Sharon Snider
IBM Accessibility Specialist at IBM Software
Seadrift, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSharon Snider is an accessibility specialist and seasoned application information architect with nine years in formal roles at IBM and over two decades of accessibility-focused engineering and consulting across IBM Research and the Linux Technology Center. She combines hands-on web development (HTML5, ARIA, React/Angular) and assistive-technology expertise (JAWS, VoiceOver, Dragon) with agile project management and standards mastery (Section 508, WCAG, ATAG). Sharon has led accessibility compliance and requirements programs that span global teams and multiple business units, translating policy into testable designs using tools like Rational Policy Tester and automated contrast analyzers. With an academic background in IT and a 4.0 M.S. in Psychology, she brings rare cross-disciplinary insight into user behavior and technical accessibility, often bridging data science/ML experimentation (Python, Jupyter, Protege) with practical UX improvements. Based in Seadrift, Texas, she is known for turning complex regulatory and technical constraints into usable, inclusive product outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Psychology, 4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Psychology, 4.0 at California Coast UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology, 3.8, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology, 3.8 at American Sentinel University, Birmingham
English
Github Skills (38)
accessibility10
lighthouse10
javascript10
describe10
voiceover10
carbon-design-system10
semantics10
assistive-technology10
axe10
checker10
personalization10
tablet10
build-environment10
wcag10
react10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
snidersd/hello-world
Sep 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 5 months
pythonfirst-repository
snidersd/react-examples
Oct 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 14 PRs, 32 pushes in 7 months
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