Rachael Bradley Montgomery

Rachael has been working in disability-related education, inclusion, usability, and accessibility for over 20 years but when she developed chemical sensitivity a few years ago, she gained insight into just how much of day-to-day life takes place away from the larger organizations she typically supports. Rachael founded Accessible Community to connect people with disabilities to the communities around them.

Rachael is a digital accessibility specialist at the Library of Congress and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies (iSchool). She co-chairs the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and was previously a co-facilitator of the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities task force. Rachael has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an M.S. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Contributions

• Introduction to Accessibility

  • Disability Inclusion

    • Inclusion Statements
    • Creating a Disability Inclusion Plan
    • Disability Inclusive Imagery
    • Disability Inclusive Language
    • Disability-Related Awareness Dates
  • Introductions to Specific Disabilities

    • Introduction to Dietary and Digestive Disabilities
• Content Accessibility

  • Accessible Content Creation & Design

    • Accessible Color Themes
  • Writing Accessible Content

    • Writing for Accessibility
  • Multimedia Accessibility

    • Captions
    • Sign Language
• Web Accessibility

  • Page structure

    • Page Titles
    • Page Purpose
  • Language identification

    • Introduction
  • Keyboard navigation

    • Introduction
  • Keyboard focus

    • Introduction
  • Links

    • Visually Distinct Links
  • Color, Contrast, and Single Sense

    • Introduction to Color and Contrast
    • Never Rely on Color Alone
• Physical Accessibility

  • Outdoors

    • Introduction to Parking