EASI wants to congratulate Doug for work well done both at the Access Board
and previously at the General Services Administration.

Below is quoted from the Access Board newsletter:


Access Currents





Volume 11, No.3 May/ June 2005




Doug Wakefield, Board Section 508 Specialist, to Retire



Doug Wakefield, the Boards expert on accessible information technology,
retired from government service at the end of June.  Wakefield joined the Board

in 1998 to lead its work writing new standards for electronic and
information technology under section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.  This
law, as amended,

assigned the Board the task of issuing new standards for covered
technologies procured by Federal agencies. After these standards were
issued in 2000,

he provided technical assistance and training on them, conducting numerous
sessions across the country.  He also oversaw the development of related
guidance

material and represented the Board at various interagency and international
forums on section 508 and accessible information technology.  Prior to his

work at the Board, he provided consultation on accessibility for employees
with disabilities at the General Services Administrations Center on Information

Technology Accommodation and before that ran his own consulting firm which
specialized in adaptive computer equipment.