About me

My name is Hidde de Vries. I am a front-end + accessibility + tech ethics specialist. I work on web standards for the Dutch government, sometimes do public talks and am part of the W3C's AB.

Previously, I worked for organisations including the Web Accessibility Initiative, Sanity.io, Sanoma Learning, City of The Hague, and Mozilla. As former W3C Staff, I was exposed to a lot of (accessibility) standards making. I'm, FWIW, also a certified accessibility specialist (CPWA).

My other interests are sustainability, AI risks, design systems (worked on them on and off since they were called pattern libraries) and developer relations (had some official and various unofficial developer relations roles).

Background

In 2009, I started out studying Artificial Intelligence, but ended up getting a bachelor (in Utrecht, NL) and master’s (in Bristol, UK) degree in Philosophy. How it relates to front-end work? Abstractions!

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Awards

Fronteers

From 2008 to the first quarter of 2017, I was a volunteer at Fronteers, organising conferences, meet-ups and workshops. From 2014 to 2016 I was also board member, in the last year even a treasurer.

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