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Judy Brewer specializes in digital accessibility technology policy. In her work as assistant director for accessibility at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, she focused on strengthening implementation of digital accessibility across federal, state, and local governments, including in education and health care; and promoting accessibility and equity in artificial intelligence.
She served briefly as a digital accessibility expert at the Partnership for Public Service, and previously directed the Web Accessibility Initiative at the World Wide Web Consortium for 25 years where she led development of the internationally recognized Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), while also serving as a principal research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
