The BeneTALK Podcast!

Charles LaPierre, Principal, Accessibility and Content Quality Architect at Benetech. Charles has over 25 years’ accessibility development experience and has been a pioneer in accessible product development since 1993. Charles currently a member of the following W3C Working Groups: Publishing Working Group, APA / Accessibility Maturity Model Task Force, as well as a member of the EPUB3 W3C Community Group, and co-chair of the Accessibility Metadata W3C Community Group. Charles is the technical architect of the new Global Certified Accessible initiative at Benetech to certify publisher content as conforming to the new EPUB 1.1 Accessibility Specification. Charles has a bachelor's and master’s degree in electrical engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.