Web Developer

Raveena Potla

Accessibility Engineer

Email ID: ************@*****.***

Phone No.: 309-***-****

Summary

• Over 5 years of experience in developing User Interface (UI) and accessible web-based applications.

• Experience in Performing Accessibility Verification using Accessibility tools/technologies in various Platforms - Desktop, iOS and Android, various versions of browsers - IE, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome and Screen readers - NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, Talkback, Dolphin Computer Access.

• Widely used AMP for mobile and browser accessibility scan, also used aXe, Attest automated tool from Deque systems and AMP from SSB Bart Groups. For color contrast issues, we used Tanaguru color contrast finder.

• Strong understanding of global accessibility laws and standards such as WCAG 2.1 and thorough working knowledge of how to make web content and applications compliant with WCAG 2.0 Level AA Standards.

• Good understanding of ARIA roles and attributes. The WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications suite of web standards defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities

• Empathy for people with disabilities and an understanding of the different perspectives and needs of people.

• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and iOS/Android development best practices (research and recommend solutions in these various technologies in collaboration with developers).

• Knowledge on Implementing client-side Interface using React JS and Angular JS 1.X.

• Experience in providing accessibility strategy consulting to teams and understanding of the different roles and responsibilities across the disciplines of software development.

• Good experience in Creating Test strategies, based on the analysis of documentation to achieve the best result. Analyzed requirements and developed test plans, test scenarios, and test cases. Executed test cases for functional, validation, end-to-end, and regression testing for Web application.

• Good Knowledge on checking cross browser compatibility, worked on different browsers like Safari, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

• Expert in working with cutting edge front-end technologies/ framework and libraries like JQuery, Prototype, (X)HTML, DHTML, OO JavaScript, JSON, DOM, CSS, XML/XSLT, AJAX.

• Specialized in developing Web 2.0 Apps using core JQuery along with AJAX/JavaScript.

• Used the latest HTML5 elements for video playback, content rendering using semantic tags such as article, section, etc.

• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.

• Involved in communications with product management, development and business analysts in the process of preparation and approval of all test related documents.

• Volunteered GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day), 2016-2018- Digital Accessibility is at intersection of digital transformation and core values.

• Good Knowledge on new WCAG 2.1 Guidelines Success criteria’s and iBeacon microlocation. Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, India (2013).

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science from University of Central Missouri, USA (2015). Skill Matrix

UI Web Technologies: HTML, HTML 5, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, AJAX, JQuery, JSON, JSP, AngularJS 1.X-4, React JS, Ionic JS

IDE, HTML Editor: Notepad++, Eclipse IDE, Sublime Text Editor Web/App Servers: Apache Tomcat 5.0.25, HTTP Web Server Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, MAC

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

Automated Tools for Accessibility Testing: AMP, aXe, Attest, Color Contrast Analyzer by Paciello Group, Tanaguru Color contrast analyzer.

Manual Tools for Accessibility Testing: NVDA (Non-Visual Desktop Access), JAWS, Dolphin Computer Access, Screen Magnifiers.

Experience

Client: Microsoft, Redmond WA (Nov’18 - Current)

Microsoft Accessibility Overview: “There is no limit to what people can achieve when technology reflects the diversity of all who use it. Microsoft is committed to revolutionizing access to technology for people living with disabilities”.

AI can empower people with disabilities with tools that support independence and productivity, as technology rapidly changes the way we live, learn, and work. Responsibilities:

• Participate in meetings with both Microsoft Internal and Third-party teams in understanding the requirements, performing audits and providing technical insights.

• Attending meetings with Design teams, story discussions and help in breaking down story tasks and slotting them into sprints. Providing Accessibility requirements for Design Prototype submitted.

• Analyzing and gathering the requirements for the framework and creating a design recommendation for the web pages, iOS, and Android apps.

• Building out stories based on the requirements using ADO from Microsoft Visual Basic and tracking board for BAU (Business as usual Intakes).

• Working on both Design, Development and validation assessments. Generating Production Monitoring reports every month to track all the accessibility issues.

• Following MAS (Microsoft Accessibility Standards) for performing all the development Assessments and all the Assessments are submitted to the CSEO Accessibility Assessment Service request.

• The MAS traces to Section 508, WCAG 2.0 and EN 301 549 conformance reports. Conformance reports are generated from the Accessibility Assessment Tool (AAT).

• Evaluating and generating ERT (Expert Report Template) reports, Assure for reporting and word doc based on aXe from Deque, Keros, Accessibility Assessment Tool (AAT) and Accessibility Insights for web from Microsoft and AMP from SSB Bart Group violations which support WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1 –A and AA level standards.

• Testing manually using AT (assistive technologies) like NVDA, JAWS, Talkback, Narrator, and Voiceover.

• Using Color-contrast finder.org to evaluate color contrast issues and checking High color contrast mode in windows 10 using high contrast on or off from the keyboard, press left Alt+left Shift+Print Screen.

• Using MSAA object inspector to track the focus on the webpage when the focus indicator is not available to the users.

• Following ARIA 1.1 Authoring Prractices, W3C, CSS3 tricks and WebAIM. Client: Capital One, Richmond VA (Jan’16 - October’18) Capital One Overview: Capital One Financial Corporation is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking and savings products headquartered in McLean, Virginia. Capital One is the eighth-largest commercial bank in the United States when ranked by assets and deposits. Also, ranked 10th on the list of largest banks.

Accessibility for All: Capital One is committed in making the products and services accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. Capital One follows WCAG 2.1 Guidelines (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and uses the Accessible Rich Internet Application (ARIA) specification.

“Accessibility is all about inclusive designs, code quality and doing the right thing”.

- Digital Accessibility Capital One

Responsibilities:

• Strong understanding of Global Accessibility laws and standards such as WCAG 2.1 and thorough working knowledge of how to make web content and applications compliant with WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA Standards.

• Empathy for people with disabilities and an understanding of the different perspectives and needs of people.

• Assisted in accessibility project planning, establishing and administering accessibility testing programs, and remediating the issues to ensure compliance with W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Developed and maintained standard templates for testing applications for WCAG 2.0 compliance.

• Performed Design Assessments to assist with better user experience for both websites and mobile applications.

• Experience in both Automated and Manual testing using screen readers like NVDA (Non- Visual Desktop Access), Voice-Over for IOS devices, Talkback for Android devices, JAWS, Screen Magnifiers for both web and mobile devices, etc.

• Used Dolphin Computer Access to allow people with visual impairments and learning.

• Generated results using Automated tools like ATTEST, aXe, Assure by Deque Systems, AMP

(Accessibility managment platform) tool by Level Access. Also, Color Contrast issues are verified using Tanaguru.com.

• Used NoCoffee and CVS Simulator plugins used to test the web pages for visually impaired people.

• Mobile testing and iPad testing using Voice-Over screen reader and Talkbacks for Android devices.

• Solved accessibility issues related to browser in-consistency like keyboard traps, visible focus on the UI Components, majorly on Firefox browser.

• Following WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 for Design Patterns and Widgets, Landmark Regions, Developing Keyboard Interface, Grid and Table Properties and Roles that automatically hide semantics by making their descendants presentational.

• Using WAI-ARIA Roles, States and Properties when complex web applications become inaccessible when assistive technologies cannot determine the semantics behind portions of a document or when the user is unable to effectively navigate to all parts of it in a usable way. WAI- ARIA divides the semantics into roles (the type defining a user interface element) and states and properties supported by the roles.

• Assisted accessibility issues for custom components involving EASE UI Components like date- picker, radio buttons, complex tables, select menu, etc.

• Participated and Initiated Team meetings on a regular basis and involved in active discussion to improve the testing quality by better strategies and testing approach.

• Follows most of the newsletters from The A11Y Project, Web AIM, The Paciello Group, Deque Systems, Level Access and heydonworks.com.

• Good knowledge on new Success Criteria’s of WCAG 2.1 Guidelines like Identify Input purpose, Content on Hover or Focus, Reflow, Text- Spacing, Non-text Contrast, Pointer Gestures, Status Messages, etc.

• Experience in Production Monitoring for both Mobile and Web Platforms like validating all the capital one native apps and core capital one.

• Volunteered GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day) 2016-2018. Encourage empathy for why digital accessibility is important and needed. Educating PO’s and Developing Teams, designers to make products and services accessible to everyone. Everything at Capital One should be designed and developed with Accessibility at the forefront, which means equal access to Digital content for everyone. Client: JCPenney, UI Developer (Jul’15 – Dec’15)

JCPenny Overview: JCPenney is one of the largest apparels and home furnishing retailers, financial services in US, is dedicated to fitting the diversity of America with unparalleled style, quality and value. JCPenney current customer facing web presence includes separately designed experiences (channels) for desktop, tablets and mobiles. The Project is delivered in phases with initial release targeting mobile users. Responsibilities:

• Experience in cross browser compatibility and mobile application development.

• Worked on AngularJS MVC framework for developing the Single Page Application.

• Worked on CSS pre-processor SASS.

• Extensively used Bootstrap and CSS3 media queries for Responsive Web Design (RWD).

• Experience on implementing the AJAX features using JavaScript and jQuery.

• Used custom directives for pagination, date-picker etc.

• Migrated native java script code to Angular MVC framework.

• Efficient hands on experience on iOS and Android devices using Charles-proxy simulator.

• Used jQuery, a cross browser JavaScript library to dynamically add the items to a request on the client side.

• Experience on task runners GIT, source tree.

• Used Charles-Proxy to solve the mobile application bugs. Environment: HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, JQuery, JavaScript, Sublime-text, GIT, Source-Tree, JIRA. Client: JP Morgan Chase, UI Developer (Jan’15 – Jul’15) JP Morgan Chase overview: JPMorgan Chase & Co. is Multinational Banking and Global Financial services firm. A unique level services that combines concierge banking from Chase and access to JPMorgan investment expertise. The project is based on Chase 3.0 consumer applications where the site is Responsive and supports ADA compliance. Ensuring to deliver inclusive and accessible property to all the users. Responsibilities:

• Developing dynamic web pages using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and Object-Oriented JavaScript using Customized framework.

• Used JQuery to traverse through the DOM and involved in writing JQuery based Ajax requests using jquery. Get (URL, data, success, type) or JQuery. AJAX (options) and JQuery.post (URL, data, success, type).

• Fixing bugs found in the Production.

• Extensively worked on Responsive Web Design and BLUEUI JS components.

• Worked on Motion Stories using HTML5 new features like Animations, Transitions, Carousel, and Video.

• Participated in Design Review meetings with Architect, PM, Designers and Developers.

• Involved in Code review meetings with BLUEUI Developers.

• Integrate with various databases for retrieving the data using AJAX/JSON.

• Experience in creating print specific CSS style.

• Used Technical standards such as WCAG 2.0 level A, AA to make the property compliance.

• Used NVDA and JAWS screen-reader for testing ADA compliance.

• Experience in cross browser compatibility.

• Developed Date Time Picker, tooltip, dropdown, buttons using customized framework BLUEJS, BLUEUi extensively and also supporting ADA compliance.

• CSS3 media queries to support for Responsive Web Design (RWD).

• Coordinated with BA group for better understanding of functional requirements analyzed and designed the business requirements.

Environment: HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, JQuery, JavaScript, Sublime-text, GIT, Source-Tree, JIRA. Client: Pramati Technologies, Web Developer as Intern (March’13 – July’13) Responsibilities:

• Developed UI using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Coordinated with BA group for better understanding of functional requirements analyzed and designed the business requirements to documented and implemented.

• Created various web page layouts using HTML and CSS.

• Designed, developed and updated User Interface Web Forms using CSS, Dreamweaver, and JavaScript.

• Validated input values to make sure that they will be accepted before they are submitted to the server.

• Responsible for developing, editing, publishing and managing content on the external Web pages and internal layouts.

• Used Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) in web pages to separate presentation from structure

• Defined text alignment, size, borders, and many other typographic characteristics.

• Used JavaScript to make dropdown menus on web pages and displayed part of a web page upon user request.

• Knowledge on ADA compliance for the WCAG 2.0 level A, AA, AAA.

• Worked extensively with the File management and image libraries.

• Performed Client-side validations using JavaScript.

• Fixed bugs and provided support services for the application.

• Tested/De-bugged web browser using Firebug

• Managed and implemented all code changes via SVN. Deploying builds across development, staging and production instances and maintaining code integrity. Environment: JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, AJAX, Apache, Windows 2000/XP.

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