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Sorry, but I have to share some frustration with you guys today — after all, that’s what Twitter is for ;) I’m currently working on a big project (€40m budget) doing accessibility work. The management just wants me to do “enough”, so that we don’t get caught by the external ..Permalink On twitter.com
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2022 Feb 4
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accessibility reviewer. Also, I "only have to test in NVDA", as that is what the reviewer is using. Obviously I want to test across browsers and assistive technologies, but the whole culture of this company/project is "Let's just do enough", and to me that is completely ..Permalink On twitter.com
2022 Feb 4
Mood +1 🙂
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unacceptable. Furthermore, the project has been ongoing for more than two years, and I've only just started, and I have never (in more than 20 years in the business) seen such a bad codebase. There are no coding standards, no linting, not even a prettier-file! To top it off, ...On twitter.com
2022 Feb 4
Mood -5 🙁
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the entire frontend is littered with un-necessary "role"-attributes and "aria-*"-attributes. One example: the have wrapped the main navigation (which is a div-element) in a ... wait for it ... fieldset, "to make sure that screenreaders will convey the info"! ...Permalink On twitter.com
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2022 Feb 4
Mood 0
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I'm less than two weeks into this assignment, and I don't think I'll last much longer. I have seriously never seen anything like it, and it's such a shame, because it's an important and public (tax-funded!) project, but the quality of the codebase and the culture in the place ...Permalink On twitter.com
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2022 Feb 4
Mood +4 🙂
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is pretty much unbearable. Anyways, I don't work fridays, so I'm going to enjoy today. Thanx for listening Twitter Peeps :) Have a nice weekend!Permalink On twitter.com
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2022 Feb 4
Mood +4 🙂