Our SME speakers help you understand real life accessibility and usability
At WeCo, living with a disability everyday helps us bring understanding to others. Our experienced subject matter expert (SME) speakers with disabilities bring unique insight to your events, including professional conferences and industry gatherings.
Interested in learning more about WeCo Speaking Services? Please contact us through our Accessibility Services Department at: 855-849-5050 x1 or accessinfo@theweco.com or complete or Contact Us form.
A few of our speakers
Our most popular speakers are listed below. Additional speakers are available and the topics are flexible to meet your event needs.
Lynn Wehrman, WeCo President/Founder
WeCo Founder and President, Lynn Wehrman is a highly experienced and sought-after SME speaker for keynote and organizational, association meetings and conferences. With a warm, conversational speaking style, Lynn addresses topics like workplace inclusion with thought-provoking, but approachable, engagement.
Lynn began her career working in digital accessibility as one of the first government digital accessibility specialists. With an education in communications, and professional background in federal program coordination, her work on the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Americans with Disabilities Act Transition Plan resulted in groundbreaking work in government digital accessibility.
Lynn’s Past Events:
- General Assembly Webinar 2020 / Designing for All: Accessibility, Usability and Inclusion.
- Women in Technology Workshop 2020/ Lynn Wehrman: “Digital Accessibility as a Career Path at the 2020 Women in Technology Workshop
- Cities Speak 2020/ Lynn Wehrman: How To Make Your Website Accessible to Users With Disabilities
- NYC Department of Education Website Accessibility Summit 2019/Lynn Wehrman: You’re Not Building a Website, You’re Building Inclusion (New York City Department of Education)
- Tech Cities 2019/Lynn Wehrman: Accessibility is Your Business Survival Tool: How Aging and Disability Will Impact Business Growth (University of Minnesota)
- World Usability Day 2017/Lynn Wehrman: Closing Keynote: Can I Do It Myself? Testing with Users Living with Disabilities (YouTube)
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Sue Ann Rodriquez, Director of Accessibility Services
WeCo’s Director of Accessibility Services, Sue Ann Rodriquez, loves teaching people about accessibility and digital inclusion. Bringing the experiences she’s lived, as well as those of the digital professionals she works with, to life, is her passion.
Sue Ann began her digital career as the webmaster/data base administrator for Twin Cities RISE! She completed a master’s degree in Digital Communication from Metro State University, St. Paul, Minnesota.
It was during her graduate studies that Sue Ann began exploring the intersectionality of digital accessibility and UX. Her master’s project focused on testing the accessibility and usability of her the University’s Disability Services Department’s webpages utilizing assistive technology, including the JAWS screen reader software she uses in her daily life.
The insights she gained from this work prompted her to find an organization that could put her UX/assistive technology and web development capabilities to use. Sue Ann’s SME background makes her a sought-after trainer at conferences and events.
Sue Ann’s Past Events:
- ICT Annual Convention: Presenting ‘Remote Usability Testing with People Living with Disabilities” White Paper
- KFAI Radio – Disability and Progress Radio Show
- World Usability Day 2019/Sue Ann Rodriquez: “Designing a Mobile Future For All of us: A Panel of Mobile Users with Disabilities”
- ADA Great Lakes AFA Center 2016/Sue Ann Rodriquez/Lynn Wehrman: Real Life Accessibility: Software versus Disability-Based UX Testing (Great Lakers ADA Center)
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