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Mary founded and leads the Office of Information Technology's digital accessibility program, and is responsible for all aspects of its design and implementation. She develops University policy and strategy, and works across the institution to address issues of governance, practice, risk, and compliance. Mary helps ensure that people with disabilities can access and use the institution's IT and the information it provides, and are valued in the University's culture and community.

Mary champions accessibility wherever technology and digital information are designed and developed, acquired, or used. She is known for her strengths in partnership-building and forward thinking that propel the Princeton digital accessibility program’s success.

Bringing over 20 years’ experience in IT management to her role, Mary is an active contributor to the accessibility profession. She is an organizer for the annual Inclusion in Science Learning a New Direction conference on disability and STEM, helped develop the accessibility questions for the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit, serves on the IAAP Organizational and Professional Development committee, and is a regular presenter at national conferences.

Mary lives on a farm in Hopewell, New Jersey, which she is converting to a wildlife habitat by growing a native forest from scratch.

Rachel is the Training and Outreach Program Manager for the Office of Information Technology’s Digital Accessibility program. She helps empower the campus community to create digital environments and materials that are accessible to people with disabilities. She designs courses on digital accessibility topics for Princeton's staff that are tailored to their unique skillsets so they can confidently create accessible content. She also organizes events around Princeton that help spread awareness about the critical need to ensure digital information is accessible to all people. One of her favorite sayings is, "accessible design is good design."

She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also worked as a lecturer in poetics and literature for several years. She uses her experience teaching in a creative field to help her design training programs in tech that don’t feel too techy.

In 2021, Rachel graduated with a second MA in Learning Design and Technology with an emphasis in adult learning from the University of Colorado Denver. Her research focused on digital accessibility and universal design for learning in higher education, which is where her digital accessibility journey began.

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John leads Princeton University's testing and remediation efforts, to help ensure the University's designers, developers and writers create content that is easy to read and easy to adapt to the full range of assistive technologies.

Embedded in the Office of Information Technology's Web Development Services team, he works to mentor his colleagues; testing prototypes, teaching ARIA and JavaScript techniques and demonstrating new ways to automatically and manually detect potential issues.

His background in digital publishing has also helped him bridge the proverbial gap between system architects and content editors, seeking places where changes to editorial workflows can reduce the need for training and proofreading by making better choices intuitive, self-reinforcing and self correcting. These efforts are given back to the community where possible; his team has already open-sourced the Editoria11y Accessibility Checker and the Decorative Image Widget.

Having worked at Princeton for more than 15 years, John is a Certified Professional in Web Accessibility and a Certified Associate in Project Management. As an alumnus of the University's Department of Classics, he can confirm that Lorem Ipsum is not really Latin.