Specialties
- Digital Accessibility
- Security
- Sustainability
- Growing Orchids & Epiphyllums
More about Mike
- Author and advocate for accessibility, open source technology, security, and improving government
- Founded CivicTech Ottawa, A11yYOW (an Ottawa Accessibility Group), and Ottawa’s Drupal Meetup
- Facilitated workshops on non-violent communications in a maximum security prison
- Trustee for Ottawa’s Quaker community
- Loves to play fetch with his Whoodle at the dog park, where he's been turned into a verb (if you've been hit with a ball at some point, you've been "Miked")
- Served on the Open Source Advisory Committee for the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
- Proud owner of a yurt with notoriously bad cell reception
It’s important to view accessibility as a journey, not a destination.
Mike