Michael Gower
HID Designer at General Motors
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Gower is an accessibility-focused HID Designer and seasoned practitioner with nine years in specialist roles and over two decades of related IT and advisory experience. Based in Victoria, BC, he led creation of IBM’s Equal Access Toolkit and authored the IBM Accessibility Checklist while serving as a Senior Consultant and Accessibility SME. An active W3C contributor and co-facilitator of the WCAG 2 Task Force, he helps shape and clarify the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and authors practical "Understanding" guidance and working ARIA examples. Now designing human interface devices at General Motors, he applies deep standards expertise to product-facing accessibility problems. His background in creative writing gives him an uncommon strength for translating technical accessibility requirements into clear, usable guidance.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA Creative Writing, BA Creative Writing at University of Victoria
Github Skills (6)
accessibility10
html10
ria10
wcag10
wai-aria10
technical-writing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/wcag
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Role in this project:
Accessibility Specialist
Accessibility SpecialistContributions:642 reviews, 377 commits, 301 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits focus on enhancing the accessibility of the WCAG documentation, primarily by revising and clarifying text within the "Understanding" documents. These changes involve rephrasing content for better clarity, correcting errors, and incorporating examples to illustrate accessibility principles. A significant part of the work involves ensuring the correct use of ARIA attributes and structural elements, as well as creating working code examples to reinforce the concepts.
a11yattributionaxeguidelineswcag
mbgower/carbon-website
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
The website for the Carbon Design System.
Contributions:137 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 10 months
carbonreactdesign-systemcarbon-design-system
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