CTO and Software Architect at Shoreline. A Craftsman passionate about JavaScript. Co-founder of UtahJS, an educational non-profit for JavaScript Developers.
Your next customer might not be human. AI agents are already browsing and completing checkouts on behalf of users — and they read your site through the exact same accessibility tree screen readers do. Tim Damen (Frontend Chapter Lead & Accessibility Lead, Amsterdam) makes the business case: the same patterns that serve disabled users determine whether an agent can complete a purchase at all.
"Your Biggest New Customer Can't See Pixels" — Sept 18 @ 11:05 AM at UtahJS.
linkedin.com/in/tim-damen-20…utahjs.com/schedule
Somehow I'm both fighting the urge to use sarcasm and dad jokes with my code agent... and fighting the tendency to write clinicial-sounding emails. Another @iamdevloper moment