Rex Lint chairs the Section 508 Working Group of the Information Technology Association of America. He's a member of the Board of Directors for the Software Division of ITAA.

 Mr. Lint was a member of The Accessibility Study Group, recently reformulated as V2, of the National Committee on IT Standardization (NCITS).  He served on both The Committee on Standards, Technology & Trade (CSTT) and The Technical Regulations Committee on Ergonomic (TC4) which are sponsored by the Information Technology Industries Council (ITI).

 Originally from California, Mr. Lint graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Industrial Engineering, was employed by NASA when it was fun, managed the word processing software engineering organization at Digital Equipment Corporation, was technical director of the Digital's Entertainment Business Unit, and served Compaq Computer Corporation as a senior member of their Industry Standards and Consortia group. His areas of concentration in the past few years have been Y2K, home networking, and accessibility to IT for people with disabilities. Since December, Mr. Lint has been an independent consultant for industry and for government agencies on issues around 508 compliance, and a management consultant for organizations implementing 508 programs.

 His literary efforts have included coauthoring an article in the Bureau of National Affairs Federal Contracts Report "Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act" published in May 2000. Other articles have included "Technology Standards to Address Those With Disabilities," in the Open Systems Standards Tracking Report in May 1999, and  "Access to Computing for People with Disabilities,"   ISAC News in March 1999. He was a principal drafter of the comments from ITAA to the Access Board on the NPRM for the 508 Accessibility Standards. Mr. Lint has served as an industry spokesperson to the press on issues surrounding the implementation of section 508.

 Mr. Lint is an extra class ham radio operator licensed since he was 11 years old (he's older than that now), an instrument rated private pilot, husband to a lawyer and father to a keystone ski patroller and 2 recently adopted teenage girls. He makes his home in New Hampshire and Cape Cod, visits DC a lot, and he's left-handed which is not usually a disability.