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Testing in 2020, according to my Twitter bookmarks

It goes without saying that 2020 was a weird year for everybody. I wasn’t nearly as active on Twitter as I was last year, but thought I would try this again anyway. Just a few highlights from the testing twittersphere, based on what I thought to bookmark throughout the year. In no particular order, first… Read more

One weekend as a #1x front-end developer

Gerg.dev has a new design! I spent the better part of this weekend writing a WordPress theme (mostly) from the ground up. As a tester dabbling in front-end development, here are some things I reflected on during this mini project. I’m a #1xEngineer This weekend, the #1xEngineer hashtag was all over my feed, as a… Read more

Test Driven Markup and other tips

Everything but content is an enhancement. Heydon Pickering, “Inclusive Design Patterns” Last fall I had the pleasure to see Heydon Pickering speak at the #a11yTO conference in Toronto. He was not only an entertaining speaker but I also learned a ton listening to him. After the conference I got a copy of his book Inclusive… Read more

Testability as observability and the Accessibility Object Model

I attended a talk today by Rob Dodson on some proposals for the Accessibility Object Model that are trying to add APIs for web developers to more easily manipulate accessibility features of their apps and pages. Rob went through quite a few examples of the benefits the proposed APIs would bring, from simple type checking… Read more