Compliance Auditor Spotlight

In addition to our enormous technical skills and disciplined website compliance training systems, perhaps our greatest strength is the people we employ who see our work as not just a job, but an opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives. Meet one of them here.

Mike Fox Compliance Auditor working at desk

Mike Fox

Software Developer

Q. WHAT IS YOUR POSITION AT LIGHTHOUSE?
A. I am a software developer. This position involves not only testing existing software for accessibility, but developing accessibility solutions for our Call Center, and creating new software that is accessible “out of the box”.
Q. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING AT LIGHTHOUSE?
A. I’ve worked at Lighthouse for little over 3 years now.
Q. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN USING ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY?
A. Pretty much since I was a kid. I started learning computers at 16, and back then it was JAWS 2 on Windows 95 (JAWS is on version 18 now). Since then I’ve also learned to use NVDA, Windows Magnifier, ZoomText and others.
Q. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN VISUALLY DISABLED?
A. I was born legally blind, so the sight I have is the only sight I’ve ever known.
Q. Does having a visual disability give YOU a different sense of purpose on testing compared to non-sight impaired people?
A. Not really on a personal level (if anything my “sense of purpose” here comes more from the development side), but as part of Lighthouse, absolutely! Most companies try to sell you an automated tool and let their report be the final say on if your content is accessible; we take it to the next level. We do use automated tools, but we also have people who are blind or visually impaired – real people, like the ones who this review matters most to – who go over the content as well. The end result is a thorough report with information you can’t get from tools alone. So we’re doing great things here, and I’m really excited to be a part of this team!

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