About Dr. Ang

I'm Dr. Ang Young. I write The Warning Label, a monthly essay on accessibility strategy and cultural critique.

My day work is enterprise accessibility. I'm Head of Accessibility Strategy at Epsilon, where I'm building a new client services offering that helps organizations position accessibility at the enterprise level and move deliberately toward accessibility maturity. The work is structural — helping clients treat accessibility as an operating capability rather than a compliance checkbox, and building the governance, strategy, and organizational conditions that make it durable.

Before this, I led enterprise accessibility training and enablement for a major financial services client, built sales enablement programs at Siteimprove, ran inclusion and accessibility programming across K-12 systems in Maryland, and led DEIA content strategy in children's media. Across nearly two decades, my learning and enablement programs have reached tens of thousands and driven multimillion-dollar annual savings.

I'm also a keynote speaker. I've spoken to audiences across the U.S. and in six countries — and counting — on accessibility strategy, disability culture, inclusive communication, and the structural conditions that shape whether accessibility succeeds or stalls.

I do this work with both strategic discipline and lived perspective. As a queer, deaf, multiply-disabled neurodivergent professional, I'm interested in what systems reward, what they overlook, and who gets left to navigate the gaps. That lens shapes how I lead, teach, write, and speak.

Credentials

Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction, with a certification in Gender Studies — University of Maryland. Dissertation: Who Am I?: Media Influence on the Gender Construction of Adolescents
M.Ed., Reading Teacher Education — Johns Hopkins University
B.S., Elementary Education — Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
CPACC — Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies, IAAP

Why I write The Warning Label

Most organizations treat accessibility as a compliance ceiling. Meet the standard, avoid the lawsuit, move on. That framing is the whole problem. Compliance was never the goal. It was the warning label — the minimum required disclosure that something might harm people. And when we treat the floor as the destination, disabled people become the ones doing the invisible work of making the system function anyway.

The Warning Label is where I write about that gap. Every issue is one argument, defended. It arrives the first Wednesday of every month. It's for accessibility practitioners, strategy leaders, and anyone who has felt the difference between access that's been engineered and access that's been performed.

If you want to reach me, reply to any issue. I read every reply.

— Dr. Ang Young