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Inclusive Technology Consulting

Bocoup's company logo, which is a hand illustrated rooster in red, yellow and brown, with purplish hues in the brown. The illustration was made by the Boston based artist Billy Nunez in 2009. The rooster's name is Bob.
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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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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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

Co-op Series Part I: Our decision to pursue worker-ownership

Bocoup is incorporated in the United States – a country with no worker safety net. The damning scarcity of federally protected labor rights means that employers are often the ones determining whether workers get quality health care, a fair wage, or time off after having a child. Companies in most states are protected by anti-worker […]

“I want to spend time living life, instead of working on living”: Life as an Accessibility Tester

Friday, August 24, 2012, marked the closing of a chapter. It also opened the door to a new life that I never thought was ever in my reach. Courtesy of The Hatlen Center’s independent living program I was able to establish a foundation that allowed me to create the life I am living today as […]

No Neutral Map

So geographers, in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps And o’er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns This snippet from 18th century writer John Swift’s epic poem “Poetry: A Rhapsody” demonstrates that for centuries we have grappled with the politics of drawing borders, naming places, and mapping. There is no such […]

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