Leverage accessibility synergies and turbo-boost your remuneration potential with these three weird tricks!
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Your chums at WebAIM report
The Wall Street Journal indicated that many companies are looking for personnel with accessibility skills and that they can’t find them easily”¦The number of job listings with ”˜accessibility’ in the title grew 78% in the year ending in July [2021] from the previous 12 months, LinkedIn said.
Get ahead! Crush, grind, mash and maim lesser developers! Earn more cash! You can acquire better “accessibility skills” than 90% of the developers on the market by
- using semantic HTML ✅
- doing basic testing ✅ (try using Tota11y)
- giving a shit ✅
(The first two are foundational skills for anyone whose code is allowed anywhere near a web browser. The latter is a foundational skill for ‘being a decent human being’)
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Let’s hope there’s more to this than just ticking the boxes in the job adverts. Sad to say that I think a lot of websites are going backwards. I had hoped that the adoption of usable and tested frameworks which got most of the stuff right would help. But companies still keep trying to get more and more stuff done in JS using someone else’s computer.
My name is Bruce Lawson and I don’t give a shit! Gis a job!