@marcysutton
The likes on this tweet lead me to believe that we're all driving ourselves into the ground right now. The current model is not sustainable or healthy.
Working in the field of accessibility engineering is tough on the soul. The challenges weigh on me. The hurdles are exhausting.
Sometimes it overwhelms me and I consider switching to a different field. And then I remind myself that we must all advocate for inclusion, so I stay.
The Facebook Accessibility Engineering team is growing! We are hiring a Web developer:
My team works to improve access and inclusion on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. We build tools for devs and product features. Come join us! DM me!
My team of cross-platform accessibility engineers has been working for months to port this automatic image captioning capability from Facebook to Instagram. We learned a ton in the process.
We're dedicated to making Facebook and its family of apps accessible. On to 2019!
We’re proud to improve Instagram for people with visual impairments. Starting today, we are automatically adding alternative text to photos on Feed, Explore and Profile so people who use screen readers can hear what’s in the photo.
Hey dev contractors and shops, we've got an open rec at Facebook to build integration tests for the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide. This work would forward the W3C efforts to establish prototype implementations of accessible component patterns.
Details:
@marcysutton
@photomatt
It's really time that we move beyond "bolt-on accessibility support via audit" after a product has been designed, built and shipped. We lose the necessary degrees of freedom to build truly delightful experiences. Developers can't claim ignorance of this skill any longer.
"I'm loud, I don't need the mic"
False. The A/V system had been designed to carry sound to the corners of a large room. Unless you are a classically trained opera singer, you cannot do this. Please consider the folks with hearing impairments and who need the transcription.
The Accessibility Program at Facebook is looking for a Product Manager to work with us on App- and Company- wide initiatives. If you're a Product Manager and you'd like to work with the best team in the industry (in my opinion) on some the most important problems, well, DM me :)
Come work with me and my awesome team at Facebook! We're looking for a Product Manager with a specialty in Accessibility. I know, a genuine Purple Squirrel =D
First 2 minutes with new 2017 MBP:
1. Start up browser
2. Install LastPass
3. Get prompted for Yubikey
4. Realize I don't have a USB to USBC dongle
5. Put new 2017 MBP to the side
6. Pull out old 2015 MBP
7. Continue working
Here is the
#1
piece of career advice you will ever get.
When you tell someone that you will do something, provide a date (and a time) that it will be completed by...AND THEN DO IT BY THAT DEADLINE.
That's it. You will be more competent than 99.99999% of everyone else.
So who is interested in joining an accessibility conference in Nairobi, Kenya in March 2020?
We're putting together a hackathon track + practical sessions for the technical folks.
@gbrl_dick
I finally stopped losing my hair in chunks when my team got our first Product Manager. All the questions of "but why is this cool tech important and for whom and how?" were asked of the right people at the right time. Our potential gained direction.
I love all the help we're getting from folks who report bugs against eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y (). Please don't be apprehensive to propose a PR to fix an issue. I'm very nice and cordial in code reviews :) Open source PRs are a great way to learn new skills.
I keep starting a task at work, getting a bit lost in it, then remembering "oh, I should check to see if our government has been overthrown yet."
Rinse. Repeat.
Very productive day
@pervocracy
Same thing happened with "calorie" in the context of food. People came to believe calories are bad and not simply a unit is energy measurement. Most folks are gently ignorant of any formal topic concepts.
@melaniersumner
React is well on its way to building core idioms for declarative focus management.
@trueadm
has been leading this effort. Check out:
and
@ampinsk
How do I stop this? I don't want to be this way! And yet those bolded headings that are not headings must. become. proper. semantic. headings.
Short-term fluctuations will happen. I'm in this field for the long-term. We will solve the pernicious issues of digital accessibility, and we'll do so at world scale.
When all is said and done; when we finally lay our heads down, prepared to pass into that eternal night, one question rests upon the lips of the mortal sojourner:
Will this deck be available after the talk?
Eventually you have so many tabs that looking for the tab with stuff you want is inefficient; it's easy to open a new tab and reload that stuff. This is the tab inflection point.
@wimleers
@nod_
I truly miss working with the Octo team at Acquia. That was one of the few, great teams I've worked on. Great people and a great mission
We're looking for input on the draft Authoring Practices Guide update for Accessible Name Calculation guidance, that will go out in the next version of the Guide.
Also, it's really exciting when you think you've hit a knowledge plateau and you meet someone who points out the mountain in the distance you hadn't even noticed.
Since becoming a manager, opportunities to code have been infrequent. I spent all day building a web app. It's been really fun. PWA development has come a long way. The tooling is astounding.
Front end development is not just pixel pushing. Front end development is experience building. Some experiences don't have a visual component. Some experiences are multi modal. If you got into FEE because you can "see" it, great, but remember that's just one mode.
These next two weeks are going to be terrible for the heartland of America. It will be a tragedy of our own making. I'm sorry some of your leaders are feckless. Please do not re-elect those feckless grifters.