William Dodson
Designer/Developer/A11y in Manassas, VA, He/Him
Looking for product design opportunities to help companies ensure that accessibility is a priority from the start
About
I help the companies that I work with understand the benefits of an accessible, semantically-sound approach to their design and development efforts. I believe that the user experience extends beyond the browser to numerous devices and contexts and that accessible, inclusive design works everywhere.
Writing
We all find ourselves using separately maintained Git projects inside of our own personal projects. It’s a common situation and most projects I’ve worked on used Git Submodules for the task. However, if you’ve worked on enough projects that use submodules you know it’s terribly, well…terrible.
Work Experience
Accessibility testing and auditing for several major US and CA clients using JAWS, JAWS Inspect, ZoomText, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack to test against WCAG 2.x A/AA Success Criterion. Manual and automated testing suite included AMP (Accessibility Management Platform), manual code inspection using browser development tools, and other internal proprietary tools. Authoring of Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) using Level Access and client-specific Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs). PDF auditing using Adobe Acrobat accessibility testing tools.
Accessibility testing and auditing for several major US and CA clients, using JAWS, JAWS Inspect, ZoomText, NVDA, and VoiceOver to test against WCAG 2.0/2.1 A/AA Success Criterion. Manual and automated testing suite included ARC Toolkit, aXe, Colour Contrast Analyser, and internal proprietary tools. Worked on the marketing website providing major updates to a custom WordPress installation using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), JavaScript, Google Analytics, HubSpot integrations, CSS3/Sass, and PHP. The marketing website also required strict WCAG 2.1 AA testing requirements.
Website development on NFO (navyfederal.org) using PHP, Java (Adobe Experience Manager), JavaScript, React, HTML5, CSS3/Sass, and Gulp. Strict ADA testing requirements.
Brand development, Website and application user interface (UI) design, illustration, and graphic design using Ruby/Ruby on Rails, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Adobe graphics programs (Fireworks, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator), and OmniGraffle (wireframes).