About Joe Clark, founder of the Open & Closed Project
The Open & Closed Project is the brainchild of Joe Clark, a journalist, author, and accessibility consultant in Toronto. Clark traces back his interest in accessible media a full 25 years.
Beginning with a chance viewing of an open-captioned program (The Captioned ABC News, shown on television in the 1970s), Clark has worked and volunteered in and studied the accessibility field. He’s done consulting projects on captioning and Web accessibility. Clark wrote the book Building Accessible Websites and about a dozen articles about media access for newspapers and magazines. He volunteered with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and formed the WCAG Samurai. The Atlantic Monthly memorably called Joe Clark “the king of closed captions.”