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form redesign affecting thousands of inputs and forms,
brownbag training, and a plan for addressing technical debt.
The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 2010, and this has become a significant liability for many large brands. Target was successfully sued for six million dollars because their website was not accessible. At Parchment, very few of the developers had previous experience with these requirements and very little of our existing code was compliant. This project was started when Parchment was asked for proof of compliance in order to continue partnering with public schools.
I was asked by the head of product to step in and define and document Parchment's ADA requirements, provide internal webinar team training, to correctly implement it across our design system, and finally to create a plan to address past technical debt. This required us to retroactively redesign all of our forms and fields that existed within hundreds of unique flows across 8 digital products. I then provided guidelines for on-boarding new employees.
I’m most proud of my interaction design for form validation & error recovery, as seen in the video below made from a screen capture of an HTML/CSS/JQuery prototype I made. This was a unique challenge as it had to be backward compatible with existing form blocks and also have full integration with ARIA screen reader technology while providing live validation for individual inputs with tips for user errors without disabling standard form functionality.
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