Caroline Desrosiers
Caroline Desrosiers (CPACC) is a media accessibility and workflow solutions expert.
About Caroline Desrosiers
Caroline Desrosiers, Founder and CEO of Scribely, is a trailblazer for inclusive digital services and accessibility. She has dedicated her career to making images, videos, and audio accessible. Featured in the New York Times, Fast Company, and Mashable, Caroline has shared her insights at prestigious conferences, such as South by Southwest, Zero Project Conference, Sight Tech Global, and the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference.
With a background in digital publishing for higher education, Caroline's strategic expertise includes integrating inclusive and accessible processes into digital content and metadata distribution systems. Before founding Scribely, she played a key role in establishing efficient systems for seamless information flow across internal and external networks. Caroline now provides organizational and change management support to enterprise clients like Amazon, Walmart, Twitter/X, and Sesame Street to establish content accessibility policies and procedures at scale.
Passionate about accessibility and disability inclusion, Caroline advocates for born-accessible workflows, contributes to academic research on accessibility, and regularly collaborates with the W3C Silver Alt Text Subgroup to ensure the future of digital content remains accessible and inclusive. Caroline is responsible for leading the initiative to add the Alt Text (Accessibility) and Extended Description (Accessibility) metadata properties to the IPTC Photo Metadata Standard. This standards update made it possible for content creators to embed alt text and extended descriptions in image metadata, ensuring accessibility metadata can travel more efficiently across providers and platforms.
As a founder with a passion for ensuring content is inclusive and free of barriers, Caroline's personal mission harmonizes with Scribely’s vision - leave no one behind online.