Lisa Snider
Access Changes Everything Senior Digital Accessibility Consultant and Trainer
Canada
Lisa Snider is the Senior Consultant and Trainer in her company, Access Changes Everything.
Since 1999, Lisa’s passion in life has been to make the digital world more accessible for people with disabilities in different North American settings and contexts. She shares this knowledge through in person and online training, seminars, user testing, accessibility audits, remediation and facilitation for a wide variety of North American organizations, governments and businesses, such as the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, University of Manitoba, City of Winnipeg and Government of Manitoba.
Lisa specializes in digital accessibility, which includes: websites, documents, audio, video, email, electronic signage, social media content, apps and computers. She is a nationally recognized digital accessibility advocate, and an internationally recognized archival accessibility specialist.
Lisa is the Chair of the Province of Manitoba’s Information & Communications Standard Development Committee, Stakeholder in the new W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Silver Task Force (WCAG 2.1), and is a member of the Microsoft Office Accessibility Group and the Microsoft Mac Outlook Accessibility Group, collaborating with Microsoft to improve the accessibility of their products.
Lisa also has a digital archivist background. She has worked in archives such as: Brock University, the Harry Ransom Centre at the University of Texas at Austin and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
Follow Lisa at @archivesmatter on Twitter.