Freelance Web Designer - Accessibility Consultant

I am currently employed at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) (State University of Milan, Italy), for the @Science Thematic Network, a European funded project. My job consists mainly in research activities, but I've also designed and implemented the project's website in compliance with the W3C guidelines for accessibility for visually impaired and blind users, and with the Italian law on accessibility (4/2004). I am also the webmaster of that website.
For the @Science Thematic Network, I also attend conferences all around Europe and USA (CSUN 2008) on themes related to accessibility for visually impaired, both as a speaker (Paris, France: "Access to Mathematics and Science - @Science Workshop"; Los Angeles, USA: "23rd Annual International Technology and Persons with Disability Conference - CSUN 2008"; Linz, Austria: ICCHP 2008, next July) and as an attendant.
I contribute to the organization of international workshops and conferences.

I have a four year experience now on accessibility to digital content for visually impaired and blind users. During these years, I designed accessible websites, and I faced the challenges to access to scientific content (formulas, expressions, charts, drawings, etc.) by visually impaired and blind users, looking for ways to make them available to university and secondary education students.

I've studied the DAISY format for digital talking books in my dissertation, and I've followed the early discussions of the MathML-in-DAISY working group, that lead to the integration of MathML into the DAISY standard.

I try to keep my knowledge up-to-date as far as I can. I recently followed a course entitled "Web 2.0 accessibility using WAI-ARIA", by the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, whose teacher was Jon Gunderson.

My technical competences are: HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, WAI-ARIA, PHP, MySQL, Drupal.

More details can be found on my CV.