Clarissa Anderson

Clarissa Anderson is the Manager of Course Development at OU Education Services, a not-for-profit organization that partners with the University of Oklahoma. She co-chairs the Accessibility subcommittee of the Oklahoma Council for Online Learning Excellence (COLE) and represents online learning on the University of Oklahoma’s Accessibility Compliance Taskforce. She holds a B.A. in Journalism New Media from Baylor University and an M.S. in Learning Design and Technology from George Mason University. Her professional passions include accessibility, professional development, and improving digital literacy in online education.

Rob Carr

Rob Carr is the Strategic Accessibility Coordinator at WebAIM. Rob has been in the digital accessibility space since 2010. He has spent loads of time training, consulting, and learning about digital accessibility topics, large and small. Rob has worked with hundreds of individuals and dozens of organizations on everything from making a single PDF accessible to integrating accessibility into organizations’ digital strategies. At WebAIM, he leads its strategic training and consultation, assists with technical training and consultation, and works as part of its renowned accessibility evaluation team. Rob presents at national conferences, organizes WebAIM’s annual online conference, and tries to be more active on LinkedIn.

Kashuan Hopkins

Kashuan Hopkins is an Instructional Technologist and Canvas LMS administrator on the Learning Spaces team at the University of Oklahoma. He has worked in education since 2013 as a public school teacher, adjunct professor, and technology graduate assistant. Kashuan draws on his teaching and instructional design background to help faculty and staff create more accessible and effective digital learning materials and environments. His work focuses on practical approaches to accessibility in everyday academic technology tools. Outside of work, he enjoys tabletop role‑playing games, video games, improv, and Wes Anderson films.

Hannah Kinsey

Hannah Kinsey is the Government Affairs & Community Relations Specialist at NewView Oklahoma, where she works to promote accessibility and inclusion for people who are blind or have low vision. Before stepping into her current role, she worked in NewView’s accessibility department, testing websites and remediating digital documents to ensure accessibility for all users. As someone who is blind, Hannah brings both lived experience and technical knowledge to her work. When she’s not advocating for access, she leads worship at her church and spends time with her Airedale terrier, Dolly.

Thomas Patenaude

Thomas Patenaude has been working with the State of Oklahoma since 2014. As an accessibility testing specialist for the past five years, his primary responsibility has been to assist state agencies in meeting their digital accessibility requirements. In addition to websites and documents, he also evaluates native desktop and mobile applications, Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates, conducts training sessions, and provides assistance with assistive technology software. Currently, Thomas serves on the Information Technology Governance Team at the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services.

Lyssa Prince

Lyssa Prince is a digital accessibility specialist who works with designers, developers, content owners, and others to ensure that websites, applications, and documents are inclusive and usable for everyone. She can do a little bit of everything when it comes to accessibility, but she cherishes training and teaching. Lyssa found digital accessibility on the way to being a public librarian, but she liked it so much, she stayed! However, her library and information science education comes in handy every day, bringing holistic, user-centered perspectives into her work. Lyssa is also an IAAP Certified Professional of Web Accessibility (CPWA).

Karey Jo Wise

Karey Jo Wise is a Senior Accessibility Engineer at Pearson. She is a former teacher of the blind. She can frequently be found yapping about accessibility, AI, disability rights, glass children, disability etiquette, mental health disabilities and more, at conferences like CSUN, Access U and ATIA. She has reverse curve hearing loss. She doesn’t know ASL but she, and her mother, especially, really should learn.