What Is Accessibility and Why Is It Important?

Web accessibility in its purest form relates to the usability of a website for all people. Can a website be used by everyone? Can everyone perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the functionality of your website / digital product?

Unfortunately, this can’t be said for every website you may stumble across, but making websites usable for everyone should be the standard. Accessibility should be at the forefront of your mind when you create any product, especially for the web. Accessibility should be part of the design, user experience, coding, and testing of everything created to be used by the masses.

How Can I Check The Accessibility Of My Website?

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Software testing verifies that our code works as intended and meets the technical, functional, and user requirements that it needs to. Testing is a vital part of developing any software, but is so often overlooked by new engineers as an area to learn and develop their skills. It doesn’t help that more often than not, it’s hard to find good tutorials, guides or blog posts explaining the different kinds of tests for a code project, and how to actually write these tests.

To begin with, I wanted to go over some important words that pop up all the time around…

We have all seen these words popping up more and more frequently recently, but what does it really mean? and how can we recognise when impostor syndrome begins to manifest itself in our own lives?

Impostor syndrome refers to the state of feeling or believing that you are not as competent as others perceive you to be. You may feel like you are a “fake” and that at any moment, the people around you are going to figure it out, or that you don’t deserve to be where you are, that you only got to where you are through luck.

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Tools can make your life as a developer a whole lot easier, but as a new developer, knowing which tools to use can be confusing. Until now, you’ve probably ended up sticking with tools you were introduced to early on in your coding journey, or ones recommended to you by other devs.

I want to tell you about 5 developer tools I use to improve my workflow, and the main tools I recommend all new developers try out.

Visual Studio Code

When you first start out, it’s really important to set yourself up with a good code editor to write your projects in…

APIs are everywhere, and they play a vital role in modern-day technology. From payment platforms to stock market updates, everything is an API nowadays, and learning to create one yourself is a fundamental step in the path to becoming a full-stack developer.

Note: If you aren’t sure what an API is, I have a handy introduction for you.

In this article, I will discuss three beginner-friendly ways you can create an API:

1. JSON Server
2. Node.js and Express
3. Python and Flask RESTful

Each of these methods has different use cases and uses different tech stacks. …

There are so many things I wish I knew when I started blogging, and I definitely made a fair few mistakes starting out. Looking back after a whole year of consistent blogging, I wanted to give some insight into 5 mistakes I made when I first started my blog (and tips on how to avoid them).

Be Original & Be Yourself

It’s easy when you first start out to slip into creating content that imitates popular trends or writers with thousands of reads.

Reading the work of others is a great way to pick up new writing techniques and popular blog formatting styles. However, there…

As we make a start to the new year, many people will begin with setting goals for the year ahead. While I am all for dreaming big and laying foundations for what you want to achieve in the next 365 days, putting big expectations on yourself and holding yourself to big picture goals can actually be holding you back.

When it comes to outlining what you want to accomplish, having big goals is a great motivator, and they can help you stay focused and guide you towards where you want to be. …

In September, I took my next step and started my first job in tech. As of this December, I will have officially been “in” the tech industry for 100 days. Here are the 5 most important things I learnt in my first 100 days in tech.

There Is Always Something More To Learn

I can be quite a shy person at times, but this is usually only to my own detriment. Starting out in your first job in tech, don’t be afraid to speak to people, be curious and ask questions. If you’re starting as a junior, nobody should expect you to be an expert, so being…