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Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by pmiller2 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @01:47PM (#20225394)
Sure, but where do they get their second tech job? Site accessibility engineer is not a common job title/position that I know of. Without some of those skills you mention, if not the corresponding formal education, that seems like this person is set up to fail soon, unless companies really start taking accessibility seriously in the next few years.
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Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by belenos46 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @01:57PM (#20225486)
I dunno; if they're like most developers I know, they'll end up picking up a hodgepodge of skills that they missed in the bootcamp, which will let them plump out their resume.

If they can't figure out how to write their resume after they've had the experience, I don't feel too bad for them.

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Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by vanadium on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @01:59PM (#20225508)
Accessibility consulting pays bonkers money these days due to the demand; even the a11y places like Deque and Usablenet are being asked for on-site a11y practitioners and they can’t find enough of them to refer companies to.
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Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by cbsks on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @01:56PM (#20225475)
From reading the other comments in this thread, it seems that companies are starting to take accessibility seriously, and an experienced site accessibility engineer will not have any issues getting another job.
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Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by Machado117 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @02:27PM (#20225830)
In the worst case the same place other bootcamp graduates get their jobs.
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Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by jerf on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @03:00PM (#20226244)
"a boot camp is a perfect bootstrap. (I'd still say there's things yet to learn, but when isn't that true?)"
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Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by the8472 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @02:02PM (#20225544)
Shouldn't those skills generalize to UX/QA?
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