The specialists who built Labrador

Labrador was built by three accessibility specialists who were tired of the options. Crowded spreadsheets with screenshots and code crammed in are painful to navigate, and the enterprise tools for manual audits weren't built with all auditors in mind. So we built what we actually needed. It worked well enough that we decided to publish it so others could use it too.

Grant Broome, Co-founder, CEO

Grant has spent more than 23 years in accessibility consulting, delivering work for the English Premier League, the BBC, Wimbledon, Virgin Atlantic, the NHS, Bentley, and Legal & General. He has founded multiple accessibility companies, including Dig Inclusion, which he directed through its acquisition by Nile.

He leads Labrador, and still audits with it: WCAG conformance, stakeholder discovery, and hands-on app testing across iOS and Android with assistive technologies such as VoiceOver and TalkBack, the screen readers built into iPhone and Android.

Sam Donnelly, Co-founder, CPO

Sam built the Labrador platform and has held IAAP's CPACC certification since 2021. His tech career began in design; accessibility is where it stayed. He delivered Haiti's first ever talk on user experience design in 2022, lectured on accessibility and inclusive design at California State University Northridge in 2024, and spoke on the same subject at PTC Digital in 2025.

He has directed accessibility for a digital agency with roughly 40 accessibility clients, and has delivered audits across e-learning, AI chatbots, banking software, healthcare, large-scale event planning, and e-commerce.

Shadab Saifi, Co-founder, CTO

Shadab is a full-stack developer who has spent nearly a decade in digital accessibility. At Deque he worked as a developer on axe-core, the open-source engine behind most automated accessibility testing, including the checks built into Labrador itself. He has worked with organizations across government, healthcare, education, finance, e-commerce, and enterprise software.

He holds both of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals' web certifications, Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) and Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS), which together carry the Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (CPWA) designation. He is also a Section 508 Trusted Tester, certified by the United States Department of Homeland Security, and a JAWS Certified Professional.

The tool we audit with

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