineers, QA, and leadership to "shift left" accessibility into product lifecycles, combining lived experience with practical remediation, prioritization, and assistive-technology expertise across VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS, and TalkBack. Formerly a senior animator and motion designer, Marco leverages his visual design and animation background to translate design heuristics into tangible accessible patterns and embossed wireframe techniques. He has led accessibility programs at companies including Lyft, Intuit, Deque, and currently consults with OpenAI on web and ChatGPT accessibility. A hands-on coder in HTML/CSS and JavaScript, he builds accessible examples and teaches platform-specific practices (SwiftUI, UIKit, Android, react-native) while running BlindSVG.com to teach blind and low-vision users how to create tactile graphics via SVG. Marco’s blend of technical coaching, creative problem-solving, and first-person perspective makes him a pragmatic advocate for truly usable digital experiences.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Braille, accessibility technology, voiceover, Jaws, Braille, accessibility technology, voiceover, Jaws at Lighthouse for the blind and visually impairedBS, Media Arts & Animation, BS, Media Arts & Animation at Art Institute of California - San FranciscoMusic braille, Music braille at Hadley school for the blindWeb Accessibility Specialist, Accessibility, Web Accessibility Specialist, Accessibility at DeQue University
Github Skills (14)
typescript8
vscode-extension7
electron7
microsoft7
editor7
vscode7
visual-studio-code6
visual-studio6
windows1
linux1
macos1
reader1
screen-reader1
console1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Marconiusiii/HitTheDeck
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:3 PRs, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
blindpythonblackjackpython3terminal
Marconiusiii/OhCraps
Apr 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:210 commits, 190 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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