Ady Stokes
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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

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Certificates

MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
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Awarded for: Passing the exam with a score of 100%
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Awarded for: Achieving 5 or more Community Star badges

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Ady Stokes
Ady Stokes
earned:
Tools to help you with accessibility testing image
Tools to help you with accessibility testing
Ady Stokes
Ady Stokes
earned:
58.9% of software testers learn about testing tools by using them image
58.9% of software testers learn about testing tools by using them
Ady Stokes
Ady Stokes
earned:
3.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
3.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Ady Stokes
Ady Stokes
earned:
2.6.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
2.6.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Ady Stokes
Ady Stokes
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Everyday accessibility: 7 ways to do a little a11y every day image
Modernise your design strategy with mobile-first and keyboard-centric approaches that create more resilient, accessible, and user-friendly software.

Contributions

Everyday accessibility: 7 ways to do a little a11y every day image
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Modernise your design strategy with mobile-first and keyboard-centric approaches that create more resilient, accessible, and user-friendly software.
🤔 What would your life had been like, without your Pro Membership Ady Stokes? image
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"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...
Swimming in a different Pool!  image
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...
Eggs, toilet seats and fundamental quality career advice - Ep 125 image
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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.
Some people aren't keen on using the term 'whole team responsibility' image
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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...
Call for Insights becomes badge number 64! image
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.
The power of being a thought worker is the pause to think before we act image
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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...
What is software quality? image
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Transition from reactive quality assurance to proactive quality engineering by embedding shared responsibility throughout the entire development lifecycle
Rainbow vomits and AI Guardrails - Ep 124 image
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Cut through the AI hype, swap real guardrail stories, and laugh at the rainbow-vomit moments along the way.
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