Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Accessibility issues you can discover and fix using the browser Developer Tools
I’ve been busy lately writing and recording a lot of things concerning accessibility and tooling. One of the practical upshots of my Skillshare Class Product Management: Tools for Improving Product Accessibility was that I had to go through the documentation of the developer tools of Microsoft Edge and bring it up-to-date with new information about […]
The (new) Developer Advocacy Handbook is live!
I just finished the writing part of the new edition of the Developer Advocacy Handbook. I wrote the original almost 15 years ago, and this edition is a heavy re-write. A lot has changed in the world of Developer Advocacy and I tried to add my findings over the last few years to the book. […]
Automated accessibility testing gets you on the way, but doesn’t find all the problems
Testing your products for accessibility issues is a tricky thing. Your users have all kind of different needs and setups. They use computers in ways that appear daunting to you and hard to replicate. Any sighted person that used a screen reader to test their products can verify this. Often we turn off the sound […]
I have a new course on Skillshare: Product Management: Tools for Improving Product Accessibility
I’m super happy to announce that a new class of mine is now live at Skillshare. The title is Product Management: Tools for Improving Product Accessibility and in it I am covering a lot of tools to automatically check for accessibility in your products, but more importantly what you can do in your browser to […]
Answering questions about my career for honeypot.io
A few weeks ago Honeypot.io asked me to answer a few questions about my career, and here is the video of my answers. 00:00 Introduction 00:31 What are your top tips for career advancement? 02:03 What strengths are most important for a developer? 04:07 Work-life balance: how do you do it? 05:11 What mistakes have […]