1/4 Challenge: A public dashboard for COVID19 data that meets our accessibility/performance standards. Our dev team Aaron Hans @chachasikes jbum Carter Medlin, working w/ Dept. of Technology California Department of Public Health, used our equity dashboard to figure it out covid19.ca.gov/equity/

A huge shout-out to Aaron Hans for a fantastic article on Going Headless, with a detailed guide and personal experiences around headless. smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/going-…

It is a privilege working with the brilliant AngieQ! Vote

Great demo on how to make sure screenreader users can tab into chart elements and have the relevant tooltips read to them as they move around a data visualization

Yep, love the browser's built in component model

You can’t keep murdering people and then calling for peace. That’s not how anything works.

ODI is hiring! If you’re a full stack developer interested in joining or just learning more about ODI, mark your calendar for this Thursday or Friday (04/29 or 04/30), 11am-12pm, and join Udaya Patnaik, Aaron Hans, @chachasikes for a convo and Q&A. state-of-california-agency.forms.fm/full-stack-dev…

The Build Awesome (Eleventy) project's performance focus make it excellent for building government services that are fast for everybody

📣 New! All the Ways to make a Web Component - May 2021 Edition! 🤯 With 55 Web Components libraries compared ⌨️ Code styles 📊 Bundle sizes 🏎️ Performance All compared in one article! More details in thread below ⤵️ #webcomponents #webdev webcomponents.dev/blog/all-the-w…

Big win for California! Chach and Britt are brilliant

“Automated accessibility testing gets you on the way, but doesn’t find all the problems” chrisheilmann.medium.com/you-cant-autom… by Chris Heilmann codepo8.bsky.social

Thrilled to have our very own Udaya Patnaik AngieQ Aaron Hans Anne Neville-Bonilla join the TechCalifornia Tech Forum yesterday, discussing ODI’s mission to deliver better government services to Californians through people-centered tech and design. A highlight reel… 🧵

Interesting. Google was indexing WordPress pages only "not very often". Now, by reducing response time ~75% moving to Netlify headless, we're getting 5 to 8 times the crawl rate. Orange is response time. Blue is the number pages crawled.

When it comes to translating web content, there are a ton of accessibility practices that go into making sure language flows correctly and is readable [A thread...]

New Work 🎥 for The New York Times "Black Surfers Reclaim Their Space on The Waves" "I look at the ocean as a way to commune with myself 🌊🏄🏿" - Selema Masekela

I don’t want to discuss this too much but I feel I should disclose that I’ve had investors knocking—it was a personal choice not to go down that road. I just want to help folks build things for the web 🎉 That said—here’s how best to support Eleventy: 11ty.dev/docs/how-to-su…

This was an incredible breakdown of how Wordle was built. Using web components and as few dependencies as possible. How he handled scaling when the site became popular and why he decided to sell.

California just launched a NEW resource for those seeking reproductive care - whether or not you live here. ➡️ abortion.ca.gov Find information on accessing abortion & reproductive health. Abortion remains legal and protected in CA. We have your back.