Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
I am Open to Write, Teach, Speak, Podcasting, Meet at MoTaCon 2026, Review Conference Proposals
STEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter host. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently
Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Awarded for:
Achieving 5 or more Community Star badges
Activity
earned:
Tools to help you with accessibility testing
earned:
58.9% of software testers learn about testing tools by using them
earned:
3.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
earned:
2.6.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
thanked contributors on:
Modernise your design strategy with mobile-first and keyboard-centric approaches that create more resilient, accessible, and user-friendly software.
Contributions
Modernise your design strategy with mobile-first and keyboard-centric approaches that create more resilient, accessible, and user-friendly software.
"Without my Pro membership and MoT, I wouldn't have been as successful as a software tester or learned as much as I have from the hundreds of members through talks, articles, insights, and discussi...
My friend, who I coached as a junior cricketer, has qualified for Ultimate Pool in the UK. I'm sponsoring him to cover fees and travel. When I gave him my details I put my company as the Ministry o...
Hear honest job-search and career-change stories, pick up confidence-boosting advice from the community, and enjoy the wonderfully weird side-threads that make the MoTaverse feel like home.
Ady Stokes absolutely nails a reason why whole team responsibility matters, even for those that are skeptical of the reality of making it happen and the use of it as a term.
"Probably the most i...
Excited to see a shiny new badge on my profile today. Call for Insights, which is awarded to members who share their knowledge and experience in a Call for Insights conversation.
In conversation with Simon Tomes as part of his Call for Insights series, he put me on the spot with this question.
So, Ady, I was thinking for our listeners, a final thought from you is what w...
Transition from reactive quality assurance to proactive quality engineering by embedding shared responsibility throughout the entire development lifecycle
Cut through the AI hype, swap real guardrail stories, and laugh at the rainbow-vomit moments along the way.