Eric Eggert
Accessibility Testing Team Lead & Web Accessibility Expert, Knowbility
Eric Eggert is a Web Developer turned Accessibility Expert. While studying Media Informatics at the University of Vienna, Austria, he discovered his passion for accessibility. His personal blog can be found at yatil.net and he’s on Twitter as yatil.
2005: Joining the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML5 Working Group
2009: Contributing to W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative’s Before and After Demo
2009: Contributor to the official translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 to German, on behalf of Accessible Media
2010: Golden BIENE Award for Accessibility, carried out as a small non-profit community project in Essen/Germany
2011: Co-founder of web design and consulting agency “outline”
2013: Consultant for W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), working on several projects, including:
Web Accessibility Tutorials about Images, Tables, Forms, Page Structure, Menus, and Carousels
2016: Consultant for Knowbility, with 50% of the time as a “W3C Fellow”
Working on teaching, advising and assessing for web accessibility
Some technical and design work around Knowbility properties
W3C/WAI Website redesign work
Contributing to several W3C/WAI resources
2020: Consultant for Knowbility, leading the Tech Team since April 2020