Preety Kumar, CEO of Deque Systems, Inc. (Deque), co-founded Deque in 1999 to pave the way for digital equality both from both user and the technology perspectives. Under Preety’s vision and leadership, Deque has developed a uniquely robust suite of software tools that include WorldSpace Sync — our enterprise level testing and remediation tool, FireEyes — a free testing plugin, and Amaze — a game-changing new software tool for accessibility triage and remediation.
Deque has been a market leader, and a thought leader, in digital accessibility software and services for over a decade; and since the commercial launch of Amaze in 2012, Deque has experienced rapid growth and secured its place as the top accessibility software and services provider. In June 2013, Deque was awarded the Computerworld 21st Century Achievement Award for Innovation for the Amaze technology, and the company has been recognized four times in the Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Companies.
Preety’s central tenet is to help her customers achieve their digital accessibility goals and to educate and empower them to work towards a self-sustaining accessibility model. Preety herself is a recognized accessibility thought-leader and frequent industry spokesperson. She was recognized for her contributions to the field of accessibility by being offered the position of vice-chair of the GSA-sponsored Accessibility Forum.
She serves on the board of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals and the Yes I Can Foundation, is an active member of the World Wide Web Consortium, and is a member of Women in Engineering, Women in Technology, Northern Virginia Technology Council, IEEE, and the Association of Computing Machinery. Preety is also a contributing author to a book published by the United Nations G3ICT to promote information accessibility to countries around the world.