Jeff BishopTechnology · access · community

Work · access in practice

Make room for people
to do more.

I work across higher education, open source, and community learning. Each setting has its own language, but the goal stays clear: make the technology and the path into it more accessible.

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Access woven into
campus life.

As an IT Accessibility Consultant with the University of Arizona’s Disability Resource Center, I help teams make applications, websites, and electronic services accessible for students, staff, and visitors. This work is practical and collaborative: understand the task, identify barriers, and help people make a better next decision.

One part of the work I value is building capacity. When people understand how access affects the real experience of a student or colleague, accessibility becomes a shared craft rather than a handoff.

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COMMUNITY ACCESS

Accessibility at the
point of creation.

Community Access is a community of blind and sighted developers building open-source tools that help AI-generated code start from accessibility. The work meets developers where they are: inside their coding environment, with practical guidance for common interface and content decisions.

I’m a co-founder and maintainer. I care about the premise behind the project: blind and low-vision people should help shape the systems that influence the software we all use. Accessibility knowledge should be shared, testable, and part of making—not a repair ticket after launch.

About Community Access Explore Accessibility Agents
QUILLVILLE · QUILL FOR ALL

Writing tools that
leave the reader in control.

QUILL is an open-source, screen-reader-first writing and document environment from Community Access. Its purpose is straightforward: help people write, review, convert, compare, and work with documents in an environment designed around keyboard use and assistive technology.

QUILL sits within QuillVille, a family of companion applications for writing, audio, radio, podcasts, weather, text expansion, and more. A shared runtime makes the apps work together while respecting different ways people choose to use them.

Browse QUILL products and downloads Visit quillforall.org
BITS · BLIND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Learning technology
by making it.

BITS is a community organization that empowers blind and low-vision people to grow with technology. It brings people together to learn practical skills, share knowledge, support one another, and advocate for equal digital access.

Its work includes free educational courses, peer gatherings, member presentations, and mentoring and technical assistance. BITS describes its community values as a BRIDGE: Belonging, Respect, Inclusivity, Devotion to Community, Growth, and Empathy.

As BITS president, I help support that community and its learning programs. In a partnership with the University of Arizona, APH, and Microsoft colleagues, more than 140 blind and visually impaired students took part in six months of accessible Python learning. The program showed that coding was not the barrier; the learning environment needed to be accessible.

Learn what BITS offers Read about the accessible Python program

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Good work is
shared work.

Community Access QUILL for All Blind Information Technology Solutions University of Arizona