About Verona
Amarys Mayes
Principal Consultant, Verona Consulting Group
Verona Consulting Group is built around twenty years of experience across software engineering, quality assurance, accessibility leadership, risk management, and process design. The firm is principal-led, advising Counsel, CTOs, VPs, technical leadership, and deal and diligence teams when accessibility risk must be interpreted with judgment and care.
Security Clearances
The Firm
A principal-led consulting group, by design.
Verona Consulting Group was founded on a simple principle. When accessibility risk intersects with legal exposure, release decisions, or external scrutiny, the businesses that need answers cannot afford delegated review or generalist opinion. They need executive judgment, applied directly.
Every engagement is led by the founding principal, who remains directly involved at every stage, from initial scoping to final delivery. Clients work with a senior practitioner who interprets risk, guides decisions, and stands behind every conclusion.
Verona operates as a consulting group with a standing network of accessibility specialists, engineers, and subject matter experts in regulated environments who support delivery as engagement scope requires. This model allows the work to scale without diluting accountability, bringing in the right expertise while maintaining continuity across the engagement.
The principal maintains full oversight, integration, and final sign-off on all work delivered. Clients receive both the depth of a specialized team and the consistency of a single accountable lead.
Principal Experience
Executive judgment shaped by twenty years of experience in high consequence settings.
Leads accessibility risk work across healthcare, fintech and financial services, government, and enterprise technology, spanning pre-launch audits, remediation review under legal pressure, multi-year governance programs, acquisition and procurement review, and cross-functional teams operating under regulatory scrutiny.
Directs accessibility remediation under legal pressure. In one engagement for a publicly traded Fortune 500 enterprise under active ADA-aligned legal scrutiny, resolved more than 200 non-compliant defects across three primary customer-facing platforms on a compressed legal timeline, while maintaining oversight of a concurrent enterprise CRM migration and broader digital transformation workstreams throughout the remediation effort.
Performs accessibility review, analysis, and recommendations for technical and software acquisitions, the kind of work relevant to any business with a significant software or technology component. This includes pre-acquisition target platform assessment, buy-side and sell-side review, evaluation of third-party and inherited software, and remediation scoping for acquired platforms. Delivers forensic evaluation of candidate systems across fintech, healthcare, government, and enterprise technology, identifying demonstrability and reproducibility signals that inform procurement decisions, vendor selection, and downstream compliance commitments.
Architects and directs Section 508 compliance across complex federal health information environments. Across five concurrent federal health programs spanning patient records, benefits, prescriptions, pharmacy, and medical documentation containing HIPAA-regulated PII and PHI, established audit strategy and led accessibility audits validated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Section 508 office, overseeing audit resolution and stakeholder alignment between government auditors, development teams, and project leadership over three years of compliant delivery.
Leads accessibility and quality testing across integrated eligibility and public benefits platforms serving millions of residents. Owns test strategy, defect severity classification, remediation validation, and release readiness signals for state government platforms operating under regulatory and executive scrutiny, with findings consumed directly by engineering, product, and compliance stakeholders.
Builds accessibility capability across organizations through architecture, program design, and cross-functional education. Leads accessibility architecture, engineering and validation leadership, and process design, translating conformance requirements into operating standards development teams can sustain. Designs and delivers accessibility education for directors, project managers, program managers, developers, testers, and cross-functional delivery teams so the discipline holds operationally, not just in a report.
The Verona Standard
Evidence backed. Ready for review. Built to execute.
Clients receive expert interpretation and executive judgment, not delegated review or automated output. Automated tools surface only a portion of accessibility risk. Verona's hands-on evaluation and validation confirms those signals and identifies additional defects beyond scan visibility, determining what is real, what is consequential, and what requires action.
Deliverables are structured for multiple audiences at once, delivering clarity for legal and executive stakeholders and direction for engineering, QA, and delivery teams.
Made to be read by a lawyer, understood by an executive, and executed by an engineer.
That is the standard Verona brings to every engagement.
Principal-Led Judgment
Every engagement is scoped, led, and delivered directly by the founding principal. No delegated review. No handoff to junior staff.
Expert Evaluation
Automated tools surface only a portion of accessibility risk. Verona confirms those signals and identifies additional defects beyond scan visibility, producing a verified, decision-ready record.
Stakeholder Ready Conclusions
Deliverables are structured for multiple audiences at once, delivering clarity for legal and executive stakeholders and direction for engineering, QA, and delivery teams.
What Verona Delivers
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Evidence-backed analysis.
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Documentation built to hold up under scrutiny.
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Remediation plans engineered for execution.
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Governance processes built to last.
Credentials and Clearances
Standards, Clearances, Applications, and Tools.
The judgment and operating experience behind these credentials are the foundation Verona brings to every engagement.
Security Clearances
- Department of Defense Public Trust, Currently Held
- Department of Defense Top Secret, Previously Held
Standards and Frameworks
- WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 (A, AA, AAA)
- Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Accessibility Tool Stack
- axe DevTools, ARC Toolkit (TPGi)
- Accessibility Insights, WAVE, Lighthouse
- Colour Contrast Analyser (CCA)
- ANDI, Chrome DevTools Accessibility Pane
- Siteimprove, Level Access, Deque
- BrowserStack (Cross-Device Validation)
- Wappalyzer, BuiltWith (Third-Party Surface Discovery)
- Playwright with axe-core (Critical Evidence Capture)
- Evinced (AI-Assisted Flow Discovery)
- Stark Sidekick (Design Artifact and Governance Support)
Programming and Technical Foundations
- Java, C#
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- SQL and Database Validation
- DOM Inspection and Browser Developer Tools
- Accessibility Tree Analysis and ARIA Implementation Validation
Enterprise Platforms and Environments
- Salesforce and Enterprise CRM Ecosystems
- Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems, Including Epic and Cerner
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
- Government and Public-Sector Digital Platforms
- Large-Scale Customer-Facing Web Applications
Assistive Technology and Accessibility Compliance Applications
- NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver (macOS and iOS)
- TalkBack, Narrator
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Voice Control
- Switch Control, Keyboard-Only Navigation
- Touch Gesture Testing (Mobile and Tablet)
- JAWS Inspect (Screen Reader Output Capture)
- Windows Magnifier, macOS Zoom
- Browser Zoom and Text Scaling
- High Contrast Modes (Windows, macOS)
- Reduced Motion and Color Filter Preferences
Software Delivery and Testing
- Manual and Automated Testing Across Web, Mobile, and Enterprise Applications
- Functional, Regression, Integration, System, and Smoke Testing
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Strategy and Execution
- Performance and Load Testing (JMeter, LoadUI Pro, Splunk)
- End-to-End Testing (Black Box and White Box)
- API Testing and Validation Workflows (REST, SOAP)
- Cross-Browser and Cross-Device Testing
- Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Appium
- Cucumber, SpecFlow
- Defect Lifecycle Management and Prioritization
Accessibility Audit, Governance, and Delivery Practice
- Accessibility Audits and Federal Section 508 Compliance Audit Liaison
- Accessibility Governance Program Design and Establishment
- Accessibility Protocol and Testing Standard Development
- Remediation Review and Post-Fix Validation
- Cross-Functional Remediation Meeting Facilitation
- Accessibility Training for Project, Development, QA, and Leadership Teams
- Accessibility Risk Interpretation for Release Readiness
- Procurement and Compliance-Driven Accessibility Reviews
- Pre-Acquisition Target Platform Accessibility Assessment
- Buy-Side and Sell-Side Accessibility Review
- Third-Party and Inherited Software Evaluation
- Remediation Scoping for Acquired Platforms
- Executive, Legal, and Program Leadership Reporting
- Third-Party and Inherited Liability Assessment
Sector Experience
- Federal Civilian Agencies (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))
- Federal Defense Programs (U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, SPAWAR)
- State Government and Public Benefits Systems
- Healthcare and Health Technology
- Financial Services, Fintech, Lending, Mortgage, and Insurance
- Enterprise Security and Software
- SaaS and Business-to-Business Software
- Higher Education and Learning
- Global Media, Entertainment, and Consumer Digital Software
- Startups, Founder-Led, and Owner-Operated Businesses
- Federal Contractor Consulting
- Regulated Industries Under Active Scrutiny
Twenty years of experience.
One conversation to start.
If accessibility risk is creating uncertainty, the right starting point is a conversation.