February 12, 2021 in Learn
WCAG 1.3: Adaptable
The third WCAG Guideline, Adaptable, is part of the Perceivable principle and covers adapting to the different needs of users by allowing content to be received in multiple ways. WCAG 1.3: Use Semantic HTML One of the most important ways…
November 20, 2020 in Learn
WCAG 1.2: Time-based Media
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…
November 4, 2020 in Career Advice
Build the Ultimate Ecommerce Business Proposal For Web Development
Nothing is more exciting than hearing an ecommerce client say, “That sounds great! How do we proceed?” So, how DO you go about a new ecommerce project as a web developer? For starters, you need to create a proposal that…
October 6, 2020 in Learn
WCAG 1.1: Text Alternatives
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
Introducing the WCAG Principles
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
Web Accessibility: An Introduction
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…
September 12, 2016 in Community
Home Depot Retail to Freelance Web Developer: an Interview with Techdegree Student Esteban Valdez
Esteban had always thought you needed a college degree to have a career in the tech industry. It wasn’t till he became friends with a self-taught web developer that he realized there were other means of learning to code and successfully launching a…
July 20, 2016 in Community
Empowered by Code: an Interview with Lee Crockford
As an advocate for social change, mental health, the arts and education, freelancer and non-profit organizer Lee Crockford had experience with multitasking taking on new challenges. He also had ideas he wanted to take online but didn’t have the financial…
April 11, 2016 in Community
Kyle’s Story: Building a Valuable Online Resource For My High School
14-year-old Kyle was drawn to the endless opportunities to create and share on the web. In the 8th-grade he began to dive into coding and built a basic website, Study Central for his fellow students to share study guides….
October 29, 2015 in Learn
Mindset: Developer vs Designer
To understand the nuances of what it means to be a developer or a designer let’s take a walk down memory lane and end with where we’re at today. A Little Bit of History When I started dabbling with HTML…
October 14, 2015 in Community
With Treehouse, Victor Discovered a Passion for Front End Development and Landed a Web Dev Position
Victor Ollervidez discovered a passion for the creativity of coding in middle school. But it wasn’t until college when Victor began his degree in multimedia that he was able to focus on learning to code and aspiring to work on…
May 27, 2015 in Learn
Creating Static Pages in Ruby on Rails
Roll Your Own Static Pages in a Rails App Have you ever wanted to create static pages in a Rails application? These are pages which don’t necessarily contain any dynamic info or pull from the database, and don’t require an…