Web professional with two decades of experience. Invests in the people around her to bring forward quality results. Experience with different sized projects, mentoring, onboarding, education, and documentation. Enjoys intense collaborations with everyone from customers, management, to individual contributors.
Work Experience
Owner , Moiety Studio
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Moiety is a creative studio that focusses on web accessibility. We specialise in accessibility consulting and auditing.
Accessibility Lead , CrowdStrike Inc.
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Furthered the standard of accessibility practices throughout the company. Collaborated with external auditors to investigate and improve the Falcon Platform’s accessibility. Delegated accessibility work to, and collaborated with, responsible parties. Held weekly accessibility office hours to answer questions from around the department.
Accessibility Engineer III , CrowdStrike Inc.
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Built up the accessibility knowledge within the UX department. Collaborated with other disciplines to analyse and improve the accessibility of their work.Performed and documented deep diving research on the accessibility of complex design patterns.
Senior Frontend Developer , Funda Real Estate B.V.
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Pioneered web accessibility in both the development and design teams. Collaborated closely with UX and UI designers alike to improve the accessibility of our work. Audited Funda’s public facing pages and components. Reviewed every frontend-related pull request for accessibility and general code quality issues. Organised workshops and meetups with a focus on accessibility.
Accessibility Engineer , The Paciello Group (TPG)
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Performed accessibility audits using the WCAG 2.0 or Section 508 standards. Researched the accessibility of various design patterns for use in technical reports and internal documentation. Represented TPG at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as editor of the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices. Contributed to both the HTML and ARIA specifications.
Frontend Developer & Accessibility Specialist , Lukkien B.V.
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Collaborated with several international companies on their marketing efforts. Projects ranged from e-mail campaigns to purpose built product launch websites. Introduced employees to the concept of accessibility through presentations and workshops. Led the accessibility effort consulting designers, developers, and management alike.
Frontend Developer , Orange Juice B.V.
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Built and maintained websites for small and medium-sized enterprises. Led a team of two frontend developers in our effort to develop an internal style guide. Spread frontend and accessibility knowledge through presentations and discussions with the team.
Public contributions
Articles
- Short note on skip links with sticky headers,
- Benefits of a Single Text Field Versus Multiple Text Fields,
- Enshrining Accessibility at Every Level,
- Cascading Semantic Stylehooks,
Talks
- Space Jamming Accessibility (video recording), axe-con and EmberFest (2022)
- Navigating the mall of the internet (pdf, 30 MB), Funka (2021)
- Why good markup matters to all users, ID 24 (2016)
Software
- ARIA Authoring Practices, editor
- ARIA Working Group, invited expert
- Table of Contents bookmarklet
Recommendations
Read the originals on LinkedIn.
Jenny Judova
I’ve worked with Zoë since starting at Crowdstrike 2 years ago. Zoë has been an incredible peer, colleague and mentor. We collaborated really closely together on our talk Space Jamming accessibility and have successfully presented in at three different conferences.
I have found Zoë to be a reliable and trusted collaborator. As a mentor in accessibility they take time to explain concepts and to train on using accessibility tools.
I consider myself very lucky to have Zoë as a colleague and mentor in all things accessibility.
Gonçalo Morais
I’m yet to know anyone as knowledgeable and pleasurable to work with than Zoë when it comes to web accessibility. The care and energy they put into everything they do translates into great practices that shine through to users and help us build a fairer platform. Every time we pair up on something I learn greatly and feel lucky with the team members I have at CrowdStrike.
Laura Wixted
Zoë is a breath of fresh air. She’s a top Accessibility expert with a brilliant communication style. I worked with Zoë at CrowdStrike for 18 months, collaborating on Accessibility guidelines for a budding design system. During that time, I was continually impressed by Zoë’s deep expertise and enthusiasm for meeting product Accessibility standards. Hard-working, proactive, and always humble, Zoë’s focus on providing the best user experience for all customers of all abilities, along with her fun sense of humor, make her an absolute joy to work with and one of the teammates I missed most when I left.
Michal Bryxí
Zoë is the person I go to when I have accessibility question. They are taking a11y topics not only as part of their job, but also as their duty towards everyone on the internet. Very happy to have them on our team and to know that they are covering my back. The work with Zoë is very friendly and cooperative. One can learn a lot from those pairing sessions.
Agathe Badia
Zoë is a colleague and my mentor at Crowdstrike. She is an incredible person, highly dedicated, knowledgable and such a pleasant colleague.
I really enjoy working with her, learning from her, and being her mentee has been an awesome experience.
Zoë brings a lot of experience and support to many contributors. I truly appreciate her expertise and patience to help us make our products more accessible.