Ms. Janina Sajka is a founding  partner of a Washington-based consultancy,
Capital Accessibility, LLC, whose clients include Owasys, Spain, manufacturers
of the screenless 22C cellular telephone. Her professional activities include
the Free Standards Group Accessibility Workgroup, the World Wide Web
Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative, and the Special Working Group  on
Accessibility in the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC  1)

Janina’s career focus shifted to  computer technology and disability in the
mid-1980s as a response to her  diminishing vision and loss of access to
printed information.   

From 1990 to 2004 Janina made  major contributions to the development of
accessible technology and technology policy, first at the World Institute on
Disability, and then at the American Foundation for the Blind. She has
directed the design and deployment of Vax, Unix, and Windows network
environments, and of accessible workstations for staff use.  as well as public
web sites and telecommunications systems for both of these highly regarded
organizations.

As AFB's Director of Technology Research and Development from 1999 to 2004,
Janina was active in the  creation of key technology standards and processes
within industry and  government worldwide including the DAISY/ANSI Digital
Talking Book and the U.S. Governments regulations implementing Sec.  508
through the Electronic and  Information Technology Access Advisory Committee. 

Trained as a concert pianist and composer of electronic music, she has
recorded and performed repertory ranging from classical piano literature to
contemporary Gospel, and she continues to perform with the group DC-Metro
today. She received her B.A.  in Music from Macalester College, St. Paul, MN,
1970. She has additional training in music and computer technology from the
University of Minnesota, the University of California, and San Francisco State
University.