Crew
Artur Marcinkowski – Chairman of the Board of Widzialni Foundation
Originator and founder of the Foundation. He was related to the Internet since its very beginning in Poland. Participant of consultations in the Ministry of Administration and Digitization and Forum of Public Debate at the President of the Republic of Poland. One of the creators of the Internet site testing methodology from the point of view of accessibility for disabled persons. Consultant during creation of the identification mark "Without Barriers" of the Office of Electronic Communications. Member of the Program Council of Wide Agreement in aid of Digital Skills. Expert in the project "Development of national set of professional competences standards". Co-author of "WCAG 2.0 - Good Practices Manual". Initiator of the only one in Poland identification mark "Website without Barriers". Initiation of the Partnership "Television without Barriers" implemented by Widzialni Foundation and Telewizja Polska S.A. Coordinator of sign language translations for Canal+. Lecturer and participant of debates. Runs trainings within the scope of websites accessibility. Closely cooperates with the University of Silesia, Orange, Microsoft, Canal+, Maturity in the net.
He is married with two children, Łukasz and Szymon. His passion is motor boats, fast cars and ... angling. Faithful to Metallica for a long time.
Monika Szczygielska – Deputy-Chairman of the Board of Widzialni Foundation
Politics scientist, marketing and PR specialist. Cooperates with politicians, administration, NGO. Originator of Dostępni.eu. Specializes in multimedia accessibility. Implemented the first in Poland accessible website of public person, accessible information website, responsible for making the multimedia accessible to deaf in Chopin Museum. During parliamentary election in 2011 (the first one accessible for persons with disabilities), she organized sing language translation in election ad in the Internet and TV, which was noticed, among other things, in the Public Affairs Institute Report. Since 2013, she was responsible for sign language translations in information materials on the website of the President of the Republic of Poland. Organized subtitles to materials among other things of the National Bank of Poland and European Deputies. Since 2013, implements live subtitles. Deputy-Chairman of the Board of Widzialni Foundation. Cooperates with Kultura Bez Barier Foundation. Author of articles and lecturer, organizer of conferences, during which solutions are presented that enable participation in them form persons with sensory dysfunctions.
Przemysław Marcinkowski – Vice-President of Widzialni Foundation, Accessibility specialist, Technical auditor
Cooperates with the Foundation since its beginning. Participated in the expert's audits concerning the following websites: ING Bank Śląski, Silesian Museum, University of Silesia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration (bip.gov.pl), Citizens Right Spokesman, Office for Electronic Communications or 27 websites of the European Union Member States. Performs accessibility audit of websites for the purposes of the competition "Website without Barriers". He is also a coach and creator of author's program of training concerning accessibility organized by the Foundation. Co-author of the game promoting European Funds "Mastomania" (2011) and publication "WCAG Good Practice Manual". Consultant in the following companies and organizations. Orange, Microsoft, Social Security Office. He programmed user interface and CMS system for the Appeal Court in Katowice, which won the second edition of ranking "E-sądy po polsku", prepared by the Forum of Citizen Development Foundation, Helsinki Foundation, K2 Internet and Rzeczpospolita, as a result of which, 40 new websites for appeal, district and local courts were created. Lecturer at Academy of Business in Dąbrowa Górnicza.
Hobbies: playing guitar in a group or biking.
Marcin Luboń – Vice-President of Widzialni Foundation, Accessibility specialist, Technical auditor
Cooperates with the Foundation since its beginning. Co-author of visual identification of Widzialni Foundation. Creator of game graphics promoting the European Funds "Miastomania" (2011), Internet wite for the Appeal Court in Katowice, which won the second edition of ranking "E-sądy po polsku", prepared by the Forum of Citizen Development Foundation, Helsinki Foundation, K2 Internet and Rzeczpospolita, as a result of which, 40 newwebsites for appeal, district and local courts were created. Creator of accessible sites for the Social Aid Center and the project administered by the Center T:RAF and Small Societies - Huge Problems. Lecturer at Academy of Business in Dąbrowa Górnicza.
He spends his free time among friends.
Agnieszka Zarychta – Assistant of the Board of Widzialni Foundation
Supports the Boars in the projects. Executes statute tasks of the Foundation. Prepares contracts, offers, audit reports, rankings. Maintains permanent constant with clients, partners, consultants cooperating with the Foundation. Person responsible for organization of conferences and competitions.
She likes sport, books and theatre.
Marta Piwowarczyk – Communication specialist
She likes to travel and actively spend her free time.
