Shawn Lawton Henry

Shawn Henry leads worldwide education and outreach promoting web accessibility for people with disabilities at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Before joining the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), she developed and implemented strategies to optimize user interface design for usability and accessibility with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, education providers, and research centers. Shawn focuses her personal passion for accessibility on bringing together the needs of individuals and the goals of organizations in designing human-computer interfaces. Her book Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design offers an approach for developing products that are more usable for everyone.

Classes

John Slatin AccessU 2025

• W3C WAI Exchange (5/14)
• Advancing Digital Accessibility with W3C WAI
• W3C WAI Exchange (5/15)
• W3C WAI Exchange (5/16)

John Slatin Virtual AccessU 2021

• The WAI to Web Accessibility: A Tour of New Resources from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
• Making Videos and Remote Sessions Accessible

John Slatin AccessU 2022

• Q&A: The WAI to Web Accessibility: A Tour of New Resources from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
• Q&A: Making Videos and Remote Sessions Accessible

John Slatin AccessU 2024

• Accessible Canada-Accessible World Challenges Pilot: Challenge of Changing the Public Narrative Around Disability

John Slatin AccessU 2023

• WAI and You: Working Together to Advance Digital Accessibility