Speaker Bio

Derek Featherstone

Derek Featherstone is an internationally-known authority on accessibility and web development, and a respected technical trainer, and author. As founder of Ottawa based Further Ahead, he has been an in-demand consultant to government agencies, educational institutions and private sector companies since 1999.

His wealth of experience and insight as both a web developer and accessibility consultant enables him to provide audiences with immediately applicable, brilliantly simple approaches to everyday challenges in web site and application design. He serves as Lead of the Accessibility Task Force of the Web Standards Project, is also a member of the DOM Scripting Task Force and comments on a variety of subjects at the popular boxofchocolates.ca. He speaks regularly around the world on the topic of accessibility and is recognized as a thought leader in this highly specialized field.