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Backdrop: An Exploration Of Flutter, Austin D. Latture

Technical Library

Throughout the last decade, social media has become increasingly involved with daily life. Much of social media traffic is driven through multimedia content such as photos and videos. People enjoy documenting and sharing their lives on the internet. While there are many applications that enable the capturing, editing and sharing of photos, there are few that enable the discovery of places in which photos can be taken. A fundamental requirement of a great photo is the background, so the discovery of adequate backgrounds is important for interesting photography. The backdrop is an application that targets this space. Backdrop uses geographical …

Accessibility For Everyone, Daniel Newell

Technical Library

Computer accessibility is defined in this context as the accessibility of a computer system to all people, regardless of disability type or severity of impairment. As developers we are taught how to build a table for any styling, but not taught how to make sure that table could be used by an individual with a visual impairment. Naively, we are sometimes under the impression that we don’t need to or even can’t solve the needs of all individuals when it came to common software, and boy are we wrong.

It is our responsibility and privilege as developers to create software …