Emily Ogle

Experienced accessibility specialist looking to leverage extensive disability, accessibility, and inclusivity knowledge to advance civil rights for all. Passionate about disability justice and creating a culture of belonging.

Accessibility Contractor - Onward Accessibility - Rice University

(2026-02)

Work as program manager and strategist

• Analyze existing processes and identify opportunities to integrate accessibility
• Identify risks and create mitigation strategies for over 4 distinct projects
• Create risk severity matrix and align across 4 projects
• Evaluate accessibility conformance reports (VPATs) for quality and accuracy
• Leverage AI to create vendor score cards
• Create processes to manage vendor accessibility maturity
• Work with vendors on their own deadlines to meet Rice's Policy 851
• Identify high priority workflows and tools
• Develop decision and prioritization tools to align risks with escalation tactics
• Create go-forward strategies for net-new documents and web software
• Create remediation plan for 30,000+ PDFs leveraging collaborative AI tools
• Define high-level compliance for Rice and create workflows to meet Section 504

Accessibility Contractor (part-time) - University of North Dakota

(2026-01)

Provide expertise as procurement specialist and VPAT specialist

• Review hundreds of software procurement requisitions for ADA compliance
• Consult with professors and students on intent and usage
• Process requisitions and contracts and approve upon VPAT or accessibility statement review
• Request and review roadmaps or remediation plan for risk assessment and management
• Work with vendors on accuracy of ACRs and provide guidance on remediation plans and roadmaps

Senior Accessibility Specialist - CVS Health

(2021-08 - 2025-12)

Hand-selected to be on team dedicated to building strategies for evolving CVS as a whole to be more inclusive and accessible. Worked on strategy and training teams.

• Created enterprise-wide training program designed to upskill hundreds of designers in accessibility principles
• Spearheaded accessibility-focused mentorship program to provide CVS colleagues with deep knowledge of accessibility
• Vocal advocate for people with disabilities, designers, and the accessibility industry
• Generous with knowledge and capable of communicating complex topics in digestible manner
• Presented to design org on topics such as inclusive forms, user preferences, imposter syndrome, lived disabilities
• Led regular office hour sessions for people to ask questions
• Lead collaboration on identifying key strategic initiatives such as Ethical AI, skills inventory, and mentorship
• Functioned as passion advocate for inclusive design
• Provided annotations on 120+ designs
• Resolved or provided guidance on over 600 accessibility defects
• Collaborated with accessibility engineering teams to provide cohesive feedback on products
• Provide cross-discipline guidance for content, research, user experience (UX), and user interfaces (UI)
• Worked with 8 different teams as dedicated accessibility expert
• Took lead on artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives
• Created ethical triage framework and guardrails for AI tools or interfaces
• Helped to ensure transparency in data storage and privacy in chat products
• Worked with a "Do not lie" mindset to resolve interoperability constraints
• Familiar with Voiceflow conversational design tool
• Familiar with large language models such as Llama 3, Copilot, ChatGPT, Midjourney

Accessibility Regulatory Strategist - Cerner

(2018-02 - 2021-08)

Worked as corporate-wide program manager

• Spearheaded the training program
• Built 20+ self-led training modules
• Provided 2-3 in-person, hands-on training each month, leading groups of 15 associates
• Created checklists and how-to lists to supplement training material
• Created enterprise-wide auditing program
• Created exhaustive test cases to address criteria across WCAG, Section 508, and EN 301 549
• Leveraged training program to teach 1500+ associates on testing for accessibility
• Updated test cases as new guidelines or criteria were released
• Created over 500+ accessibility conformance reports (VPATs) for both external and internal software
• Aligned training and auditing programs with compliance initiatives
• Leveraged 500+ accessibility conformance reports (ACRs) to create baseline of accessibility compliance
• Used auditing program test cases to build measurable scores of each product's accessibility
• Tracked accessibility compliance and progress from year to year
• Assisted teams with remediation plans and schedules
• Work entailed cross-collaboration with stakeholders in Process Management, UX, Marketing, Federal, and more
• Provided consulting to hundreds of teams
• Collaborated with teams in marketing, engineering, design, strategy, human resources, procurement
• Maintained close partnership with VA Section 508 team to identify and remediate desktop software
• Coordinated teams' remediation plans for over 300 products
• Collaborated with vendors on accessibility
• Worked with Centers of excellence to produce tangible testing results using automated options
• Reviewed incoming responses for proposal requests and analyzed VPATs for accuracy and understanding
• Worked with corporate procurement to create accessibility guidelines for incoming contractors or vendors
• Provided regular high-level communications
• Drafted and sent strategy overviews to Cerner leadership
• Facilitated executive steering committee to act as governance for the accessibility program
• Released and explained results from prior quarters
• Addressed leadership concerns to mitigate risks for capacity and revenue

Senior Project Manager - Elsevier

(2010 - 2018)

• Initiated project charter for the procurement of closed captioning vendor
• Structured procurement bidding conference to ensure fair treatment to all prospects
• Created and conducted department wide training on closed captioning workflow, using tools such as WebEx, accessible PPTs, and animations
• Planned and executed workflow around online course accessibility
• Trained accessibility team by providing weekly testing sessions
• Demonstrated mechanics of closed captioning by showing how to adjust timing, check for accuracy, and split lines
• Walked through tutorials on using assistive technologies
• Showed tips and shortcuts on Microsoft tools like Excel, Word, PPT, and demonstrated the Accessibility Checker
• Built relationships with user centered design team that facilitated collaboration
• Created workflow to expedite customer service queries
• Held weekly asset reviews to ensure designs were user-friendly
• Provided remediation forms on VPATs
• Participated in Accessibility Guild, a global collaboration group with the goal of proactively advocating for accessibility
• Planned and executed project to create a gallery of accessible activity templates

Quality Assurance Specialist - Mira Digital Publishing

(2008 - 2010)

• Project coordination of quality assurance process
• Documentation of processes, execution of processes
• Copy-editing of 100+ self-published books
• Proficient use of Microsoft Excel, Word, Adobe Acrobat

Bachelor's - English - University of Missouri, St. Louis (2007)