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September 23, 2016
Last night, I spoke all about accessibility at Refresh DC. Below are my slides & resources. Tools & Resources Vox Product Accessibility Guidelines Tota11y Bookmarklet Colour Contrast Analyser WAVE Chrome extension Colorsafe: To make accessible palettes Color Oracle: To simulate color blindness Microsoft Inclusive Design...
August 31, 2016
We’re part of the team behind Vox Product’s Accessibility Guidelines. We’re excited to answer any and all questions you have about accessibility, Vox Media, our teams, and our favorite lunch spots, but before we get there, a little background on our foray into accessibility.
July 18, 2016
In May, six Vox Media team members gathered in Washington, D.C., for two days to figure out how to approach accessibility on a company-wide scale. We have many advocates for accessibility throughout the company, but at the time of our gathering, we didn’t have a...
April 7, 2016
Last week, ten Vox Product members met in San Francisco to attend Clarity, a conference about style guides and design systems. As a growing company, this is something that we (like everyone!) are struggling with internally and trying improve on.
July 6, 2015
I first started going to tech events when I was in college. I loved them. Being surrounded by people with the same interests as me, people who were excited, people who shared their passions, people who welcomed me even though I was new. It was...
June 1, 2015
This past weekend was the first ever DCFemTech Hack for Good. I had the pleasure of working with Cat Robinson, Beth Soderberg, and Jessie Link to make this happen. It was a really great experience and I think it went pretty well. I have been...
March 15, 2015
Femsplain is a website that publishes content by creators who identify as women. Their goal is to “highlight all the amazing diversity of women on the Internet who might not have another outlet to share their experiences.” Femsplain’s Kickstarter was recently funded (!) and they...
November 20, 2014
How would you save Earth from a deadly asteroid? On October 23rd, we posed that very question to five brave designers in a series of four timed challenges during Vox Media’s first ever Pixel Punch. Over 100 attendees came to watch Victor Ware, Joseph Le,...