The business case is real.
1 in 4 Americans has a disability. Inaccessible products exclude them, and expose you to legal risk. Accessibility isn't charity. It's a product decision with real business consequences.
Our story
Built by someone who's
been in the room.
HCI Access wasn't founded from a whiteboard. It was built from 15 years of real engagements, real deadlines, and real programs, at companies where the stakes were high and the work was hard.
Lawrence Moore started in tech as a graphic designer at the Indiana Attorney General's office, splitting time between print and web. Accessibility was built into every project. That was just how work got done in government.
He didn't know it then, but working that way early would shape every project that came after.
"I didn't learn accessibility as a compliance requirement. I learned it as the default. That changes how you think about everything."Lawrence Moore, Founder
From there, he earned a Master's in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at Indiana University. HCI is the field that studies how people interact with technology and accessibility is its most direct, consequential application. Every barrier someone with a disability encounters with a digital product is, at its core, an HCI problem. That grounding is what the name HCI Access reflects, and it shapes how every engagement here works: not as a compliance exercise, but as a design and engineering problem rooted in how real humans use real systems.
He taught himself to code alongside his design work and became someone who could design an accessible experience and build it himself. Over the next 15 years, he built accessibility programs from scratch at companies of every size: SaaS startups, a 600-person global engineering org, and a major U.S. telecom where he embedded across 10+ product teams at once. Each program got real infrastructure: testing standards, design system components, governance frameworks, SDLC integration. Systems that kept working after the engagement ended. His team won two national accessibility awards along the way.
HCI Access is where that experience lands next. Built for the businesses, agencies, and schools that need real expertise and can't wait for a large consultancy to fit them into a schedule.
Our philosophy
Why we do this work.
Most accessibility consultants lead with compliance. We lead with something different: the belief that building accessible products is both smart business and simply the right thing to do.
Those two things are never in tension. When your product works for people with disabilities, it works better for everyone. When you build accessibility in from the start, you reduce legal risk, expand your audience, and create a better experience across the board.
And more personally: people with disabilities are among the most overlooked users in tech. Building products that include them isn't just a legal obligation. It's a choice to do better.
Experience first. Standards second.
We don't lead with WCAG citations. We lead with what it actually feels like to navigate your product without a mouse, or with a screen reader. That's how real change happens, compliance is a natural result.
We build, not just advise.
We don't just hand you a report and leave. We fix issues, train teams, and build programs that keep working after we're gone. The goal is always sustainable improvement, not a one-time deliverable.
"As a minority founder in tech, I know what it feels like to navigate spaces that weren't built with you in mind. That's not abstract for me. It's personal. And it's why building genuinely inclusive digital products isn't just a professional mission, it's a human one."
HCI Access is rooted in the belief that the people most affected by inaccessible technology are often the same people most overlooked when products are built. We're here to close that gap, one product, one team, one program at a time.
Lawrence Moore, Founder & Principal
Let's build something that works for everyone.
Schedule a free 30-minute consultation. We'll talk through where you are, what you need, and what it would take to get there, no sales pitch, just a real conversation from someone who has done this before.