Embedding accessibility tips and tricks
29 August 2025

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OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session – 29 August 2025 – Embedding accessibility earlier benefits everyone, especially users. Tips and tricks of what to embed, when and where.

Panelists:

Jaunita Flessas (she/her)

Jaunita is a Melbourne-based accessibility leader and consultant who previously led the Enterprise Technical Accessibility Team at Navy Federal Credit Union. Empower Accessibility is her consulting practice that delivers audits, training, and policy guidance to embed accessibility across products and organizations. globa11y is her social enterprise that trains and employs people with disabilities to build accessible digital experiences. She serves part-time as Education Manager at Australian Teachers of Media and contributes to the W3C’s Accessibility Guidelines, ARIA, and Accessible Platform Architectures groups. A member of the Internet Society’s Accessibility Standing Committee and a frequent global speaker, she is focused on building a future internet that works for everyone.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaunitageorge 

Jun Pataleta

Jun is an Accessibility specialist at Moodle HQ – moodle.com. Jun is based in Perth, Western Australia and has been in Moodle Headquarters (HQ) since 2015. He has primarily worked on the development efforts of the open source Moodle Learning Management System (LMS), where he has been responsible for fixing bugs, developing new features, and overseeing the release process of Moodle LMS.
Since 2020, Jun has actively engaged in initiatives to resolve accessibility issues identified during audits and ensure that Moodle LMS achieves WCAG Level AA conformance and accreditation.
In April 2025, he took on the newly created role of Accessibility Specialist at Moodle HQ to help champion Moodle’s commitment to delivering solutions that make learning accessible for all.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jun-pataleta/  

Zoë Haughton (she/her)

Zoë is a Senior Accessibility Manager working in the banking industry and based in Sydney, Australia.

Her experience in the accessibility and digital space spans over 15 years, over half of which has been in accessibility.  Her roles and education have included consulting, presenting, project management, gap analysis, training, auditing, web design and development, human interaction design and secondary education.

Zoë loves to speak and teach to help raise awareness about digital accessibility and inclusive design. She enjoys helping teams design and deliver more usable and inclusive digital experiences.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/zoë-haughton-73890a46/

Moderated by:

Brigitta (Bri) Norton (she/her)

Bri is a Digital Strategist and User Experience and Accessibility specialist based in Canberra, Australia and is currently a Digital Accessibility Specialist at AbilityWorks.com.au. Bri has more recently co-developed inclusive research workshops to share how to include accessibility earlier in the project lifecycle, which includes engaging with people with disability as part of inclusive research activities.

Amongst her professional experience with government agencies and local businesses, Bri is the co-chair for Australia’s Web Accessibility Initiative OZeWAI.org, coordinator of the Canberra Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup, a Standards Australia Accessible ICT Procurement Committee Member and a member of the ResearchOps.Community Cheese Board.

LinkedIn: www.linkedIn.com/in/BriNorton.

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