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Anwar Montasir is a web developer, UX designer, and instructor based in Portland, OR. I’m currently employed as a Software Development Instructor at Treehouse.
January 7, 2021 in Learn
My name is Anwar Montasir, and I’m a designer, a developer, and a teacher at Treehouse. I’m excited to kick off 2021 by announcing the launch of three new CSS courses as part of the Front End Web Development Techdegree:…
November 20, 2020 in Learn
The second WCAG Guideline, Time-based Media, is part of the Perceivable principle and covers providing alternatives for audio and video content. Accessible Podcasts A text transcript can make audio-only content like a podcast accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing users, as…
October 6, 2020 in Learn
The first WCAG Guideline, Text Alternatives, is part of the Perceivable principle. The guideline states Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms people need, such as large print, braille, speech, symbols,…
September 10, 2020 in Learn
In my introductory blog post on Accessibility , I mentioned that the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is broken up into four accessibility principles: Perceivable Operable Understandable Robust These four principles are then divided into thirteen accessibility guidelines. Each WCAG…
July 30, 2020 in Learn
Throughout my career as a web design and development educator, I’ve noticed a consistent lack of attention paid to Accessibility principles in both college and bootcamp curriculum. The results of a 2018 WebAIM global survey of web accessibility practitioners was…
February 3, 2020 in Learn
My name is Anwar Montasir, and I’m a designer, a developer, and a teacher at Treehouse. I’m excited to announce the launch of the newest version of our UX Techdegree! When I started at Treehouse in October, one of my…
