About

Caroline Desrosiers is an accessibility advocate, speaker, writer, consultant, and founder of Scribely, a company on a mission to make images, videos, and audio accessible to all humans. Featured in the New York Times, Fast Company, and Mashable, Caroline has shared her insights at prestigious conferences, such as South by Southwest, Zero Project Conference, Sight Tech Global, and the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. Caroline provides expert accessibility consulting for enterprise companies like Amazon, the Smithsonian, and Sesame Street.

Caroline launched Scribely, a certified woman-owned business, in January 2020 to help organizations deliver exceptional image descriptions and break down barriers to accessing visual information online. From day one, Scribely has been a company that advocates for delivering online experiences that go above and beyond compliance. As a founder with a passion to ensure content is inclusive and free of barriers, Caroline's personal mission harmonizes with Scribely’s vision – leave no one behind online.

In 2021, Caroline joined the IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group and successfully led an initiative to add image accessibility metadata properties to the IPTC Photo Metadata standard. This update has made it possible for content creators to embed alt text and extended descriptions in image files, ensuring accessibility metadata can travel more efficiently across providers and platforms.

Caroline also joined the W3C Silver Alt Text Subgroup to collaborate with accessibility professionals and improve the resources and guidance available for WCAG alternative text requirements.