Building accessible engineering teams with accessible code.
Nihil de nobis, sine nobis – it’s a slogan that originated in political discourse, but entered the scene of disability rights in the 1990s. Translated, it might look more familiar: ‘Nothing about us without us’.
Diverse engineering teams build better products because they’re more familiar with different ways that their products might be used. When engineers think about accessibility, they think about tab order, alt-text, contrast, and variable inputs. But accessibility is all-too-frequently an afterthought.
At its core, accessibility is about removing barriers to access. Diversity includes disability, but disabled employees are rarely represented on these teams due to a lack of accessibility.
