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<a href="michael_cooper_lg.png" title="Link to large version of photo"><img id="photo" src="michael_cooper_med.png" width="113" height="150" alt="Photo of Michael Cooper" /></a>Michael Cooper </h1>
<p>Web Accessibility Specialist</p>
<h2> Contact Information </h2>
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<a href="mailto:cooper@w3.org">cooper@w3.org</a>
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<strong> </strong>+1.617.258.5999<b />
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<td>Web Accessibility Initiative, W3C<br />
MIT/CSAIL Building 32-G528<br />
32 Vassar Street<br />
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA</td>
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<h2>Role</h2>
<p>Accessibility specialist within the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/Guide/staff-contact">Team Contact</a> to:</p>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group</a>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/">Protocols and Formats Working Group</a>
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<h2>Bio </h2>
<p>Michael joined the <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> in June 2006 as a Web Accessibility Specialist with the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative</a>. Michael is the Team Contact for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines</a> Working Group, which develops authoring guidelines and techniques to create accessible content; and for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/">Protocols and Formats</a> Working Group, which supports the <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> to make new Web technologies accessible and develops accessibility practices. </p>
<p>Prior to joining W3C, Michael worked at <a href="http://www.watchfire.com/">Watchfire</a> as Accessibility Product Manager, responsible for automated and tool-assisted manual accessibility evaluation software. He focused on supporting harmonized international standards via this software and supported customers to achieve those standards. Previously Michael was the product manager at <a href="http://www.cast.org/">CAST</a> for Bobby, an early accessibility evaluation tool which was purchased by Watchfire in 2002. At CAST he also worked on technical approaches to providing self-adaptive learning materials for students with disabilities. Before entering the field of Web accessibility, Michael worked in the disability services office at the <a href="http://www.du.edu/">University of Denver</a>, providing academic accommodations and technical training for students with disabilities.</p>
<p>Michael holds a Master of Education degree from the <a href="http://gseweb.harvard.edu/">Harvard University Graduate School of Education</a> and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the <a href="http://www.du.edu/">University of Denver</a>.</p>
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