Emma Dawson

If your entire accessibility strategy relies on developers seeking out and reading documentation…

… yeah, good luck with that.

Thank you!

Why does my brain try to sabotage me?

Had a panic dream at 4am that I missed my web accessibility specialist exam tomorrow because I got hyperfocused on a task and lost track of time 🤦🏻‍♀️

This is why I get stuck in waiting mode instead 🙄

Ooh exciting! I loved the first season so happy to hear there’ll be more!

I literally just got back from returning some library books on my lunch break and the library messages me to say my reservation is ready.

I was just there 15 minutes ago 😭

Thanks!

5 day working weeks are overrated. Can I please have some more bank holidays and long weekends?

I’m trying to book at a center. I understand that bottles should be clear so people don’t smuggle in things to cheat but it seems a bit much to need to request it. And I need to know bathroom breaks are allowed as otherwise I will get major anxiety. But I don’t know why they must phone me to book

Same although I’m not convinced I can last that long without water or a toilet break 😬 and I’d quite like to pass the exam. I don’t know why they have to make the whole process so stressful 😥

Trying to book an exam: if you need accommodations we will ring you to schedule your exam (even having a water bottle is an accommodation)

Me: 😭😭😭 weighs life choices and which is worse - 3 hours without water/toilet break or having to make a phone call 😭😭😭

Are 'CSS Carousels' accessible? – The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive design engineer

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In this post, I share some important insights from examining the accessibility of CSS-only carousels that use new features introduced in the #CSS Overflow Module Level 5 spec.

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Very true! I wish I had more say in that but I’m auditing a site that’s already built. I can always make the recommendation though

It’s amazing how differently different browsers and screen reader combinations can behave.

I was testing some custom checkboxes in a form and they behaved wildly differently with Chrome + VO, safari + VO and Firefox + NVDA.

Remember to check as many browsers as possible, not everyone uses Chrome

Thanks ☺️

Passed the Web Accessibility Specialist screening from IAAP so now I can book my exam in May. Time to study shortcut keys for 5 different screen readers 🥲

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The web accessibility specialist courses from Deque are really thorough but all the “must, should, may” language is super confusing. Just tell me the WCAG level instead 😬

Enjoy your rest and good luck with finding your next adventure 😊

My biggest takeaway from JSDay conference last week came from a 5 minute lightning talk.

You are not your user. Be a user advocate.

I like the term user advocate. I feel like it describes perfectly what I try to do.

Just be a fair weather gardener 👨‍🌾 I stay inside with a good book when the weather is bad

True! Back, thighs, arms usually all end up hurting after a few hours in the garden 😅

Having a garden is a fun side project. I find weeding is quite therapeutic 🌱

It’s not a keyboard trap if you can tab past it but something like a skip link at the beginning of it could be helpful

I put something somewhere safe but it was obviously so safe even I can’t remember where I put it 😬

#digitalaccessibility #webdevelopment #accessibility #frontend #wcag #a11y… | focusring.io 🎙️ focustrap episode 5 - The Journey to Inclusive Design | #5 Emma Dawson In this conversation, Tim Damen and Emma Dawson working for Axess Lab explore the…

I was on a podcast talking to Tim Damen about accessibility. I can definitely recommend listening to all the other episodes in the series too! www.linkedin.com/posts/focusr...

I think this is half the problem. Every time I install something the instructions include some sort of add $PATH to zrhrc or bashrc and all the different repos conflict with each other and cause me a headache. Plus that I don’t really know what all the setup commands do, it’s just chaos

Yeah, that’s terrible. People shouldn’t have to pay extra for something to be accessible. That’s like adding a disability tax

It’s very odd! Today after trying to install a react native project it couldn’t find a path for any emulator even though I had one running and then my terminal decided that even node -v was no longer a command it recognised 🤷🏻‍♀️

MacOS. I’ve never had problems before and several people in my team run into similar issues so I think it’s something weird with how our customer has things set up