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With your skillset, I’d highly recommend starting your own consultancy. There’s likely an incredible demand for you can offer.

I’m also interested in connecting to see if there’s any opportunity with the projects that come my way. I’d love to keep in touch. Cheers!

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That is really a good point offering consultation to companies would be a good idea. But what I am afraid is that most companies, don't consider accessibility something they have to do if it is not a physical accessibility even though ADA requires companies to treat the two aspects the same. Digital accessibility is one of those things most companies put "nice to have"category but aren't necessary, I can't count how many big companies that I've used their site/app and it is not accessible at all: luckily I have a few remaining sight, so I can struggle to magnify components on the screen to see, but what do you think a totally blind person would do?

+1. Accessibility is in huge demand right now and setting up a consultancy could be very interesting for you as you get to see issues and patterns across companies. Most, if not all, Fortune 500 companies are interested accessibility.

+1 again but it's not just the Fortune 500. My employer (15 employees) hired a blind technology consultant when we were designing a kiosk for a major US Airport. We invited a blind user from a local non-profit advocacy group to come try our product and talk to us about our choices of tactile controls, audio feedback cues, etc... From that one engagement, we received immensely valuable insight into the average blind user's fears and expectations when it comes to dealing with kiosks in public. There's a definite need for expertise in this space.

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