Mat Harris
Web Accessibility Lead at ITHAKA
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMat Harris is a Web Accessibility Lead with 11 years of tech experience who now shapes accessibility strategy for ITHAKA's product portfolio (including JSTOR) to expand global access to knowledge. He transitioned from front-end development—bringing deep HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and CMS experience—to focused accessibility advocacy and audit work, authoring VPATs and training cross-functional teams on WCAG and Section 508 compliance. At Level Access he led accessibility programs for large financial clients and guided remediation prioritization across the software lifecycle, combining hands-on testing with strategic program leadership. With an academic background in Political Science and International Relations, Mat brings a systems-level perspective to inclusive design and is passionate about collaboration, open source, and practical accessibility that improves real user outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree of Social Science in Political Science International and European Relations, Master's degree of Social Science in Political Science International and European Relations at Linköping UniversityBachelor of Arts Political Studies, Bachelor of Arts Political Studies at University of Illinois Springfield
English, Swedish
Github Skills (14)
lit10
jstor10
lit-html9
lit-element9
web-components9
react8
beta-testing6
planning5
laravel4
php3
cms3
testing3
vue1
ui-components1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sirrah-tam/wspn-wordpress-vuejs
Sep 2018 - May 2021
WSPN Wordpress theme built with Vue.js
Contributions:31 PRs, 37 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 8 months
vue-jswordpresswordpress-themevuevuejs
sirrah-tam/noms
Jun 2019 - Apr 2022
Meal Planning
Contributions:42 commits, 13 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 10 months
planningmeal-planningmeal
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