Roel Van Gils
Founder at Eleven Ways
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolRoel Van Gils is an accessibility-focused founder and IAAP-WAS certified specialist with 11+ years of experience helping public institutions and major enterprises meet WCAG and European Accessibility Act requirements. As founder of Eleven Ways he leads audits, training, coaching and user testing for clients such as the European Commission, ING, AXA and the City of Antwerp, blending practical UX craft with policy-level compliance. His background spans front-end development, information architecture and user research from early web days through roles at Rabobank, VRT and the European Commission, giving him a rare mix of technical, strategic and operational accessibility expertise. Roel co-founded AnySurfer and has a long history of creating guidelines, tools and trainings that scale accessibility work across organisations. Based in Ghent, he combines hands-on testing and coaching with a consultancy rhythm that turns regulatory complexity into usable, measurable improvements. An early web developer who evolved into an accessibility advocate, he often bridges gaps between developers, designers and policy teams to make digital services genuinely inclusive.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Communications Management, Communications Management at Hogeschool AntwerpenArt, Art at Heilig Grafinstituut, TurnhoutSint-Jozefcollege Turnhout
English, Dutch, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
cookie-consent10
displays10
menubar10
thor10
window-manager10
swiftui10
hidpi10
brightness10
gifsicle10
keyboard10
macos-sierra10
karabiner10
partitioning10
ccpa10
retina10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
11ways/ulysses2deckset
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 19 pushes, 1 comment in 8 months
roelvangils/vrt-accessibility
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
a11yweb-accessibilityguidelinesbroadcastingaccessibility
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