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Guest

Luisa M. Morales, luisam.com.

Summary

As many as 15 to 25 percent of your site’s potential users may have trouble accessing it due to some kind of disability. How can you design your site to allow your content to be usable by the widest variety of users? My guest today is Luisa Morales, an engineering fellow at the New York City Mayor’s office for Economic Opportunity. We talk about what accessibility means, how to design your site to be accessible, and what guidelines to use to help ensure success. We’ll also talk about a very literal form of accessibility — making your site behave in a way that it is accessible to users with limited bandwidth or older devices. We’d like to hear from you. What issues or successes have you had with accessibility? Let us know at techdoneright.io or on Twitter at @tech_done_right.

Notes

02:15 - Defining “Accessibility” and the Population Who May Be Affected

• W3C Guidelines

05:00 - What Web Devs Can Do To Makes Sites Accessible

07:30 - ARIA

09:55 - How Screen Readers Work

12:45 - How To Build in Accessibility

• h1 Elements

17:36 - Approaching Page Design

20:23 - Auditing Accessibility Issues

• JAWS
• NVDA
• High Contrast
• ChromeVox
• Browserstack
• Pa11y

22:20 - Accessibility Based on Access

• Progressive Web App
• Accelerated Mobile Pages
• The minimalist version of CNN is actually at http://lite.cnn.io

26:49 - Accessibility, JavaScript, Single-page Apps and Site Simulation

32:04 - Accessibility is for everyone: Reasons You Should Care

Special Guest: Luisa Morales.

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Summary

What can a small company do to improve its diversity and inclusion practices when your company just isn't changing personnel quickly enough to improve via hiring? Here to discuss this are Meara Charnetzki from Table XI, Michael Donnelly from the FWD Collective and Elena Valentine from Skill Scout. We'll all about company values, supporting a wider community, using internal feedback, and what to do to encourage improvement at your company.

Guests

• Meara Charnetzki of Table XI
• Michael Donnelly of The FWD Collective
  
• Elena Valentine of Skill Scout

Notes

02:56 - Advice For Small Companies Interested in Being More Diverse

09:08 - Vetting Companies for Diversity & Inclusion Values

13:59 - Having a Healthy Company Feedback System

• Know Your Company
• Managing for Career Development with Claire Lew

17:02 - Building Relationships as a Company Leader

20:09 - Diversity and Inclusion Benefits Everyone

23:31 - Encouraging Companies to Start D&I Initiatives as an Employee

30:45 - Company Exit Interviews

32:26 - Salary Transparency

35:51 - Flexible Working Structures

Related Episodes

• Diverse Agile Teams with Marlena Compton, Betsy Haibel, and Jennifer Tu
• Your First 100 Days at a New Company with Katie Gore and Elizabeth Trepkowski Hodos
• Managing for Career Development with Claire Lew

Special Guests: Elena Valentine, Meara Charnetzki, and Michael Donnelly.

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Guests

• Marlena Compton: Organizer of PearConf.
• Betsy Haibel: CTO at Cohere.
• Jennifer Tu: Co-Founder at Cohere.

Summary

How do common Agile practices like pair programming and retrospectives work when you have diverse teams? How can you make sure that underrepresented team members have their voices heard, and how does doing so improve the way that your team delivers software? Besty Haibel, Jennifer Tu, and Marlena Compton discuss ways in which Agile practices can better serve your team in the real world. For more discussion, be sure to check out PearConf.

Notes

02:05 - Pairing and Agile Development on Diverse Teams

• Betsy on Twitter

04:31 - Implicit Agreement, Teaching Vs Exploring, and Power Differentials in Pairing

• Ruby DCamp
• Code Retreat
• Allison McMillan

08:52 - Understanding and Improving Team Dynamics: Building a Library of Smells

• Pairing With Privilege
• Ping Pong Pairing
• Troll Pairing
• Table XI Pair-A-Palooza Station

17:57 - Good Agile Pair Programming Techniques + Retrospective Roles

• Running your unconference discussions effectively: AdaCamp session role cards

22:14 - Making People Comfortable When Speaking Up and Making Agile Healthier

• Dot-Voting

32:30 - Agile As An Institution

• Agile Manifesto

38:34 - Backing Away From The Idea of Perfection

42:42 - PearConf Details

43:55 - Bonus Conversation: The Practices Not Being the Manifesto

• The Winter Getaway That Turned The Software World Upside down by Caroline Mimbs Nyce

Related Episodes

• Nonviolent Conversation with Nadia Odunayo
• How Set Design Can Inform Software Architecture With Betsy Haibel
• Agile Teams and Escaping Velocity with Doc Norton and Claire Podulka

Special Guests: Betsy Haibel, Jennifer Tu, and Marlena Compton.

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Guests

• John Gore: Founder of CultureScape; Everyone Onboard.
• Shay Howe: ActiveCampaign Design Team Leader; Lead Honestly

Summary

Tech Done Right is looking at onboarding from both sides. In this episode we talk with Shay Howe and John Gore about onboarding from the company side. We talk about what a new company can do to set a new employee up to be successful and how best to structure that support. How can you best give feedback? What are common onboarding mistakes?

See Also

Episode 36: Your First 100 Days At A New Company

Notes

02:21 - Integrating a New Employee

04:36 - Balancing Technical and Cultural Needs

11:57 - Company Responsibility for Employee Integration: Feedback and Praise

15:34 - Sharing Expectations

18:15 - Soliciting Feedback and Making Connections

25:44 - Common Mistakes Made When Onboarding

27:24 - When It’s Not a Good Fit / Warning Signs

30:42 - Onboarding for Culture and Diversity

34:19 - Communicating Culture to New Employees

Special Guests: John Gore and Shay Howe.

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Guest

Liz Abinante: Senior Software Engineer at GitHub and occasionally acts as Ruby Documentation Empress at RubyTogether. Blogs at lizabinante.com.

Summary

What responsibility do developers have for the consequences of their code? Liz Abinante joins the show to talk about overlooked consequences, big and small, and what you can do if you find your self being asked to do something you think is unethical. Along the way, we talk about user data, the cloud, making career choices you are comfortable with, and why you should always go to Canadian college engineering conferences when asked.

Notes

01:39 - The Social Responsibility of Coding Talk

• Why do people keep coming to this couple's home looking for lost phones?
• Reply All 53: In The Desert
• The Not-So-Wholesome Reality Behind The Making of Your Meal Kit
• VW Engineer Sentenced

07:35 - Being Responsible For Data

14:09 - Speaking Up for Ethical Practices

21:44 - Staying at an Unreputable Company and Guiding Your Career

• Amazon Key

28:29 - Being Aware of the Context You’re Coding In

• The Impact

34:30 - Liz’s Talk Audience

• CUSEC

37:30 - Empathy and Ethics Training

Related Episodes

• Nonviolent Conversation with Nadia Odunayo
• Using Software to Create Better Countries: Recovering Healthcare.gov with Andy Slavitt
• Open-Source Community Management and Safety With Coraline Ada Ehmke and Yana Carstens

Special Guest: Liz Abinante.

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Guest

Nadia Odunayo, nadiaodunayo.com, Co-host of Ruby Book Club, director at Ignition Works.

Summary

Do you have interactions with co-workers where one or both of you get angry and defensive, and everybody ends up frustrated? Today we talk to Nadia Odunayo about "Nonviolent Communication", a way to communicate that honestly addresses issues, explaining how you feel without harming the other person, and getting everybody to the point where they feel better about the situation and have a clear path to move forward. Nadia gives examples of how she uses nonviolent communication in her day-to-day life, and she tries to coach me to improve my own skills. By focusing on communication your needs and not assuming anything about others, you can make difficult discussions less difficult.

Notes

01:47 - Nonviolent Communication

• Nadia’s Talk: This Code Sucks: A Story About Nonviolent Communication

• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg

03:16 - A Concrete Example of Violent and Nonviolent Communication: A Code Review

07:08 - How should a manager communicate nonviolently?

11:01 - Judging and Assuming People’s Character Subconsciously

• Fundamental Attribution Error

18:11 - How has nonviolent communication affected your day-to-day interactions?

24:14 - Self-Empathy: Being Non-Violent with Yourself

28:32 - Transparency and Vulnerability

32:15 - Nonviolent Communication and Being Nice/Kind

36:17 - Screaming Nonviolently

• Masters of Love

Special Guest: Nadia Odunayo.

Summary

Want to start speaking at conferences? We go over how to get your first conference acceptance, then how to become a better speaker over time. For conference organizers, we also discuss how to find the best speakers from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. Carina C. Zona (@cczona) and Mark Yoon (@wimyoon) join Noel Rappin (@noelrap) on this episode of Tech Done Right.

Notes

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Carina C. Zona: Longtime developer and advocate in the tech community, certified sex educator, founder of @CallbackWomen

Mark Yoon: Developer and Director of Talent at Table XI

01:12 - @CallbackWomen: What it is and How it Came to Be

• Website with More Information
• DevChix

05:45 - Questions You Should Ask as a First-time Speaker and Speaker Outreach

10:06 - The Goal and Mission of @CallbackWomen

• On BritRuby (Avdi Grimm’s Blog Post Re: Diversity at Conferences)
• Carina’s Talk: Schemas for the Real World

15:24 - Advice for Conference Organizers to Make Conferences Accessible to Everyone; Internal and External Barriers for Potential Speakers

23:29 - Everyone Has Something Valuable to Contribute and Talk About: Approaching Talk Proposals

• Nadia Odunayo: The Guest: A Guide To Code Hospitality

32:28 - Getting a Talk Accepted

• Nickolas Means: How to Crash an Airplane @ RubyConf 2015

38:38 - Benefits and Impacts of Speaking at a Conference

Special Guests: Carina C. Zona and Mark Yoon.

Sponsored By:

• Table XI: A trusted UX design + software development company. We are 35 meticulous and curious minds in Chicago with a 15 year history of building websites, mobile applications and custom digital experiences for everyone from startups to storied brands. Our partners trust us to create innovative solutions that drive their businesses forward.

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Guests

Coraline Ada Ehmke: Open Source Advocate, Creator of The Contributor Covenant, Founding Panelist of Greater Than Code, Senior Engineer on the Community and Safety Team at GitHub

Yana Carstens: Senior User Experience Designer at Table XI

Summary

How can you manage a social media site to maximize community and make all contributors feel safe? Coraline Ada Ehmke (@CoralineAda), from GitHub's Community and Safety Team, and Yana Carstens (@YanaCarstens), a Senior UX designer with Table XI, join Noel on this episode of Tech Done Right. We discuss tools for allowing users more control over their social media environment and community, and how to use personas in design as a way to understand user's goals and guide them toward positive community actions.

Notes

02:59 - GitHub’s Community Management and Anti-Harassment Tools Team and the Problems that They Are Trying to Solve

06:47 - Exposing Anti-Harassment Features and Making Them Prominent, Improving User Experience, and Identifying Harassers

15:10 - Throwing Friction to “Jerkfaces”; Block Functionality

19:13 - Sentiment Analysis

• Eudora

26:38 - Working Together with Other Social Platforms

• Chatham House Rules

30:38 - What does success look like? “Social Coding”

33:05 - Visibility and Flagging of Comments

Resources:

Coraline:

• GitHub Community Guidelines

Yana:

• Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience by Jeff Gothelf
• UX Booth
• UX Mastery
• Usability.gov

Special Guests: Coraline Ada Ehmke and Yana Carstens.

Sponsored By:

• Table XI: A trusted UX design + software development company. We are 35 meticulous and curious minds in Chicago with a 15 year history of building websites, mobile applications and custom digital experiences for everyone from startups to storied brands. Our partners trust us to create innovative solutions that drive their businesses forward.