Ingrid Alberding

Accessibility Analyst

Ingrid firmly believes in the fundamentally assistive nature of design and combines experience in web design with an interest in authoring tool accessibility. Ingrid is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin majoring in English Literature with minors in Informatics and German. While still a student, Ingrid was a graphic design and web development assistant who implemented accessibility during a large-scale content management system (CMS) migration. As an Accessibility Specialist at the University of Wyoming, she worked alongside staff and faculty to remediate accessibility issues. She most recently worked as a Quality Assurance (QA) Accessibility Engineer at the University of Illinois System, working to help ensure the accessibility of enterprise level software applications. Recently, she earned her Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) credential from the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP), demonstrating her expertise in accessibility best practices and disability studies. Ingrid is a member of the World Wide Web (W3C) Consortium Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group, helping to review accessibility of new global technologies. Ingrid also received a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship to study Polish while in university and can always be found with a book in hand.