About Meryl K. Evans, CPACC

Meryl is a white female with long brown curly hair and a lavender top.

Bio

Meryl K. Evans is a communication, accessibility, and operations expert who works across writing, marketing, user experience, and systems design. She helps organizations improve how they share information, build processes, and create experiences that work for more people.

Her work spans writing, editing, communication strategy, accessibility, and cross‑functional operations. She is known for strengthening how teams communicate and collaborate, designing workflows that reduce friction, and shaping practices that support inclusion across digital and organizational environments. Her lived experience as a deaf professional informs her approach to accessibility in communication, design, and team operations.

Meryl is also a professional speaker and trainer who works with companies to build more accessible and usable communication and workplace practices. She has delivered a TEDx Talk, been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, and was named a LinkedIn Top Voice for disability and accessibility advocacy.

Her background includes roles in technology, marketing, digital communication, and process design, as well as experience in Fortune 500 telecom, the federal government, and IT consulting. She is the founder of meryl.net, where she provides writing, editing, marketing, accessibility, and communication systems support.

She is a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) and is based in Texas.

Connect

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Media

Speaking

Learn more about my speaking work and podcast appearances.

In the News and Around the Web

For a full chronological archive of media coverage, interviews, expert commentary, and civic reporting, visit the Media & Publications page.

In Books (as an editor, contributor, or researcher)

  • Design for All Learners: Create Accessible and Inclusive Learning Experiences — Contributor.
  • The Anti-Ableist Manifesto — Mention.
  • Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions — Contributed personal story.
  • 102 Ways to Earn Money Writing 1,500 Words or Less — Story.
  • The Well-Fed Writer — Story.
  • Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites — Co-author.
  • Brilliant Outlook Pocketbook — Author.
  • Blog Schmog: The Truth About What Blogs Can (and Can’t) Do for Your Business — Resource.
  • The Secret Power of Blogging — Interviewee and contributor.
  • CSS Cookbook (2nd Edition) — Contributor.
  • What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting — Contributor.
  • The Corporate Blogging Book — Researcher.
  • The Well-Fed Self-Publisher — Resource.
  • Weekend Entrepreneur: 101 Great Ways to Earn Extra Cash — Interviewee.
  • Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer — Acknowledgments.
  • The Well-Fed Writer: Back for Seconds — Resource.
  • Stories of Strength — Contributor.
  • Sams Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours — Tech editor.
  • Words You Thought You Knew — Contributor.
  • Beginning Dreamweaver MX — Tech editor.