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David MacDonald is president of CanAdapt and an 18 year veteran with the WCAG Working group, the longest standing Invited Expert. He is the only Canadian Invited Expert listed on the WCAG 2.0 standard. He is on the core team for WCAG 2.1, which includes new requirements for mobile and small screens, low vision and cognitive disabilities. He was on the team that wrote the WCAG2ICT on document accessibility, and on the 3 person panel mapping PDF/UA to WCAG. He was a core contributor to the WCAG Evaluation Met
He was the WCAG web accessibility consultant to the Government of Canada for the proposed Bill C-81, the Accessible Canada Act. He was the Government consultant for the high profile Donna Jodhan case, where 10 million Government pages had to become WCAG conforming. He followed up in 2020 with a landmark study for the Government which evaluated enterprise level commercial automated testing tools. He consulted to the Ontario Government during the creation of the AODA. He was the accessibility auditor for the
He is one of 14 members of the Certification Committee for the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) and was a keynote in Las Vegas for the inaugural IAAP conference. He is a frequent conference speaker.
Where You Lead
‘Do Not Track’ (DNT) with Third-party Embeds