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TD Cafe #010 - Steve Wirt & John Jameson

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Join John and Steve as they delve into the intricacies and challenges of maintaining Drupal modules, comparing experiences with WordPress, and sharing their journey in making web development more accessible. They discuss their personal stories, the learning curve in module development, balancing user experience, and the importance of contributing back to the community. Learn about their current projects, thoughts on AI's role in accessibility, and get inspired by their dedication to improving the web for all users.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/cafe010

Topics

Drupal Beginnings: Personal Stories
Journey into Module Development
Accessibility in Web Development
Navigating the Learning Curve in Development
The Importance of Community and Collaboration
Challenges in Module Maintenance
Comparing Drupal and WordPress
Innovative Approaches to Development
Pet Peeves and Frustrations
Future Directions and AI Integration
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Steve Wirt

Being a Developer and Tech Lead at CivicActions has exposed him to the experience of working on some of the largest government websites in the United States. A passion for opensourcing as much as possible has lead him to develop a growing number of modules, with two addressing accessibility Alt Text Validation & Node Link Report)

John Jameson

As the Digital Accessibility Developer at Princeton University, John has come to believe that the biggest barrier to accessible content is the idea that training can compensate for unintuitive authoring interfaces. So far his work to fix the authoring interfaces, to make workflows intuitive and accessible by default, has resulted in the Editoria11y Accessibility Checker and Link Purpose Icons JS libraries and Drupal modules.

Guests

Steve Wirt - swirt John Jameson - itmaybejj

Resources

Modules

Editoria11y Accessibility Checker https://www.drupal.org/project/editoria11y
Link Purpose Icons https://www.drupal.org/project/linkpurpose
Alt Text Validation https://www.drupal.org/project/alt_text_validation
Node Link Report https://www.drupal.org/project/node_link_report

Talking Drupal #490 Contrib First https://talkingdrupal.com/490 Contrib First https://guidebook.civicactions.com/en/latest/common-practices-tools/contribution/contrib-first/

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