Tag: professional development
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Coming up for air (2024)
Summary (with humor): Middle-aged, neurodivergent woman strives to achieve new goals for the new year, now that her energy and motivation have returned. I don’t know about everyone else, but, for me, these past 4 years have been hard. Lots of changes. Lots of disappointments. And, unsurprisingly, so many survival tactics and re-prioritizing. COVID-19 kicked…
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Webinar: How to Design Accessible Websites
On February 2, 2022 I gave an intro to accessibility talk for Buddy. It was fun having the chance to encourage more people to make their website accessible. Video runs 1 hour and 17 minutes. I’ve been assured professional captions and transcripts will be available soon. Slides PowerPoint slides (103 Kb) PDF slides (153 Kb)…
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Launching 100 Days of A11y Site
In honor of Blue Beanie Day (November 30) and in conjunction with my own preparation for IAAP’s Web Accessibility Standards certification exam, I’m committing to a second round of 100 Days of Accessibility and launched an 100DaysOfA11y website to keep me accountable. My hope during my study process is to provide you digestible snippets about…
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Creating Accessible Webinars
Today I had the privilege to teach a small group of state librarians across the United States how to create accessible webinars. This being my first webinar, I was SO nervous! But it turned out well and I had great feedback and interaction through chat and audio. A whole lot of thanks goes out to…
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Enabling People through Digital Accessibility
I’m halfway through my 100 Days of Accessibility journey! In concert with this achievement, I’ve recently completed the University of Southampton’s free online course about Digital Accessibility and am ready to review what I’ve learned over the 5-week online course. Below are my highlights of emphasized points, ideas new to me, and a-ha moments as a web…
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How to Learn Web Accessibility
What does someone need to do to learn web accessibility? Take a first step forward with the desire to learn. The only way to achieve anything is to start doing something about it. Now that I’ve committed to #100DaysOfA11y, where do I begin?? I want to make the most of my 100 days, so I’ll…
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The Impact of 100 Days of Code
“You do it because the doing of it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing.” ― Amy Poehler, Yes Please Over 100 days ago, I decided that this was it. I was tired of sitting, wishing for more, reading the books, and watching the…
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Fourteenth Week of 100 Days of Code
So close to the end! The work that highlighted my week included: completion of Free Code Camp’s JavaScript calculator advanced project steps toward completion of Free Code Camp’s Pomodoro clock advanced project Phew! 2 days until completion of my first 100 days journey! Stay tuned for my big wrap-up post and plans for my next 100…
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Thirteenth Week of 100 Days of Code
As the end draws closer, I’m scrambling to check off items on my to-code list. This week was focused, but few bullet points show how much focus went into it. My accomplishments this week: created a CSS robot pushed more code to Women Who Code repo uploaded my portfolio to my personal site and did…
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Twelfth Week of 100 Days of Code
So much to be proud of this week: completed the Advanced Algorithm Scripts level of Free Code Camp (FCC) made progress on the interactive part of my first FCC advanced project: JavaScript calculator designed and hand-coded a new online portfolio that I am much prouder of learned some PHP so I could create a form…