Elena Petrova

Accessibility lead at Shopify

AwayShopifyToronto, Canada1,541 followers · 220 following

About

I make accessibility a shipping requirement instead of a phase. Most of that work is code review, tooling, and a certain amount of stubbornness.

Experience

2 roles on file

Accessibility Lead
2021 — Present
Shopify
Owns the accessibility practice for admin. Introduced automated contrast and keyboard checks into CI.
Senior Accessibility Engineer
2016 — 2021
Microsoft
Worked on screen-reader flows for Outlook on the web.

Articles

1 published on the network

Engineering4 min read · 1w
Accessibility is a hiring signal
How a team talks about accessibility in an interview tells you how it will treat every edge case in production.