Howard Edwards
Senior Engineer at Bocoup
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolHoward Edwards is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack systems, accessibility tooling, and cross-browser test suites. Based in Jacksonville, he has driven accessibility initiatives at Bocoup—authoring HTML/CSS specs, adding hundreds of interoperability tests, and leading ARIA-AT work that influences major screen reader vendors. He’s shipped production systems from a Caribbean payment gateway and mobile apps to greenfield AI training environments using modern stacks (Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL) and ML-assisted developer tooling. An active contributor to the prominent web-platform-tests project, he focuses on CSS, ARIA, and accessibility test automation—work that quietly improves real-world compatibility for millions. Known for reducing costs, stabilizing CI/CD for high-traffic docs, and applying machine learning to analyze screen reader outputs, he blends pragmatic engineering with an accessibility-first mindset.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ardenne High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at The University of the West Indies, Mona
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Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
web-standards10
w3c10
test-automation10
testing10
javascript9
accessibility9
web-development8
web-development-project8
dom8
android6
android-layout6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
web-platform-tests/wpt
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 10 commits, 12 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Howard's contributions focused on creating and modifying web platform tests within the WPT repository. They added tests for CSS UI, verifying behavior related to computing the "kind of widget" and ensuring properties do or do not disable native appearances. The user also contributed tests for accessibility features, particularly ARIA roles for grid, listbox, menu, and tree elements. Furthermore, they created tests to verify that unsupported CSS properties such as -webkit-user-modify, -moz-user-modify and user-modify, are not supported.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
howard-e/node-pg-crud
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Lightweight easy-to-use PostgreSQL CRUD handlers + utilities.
Contributions:77 commits, 10 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 month
handlerscruddatabasepostgrespostgresql
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