Annie Heckel, Manager of Web Accessibility Services, Cornell University

Annie Heckel is currently the Manager of Web Accessibility Services at Cornell University, a position that brings together her two past paths of accessibility and higher education. She began her career as a professor and instructional designer focusing on composition and English literature, where accessibility was a significant but still secondary aspect of building courses for asynchronous online education.In 2019, she left teaching for a position as an accessibility auditor with the accessibility services company Online ADA (now ABILITY), but came back to higher education in 2022 when she began her current position. Annie is deeply invested in improving accessibility not only in education, but in all aspects of life.

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