Mike Foskett

Helped Appraisd to begin their journey into meeting WCAG 2.1 AA compliance by compliling a list of issues, along with guidance, for their App developers. Also provided detailed and semantic coding solutions in a pragmatic fashion. (Vue, Vanilla Javascript, HTML 5, CSS, WAI-ARIA)

Helped to bring the Sign-up and Sign-in processes up to date. Taking it from a rather outdated Bootstrap 3 with jQuery (and long load times), up to a modern standard using Bootstrap 5, removing jQuery, post loading assets, dramatically improving Accessibility, UX, error correction, and auto-complete. (Bootstrap 5, vanilla JS, WCAG 2.1, WAI-ARIA, UX, page performance).

Getting my boots back on. Completed a training course in Jamstack methodologies (Git, Node, SASS, Nunjucks, Eleventy, Netlify). Produced "Bat the Dog" to demonstrate state-of-art: performance, accessibility, and fully optimised SEO. Began work on the pandemic cancelled "That London" which has still to resurface.

Bought a campervan, experienced 10 music festivals, and travelled through France and Spain.

• Continually improved tesco.com page performances (site structure, navigation, page load time, content handling, accessibility, usability), driving increased customer visits and retention.
• Developed custom page designs (mobile-first, responsive, animated, parallax) to tight deadlines.
• Researched peers, benchmarked page performance against best in class sites, prepared presentations for performance and accessibility improvements, secured senior stakeholder buy-in for implementation.
• Produced Accessible JavaScript widgets. Implemented Omniture Data Layer Analytics.
• Managed international coding team of 5, conducted regular training and mentoring in new code and apps, hires and trains new developers.
• Optimised tesco.com to be the fastest performing page in class (283K in 1-second on-load, 1.4Mb total page), used by peers as an example of best practice.
• Developed Tesco’s Store Locator (Tesco’s first mobile-first development) and inspirational pages.
• Used lean coding and site navigation skills to design pages that support sales and marketing by delivering cross-sell opportunities without interfering with user journeys to Grocery assets.
• Used Accessibility and Usability skills to maximise customer lock-in and drive site traffic to 2 M visits per week.

• Hired to improve all Tesco online estates with enhanced performance, accessibility and usability.
• Developed award-winning Tesco homepage and grocery, recognised by RNIB award.
• Optimised pages improving load-times and increasing efficiency (e.g. compression, post-loading, content re-use).
• Conducted internal training to drive a culture of accessibility and usability awareness through development teams.

• Contract extended to deliver training, guidance and mentoring on Accessibility and Web Standards in the education, special needs and local government sectors.
• Produced high-quality interactive training materials to supplement training seminars and workshops.
• Maximised presence of Becta’s Schools websites across the UK by re-coding and optimising for search and UX.
• Improved performance and efficiency and cut maintenance costs for 40+ sites by migrating to XHTML and table-less design, and simplifying the CMS(s).

• Hired to audit, test and re-build websites with accessibility and usability standards mandated for inclusion into the Governments NGfL (National Grid for Learning).
• Resolved cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility issues.
• Redeveloped sites with hand-coded accessible design in (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

• Designed and developed web solutions including e-commerce applications running Actinic software.
• Optimised front-end and campaign landing pages for search engine and placement strategies.
• Implemented CSS, JavaScript & DHTML methodologies.