Becky Gibson

Location: Massachusetts | United States
Speaking Topics: Ajax | ARIA | web accessibility
Spoken Languages: English

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Senior Technical Staff Member
Web Accessibility Architect
Amateur photographer

Becky focuses on accessibility for the Web especially Web 2.0 and Ajax. She is currently assisting with the development of the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specification and implementing accessibility in the user interface components of the Dojo Open Source Toolkit for JavaScript. Becky came to IBM through Lotus where she worked as a developer on several releases of Lotus 1-2-3 as well as Lotus Notes. She has programmed in C, C++, Java and Web technologies.

Previous Presentations: 
Reaching the Entire World: Accessibility and Internationalization with Dojo - The AjaxEperience and AjaxWorld conferences
Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference - 4 years
SXSW, 2008 - Accessible Rich Media panel
Presentation Web Links: 
Several Presentations
SXSW Accessible Rich Media Panel Podcast