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Jeff Singleton

HiSoftware
Senior Accessibility Consultant & Subject Matter Expert
Seattle, WA

Jeff Singleton has worked in evaluating and supporting software for the last two decades. He currently works as Senior Test Manager for HiSoftware. Singleton is skilled in the use of AT software such as screen readers, assistive input devices and screen magnification for validating and testing projects. Singleton also has an in depth knowledge of accessibility requirements and guidelines such as Section 508 and the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and how they apply to real world applications.


As an educator Singleton has pioneered and taught various training programs focused on accessibility and the QA/Software Testing field. These courses touch on such topics as testing/validating for overall accessibility of a product, PDF and MS Office document accessibility and using Assistive Technologies (AT) such a screen reader as part of the testing process. Singleton also acts as an accessibility evangelist by contributing to blogs and user forms dedicated to accessible technologies, software and web sites such as http://www.AccessibilityWatch.com.


Singleton spent eight years at Microsoft as a full time Software Tester with special focus on accessible user interfaces and eventually with screen reader technologies in the Accessible Technologies Group. His most recent work includes accessibility consulting on large-scale Accessibility Projects for major US Federal Agencies, major US Retailers and Web/Software application providers to proactively assess and test for compliance with Accessibility Guidelines.