Amanda Mace
Amanda Mace is AbleDocs’ Vice President for Australasia. In this role, she manages the Australasia office while growing and promoting the AbleDocs brand across the region. Amanda is Co-Chair of the Australian Accessibility Web Accessibility Initiative (OZeWAI). She’s also one of only two Australian-based W3C evangelists and the W3C Australian Western Region office manager.
Amanda is certified by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) as a Certified Professional. Before joining Team AbleDocs, Amanda was the General Manager of Web Key IT. In addition, she co-authored a book chapter for the textbook, “Web Accessibility A Foundation for Research,” as well as the white paper entitled, “Digital Accessibility: Perceptions, Expectations and Reality.”
Rosemary Spark
Rosemary has worked as a teacher, librarian, lecturer and, most recently, web content manager for a group of six hospitals in the South Metropolitan Area Health Service. During this time, she achieved the Professional Certificate in Web Accessibility Compliance from the University of South Australia.
During her final school appointment, Rosemary established an educational website composed of many weblinks to support teacher and student assignments, and also online literacy webquests. The website earned several awards, including the Whole School Award for Technology Integration Best Practice Award in 2000, the International Association of School Librarianship Website of the month for August 2000, and a Best Practice Award 2000 from the WA School Library Association.
In 2002 Rosemary was awarded Master of Science (specialising in learning technologies) by Curtin University. She is now retired and keeps in contact and up-to-date with the web accessibility community so she can remain a web accessibility champion to help ensure people with different abilities can access the internet.
Vithya Vijayakumare
Vithya Vijayakumare is the Digital Accessibility Specialist at VisAbility. With over 13 years of experience, Vithya’s role is to ensure that websites, social media, videos, documents and audio materials are accessible to all users. She has delivered projects in various accessible formats and also presented on various topics/workshops relating to digital accessibility, Inclusive publishing (EPUB/DAISY), content accessibility and future innovation solutions (3D Surround Sound/360 audio). Currently, she is a member of the Perth Web Accessibility Camp (PWAC) and Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities.
Jane McInnes
Jane McInnes is a Digital Communications Specialist at GESB. GESB is responsible for managing the super and retirement savings of over 245,000 current and former public sector workers.
In 2021, Jane won ‘Accessibility Person of the Year’ in the Australian Access Awards.
Jane has been the driving force behind GESB’s online accessibility initiatives including their website and Retirement planning calculator, which have resulted in outstanding compliance against WCAG.
She is leading GESB’s future in accessibility and continues to help embed accessibility into their culture, practices and training, making sure accessibility is a primary consideration in projects and processes. She is providing her expertise in accessibility as a member of GESB’s Disability Access and Inclusion Plan committee, which helped develop their 2023-28 plan.
Matthew Putland
A passionate accessible HTML and semantics expert, Matt has over 8 years’ experience working with digital accessibility as his core focus. As a Digital Accessibility Specialist at the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), he provides accessible design guidance as well as technical guidance on how to make our products accessible to as many people as possible. He works with the MyNDIS app and Participant/Provider portal teams, as well as internal teams.
In his career, Matt has conducted countless public and in-house training courses covering web, mobile apps and document accessibility. He’s also consulted with many large corporations, banks, universities and also smaller organisations including not-for-profits to improve their digital accessibility. More recently, Matt has also been mentoring individuals to improve their digital accessibility confidence.