Wendy Reid
Senior Accessibility Project Manager at eBay
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWendy Reid is a Senior Accessibility Project Manager with 11 years of experience building accessibility and publishing standards programs across product, content, and organizational policy. She has led company-wide accessibility initiatives at Kobo and Rakuten, cutting post-release accessibility bugs by over 80%, internalizing auditing work, and delivering compliance ahead of regulatory deadlines while keeping user experience central. As W3C Advisory Board Chair she designed the organization’s first comprehensive community survey and aligned cross-board collaboration to inform strategic priorities. Wendy combines hands-on QA and product experience with inclusive design graduate training, and she advocates for accessibility as a people-first practice rather than mere compliance. Based in Old Toronto, she also contributes to EPUB3, Audiobooks, and web publishing standards, bridging publishers, engineers, and product teams.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Hons English Language and Literature, B.A. Hons English Language and Literature at Queen's UniversityCertificate Publishing (Chang School of Continuing Education), Certificate Publishing (Chang School of Continuing Education) at Toronto Metropolitan UniversityMaster of Design Inclusive Design, Master of Design Inclusive Design at OCAD University
German
Github Skills (52)
epub10
workspace10
w3c10
spec9
kobo9
pdf9
checker9
specification9
wcag9
workitem8
axe8
schematron8
xapi8
accessibility8
meta8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wareid/EPUB3-tests
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
wareid/epub-specs
Nov 2021 - May 2024
Shared workspace for EPUB 3 specifications.
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 6 months
workspacespecificationsepub
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