MidlandsJS

A new tech advocacy group for the east midlands and beyond! Promoting groups, organizing events, workshops, and all things javascript.

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MidlandsJS is back ✨ September 16
Stay tuned for updates!

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@whoisgraham @LaurieNicholas Oh no! The recording will be on YouTube if you want to watch the talk 🎥

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Starting soon! Come join us with @LaurieNicholas’s with ‘The accidental product manager’ 🎙

(rsvp for zoom link)
https://t.co/7k0anBlTEw

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.@LaurieNicholas is telling us what perfection looks like to a product person, and how the team can contribute to it ✨

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Not long now until our next event! We’re looking forward to seeing you all there 🧡

https://t.co/7k0anBlTEw

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🚨 MidlandsJS September 🚨

This month we have @LaurieNicholas for an awesome talk: The Accidental Product Manager

Make sure to RSVP for the event link! We can’t wait to see everyone there 🥳

📆 23rd September
🕖 7pm
📍 Remote

https://t.co/7k0anBlTEw

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Special thank you to our speaker @Rumyra for a fantastic talk on technical docs, MDN contributions, and awesome audio demos! ✨

We'll be back showcasing more amazing content soon. Stay tuned! 🎉

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Where there's a github repo, there's issues to solve. Triage is a big deal here - got some skills? you can contribute 😇
https://t.co/7UNqxhNOjg

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TIL 👀:
Before december last year, MDN was a standalone wiki! It's now hosted as a static site and the source is published on github https://t.co/6QAPSRBkRl

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MDN:
"It's like Wikipedia for people who build websites!"

✨stats ✨
~15k pages
~15mil page hits a month

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We're getting schooled with some bombastic audio demos today!

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Last Call for the event tonight! ✨
Come join us!
https://t.co/rKh51kj8uu

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This month we welcome the incredible digital artist, web consultant & technical writer Ruth John (https://t.co/VTyyFLXNG6) to our stage.

Showcasing informative talks and great content is part of what we do.
Join us tonight!

https://t.co/rKh51kj8uu

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📅 Tonight! ✨
Join us for an insightful talk on MDN contributions and more!
See you there!

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📣 Heads up !
This month we welcome the incredible digital artist, web consultant & technical writer Ruth John @Rumyra to our stage!

Look forward to an insider's guide for contributing to MDN, with your recommended daily intake of web audio demos. 🔊
https://t.co/rKh51kj8uu

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✨This month / 29th July ✨
We can't wait 👀Have you RSVP'd yet?

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📣 Heads up !
This month we welcome the incredible digital artist, web consultant & technical writer Ruth John @Rumyra to our stage!

Look forward to an insider's guide for contributing to MDN, with your recommended daily intake of web audio demos. 🔊
https://t.co/rKh51kj8uu

[MidlandsJS @midlandsjs]

📣 Heads up !
This month we welcome the incredible digital artist, web consultant & technical writer Ruth John @Rumyra to our stage!

Look forward to an insider's guide for contributing to MDN, with your recommended daily intake of web audio demos. 🔊
https://t.co/rKh51kj8uu

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Web accessibility will be benchmarked against the 1996 space jam website from now on

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for an incredible talk and some great recommendations for improving accessibility in your javascript apps, courtesy of the incredible @LeonieWatson

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Can't focus it? Then it doesn't exist to some users.
Time to get familar with tabindex!

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We're getting a crash course on accessibility improvements using HTML's built-in semantic elements, complete with a real demonstration of what the average screen reader is doing.
"Why do the hard work if you don't have to?"
🎙 @LeonieWatson