My name is Aaron Gustafson and I work on the web.
I am a long-time web developer in charge of running Microsoft’s $25m AI for Accessibility grant program. Prior to leading this efforts, I was a web standards & accessibility advocate on the Edge browser team.
When not wearing my Microsoft badge, I help organizations elegantly tackle the challenges presented by all the crazy devices and screens you see everywhere using progressive enhancement via Easy Designs and Rosenfeld Media. You might also catch me presenting at conferences and running workshops across the globe.
I think a lot about the future of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) as part of the W3C’s Web Applications Working Group, an editor of several PWA-related specifications, and author of numerous feature proposals. In an effort to bring more designers and developers into the standards process, I founded the Web We Want. I also co-founded PWA Summit, the event series Code & Creativity, and Retreats 4 Geeks. In previous roles, I managed the Web Standards Project (WaSP), published Web Standards Sherpa, and founded and ran the Chattanooga Open Device Lab.
I wrote the web design book Jeffrey Zeldman calls a “modern classic” and Jeremy Keith calls “the clearest, most beautiful explanation of progressive enhancement I’ve ever read”: Adaptive Web Design. I’ve also contributed to numerous other titles, have written dozens of articles, and helped shape countless others’ written work as a Tech Editor and Editor in Chief for the esteemed magazine A List Apart.
I live and work in beautiful Seattle, WA with my lovely and talented partner Kelly McCarthy and our amazing son Oscar.
