# Marcy Sutton

> Marcy Sutton Todd is a senior frontend infrastructure engineer at Khan Academy and one of the most recognized voices in web accessibility. A former Deque Systems engineer who helped shape axe-core, she pivoted from photojournalism to web development, built the Testing Accessibility workshop series, and has spent over a decade making the web usable for everyone - framing it as a civil rights issue, not a compliance checkbox.

- **Role:** Senior Engineer, Frontend Infrastructure at Khan Academy
- **Organizations:** Khan Academy, Testing Accessibility, A11yance, NW Tech Women (founder), Accessibility Seattle Meetup (organizer)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Arts in Visual Journalism, Brooks Institute of Photography, Associate of Applied Arts in Web Design & Multimedia, Art Institute of Seattle
- **Known for:** O'Reilly Web Platform Award 2016 for exceptional contributions to web accessibility, Created 'no-mouse-days' npm package - disables mouse cursor to force keyboard-only testing, Built Accessibility Wins (a11ywins.tumblr.com) - community resource celebrating accessible UI patterns

## Career timeline

- **Early 2000s** — Started making websites in the GeoCities era as a teenager; pivoted from photojournalism to web development
- **Mid 2000s** — Freelance web developer; worked at DEI Creative, POP, and Substantial
- **2010-2011** — First deep exposure to web accessibility through the Target accessibility lawsuit account
- **2013-2016** — Accessibility Engineer at Adobe; contributed to a11y tooling and design systems
- **2016** — Won O'Reilly Web Platform Award for contributions to web accessibility
- **2016-2019** — Developer Advocate and Senior Frontend Engineer at Deque Systems; worked on axe-core
- **2019-2020** — Head of Learning at Gatsby; led educational content for the Gatsby framework
- **2020-2023** — Independent Accessibility Engineering Consultant and Trainer; clients included Spotify, Microsoft, Google, Pinterest, T-Mobile, Change.org
- **2022** — Launched Testing Accessibility workshop series at testingaccessibility.com in partnership with Egghead.io
- **2023-2024** — Senior Front-End Developer at Principle Studios (acquired by Shift Paradigm in March 2024)
- **2024** — Joined Khan Academy as Senior Engineer on Frontend Infrastructure team

## Achievements

- O'Reilly Web Platform Award 2016 for exceptional contributions to web accessibility
- Created 'no-mouse-days' npm package - disables mouse cursor to force keyboard-only testing
- Built Accessibility Wins (a11ywins.tumblr.com) - community resource celebrating accessible UI patterns
- Launched Testing Accessibility - comprehensive 6-part online workshop series
- Contributed to axe-core - the industry-standard accessibility testing engine at Deque Systems
- Founded NW Tech Women - social coding group for women in the Pacific Northwest
- Led Accessibility Seattle Meetup community group
- Taught workshops for Frontend Masters, Smashing Magazine, Egghead.io, CascadiaJS
- Co-developed anti-SLAPP policies for A11y Slack community with Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic
- Keynote and featured speaker at JSConf EU, Smashing Conf Toronto, ReactJS Girls Conf, dotJS, Web Rebels

## Latest updates

- **2024-10** — Joined Khan Academy as Senior Engineer on the Frontend Infrastructure team, focusing on design systems and accessibility
- **2024-03** — Principle Studios (where she worked as Senior Front-End Developer) was acquired by Shift Paradigm
- **2023-10** — Joined Principle Studios as Senior Front-End Developer, led front end on Adobe Experience Manager project
- **2022-01** — Launched Testing Accessibility comprehensive workshop series at testingaccessibility.com
- **2021-06** — Co-developed anti-SLAPP policies for A11y Slack community with Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic

## Links

- Website: https://marcysutton.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcysutton/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/marcysutton
- GitHub: https://github.com/marcysutton
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcysutton/

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Last updated: 2026-04-25