Jason Morris
Accessibility engineer and front-end developer with 20+ years of building federal public health websites that serve millions of people. CPWA and Trusted Tester certified, with active clearance.
Experience
Lumina Corps
January 2026 to present
Engineering Team Lead
- Leads a 5-person team of developers and digital strategists
- Builds and maintains websites for the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, which serve about 10 million users a year, following the merger of CommunicateHealth with Lumina Corps
CommunicateHealth
March 2014 to March 2023, July 2024 to December 2025
Accessibility Engineer and Team Lead, Development and Digital Strategy
- Delivered Section 508-compliant web products validated by accessibility teams at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health
- Brought Health.gov into the top 1 percent of the WebAIM Million accessibility rankings and rebuilt the National Eye Institute site to score 100 in all 4 Lighthouse categories across 1,000+ pages at launch
- Built the Healthy People 2030 website, which serves 4 million users a year, and Move Your Way campaign components that reached 50 million people
- Established development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and quality standards, resulting in zero-config local environments and consistent code across teams
Perkins School for the Blind
March 2023 to June 2024
Senior Digital Accessibility Consultant
- Led engagements combining accessibility strategy, technical guidance, role-based training, and program planning for clients including LEGO, Sprout Social, Cengage, and Curriculum Associates
- Audited websites, complex applications, and data visualizations against WCAG 2.2 through manual testing with assistive technologies, and delivered Accessibility Conformance Reports (VPATs)
- Built browser-based tools and guides that made accessibility audits faster and more consistent
The Research Foundation for SUNY
January 2006 to March 2014
Senior Programmer/Analyst
- Developed multilingual, responsive websites for the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA)
- Ran user testing sessions that improved the experience for 200,000 monthly visitors
Skills
- Accessibility: WCAG 2.2, Section 508, axe, WAVE, JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, TalkBack
- Languages and frameworks: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, U.S. Web Design System (USWDS), CodeIgniter
- Platforms: Drupal, WordPress, Eleventy
- Tooling: Git, GitHub Actions, Playwright, Lighthouse
Certifications and Education
- Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (CPWA), International Association of Accessibility Professionals
- Trusted Tester v5, Department of Homeland Security
- Russell Sage College, Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems
Publications and Awards
- Health Literacy Online, Third Edition — Contributing editor
- 2020 ClearMark Award from the Center for Plain Language — Led the development of an accessibility-focused National Eye Institute redesign
- 2016 ClearMark Award from the Center for Plain Language — Developed a parents’ guide to physical development delays for the American Academy of Pediatrics
- 2011 Best of New York Award for Innovative Use of Technology from the Center for Digital Government — Developed New York’s first responsive state agency website for OTDA