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My goals as The Washington Post’s first-ever Accessibility Engineer

Having an engineer dedicated to accessibility will help us align our efforts, maintain up-to-date standards and explore new opportunities.

Jan 25, 2023

A stick figure stands inside a dark blue circle with arms outstretched. There is another, thinner blue circle outlining the one in which the stick figure stands. The background color, including the stick figure’s body and space between the circles, is white. This icon is commonly associated with web accessibility.

Jan 25, 2023

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My goals as The Washington Post’s new Accessibility Engineer (in plain language)

The Washington Post cares about accessibility, and it is helpful to have an Accessibility Engineer. This job gives me time to focus on it.

Jan 25, 2023

A stick figure stands inside a dark blue circle with arms outstretched. There is another, thinner blue circle outlining the one in which the stick figure stands. The background color, including the stick figure’s body and space between the circles, is white. This icon is commonly associated with web accessibility.

Jan 25, 2023

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Washington Post Engineering

Accessibility case study: Pairing election data visualizations with tables

In a previous blog post, we discussed ways to make election results pages more accessible to users navigating via screen readers. An…

Mar 14, 2022

Screenshot of Texas 2022 primaries results page on mobile, specifically showing the county-level results table is visible to the naked eye

Mar 14, 2022

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Washington Post Engineering

Keyboard focus: Helping users navigate The Post without a mouse

Some people with motor disabilities do not use a mouse. Instead, they navigate content using their keyboard. Ensure your site supports…

Dec 14, 2021

A screenshot of The Washington Post website with the search button highlighted with a blue outline

Dec 14, 2021

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Washington Post Engineering

Improving screen reader and keyboard accessibility on election results pages

Between primaries, a recall and a German election — and with the November elections imminent—The Washington Post’s News Engineering team…

Oct 7, 2021

gif showing the skip to main content link on our Ohio election results page being highlighted and clicked, then jumping the user down to highlight the first link in the page’s main content

Oct 7, 2021

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Washington Post Engineering

How we enhanced our site’s UX and boosted Core Web Vitals scores

By Holden Foreman (Software Engineer) and Julie Bacon (Site Engineering Manager)

Aug 19, 2021

Snapshot showing how our CWV scores where roughly the same throughout July 2021 until the end of the month, at which point the percent of URLs in the red or yellow dropped steeply while the percent of URLs in the green rose steeply

Aug 19, 2021

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Washington Post Engineering

We can’t automate alt text. Here are some mistakes, lessons and what we can do for accessibility.

Correct use of alt text is essential to web accessibility. You may be well-versed in alt text, but (if you haven’t already) please read…

Jul 21, 2021

A Washington Post article with VoiceOver in use to show how it reads the featured image alt text

Jul 21, 2021

Holden Foreman

Holden Foreman

Accessibility Engineer at The Washington Post

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