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"description": "Eriol works part-time as the lead designer at The Open Food Network and spends the other days of the week doing freelance projects, open source design contributions and then working on their PhD research, which is around humanitarian open source software and designer contributions.",
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I am an independent accessibility consultant. I work with large and small organizations. I help them improve the accessibility of their websites. I guide them through the creation or improvement of their culture of accessibility. This includes changing how the organization and its people think about disabled people. And about accessibility. Training is a large part of what I do. I also audit digital assets. I do this through manual code review, functional testing, and some automated testing.
As a wheelchair user, I learned about accessibility barriers firsthand a long time ago. Dealing with my own disability-related barriers in the built environment has opened up my mind to barriers in the digital world. I was lucky enough to work with many disabled people, who each had their own access needs.
Accessibility benefits disabled people. It also benefits anyone else who may have access needs - I’m not saying that to erase the disabled experience. Far from it. But let’s face it: Good contrast is good for folks with low vision. It’s also good for anyone trying to look at a website on their phone outside in full sun. Keyboard access is good for folks who can’t use a mouse or a trackpad. But it’s also good for the developer who is a CLI (Command Line Interface) power user.