Amanda Mace
Amanda is a Certified Professional with the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and a Subject Matter Expert in Digital Accessibility with over 12 years of experience. She is the Vice President for Australasia for GrackleDocs.
As a passionate advocate for digital inclusion, she serves as W3C Australian Chapter manager, co-chairs OZeWAI (Australian Web Accessibility Initiative) and leads the Perth Web Accessibility Camp & Meetup group.
Her career has been dedicated to promoting accessibility as a shared responsibility, helping organisations go beyond compliance to create exceptional user experiences. Leveraging her expertise in WCAG and PDF/UA, she educates and guides others in understanding and implementing digital access best practices.
In 2025, she is honoured to serve as a judge for the Australian Access Awards, recognising excellence in digital accessibility.
Rosemary Spark
Rosemary has worked as a teacher, school and children’s librarian and lecturer. During her final school appointment, Rosemary established an educational website composed of many weblinks to support teacher and student assignments, and online literacy webquests. In 2002 Rosemary was awarded Master of Science (specialising in learning technologies) by Curtin University. She used the website as action research.
Her last appointment was as a web content manager for a group of six hospitals in the South Metropolitan Area Health Service. During this time she became aware of accessibility issues and achieved the Professional Certificate in Web Accessibility Compliance from the University of South Australia.
She is now retired and keeps in contact and up to date with the web accessibility community so she can remain a web accessibility champion to help ensure people with different abilities can access the internet.
Vithya Vijayakumare
Vithya Vijayakumare is the Digital Accessibility Specialist at VisAbility. With over 13 years of experience, Vithya’s role is to ensure that websites, social media, videos, documents and audio materials are accessible to all users. She has delivered projects in various accessible formats and also presented on various topics/workshops relating to digital accessibility, Inclusive publishing (EPUB/DAISY), content accessibility and future innovation solutions (3D Surround Sound/360 audio). Currently, she is a member of the Perth Web Accessibility Camp (PWAC) and Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities.
Jane McInnes
Jane McInnes is a Digital Communications Specialist at GESB. GESB is responsible for managing the super and retirement savings of over 247,000 current and former public sector workers.
In 2021, Jane won ‘Accessibility Person of the Year’ in the Australian Access Awards.
Jane has been the driving force behind GESB’s online accessibility initiatives including their website and Retirement planning calculator, which have resulted in outstanding compliance against WCAG.
She is leading GESB’s future in accessibility and continues to help embed accessibility into their culture, practices and training, making sure accessibility is a primary consideration in projects and processes. She is providing her expertise in accessibility as a member of GESB’s Disability Access and Inclusion Plan committee, which helped develop their 2023-28 plan.
Matthew Putland
A passionate accessible HTML and semantics expert, Matt has over a decade experience working with digital accessibility as his core focus. As a Digital Accessibility Specialist at the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), he provides accessible design guidance as well as technical guidance on how to make our products accessible to as many people as possible. He is also the Co-founder of Modality Co, a social enterprise dedicated to providing accessibility consulting to fund disability and accessibility communities in Tasmania.
In his career, Matt has conducted countless public and in-house training courses covering web, mobile apps and document accessibility. He’s also consulted with many large corporations, banks, universities and also smaller organisations including not-for-profits to improve their digital accessibility.
Chris Leighton
Narelle Gatti
Narelle has spent the last the last 4 years working with businesses, both government and private sector, across Australia to implement the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines across the digital platform. This work includes training of the staff. Her goal is that the Web Content Access Accessibility guidelines are part of the standard operating procedures of all businesses.
Narelle lives with severe vision impairment, having lost all functional sight in her 40s. Understanding the barriers that inaccessible digital communication brings gives Narelle a unique point of view that enables her to understand from both the business and people with disability’s point of view. With the assistance of technology, Narelle takes on challenges that most sighted people would baulk at.
Ben Pintos-Oliver
Ben Pintos-Oliver is the Digital Systems and Accessibility Principle at Telstra, heading up their industry leading Accessibility program. His mission is to uphold Telstra’s company purpose of ‘ensuring everyone can thrive’, with particular focus on enhancing experiences for the 20% of Australians living with disability.
Over the past 5 years, Ben has expanded Telstra’s Accessibility offerings, empowering product teams to adopt more inclusive design and coding practices through the support of the Accessibility specialists and the Able Design System. Telstra’s commitment to accessibility has been recognised through the industry awards, including ‘Corporate Website of the Year’ and a finalist for ‘Corporate App of the Year’ at the recent Australian Access Awards.
Prior to joining Telstra, Ben played pivotal roles at CBA, where he shaped the Accessibility and Design System program, and at the Boston Consulting Group, where he served as Director of the Experience Design team. Earlier in his career, Ben spent a decade in the advertising industry.
Originally from Sydney’s northern beaches, Ben brings a rich cultural heritage that includes Japanese, Uruguayan (South American Indian), and English roots, reflecting a diverse background that influences his equally eclectic home cooking repertoire.