Owen Edwards
Team Lead And Principal Consultant, Strategic Accounts Accessibility Consulting
Nevada City, California, United States
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Top SchoolOwen Edwards is a Team Lead and Principal Accessibility Consultant with 12+ years of experience specializing in digital and video accessibility for Fortune 100/500 clients. He combines hands-on engineering — including notable contributions to the widely used open-source video.js player — with strategic account leadership at Level Access, coaching senior consultants and shaping long-term accessibility programs. A subject matter expert on captions, audio description, players, and CVAA compliance, he has influenced accessibility policy as an FCC Disability Advisory Committee member and as a W3C contributor. Owen’s background spans research engineering (YouDescribe and VDRDC) to embedded audio firmware and DSP at Sony, giving him rare cross-disciplinary depth from hardware to front-end UX. He treats technology as a tool for social inclusion, having built award-winning platforms and wearable assistive prototypes that tangibly improve access for people with vision loss. Based in Nevada City, he prefers connections with people he’s met in real life, reflecting a relationship-driven approach to professional collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Electronics and Business Studies, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electronics and Business Studies at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (16)
accessibility10
html10
css10
ria10
videojs10
uid10
javascript10
movie-player10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
video-player10
wai-aria10
player10
360-video9
twitter-bootstrap6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
videojs/video.js
Jan 2016 - Sep 2022
Video.js - open source HTML5 video player
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 57 commits, 68 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Owen primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and accessibility of the video.js player. Their commits addressed menu keyboard navigation, ARIA labeling, and the handling of double-click events. They also implemented audio description support, improved captions settings, and fixed layout issues, leading to a more accessible and user-friendly experience for all users.
dashhtml5-audiovideojshtml5-videojavascript
OwenEdwards/ElephantsDreamAudioDescription
Mar 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches, 3 tags in 4 years 5 months
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