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We partner with tech companies and nonprofits to increase accessibility, inclusion, and justice on and through the web.

We are a team of product and standards developers working with partners on engineering, design, and organizational strategy projects that align with our mission and values. We are committed to making tech spaces safer for marginalized people in our projects and on our team. Read the Code of Conduct which governs our work.

Recent Projects

Our recent projects include engineering for Scratch (the beginner-friendly programming language), web standards for assistive technologies like screen-readers, and eviction defense tools for tenants in Los Angeles County.

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Co-Designing a Prototype and Long-Term Roadmap

CRASH | Algorithmic Justice League

We partnered with the Algorithmic Justice League and a community of advocacy and legal aid organizations to co-design a prototype and long-term roadmap for an algorithmic harms reporting tool.

Learn more about CRASH
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Climate, abolition, and Afrofuturism in Harlem

Engineering, Technical Program Management, and Co-Design | Harvard's Institute of Qualitative Social Science

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Improving the Web Audio DevTool

Chrome DevTools Web Audio Inspector | Google Chrome

We worked with the Google Chrome team to develop the latest version of the Web Audio DevTools Inspector. A Chrome extension that visualizes the audio graph in a web page for inspection and debugging web audio implementations.

Learn more about Chrome DevTools Web Audio Inspector
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Community Reporting of Algorithmic System Harms (CRASH)

Co-Designing a Prototype and Long-Term Roadmap | Algorithmic Justice League

We partnered with the Algorithmic Justice League and a community of advocacy and legal aid organizations to co-design a prototype and long-term roadmap for an algorithmic harms reporting tool.

Learn more about Co-Designing a Prototype and Long-Term Roadmap
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Eviction defense software for tenants in LA

Eviction Defense | Debt Collective

We partnered with the Debt Collective, Los Angeles Tenants Union, and Anti-Eviction Mapping Project on an eviction defense software for tenants in Los Angeles.

Learn more about Eviction Defense
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An app for manual testing of browsers and ATs rendering ARIA accessibility features.

ARIA-AT | Facebook Accessibility

We built an app to manage manual testing of ARIA accessibility patterns rendered in assistive technologies (like screen-readers) and browsers: ARIA-AT interoperability testing and ARIA-AT App

Learn more about ARIA-AT
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Empowering consumers to exercise their rights under the CCPA

Enrollment Automation | Consumer Reports

We worked with Consumer Reports to empower consumers to exercise their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act by automating their enrollment in Consumer Report’s authorized agent program

Learn more about Enrollment Automation
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Recent from the Blog

ARIA-AT Public Data Management Page

Over the last few months, we’ve been making substantial improvements to the ARIA-AT app, from backend database work to performance improvements, to making the app generally nicer to use. One of these improvements is the ability to view the Data Management Page without being logged in. The Data Management page allows visitors to view the […]

Co-op Series Part II: Getting Started

We kicked off this series by announcing our decision to pursue a worker-owned cooperative model. In this and subsequent posts, we will be providing updates and learnings as we progress. Last fall, after nearly two years of research and discussion, we made our first major step toward cooperatizing: Bocoup is now a member of The […]

Interop 2024 Call For Proposals

The Web Platform Test (WPT) Interop 2024 call for proposals is launching today! Read more about the Interop Project and join us in moving the web toward a more interoperable future. Interop 2023 2023 is our third year as part of the incredible Web Platform Test (WPT) Interop team, a unified effort by Apple, Bocoup, […]

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