Cheryl Amato holds a BFA from University of West Florida and an MFA in Imaging & Digital Arts from UMBC. She designed her first web site in 1996 & has been designing sites ever since providing clean, standards compliant CSS driven designs for multitudes of clients. She is known for promptness and attention to details. Cheryl is an accessibility specialist. She has been working with accessibility issues and the Web since 1997 when she did work for the National Federation of the Blind. When Section 508 became law, she developed a class that she taught to the Baltimore office of Social Security Administration. From August 2006 through April 2008, she was contracted to the State of Maryland as an accessibility specialist where she was tasked with evaluating all State agency web sites for accessibility compliance. She also taught MD State webmasters the basics of accessibility so they could maintain their sites in the future.