Software engineer focussed on web frontends and accessibility.

Past affiliations: Quansight-Labs, Project Jupyter, PyData

Here is a small selection of open source contributions that I am proud of 🌈

JupyterLab

• Make focus visible (mostly CSS)- #13415
  • Advocated and removed an accessibility anti-pattern
  • This PR demonstrates the high quality of self-review I do on every PR before asking for code review
• Make file browser respond to focussed elements- #13577
  • I thoroughly explored keyboard interactions on every file browser in Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu, as well as web-based file browsers, such as Dropbox and Google Drive. I applied my learnings to score a major win for keyboard accessibility for JupyterLab.
• Add checkboxes to file browser- #12299
  • This was a big deal because it was a feature blocking the release of a complete revamp of Jupyter Notebook, a document-centric interface
• Quansight-Labs/jupyter-a11y-testing
  • This was cool because we used GitHub Actions in this GitHub repository to run accessibility tests against pull requests in other repositories, specifically JupyterLab
  • Important lesson learned: Playwright is powerful but resource-heavy and slow compared to traditional automated tests.
• Gave a talk at JupyterCon about accessibility testing. Put a lot of care into the accessibility of both the talk and the slides (which is why I used Comic Sans and HackMD for the slides).

PyData Sphinx Theme

• Conducted a team accessibility audit and remediation effort
• Made significant contributions, mostly related to accessibility tests and fixes. All of my merged PRs on pydata-sphinx-theme repo
• Wrote about some of the work in a blog post titled Towards Inclusive Documentation: the PyData Sphinx Theme, Before and After Accessibility Fixes. Put a lot of care into making the blog post accessible.

Axe-core

• fix(landmark-unique): follow spec, aside -> landmark - #4469
  • Fixed one of the Axe-core accessibility checks: aligned it with W3C standards