Judy Brewer

Disability-Inclusive Tech Policy Strategist
2026 Disability 20 (D20) Steering Council

United States

Judy Brewer is a Senior Fellow at the World Institute on Disability, specializing in disability-inclusive technology policymaking, and serving as a 2026 Disability20 (D20) Group Member. She is a former Executive Fellow in Applied Technology Policy at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information and Goldman School of Public Policy; the former Assistant Director for Accessibility at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); and a digital accessibility expert at the Partnership for Public Service. Previously, Brewer directed the Web Accessibility Initiative at the World Wide Web Consortium, where she led development of the internationally recognized Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and was a principal research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). She has received awards for contributions to computing from ACM SIGACCESS, and the 2021 ACM Policy Award; and previously for advancing assistive technology policy, increasing accessibility of the Windows 95 operating system, and for digital accessibility leadership.