Digital Accessibility Manager β€’ Automation Architect β€’ CPWA

Daniel Westfall

Transforming digital accessibility into a creative engineering discipline that makes software more resilient, flexible, and human.

Holding premier industry credentialsβ€”CPWA, WAS, CPACC, and DHS Trusted Testerβ€”I combine 18+ years in technical quality assurance & engineering compliance with over 4 years of specialized enterprise digital accessibility leadership. I engineer scalable automation ecosystems, eliminate regression risks with localized change-detection databases, and author open-source platforms to future-proof digital products for WCAG 3.0 and federal mandates.

10M+ Users Impacted
17,077 Monitored Screens
95% Defect Reduction
8,000+ Remediated PDFs
Signature Open-Source Platform

Tracking WCAG: WCAG 3 & 2.2 in Plain English

An open-access standards tracking platform designed to demystify emerging W3C guidelines and statutory mandates for cross-functional teams.

  • 245 WCAG 3.0 Draft Provisions in Plain English: Translated into practical, role-based guidance tailored for Design, Engineering, QA, and Product Management.
  • 87 WCAG 2.2 Criteria Checklists & Code: Real-world testing checklists, compliant code implementations, and common failure patterns.
  • Automated Weekly W3C Sync Pipeline: Automated continuous integration monitoring the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG) GitHub repository and pull requests in real time.
  • Interactive Audit & Scoring Calculators: Architectural shift analysis tools comparing WCAG 2.2 vs. WCAG 3.0 scoring models to prepare institutions for the DOJ ADA Title II digital accessibility rule.
Interactive Gamification & Certification Mastery

A11y Arcade: The Mario Party of Accessibility

An accessible, real-time multiplayer party game and solo training suite for engineering workshops, team meetings, and IAAP CPACC certification prep.

  • Dynamic Multiplayer Party Modes: Featuring the Hot Potato Syndicate (asymmetric risk delegation with audience social dividends) and the Apex Gambler Grand Prix (100m tactical racing engine with gear shifting and pit stops).
  • CPACC Body of Knowledge Grounded: Every challenge and question maps directly to the official IAAP domains: Disabilities & AT, Universal Design, and Accessibility Laws/Standards.
  • Solo & AI Bot Arena: Practice anytime against simulated domain specialists: Ada Alt-Text (WCAG), Devin Div (Front-End/AT), and Jordan Juris (Policy/Law).
  • Persistent Leaderboards & Study Hub: Socket.IO real-time synchronization, weekly standings, and an automatic study hub indexing missed questions with full BoK rationales.

Enterprise Leadership & Technical Innovations

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AI & axe-core Compliance Dashboard

Architected a centralized compliance dashboard integrating axe-core, custom Python crawlers, and AI models continuously monitoring 17,077 screens and 8,000+ PDFs across 8 curriculum products.

Localized Change-Detection Engine

Engineered a delta change-detection database that automatically sweeps production platforms, detecting layout modifications and catching unreviewed agile code updates before public release.

QuaverMusic "Creatives" Vue.js Suite

Accessibility SME & Lead Auditor specifying keyboard snap-to-points with synchronized Audio Descriptions (AD) for video sound effects, interactive music notation editors, and DAW sequencers.

AI-Assisted PDF Remediation Pipeline

Developed Python document workflows with opendataloader-pdf to extract tag trees and bounding boxes, accelerating document turnaround by 80% (from 5 days to 1 day per document).

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