Raveena Potla
Staff Digital Accessibility Engineer
Pleasanton,CA
Summary
Seasoned and Passionate Digital Accessibility expert with over a decade of experience leading web and mobile accessibility initiatives.
Mastering and implementing WCAG 2.1 A and AA standards across complex web and mobile applications, while staying ahead of emerging standards like WCAG 2.2 .
Stayed at the forefront of accessibility standards, contributing to industry discussions and best practices Consistently drove transformative improvements in Safeway's digital accessibility, setting new industry benchmarks and positively impacting millions of users.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Staff Digital Accessibility Engineer
Albertsons
03.2022 - Current
- Ensured adherence to WCAG 2.1 A and AA standards for web and mobile platforms; provided comprehensive training to the ADA team on the latest WCAG 2.2 A and AA success criteria.
- Delivered quarterly ADA training sessions to product, QA, and development teams, enhancing overall accessibility awareness and expertise.
- Adopted a Shift-Left approach to proactively address accessibility, resulting in improved website and app quality.
- Pioneered Integration of ADA-Dev notes directly into Figma, facilitating customization for specific workflows and upcoming features.
- Led pre-grooming and grooming sessions to foster open discussions on feature development and address complexities in achieving ADA compliance.
- Strategically assigned ADA engineers to each POD/team, ensuring early involvement in feature development and parallel inclusion in QA testing.
- Monitored and evaluated engineering performance to recommend improvements.
- Presented technical findings to stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of project status and goals.
- Conducted rigorous quality assurance tests, identifying areas of improvement for product optimization.
- Championed environmental sustainability initiatives by integrating eco-friendly practices into engineering designs and Pantry Design Systems (PDS).
- Applied lean principles to enhance efficiency and reduce waste in various engineering projects.
- Trained and mentored junior engineers, providing guidance and direction.
- Participated in formal internal design reviews of proposed products and components.
Sr. Digital Accessibility Engineer/Technical Lead
Microsoft
11.2018 - 03.2022
- WWL Accessibility Program Technical Support – Engineering (COGSs) Microsoft Accessibility Overview: “There is no limit to what people can achieve when technology reflects diversity of all who use it. Microsoft is committed to revolutionizing access to technology for people living with disabilities”. AI can empower people with disabilities with tools that support independence and productivity, as technology rapidly changes the way we live, learn, and work.
- Participate in meetings with both Microsoft Internal and Third-party digital property teams as a member of WWL Accessibility Core Program Team in understanding the requirements, performing audits and providing technical insights.
- Organized system infrastructure documentation and operating procedures, strengthening controls and enhancing overall performance.
- Attending meetings with Design teams, story discussions and help in breaking down story tasks and slotting them into sprints.
- Providing Accessibility requirements for Design Prototype submitted.
- Delivering MBR (Monthly Business Review) reports on program status to stakeholders and leaders.
- Facilitate vendor engagements related to accessibility evaluations, remediation, and training.
- Analyzing and gathering the requirements for the framework and creating a design recommendation for the web pages, iOS, and Android apps.
- Building out stories based on the requirements using ADO from Microsoft Visual Basic and tracking board for BAU (Business as usual Intakes).
- Working on both Design, Development and validation assessments.
- Generating Production Monitoring reports every month to track all the accessibility issues.
- Following MAS (Microsoft Accessibility Standards) for performing all the development Assessments and all the Assessments are submitted to the CSEO Accessibility Assessment Service request .
- The MAS traces to Section 508, WCAG 2.1 and EN 301 549 conformance reports.
- Conformance reports are generated from the Accessibility Assessment Tool (AAT) and Accessibility Insights Automated Tool.
- Evaluating and generating ERT (Expert Report Template) reports, Assure for reporting and word doc based on aXe from Deque, Keros, Accessibility Assessment Tool (AAT) and Accessibility Insights for web from Microsoft and AMP from SSB Bart Group violations which support WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1 A and AA level standards.
- Testing in HCM (High Contrast Mode) for websites benefit low-vision users and users with Visual disabilities.
- Testing manually using AT (assistive technologies) like NVDA, JAWS, Talkback, Narrator, and Voiceover.
- Developed manufacturing processes that were robust yet simple to perform.
Sr. Digital Accessibility Engineer
Capital One
12.2015 - 10.2018
- Accessibility for All: Capital One is committed in making the products and services accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities.
- Capital One follows WCAG 2.1 Guidelines (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and uses the Accessible Rich Internet Application (ARIA) specification. Accessibility is all about inclusive designs, code quality and doing the right thing”.
- Created series of process optimizations to reduce production errors and increase quality.
- Modified production processes to reduce non-conforming material occurrences.
- Established project schedules and monitored tasks to meet milestones during each phase.
- Generated results using Automated tools like ATTEST, aXe, Assure by Deque Systems, AMP (Accessibility management platform) tool by Level Access. Also, Color Contrast issues are verified using Tanaguru.com.
- Mobile testing and iPad testing using Voice-Over screen reader and Talkbacks for Android devices.
- Solved accessibility issues related to browser in-consistency like keyboard traps, visible focus on the UI Components, majorly on Firefox browser.
- Following WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 for Design Patterns and Widgets, Landmark Regions, Developing Keyboard Interface, Grid and Table Properties and Roles that automatically hide semantics by making their descendants presentational.
- Using WAI-ARIA Roles, States and Properties when complex web applications become inaccessible when assistive technologies cannot determine the semantics behind portions of a document or when the user is unable to effectively navigate to all parts of it in a usable way. WAI-ARIA divides the semantics into roles (the type defining a user interface element) and states and properties supported by the roles.
- Assisted accessibility issues for custom components involving EASE UI Components like date-picker, radio buttons, complex tables, select menu, etc.
- Participated and Initiated Team meetings on a regular basis and involved in active discussion to improve the testing quality by better strategies and testing approach.
- Created procedures for system monitoring, recovery, backup and optimization.
UI Developer/ Digital Accessibility Engineer
JCPenney, Frisco- TX
8 2015 - 12.2015
- The Project is delivered in phases with initial release targeting mobile users.
- Improved and expanded project platforms using JavaScript to develop rich User Interfaces.
- Experience in cross browser compatibility and mobile application development.
- Worked on AngularJS MVC framework for developing the Single Page Application.
- Worked on CSS pre-processor SASS.
- Extensively used Bootstrap and CSS3 media queries for Responsive Web Design (RWD).
- Experience on implementing the AJAX features using JavaScript and jQuery.
- Used custom directives for pagination, date-picker etc.
- Migrated native java script code to Angular MVC framework.
- Efficient hands on experience on iOS and Android devices using Charles-proxy simulator.
- Used jQuery, a cross browser JavaScript library to dynamically add the items to a request on the client side.
- Experience on task runners GIT, source tree.
- Used Charles-Proxy to solve the mobile application bugs.
- Environment: HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, JQuery, JavaScript, Sublime-text, GIT, Source-Tree, JIRA.
UI Developer/ Digital Accessibility Engineer
JP Morgan Chase
01.2015 - 08.2015
- The project is based on Chase 3.0 consumer applications where the site is Responsive and supports ADA compliance.
- Ensuring to deliver inclusive and accessible property to all the users.
- Improved and expanded project platforms using JavaScript to develop rich User Interfaces. Developing dynamic web pages using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and Object-Oriented JavaScript using Customized framework.
- Used JQuery to traverse through the DOM and involved in writing JQuery based Ajax requests using jquery.
- Extensively worked on Responsive Web Design and BLUEUI JS components. CSS3 media queries to support for Responsive Web Design (RWD).
- Worked on Motion Stories using HTML5 new features like Animations, Transitions, Carousel, and Video.
- Involved in Code review meetings with BLUEUI Developers.
- Integrate with various databases for retrieving the data using AJAX/JSON.
- Used Technical standards such as WCAG 2.0 level A, AA to make the property compliance.
- Used NVDA and JAWS screen-reader for testing ADA compliance.
- Experience in cross browser compatibility.
- Developed Date Time Picker, tooltip, dropdown, buttons using customized framework BLUEJS, BLUEUi extensively and also supporting ADA compliance.
- Coordinated with BA group for better understanding of functional requirements analyzed and designed the business requirements.
- Environment: HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, JQuery, JavaScript, Sublime-text, GIT, Source-Tree, JIRA.
Web Developer, Intern
Pramati Technologies
03.2013 - 07.2013
- Delivered clerical support by efficiently handling wide range of routine and special requirements.
- Provided front-end website development using WordPress, Hubspot and other editing software.
- Planned website development, converting mockups into usable web presence with HTML, JavaScript, AJAX and JSON coding.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology
Hyderabad, Telangana 05.2009 - 2013.05
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MI 08.2013 - 2015.05
Skills
Agile development methodologies
Digital design
Quality Control
Process Development
Root Cause Analysis
Accessibility Insights MSFT- Automated
NVDA, JAWS, Narrator, VoiceOver, Talkback
Section 508
WCAG 21 A, AA
Agile Workflow
Mobile application development
Web application development
User Interface (UI) design
Agile development methodologies
Design Systems
Certification
Accessibility in Action Badge: Issued by MICROSOFT
Accomplishments
- Completed major projects (third-party).
- Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
- Documented and resolved accessibility issue which led to accessible websites and apps.
- Collaborated with teams in the development of Microsoft Learners Educator Portal, third-party Digital Properties and Procurement Exams - MSFT.
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Staff Digital Accessibility Engineer
Albertsons
03.2022 - Current
Sr. Digital Accessibility Engineer/Technical Lead
Microsoft
11.2018 - 03.2022
Sr. Digital Accessibility Engineer
Capital One
12.2015 - 10.2018
UI Developer/ Digital Accessibility Engineer
JP Morgan Chase
01.2015 - 08.2015
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Central Missouri
08.2013 - 2015.05
Web Developer, Intern
Pramati Technologies
03.2013 - 07.2013
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology
05.2009 - 2013.05
UI Developer/ Digital Accessibility Engineer
JCPenney, Frisco- TX
8 2015 - 12.2015
Accessibility in Action Badge: Issued by MICROSOFT
Digital Accessibility and Accessibility Fundamentals Badge: Issued by MICROSOFT
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