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It's everyone's job
A while back someone I know that has a role in a product team (so, not a developer) showed me their brand new feature. Because I had just been working on a similar feature I decided to see how they were doing the keyboard navigation of that feature (because I wanted to learn and improve mine). They weren’t. So it wasn’t accessible. At the time, it wasn’t possible to see the contents of that feature using the keyboard at all.
I reported back to them and explained what happened when I used it and their reply was something along the lines “that’s a disappointment - I expected our developers to do better”. They took the feedback and improved it. When I heard their disappointment with their team, it reminded me of a quote from Mindera’s culture book that stayed with me: “It’s everyone’s job”. And I try, sometimes fighting my own blind spots, to apply it whenever I can.
An unaccessible feature will go live when any of these steps fails:
- The client/product/tickets don’t mention it in their requirements;
- It is designed without accessibility in mind;
- When the code developed isn't accessible;
- When in the code review it isn't flagged;
- When the accessibility of a feature isn’t tested in the testing environments;
At any moment, anyone in team can flag that something is missing, broken or can be improved. Everyone reads the tickets/acceptance criteria, everyone sees the designs, someone develops but someone reviews the code, everyone testes it (and most of the times, they will use the ticket’s acceptance criteria as a reference of what to test).
It is important to be everyone’s job because no one is perfect. Because mistakes can be made but mostly because we are all learning. In every single mentioned step there could be someone who just started that particular role, for example, and they will learn from these interactions and it will become part of their routine for their next tasks.
Apply the "it's everyone's job" where you can and everyone in the team will learn a skill for the future.
Big mood. Taken today at the march.
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Today @ines_opcoelho and I got yelled at by this enthusiastic animal
February bookmarks
February was a complete write-off for me. It wasn't a good month but to my surprise I bookmarked a lot of things in the first two weeks of it. I also created an account in TikTok as if I don't waste enough time already looking at memes.
Bookmarks from February
- Why We Need to Talk About—and Recognize—Representation Burnout - by Martha Tesema.
- Don’t feel like an expert? Share anyway. - by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- Exclusive Design - by Vasilis van Gemert
- Your digital identity has three layers, and you can only protect one of them - by Katarzyna Szymielewicz
- Accessibility Reviews - by Adrian Roselli and Tobie Langel
- ASCII renderer - by Tommy Li
- Tokimeki Unfollow - by Julius Tarng
- TRUST the Process: How to present your best, when you’re at your worst - by Tatiana Mac
- These Comics About Work Anxieties Are Painfully Real - compilation by Arianna Rebolini and comics by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
- The end of the celebrity designer - by Tim Van Damme
- A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders [Part 1] - by David Swallow
- A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders [Part 2] - by David Swallow
- "My background pattern resources" - by Wes Bos
- Statistics - Children and Young people victims of crime and violence 2013-2017 (in Portuguese) - by APAV (Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima)
- Web Components Club - by Andy Bell
- The "C" is for accessibility - by Evangelina Ferreira
- Progressive Vue Toggle - by Andy Bell
- CSS Reference - by Jeremy Thomas
- Complete guide to accessible video and audio for the web - by Stefany Newman
- Let's bring Fan Sites and webrings back! - by Bryan Robinson
- Awesome Leadership and Management - by Lauri Apple
- Your words are wasted - by Scott Hanselman
- The Best Way to Ride Out Air Turbulence - by Cynthia Drescher
- Using persona profiles to test accessibility - by Anika Henke
- MIDI CITY 2000 - by Monica Dinculescu
- You guys - by Baron Schwartz
- CSS Doodle - by Yuan Chuan
- Front end wizard - by Kieran Venison
- Pure CSS Still Life - Water and Lemons - by Ben Evans
- "TIL" RSS Feed - by Sara Soueidan
- Quick Note on high contrast mode - by Scott O'Hara
- CSS Night Cat - by Steve Gardner
- Ryan Adams, misogyny and “sensitive” masculinity - by Anna Leszkiewicz
- Slapping Back Imposter Syndrome - by Alice Goldfuss
- Micrometa 2 demo page - by Joschi Kuphal
- Look Ma, No Media Queries! Responsive Layouts Using CSS Grid - by Juan Martín García
- The Colors of Motion
- CSS selectors cheatsheet - by Nana
- IndieKit - by Paul Robert Lloyd
- Using CSS Grid the right way - by Violet Peña