Lynn Wehrman

Founder/President, WeCo Accessibility Services

Minneapolis

Lynn Wehrman, WeCo Founder/President, began her career working in digital accessibility as one of the first government digital accessibility specialists in 2008. With an education in communications, and professional background in federal program coordination, her work on the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Americans with Disabilities Act Transition Plan resulted in ground breaking work in government digital accessibility. Lynn founded WeCo Accessibility Services after living with a lifelong cognitive disability, and seeing first hand the power of people living with disabilities working as subject matter experts, in her government role.

WeCo Accessibility Services is a mission-based consulting group founded and staffed entirely by digital technologists who live with disabilities. They work to help governments, businesses and nonprofit organizations make their websites accessible to people who live with disabilities in accordance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and US and international legislation. WeCo is not only blazing an employment trail to engage people living with disabilities as subject matter experts in digital communication accessibility, it is putting organizations in direct contact with professionals who can help them make their website and software truly accessible to customers who live with disabilities. WeCo Accessibility Services was named a 2019 Leading Disability Employer by the National Organization on Disability in Washington, D.C. on September 26, 2019.