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Fractional Accessibility Leadership

Embedding accessibility into the core of your organization's strategy is paramount. Our Fractional Accessibility Leadership service offers you the opportunity to have Dr. Brett Oppegaard, a renowned expert in media accessibility and inclusive design, guide your accessibility initiatives.

Dr. Oppegaard has extensive experience leading accessibility projects, such as the internationally acclaimed UniDescription Project as well as collaborations with prominent national and international institutions, such as the U.S. National Park Service, the American Council of the Blind, the Helen Keller National Center, the Blinded Veterans Association, the Royal National Institute of Blind People, the Canadian Council of the Blind, and many others, bringing unparalleled expertise to your team.

What we offer:

  • Executive-Level Guidance: Integrate accessibility into your organization's vision and operations with strategic oversight.
  • Policy Development: Craft and implement accessibility policies that align with legal standards and best practices.
  • Team Empowerment: Train and mentor your staff to foster an inclusive culture and build internal accessibility competencies.
  • Project Oversight: Ensure that your products and services meet accessibility standards through expert review and guidance.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitate collaboration between your organization and the Access Hound community to ensure authentic and effective accessibility solutions.

Engaging Dr. Oppegaard as a fractional leader provides your organization with the benefits of world-class accessibility insights without the commitment of a full-time executive role. This flexible arrangement is ideal for organizations seeking to elevate their accessibility practices strategically and sustainably.

Let's work together
Dr. Brett Oppegaard has been invited to share his research results around the world, including at peer-reviewed venues throughout the United States as well as in formal presentations in Canada, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Kenya, Spain, and Norway.

Dr. Brett Oppegaard has been invited to share his research results around the world, including at peer-reviewed venues throughout the United States as well as in formal presentations in Canada, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Kenya, Spain, and Norway.

DESCRIBING: A horizontal color photograph. DESCRIPTION: Dr. Brett Oppegaard is standing among a crowd of students, talking to them about how to be better writers. He is wearing a black rain jacket, light-blue collared shirt, and a lanyard with his identification. The scene is at the Hawai‘i state capitol building, inside the rotunda, which is a large open area. The only visible parts of the environment that can be seen arre a large stone pillar and a stone wall. There are about a half-dozen students around Dr. Oppegaard, mostly with their backs to the camera, facing their teacher.

Dr. Brett Oppegaard, standing among a crowd of students, talks to the group about how to write better.

Collegiality and Extraversion

Formal leadership appointments have included being unanimously elected Program Director by peers, multiple times, as well as to a university’s Faculty Senate for consecutive terms, including serving on the campus-wide Committee on Research twice and being unanimously elected as chair of that committee both times. In addition, unanimously supported at all levels of review (Program, School, College, campus-wide Tenure & Promotion Committee, Vice Provost, and President) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, the state's flagship university, for both tenure and promotion to Associate Professor and for promotion to full Professor, the highest academic rank with the highest possible degree.

Call in the expert on media accessibility
DESCRIBING: A horizontal color photograph. DESCRIPTION: Dr. Brett Oppegaard stands at a lectern, giving a presentation about Audio Description, in front of a panel of other researchers at the Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description (ARSAD) conference in Barcelona, Spain. A large screen in the background states the name of his presentation: 'A Strange New World: Behind the Scenes of Designing Novel GenAI Approaches to Audio Description.'

At the Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description (ARSAD) conference in Barcelona, Spain, Dr. Brett Oppegaard presents his latest findings on the integration of Generative AI in Audio Description.

Setting a global gold standard for AD

Dr. Brett Oppegaard has published research prolifically about emerging technologies and media accessibility, leading to invitations to review submissions for 18 diverse academic journals spanning the industry, and invitations to share research findings at peer-reviewed scholarly conferences throughout the United States as well as in formal presentations in Canada, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Japan, Norway, and Spain.

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