Denver Node.js meetup - Refactoring for Accessibility -- hirediversity.us by Kim Schlesin

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During the last year, I led a small team of developers to build the platform for hirediversity.us. In order to launch our product quickly, we took a lot of shortcuts and accrued a lot of tech debt. I stepped down from diversity at the end of March 2019, and during my last month at the company, I refactored the codebase. I discovered that for us, working on an accessibility-related refactor was more important than a pure code refactor.

During this talk, I will cover:
• Which audit tools you can use to identify accessibility-related issues
• Why your engineering organization should commit to accessibility being an ongoing process

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Kim Schlesinger is a Site Reliability Engineer at ReactiveOps. Prior to being an SRE, Kim co-founded diversity, and she was an Instructor, Web Developer, and Curriculum Designer for the Full-Stack Immersive Program at Galvanize. Kim loves working at the intersection of tech and adult education.

In her spare time, Kim is a CrossFit athlete and she is the Head of Education and Content for Develop Denver, a 2-day conference for developers, designers, strategists and tech leaders. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/brookzerker



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