Bruno Torquato, Certified Accessibility Professional

Nice to meet you! I'm a huge nerd for interactive technology and design. Luckily, I’ve been able to make a career of it! Digital accessibility has always been a big part of that story. Over the past decade, it overwhelmingly became the central focus.

Feel free to reach out if you think I might be able to help your team or project. I love to collaborate on big, impactful things.

P.S. I am obsessed with pixel graphics

Highlights

16 years in the software development industry
Extensive User Experience and usability expertise
Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (CPWA) from the IAAP
- This is a rigorous certification!
- It means I passed both the CPACC and WAS exams
Improving accessibility and UX maturity through enterprise-scale design systems
Ambitious, curious, collaborative, and lighthearted

Professional Passions

Digital accessibility
Simple, user-centered, inclusive design
Design systems and component architecture
Teaching and training (recently presented at AccessU 2024)
Mobile and responsive UX
Inclusive game design and development

Accessibility Skills

Deep knowledge of accessibility standards:
- WCAG 2.2 A, AA, and AAA
- ADA Section 508, and Title II
- EAA, and EN 301 549
- CVAA
Digital accessibility strategy
Assessing and growing organizational maturity for accessibility
Critiquing designs and code to find conformance issues earlier
Providing accessibility training for all roles:
- designers, developers, product, quality, etc
Triaging and prioritizing accessibility issues
Screen reader proficiency:
- JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, Talkback
Accessibility evaluations, including authoring ACRs (VPATs)
Providing customer service to clients having accessibility issues

User Experience Skills

Significant interaction design expertise
Building and using design systems
Thoughtful and thorough design critiques
UX strategy and best practices tought leadership
Planning, recruiting, scripting, and facilitating usability studies
Responsive and mobile-first design
Exploratory and conceptual design
Front-end development with HTML, CSS, JS, Aria
Well-versed in a wide array of design tools: Figma, Sketch, Axure, Adobe CS
Information architecture and content
Low-fidelity iteration

Software Industry Skills

Product management and strategy
Writing user stories and acceptance criteria
Prioritizing and cleaning up backlogs
Analyzing and gathering quantitative data to inform product decisions
Customer communication: setting expectations & gathering requirements
Scrum, agile, kanban, etc…
Design sprints
Conceptual storyboarding
Cross-functional collaboration

Bonus Skills

Developing accessible video games
Drawing pixel art…
Hand-drawn animation and digital motion design
Community organizing
Music and sound design
Cooking