What’s everyone’s occupation

I’m an electrician, nothing really exciting to say about that :neutral_face:

Web developer and accessibility consultant … coming up to 20 years.

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Ah bless you @Baby_Jane for trying to guide accessibility stuff. Amazing how many people get things so wrong on easy stuff. Anyone who helps is a legend in my book. Flexibility is the key to accessibility, and people would do well to remember that. :heart:

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This is so right; much of accessibility is easily fixed with common sense, and most websites can see a 90% improvement with no special/expensive testing tools at all… Just get rid of your mouse for a few days and try to use the web with only a keyboard. It’s a very different experience.

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Yeah. The thing that gets me is where people offer me fixed alternatives, but I have my browser set up properly, so if they just left it to the browser, it would be fine. By fixing things, they make it worse. The one I totally don’t understand is where they remove the ability to zoom a Web page, seemingly for no apparent reason.

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I’ve noticed the zoom thing is an issue on (some) public sector websites, which is a glaring flaw when folks are asked to pay tax and apply for benefits that way.

Too many issues are “fixed” at the expense of usability as well.

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I’m a Process Technician & shift manager in the Termoforming plastic mould extraction business. 19 years of service thus far.

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For some bizarre reason, I first read that as “Princess Technician” :woman_facepalming:

I worked in a plastics factory for play money while at college :grinning:

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Truck driver!

Sparky! The most hated of trades lol

Bank teller, in training to become a personal banker :blush:

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Chef​:smiley:

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Housewife most of the time, work as a HCA for the NHS :slightly_smiling_face: in a previous life before having a child I was a manager within a corporate company.

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HGV technician

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Master builder and king of trades (carpenter) :wink::ok_hand:

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Plow snow, build roads, arborist, storm sewer replacement, concrete asphalt work, all the fun stuff

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You’ve got to be from across the pond?

Yep

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Industrial cleaner

Seeing as I wont be staying in the state-maintained education sector, I was wondering what everyone does for work?

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