People

Mary Albert

Mary founded and leads the Office of Information Technology's Digital Accessibility Program, and is responsible for all aspects of its design and implementation. She develops University policy and strategy, and works across the institution to address issues of governance, practice, risk, and compliance. Mary helps ensure that people with disabilities can access and use the institution's IT and the information it provides, and are valued in the University's culture and community.

Mary champions accessibility wherever technology and digital information are designed and developed, acquired, or used. She is known for her strengths in partnership-building and forward thinking that propel the Digital Accessibility Program’s success.

Bringing over 20 years’ experience in IT management to her role, Mary is an active contributor to the accessibility profession. She is the author of the Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies Exam Preparation Course licensed by the International Association of Accessibility Professionals, is an organizer of the annual ISLAND Conference on Disability Inclusion in STEM, helped develop the accessibility questions for the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit, and is a regular presenter at national conferences.

Mary lives on a farm in Hopewell, New Jersey, which she is converting to a wildlife habitat by growing a native forest from scratch.

Rachel Busnardo

Rachel is the Training and Outreach Program Manager for the Office of Information Technology’s Digital Accessibility Program. She helps members of the campus community ensure digital environments and materials are accessible to people with disabilities. She designs and teaches digital accessibility training courses for staff so they can confidently create accessible content. She also organizes events around the campus that help spread awareness about the critical need to ensure digital information is accessible to all people. One of her favorite sayings is, "accessible design is good design."

Rachel holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also worked as a lecturer in poetics and literature for several years. She uses her experience teaching in a creative field to help her design training programs in technology that don’t feel too techy. She also holds an MA in Learning Design and Technology with an emphasis in adult learning from the University of Colorado Denver. Her research focused on digital accessibility and universal design for learning in higher education.

John Jameson headshot.

As Digital Accessibility Developer, John supports the Digital Accessibility Program by providing testing and remediation to help ensure the University's designers, developers and editors create applications and content that follow standards and best practices, and adapt to the full range of assistive technologies.

John mentors colleagues by following up tests with remediation support, teaching ARIA and JavaScript techniques and demonstrating new ways to automatically and manually detect potential issues.

Embedded in the Office of Information Technology's Web Development Services team, John's background in digital publishing helps him bridge the gap between system architects and content editors. John developed and maintains the Editoria11y Accessibility Checker and Link Purpose Icons libraries.

John is a Certified Professional in Web Accessibility and a Certified Associate in Project Management. As an alumnus of the University's Department of Classics, he can confirm that Lorem Ipsum is not really Latin.