Janina Sajka

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A founding partner in Capital Accessibility, LLC, Janina Sajka provides technology analysis and guidance to this Washington-based consultancy's clients and projects.

 

 

 

 

Current Professional Activities

• * Marketing the Owasys 22C cellular (screenless) * telephone in the U.S. Canada, and Australia http://ScreenlessPhone.Com
• Linux Foundation: Chair, Accessibility Workgroup http://a11y.org. Development and adoption of free, open, consensus-based accessibility standards, application binary interfaces, and best practices for all computing platforms.
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, http://www.w3.org/wai/pf/. Development and adoption of accessible web technologies.
• ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1) Special Working Group on Accessibility http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/open/n3830.html.
• Oasis: Open Document (ODF) Accessibility Sub-Committee Invited Expert
• INCITS V2: Technical Standards Committee Member http://www.v2access.org. Development of international standards for Information Technology Access Interfaces.

 

 

Previous Employment

Director, Technology Research and Development - 1999-2004
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) www.afb.org
Washington, DC

• Represented the American Foundation for the Blind in key technology standards processes within industry and government worldwide
• Helped develop the "Digital Talking Book" Standard, (ANSI Z39.86-2002: www.loc.gov/nls/z3986)
• Contributing author and editor of the first U.S. Government Section 508 Advisory Committee Report: www.access-board.gov/sec508/commrept/eitaacrpt.htm

 

Director, Information Systems Department - 1994-1999
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) www.afb.org
New York, New York

• Redesigned and modernized computer and telecommunication systems
• Deployed mixed Unix and Windows network environments at all 6 AFB locations around the U.S. providing AFB's first interconnected computing environment
• Directed the Design and deployment of accessible networked workstations for all AFB staff, migrating AFB to a graphical desktop with email and Internet access
• Developed the Foundation's internal and public web presence in cooperation with other AFB Departments
• Directed the management and upgrading of telephone systems at all AFB locations

 

Project Manager - 1991-1994
World Institute on Disability (WID) www.wid.org
Oakland, California

• Created and supervised WIDnet, the Institute's public information service, first as a Vax based service at Delphi Information Systems, and then as Unix hosts on the web
• Designed and deployed WID's internal computer systems
• Organized regional and national cross-disability telecommunications conferences

 

 

Education and early career

Ms. Sajka's career focus shifted to computer technology and disability advocacy in the mid-1980s in response to her own diminishing vision and loss of access to printed information. Trained as a concert pianist and composer of electronic music, she has recorded and performed repertory ranging from classical piano literature to contemporary Gospel, and currently serves as Music Director at Holy Redeemer MCC Church in College Park, MD. She received her B.A. in Music from Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, 1970. She has additional training in music and computer technology from the University of Minnesota, the University of California, and San Francisco State University.

 

 

Contact Me

Capital Accessibility
Silver Spring,
Maryland - USA

Voice: (+1) 202.595.7777
Email: Janina@CapitalAccessibility.Com
Fax: (+1) 202.315.4171

 

 

 

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