Accessibility Training
Wow, what a busy week. Today we had the first day of an internal conference at Yahoo! about Front-end engineering or as they say in internal acroynization F2E
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There are two things that I notice in particular:
- We have so many really really smart people at Y!
- We are in a great position to offer accessibility training
While the first point may seem a little like propaganda, I really don’t mean it to be. I’m always very proud of our European team, with people like Heillman and Drew to just skim the surface. However, being in the crazy Yahoo! land that is the Sunnyvale campus I was blown away time after time by the people I met.
The YUI Team are a bit obvious, but people like Scott Schiller and Philip Tellis and many others are also a joy to spend time with. We had dinner last night with a new Yahoo! and it was interesting to see him be a little shell shocked by the general knowledge people displayed at the table. You guys are really scary, you know that?
, he said after a discussion about JSON security. Half a year ago I would have said the same thing, now it’s starting to become normal.
The second point refers to the high quality of talks at the conference this week. One of the main themes was accessibility, and there is some great material being presented. I particularly enjoyed seeing Victor Tsaran’s work with the YUI Team. I hope to see more stuff like this, and open up as much of our accessibility material to the community as we can.
So, Yahoo! really has the best web front-end developers in the world. I’m so pleased to be here. I guess my brainwashing is complete, but hey, may my blood run purple.
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