Kathleen Anderson, AKA the “Accessibility Diva”, will discuss web site accessibility issues and demonstrate the web experience from the perspective of a person using reader software.

Kathleen is a Data Processing Manager 2 at the Office of the State Comptroller. She has thirty-one years of experience in the Information Technology field - dating back to when it was known as “EDP” - with the last 10 focused primarily in the Internet. She is the webmaster for Core-CT, and is also part of the Core-CT HRMS Team located at DOIT in East Hartford.

Kathleen is the Chair and webmaster for the State of Connecticut Web Site Accessibility Committee. She developed the curriculum and provided the accessibility training for State of Connecticut Information Technology Consultants.

She is a member of the International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet Advisory Board, and a past member of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Education and Outreach Working Group. She was a panelist and speaker at the ITTATC State Information Technology Accessibility Initiative Live Web Cast, a guest Speaker at several conferences on Web Site Accessibility (CSUN, ATAP), and has authored several articles pubished online about Web Site Accessibility.

Kathleen has been honored 6 years in a row by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft FrontPage. She is known in the FrontPage User Community as the “FrontPage Database Wizard Queen” and also as the “Accessibility Diva”.

Please join us for this informative and interesting presentation when it is rescheduled.