Delivered work for teams at Heineken, LG, Bank of America, Akebia, Pfizer, Astellas, Sensodyne, AbbVie, Sanofi, Nike, VICE, Barnes & Noble, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Cartier.
Build Your Compliance Box
Seven disciplines, each independently scoped and validated against WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508. Add what you need, request an estimate for exactly that.
Section 508 & WCAG Audits
Full conformance testing against WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508, with a prioritized remediation plan, not a findings dump.
Inclusive Experience Design
Accessibility engineered into the design phase, so it never becomes a late-stage fire drill.
Accessible Document & PDF Design
Tagged, screen-reader-ready PDFs and publications that pass conformance review on the first submission.
Illustration & Visual Communication
Custom illustration from the same team validating compliance, so craft and access are never traded off.
Design Systems
Component libraries documented with accessible states, patterns, and usage rules built in from spec.
AI Integration, #genAI365
Practical AI implementation for teams already shipping with LLMs and other generative tools, built by someone who ships production front ends with the same tools daily. Frameworks, not just prompts.
Workshops & Training
Hands-on sessions on inclusive design, WCAG conformance, and using generative AI without losing rigor.
The Octave Framework: 8 Bands of Kinetic Compliance.
Every engagement is engineered against eight constraints. The Octave methodology requires simultaneous validation across each dimension, tuning independently, optimizing as a system. The visualization represents range validated, not decoration.
Physical
How bodies interact with spaces and objects.
Digital
How interfaces connect and empower users.
Cognitive
How minds process and understand information.
Emotional
How feelings are honored and nurtured.
Contextual
How audience, language, and setting shape interpretation.
Environmental
How design decisions impact the planet.
Social
How access is designed in from the start, not patched on later.
Purpose
How meaning and motivation are built into the experience.
The Live Check & APCA Engine
Case studies are being written. This isn't a placeholder for them—it's the actual math behind every contrast ratio and APCA luminance calculation, running dynamically in your browser.
Design Lady LLC
Accessibility and experience design, engineered for everyone.
Technical expertise, applied from day one.
I don't retrofit accessibility as an afterthought. I build it into the foundation, so it costs less, ships faster, and carries less legal risk than a late-stage fix.
I'm Jerlyn O'Donnell, founder of Design Lady LLC. I build production front ends and AI-assisted backend integrations myself, directly in an LLM, rather than handing engineering off to a separate team. That's also where #genAI365 comes from: a running practice of shipping real, working projects with generative tools daily, not just writing about them.
Start a project.
Tell me what you're building and where it needs to land. I respond within 48 hours.