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.
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about building a Dungeons & Dragons game that I was developing in two parts: an API built in Laravel, and a UI developed in Angular. After working on this for nearly 2 years, I'm pleased to say that it's finally live! Contents What Did I Do? The Backend Backend Stats The Frontend
YouTube is at it again, causing problems for people, by removing displayed lyrics for people using free accounts, causing an issue for anyone who was relying on them. It's an attempt to force those people to pay for something they relied on, making them targets just for having a disability that is helped by having lyrics. Contents What Exactly Happened Is This An Accessibility Issue?
The European Accessibility Act enters the enforcment stage on the 28th of June, giving website owners and maintainers just slightly over a week to make their websites and services compliant, or risk fines, sanctions, or even outright bans, depending on the severity of the non-compliance. Contents What is the EAA? What is Covered? How to Report