Steven Bassett
Buena Vista, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Bassett is a seasoned Web Accessibility Engineer with 13+ years of experience building inclusive digital experiences at companies like Airbnb, Upwork, Twilio, and Splunk. IAAP WAS certified, he blends front-end tech (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React) and design training to architect accessibility programs, automated testing, and governance that scale across large product teams. At Splunk he designed a company-wide accessibility testing strategy using Cypress Cloud and launched an Accessibility Ambassadors network; at Airbnb he led adoption of WCAG 2.1/2.2 and improved map and text-resize accessibility. He pairs hands-on engineering—including Flow type definitions contributions to the high-profile flow-typed repo—with mentorship and workshops to raise accessibility literacy across organizations. Based in Buena Vista, Colorado, he brings a design-minded, data-informed approach to solving edge-case accessibility problems for users with vision and motor impairments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic accessibility roadmaps that translate standards into measurable product outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
General 4-Year Core Requirements for Transfer, General 4-Year Core Requirements for Transfer at Front Range Community CollegeBachalors of Environmental Design - Design Studies/Urban Planning, Urban Design/Planning, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Bachalors of Environmental Design - Design Studies/Urban Planning, Urban Design/Planning, Architecture and Landscape Architecture at University of Colorado BoulderIntensive Spanish for International Students, Spanish, Intensive Spanish for International Students, Spanish at Universidad Veracruzana
English, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
libstdc10
libc10
javascript10
typesc10
lib10
flow-control10
libudev10
libdispatch10
typescript10
work-flow10
type-system10
control-flow10
clib10
react9
expressjs8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
flow-typed/flow-typed
May 2016 - May 2017
A central repository for Flow library definitions
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 25 PRs, 56 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to defining and testing type definitions (libdefs) for various JavaScript libraries within the Flow-typed repository. Their work involved creating and updating Flow type definitions for libraries such as redux-form, react-recaptcha, bunyan, express, js-cookie, platform, axios, react-helmet, i18next, safe-regex, react-addons-css-transition-group, and flux-standard-action. The user also improved existing definitions, fixed issues, and added comprehensive tests to ensure the type definitions' accuracy and reliability.
libdefsflowtypedefinitionscli
NEU-Libraries/scholar-onesearch
May 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:207 commits in 9 months
css-jscssjavascriptsnippetsprimo
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