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Zoe, https://zomigi.com, the css-discuss days.

Liddy Nevile would be a great person to interview about accessible design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liddy_Nevile

Around 1993 - 1994, Liddy Nevile started looking at the Web as a tool for learning.

From 1996, her lab developed the OZeKIDS CDs to help teachers and kids to learn to build Web sites, even if they didn't have reliable Internet access. I'm willing to bet a big chunk of the teachers in Australia who code code HTML before 2000 learnt it from someone who learnt it from Liddy.

From 1998 she organised the OZeWAI workshops which bought together academics, practitioners, community leaders and policy makers around the idea of accessible Web design. Over the years, international guests included Wendy Chisholm (2001 - W3C), Jutta Treviranus (2004 - ATRC), Madeleine Rothberg (2006 - WGBH NCAM), Brian Kelly (2009 - UKOLN), Eva M. Méndez Rodríguez (2009 - University Carlos III of Madrid). It also provided a space for locals, such as Charles McCathieNevile, Ross Weakly, Jason White, Dey Alexander, Oliver Burmiester, Sofia Celic and a host of others.

She worked on a bunch of related standards: Dublin Core accessibility extension, IMS Access For All, as well as a lot of work for the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative standards.