Aaron Gustafson
Principal Technical Program Manager, Accessibility Innovation
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Gustafson is a Principal Technical Program Manager specializing in accessibility innovation with nearly three decades of web standards, design, and development experience. At Microsoft he leads AI-driven accessibility programs, manages a $25M grant portfolio, and has driven cross-org tooling unification that reduced accessibility bugs and sped developer workflows. A longtime standards advocate and founder of The Web We Want, he helped shape PWAs at the W3C and shipped key PWA capabilities in Edge while engaging developer communities. He’s a prolific writer and educator—author of Adaptive Web Design and a seminal progressive enhancement series—and an active open-source contributor, improving multilingual SEO support in popular static-site tooling and editing the W3C Web App Manifest. Known for bringing structure to ambiguous problems, Aaron marries deep technical craft with strategic program leadership to make digital experiences more equitable and resilient. Based in Seattle, he continues to pilot assistive-tech advances like synthetic voices and large-scale speech datasets to improve AI fairness for people with disabilities.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Media Studies / Contemporary Popular Culture, BA Media Studies / Contemporary Popular Culture at New College of USFBishop Moore High School
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Github Skills (29)
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cms10
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ruby10
jekyll10
edi10
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web-framework10
web-app-manifest10
documentation10
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expressionengine10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/manifest
Aug 2017 - May 2021
Manifest for web apps
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:19 reviews, 53 commits, 27 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the project by modifying and expanding the documentation, specifically related to the Web App Manifest specification. Their work involved adding new sections explaining the shortcuts feature, addressing privacy and security considerations, enhancing the accessibility aspects, and moving existing content to a dedicated "Application Information" section. They also fixed typos and made editorial improvements to clarify the documentation.
manifestjavascriptweb-applicationweb-appswebapp
ExpressionEngine/ExpressionEngine
Jan 2012 - Feb 2012
ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich, free open-source content management platform that empowers hundreds of thousands of individuals and organizations around the world to easily manage their web site.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:116 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the core functionality of the ExpressionEngine CMS, focusing on the implementation of Rich Text Editor (RTE) tools. They modified the Addons library to support RTE tools and defined new constants for the RTE tools directory. They also added the initial structure for the RTE module and implemented the functionality for enabling and disabling RTE toolsets and tools.
expressionengineeecmscmsphpcontent-management-system
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