Our team

The team behind your audit

Certified accessibility professionals and assistive-technology users behind every manual audit and inspection.

Most of our inspectors navigate the web with screen readers every day. That lived experience is built into the work, which is exactly why our findings hold up.

Adam with Accessibilities team members

Our story

Why we built a human-led accessibility firm

Accessibilities was founded on a simple conviction: automated tools alone cannot tell you whether a real person can use your website. Scanners catch only a fraction of the barriers that block people who rely on screen readers, keyboards, and other assistive technology. The rest are found by people.

So we built a firm around manual inspection by trained specialists and community testers with lived experience, the people who navigate the web with JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver every day. We map every finding to WCAG, document it in plain language, and stand behind the work, across both digital and physical accessibility.

Human-led

Real specialists and community testers with lived experience, not a scanner and a dashboard.

Manual and accurate

Hand testing with JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver catches what automation misses, roughly twice as much.

Defensible

Every finding mapped to WCAG and documented in plain language you can stand behind.

The people

Technical expertise plus real assistive-technology experience

The team that tests your site and your space, and why their perspective matters.

Adam Unger

Adam Unger

Co-Founder

Adam is the Co-Founder of Accessibilities and the primary client lead for inspections and consulting engagements. He is a Professional Member of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals and holds the Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) credential, with advanced training through Deque Systems and IAAP. With a background in business development and client strategy, he brings a structured, inspection-first approach, working directly with organizations to evaluate websites, platforms, and documents using real-world testing methodologies. His work emphasizes clear reporting, transparent documentation, and collaboration with internal teams and developers. Adam also serves as Corporate Engagement Chair for the Los Angeles chapter of the Foundation Fighting Blindness.

Julian De Los Prados

Julian De Los Prados

Co-Founder

Julian leads quality assurance, technical methodology, and inspection processes at Accessibilities. He develops and refines the firm’s inspection framework, ensuring findings, barrier documentation, and remediation recommendations are consistent, defensible, and aligned with recognized standards. He holds an M.S. in Cybersecurity from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, where he was an NYU Cyber Fellow and a graduate teaching assistant. That technical background supports the secure handling of client data and the internal tools that power our inspection, reporting, and documentation. Working closely with the inspection team, Julian keeps technical recommendations aligned with WCAG and current industry practice while improving the accuracy and clarity of every report.

Marissa Hirt

Marissa Hirt

Lead Inspector

Marissa is an Inclusive Marketing and Digital Accessibility Specialist with over seven years of experience across digital marketing and accessibility strategy. Having lived with a visual impairment since early childhood, her perspective deepened after a rapid loss of vision, when she immersed herself in assistive technology, Braille, and adaptive skills through the Braille Institute. She was selected for the inaugural Ascend fellowship for disabled professionals. Today she advises organizations on building more inclusive digital and physical experiences, pairing marketing strategy with first-hand accessibility insight. Marissa serves as President of the Orange County Chapter of the Foundation Fighting Blindness and has represented the community at AAPD Power on the Hill.

Shana Kassel

Shana Kassel

Inspector, Community Advocate

Shana is a technology professional, educator, and accessibility advocate who pairs creative problem-solving with practical execution. As someone who is visually challenged, she works with a where-there-is-a-will mindset across technical, legal, and advocacy settings. She built her technical foundation at World Services for the Blind, earning her CompTIA A+ Certification and completing the Desktop Support Technician program, assembling complex hardware through tactile methods. She later served as an IT Administrator and Instructor, developing curriculum to help visually challenged individuals build independence with technology. Shana also serves as Vice President of the Orange County Chapter of the Foundation Fighting Blindness.

Connie Cardona

Connie Cardona

Inspector, Community Consultant

Connie is a lived-experience accessibility tester specializing in low vision user evaluation. She has Stargardt disease, a genetic retinal condition that causes progressive central vision loss, and regularly relies on screen readers, magnification tools, and high-contrast settings. She evaluates digital content under real-world conditions, uncovering barriers in layout, readability, navigation, and visual clarity that automated tools and purely technical reviews often miss. Her testing reflects how people actually interact with digital environments, bringing critical insight into how accessibility issues affect usability in practice. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Connie is also a passionate supporter of local businesses becoming more accessible.

Darren Gresham

Darren Gresham

Inspector, Community Consultant

Darren is an advocate, educator, and accessibility-focused entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience across a wide range of industries, and has traveled to more than 30 countries. Sighted until the age of 14, he brings a perspective shaped by experience in both sighted and blind communities, including roles in counseling, construction, and international education, and teaching English in Costa Rica and Morocco. His work is grounded in raising expectations for blind individuals and their families, and in showing how assistive technology and thoughtful environmental design expand access and independence. He is the founder of Blind Travels LLC, which provides accessible, guided travel experiences for blind and visually challenged individuals.

Credentials

Certified, partnered, and recognized

IAAP members

Professional members of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals, holding CPACC and related credentials.

40+ government entities

Accessibility work for over 40 federal, state, and local government clients.

Partner to leading ADA consultancies

Digital accessibility partner to one of the largest accessibility and safety firms in the country.

Deque-trained

Advanced accessibility training through Deque, an industry leader in WCAG and assistive-technology testing.

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