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Cousett Ruelas

Cousett Ruelas

Cousett Ruelas is currently a Web Programmer for Instructional Technology Web Services at St. Edward's University. She graduated from St. Edward’s University with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and a German minor in 2004, and continued her education by earning a MA in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Germanic Studies in 2006. Within the department of Instructional Technology, Cousett builds a wide variety of websites for the university community of faculty, staff and various departments, including a number of in house built applications serving the whole community. She also works closely with faculty to offer educational support websites upon request.  Every project that she works on for the University, she integrates all aspects of web accessibility into the project. 

Cousett has worked for the past several years to promote the issue of web accessibility in the Austin community. She has been involved with Knowbility, an Austin based non-profit organization, and has participated in several events and received various awards for accessible websites. For the past several years, she has been active in training and judging events sponsored by Knowbility. She has presented at the annual Access U Accessibility Conference for the past several years, presenting workshops on basic accessibility, CSS, and best practices. Cousett has also participated in the SXSW Interactive Festival, including the WaSP Annual Meeting.

Cousett has been extensively developing websites using Drupal for the past several years, and strives to make each website accessible to it's fullest potential. She uses this motivation not only in her day to day activities at St. Edward's University but also by promoting Web Accessibility through Knowbility.  Projects require not only knowledge of web accessibility to make various interactive forms and features visually appealing, but also usable with assistive technology. Other projects have required writing custom modules for use within various departmental Drupal sites across the university.

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