• Bloggers Club: Implementing Change

  I’ve written a fair bit about implementing change in the past, including two articles at the Ministry of Testing site on Introducing Colleagues to Exploratory Testing and going about implementing change when you’re not a manager. However, in this post, I would like to dive deeper into how the status quo bias makes implementing change rather difficult. Status quo bias is evident when people prefer things to stay the same by doing nothing or by sticking with a decision made previously.https://www.behavioraleconomics.com/resources/mini-encyclopedia-of-be/status-quo-bias/ One of the key aspects of the status quo bias that makes it so difficult to implement change is that it’s generally easier to do nothing i.e. to not try and implement change in the first place. Even if people are unhappy with how things are, you’d be surprised by how the same people may not be open to ideas to change – that would help fix what is making them unhappy. To take it out of a work context, if you’ve ever had a friend complain (on and on and on) about their romantic partner and talk about how unhappy they are with them – but then they never want to do anything to fix their problems or leave their romantic partner – then you’ve seen how powerful the status quo bias can be. Actually, the status quo bias reminds me a lot of this saying: better the devil you know than the devil you don’t– used to say that it is better with a difficult person or[…]

  3.08.2021 | 9:32 קרא עוד...

• My blog posts on Tech buzzwords testers should at least know about have been published!

  Checkout my series of two blog posts on Tech buzzwords testers should at least know about: https://blog.testproject.io/2021/07/08/tech-buzzwords-testers-should-at-least-know-about-part-1/ and https://blog.testproject.io/2021/07/29/tech-buzzwords-testers-should-at-least-know-about-2/. With lots of useful links for in-depth learning. Enjoy.

  3.08.2021 | 5:21 קרא עוד...

• A11y with Ady: August 2021

  Introduction: I hereby dub the first Tuesday of the month as “Accessibility Tuesday”, so; Welcome to the latest edition of a11y with Ady. I hope you enjoy it and find something useful and I’m happy to hear any feedback or thoughts or anything you would like to hear more about from the world of accessibility. General: The article Five ways to include d/Deaf users in your designs by Rachele DiTullio, an accessibility engineer and a front-end developer. Her piece covers ways to consider d/Deaf people. Some top tips in this that apply to many situations. The term D/deaf is used throughout higher education and research to describe students who are Deaf (sign language users) and deaf (who are hard of hearing but who have English as their first language and may lipread and/or use hearing aids).https://www.tpgi.com/five-ways-to-include-d-deaf-users-in-your-designs/ Compliance: Want to get more familiar with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) but don’t know where to start? How about a daily explanation of them to your inbox? Sign up using the link below. https://dwcag.org/ Technical: Hiding content is always a challenge. Who are you hiding it from? Everyone? Or should screen reader users be able to find it? Lots of questions pretty much every time. In this excellent post Kitty Giraudel, a frontend developer focused on accessibility, runs through a host of ways explaining which are and are not accessible. https://kittygiraudel.com/2021/02/17/hiding-content-responsibly/ Disability:From the Accessibility in Government blog, this is a longer read about invisible disabilities. Although a recent post the story is[…]

  3.08.2021 | 2:48 קרא עוד...

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