My name is Ashley Sheridan. I'm an engineering manager, full stack web developer, accessibility blogger and orator, dad of the most energetic boys in existence, and toy-fixer extraordinaire.
I operated as the web team lead and accessibility expert at Livedrive. I also write quite extensively in my blog about web accessibility, and have created various accessibility tools such as a HTML tag picker tool, and an accessibility checklist tool to help development at various stages.
Icons on the Web are a natural extension of their use across computer systems since the early graphical user interfaces (GUIs) came about. For over 50 years, we've been using icons to summarise information in picture form, giving users ways to quickly identify objects and actions in order to make their tasks more efficient. But while the focus has always been on the graphical nature of these icons
I'm a big fan of Dungeons & Dragons, and have been for years, first playing the book adaptions of the game, before moving on to the group tabletop version and the computer games based on the tabletop rules. The recent success of Baldurs Gate 3 has seen a surge in the popularity of the genre. I wanted to take this passion and turn it into something creative using my skills as a developer. Contents
Screen readers are an important part of how people browse the web, especially so for those people who can't see a screen. However, screen readers can struggle presenting your visuals correctly if you haven't written clean code and created well thought out content that can be understood and presented as you intended. By understanding and considering the types of content and the problems that can occur