Shawn Lawton Henry
Accessibility Evangelist, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) / MIT
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
- Accessible Canada-Accessible World Challenges Pilot: Challenge of Changing the Public Narrative Around Disability
- The WAI to Web Accessibility: A Tour of New Resources from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
- Making Videos and Remote Sessions Accessible