Judy Brewer

Assistant Director for Accessibility

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Judy Brewer is Assistant Director for Accessibility at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she focuses on technology policies essential to disability rights in the digital age. Her work includes promoting disability equity in artificial intelligence, strengthening implementation of digital accessibility across government, improving access to technology-based reasonable accommodations, promoting equitable access to accessible technologies, and increasing accessibility of STEM education and careers for people with disabilities. 

Prior to working at the White House, Judy served for several months as a digital accessibility expert at the Partnership for Public Service, a non-partisan non-profit focused on building better government. Before that, for the previous 25 years she directed the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where she led development of the internationally recognized Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), which have been taken up by many governments around the world including the US Government. During that time, she also served as a Principal Research Scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Her experience includes work on digital accessibility, assistive technology, international technology standards development, disability rights, and development of technology policies and practices to advance digital equity and inclusion. Judy is the recipient of numerous awards for her work, including the UN G3ict 10th Anniversary Digital Accessibility Leadership Award in 2016; the 2018 SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility, and the 2021 ACM Policy Award.