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Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
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STEC and SQEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently
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The 6 most common digital accessibility bugs and how to fix them
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We wrapped up our first year of Ambassadoring, reflected on it, explored some ideas on how we can improve it.
As time came to the end, I was saying thank you and wasn't sure how to say goodbye,...
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