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A more methodical approach to meeting accessibility standards
QA is hard to do. We have an undependable staging environment and lack sandboxes for UI testing.
Engineers working transactionally with designers, and not having direct engagement with the design team in general.
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If you had a magic wand and could change one thing about how things work here, what would that thing be?
Dedicated engineering time to build accessibility tooling or features.
Clearer tie between roadmap and product strategy.
Would abandon Bootstrap and use CSS and JS instead to simplify and change the tech stacks related to Paragon. Bootstrap requires one to have a big monolithic stylesheet that has a lot of subtleties that need to be worked out and is confusing tech. CSS and JS might be a better model.
Stakeholder management is murky and burdensome…
How do you hope the design system will help?
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