Summary
Rocío Alvarado is a senior digital accessibility specialist with over a decade of experience helping organizations embed inclusive practices across design, development, content and legal compliance. Based in Montreal, she has led accessibility programs and audits for large institutions like Hydro-Québec and Desjardins, advised product teams at agencies and delivered hands-on training and tooling as a consultant. She combines technical testing with screen readers (JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver), PDF remediation and WCAG conformance reporting, while also contributing to French translations of WCAG criteria and formal accessibility documentation. Colleagues value her analytical, curious and persistent approach to setting realistic improvement goals and coaching cross-functional teams. Rocío’s background as a web developer and trainer gives her a practical appreciation for production constraints, so her recommendations are both technically sound and immediately actionable. She often blends video-based training and captioning workflows with checklists and ACR templates to make accessibility work sustainable.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science with major in Computation Arts, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science with major in Computation Arts at Concordia University
Architectural Technology, DEC, Architectural Technology, DEC at Vanier College
French, Spanish, English