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.
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is a law that was originally passed just over 5 years ago, in mid 2019, and will finally come into full effect and be implemented on the 28th June 2025. It aims to put into place a stronger set of rules for what products and services need to be more accessible, what that accessibility looks like, and what happens if peoples needs are not met. Contents
Some years ago I built out a tool to generate dynamic images for email campaigns based on a variety of different parameters, like random selections from an Instagram gallery, animated gifs marking a countdown, and product images based on the weather in a given area. The latter of those is very simple to do with free APIs. Contents Concept Creating the App Outline
Web accessibility is an incredibly important topic, and should be considered as essential as subjects like security, UX (user experience), and design. Not only can poor accessibility cause usability problems for some people, but it can act as a complete barrier to entry. Your audience may be left feeling that you don't care about them, leading to them go elsewhere, to your competitors (be that in information