Recent Work

Co-Designing a Prototype and Long-Term Roadmap

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.

Kicked off engineering and product management projects related to several areas of Scratch Foundation’s work, including site/product accessibility, moderation tools, and Scratch for Schools.

Climate, abolition, and Afrofuturism in Harlem

Pathways to Earthseed is an interdisciplinary and intersectional portal exploring the experiences of Black Harlemites and environmental degradation. Bocoup assisted with technical project management, website design, and implementation to help bring this multifaceted project to life.

Continuing our work with HTML lazy-loading

In 2020 and 2021 we helped the Google Rendering team with specification tests for several things, including extensive work on HTML lazy-loading. Our addition allows web developers to omit the sizes attribute when using lazy-loading images in HTML.

Combatting Police Surveillance

Stop LAPD Spying is a community organization that works to end police surveillance by uplifting the voices and expertise of those most affected by and vulnerable to police violence. Bocoup teamed up with Stop LAPD Spying to build an accessible website for political education and community involvement.

Continuing our work with Google HTML/DOM Interop

We helped run tests for Google Rendering to improve interoperability in browser engines and address web developer pain points.

Redesigning ARIA Authoring Practices Guide

We worked with the W3C's APG Task Force and Education and Outreach Working Group to redesign the ARIA Authoring Practice Guide, an essential resource to improve web accessibility.

Making it easier to support worker organizing across the United States.

We worked with workers and organizers to develop an accessible map and backend for aggregating and publishing concrete actions that everyday people can take in solidarity with worker organizing.

Airtable Developer Experience and Extension Creation

Bocoup worked with Airtable to conduct developer experience research into Airtable Extensions (formerly known as Apps and Blocks) and improved the dev experience according to community priorities. This included engaging in the forums and Github issues, reorganizing repos, building CLI tools, and publishing tutorials. Through this process we also developed what have become three official Airtable Extensions, including the Vega Lite, JSON editing, Google Street view and a URL preview Extensions.

Improving the Web Audio DevTool

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.