JavaScript developer @ OddBird from
Olu is an extremely online JavaScript developer, accessibility advocate, lifelong learner and ethical techie.
Olu is an OddBird Emeritus who is excited about making the web a fair, useful and/or fun and accessible place for all users. They mostly code in JavaScript, and have a passion for ethics in technology borne from pre-tech days studying Philosophy. They love writing, both in and outside of tech.
Color contrast checker with Oklch, Oklab, P3, and more
OddContrast is a color format converter, featuring newer color formats like Oklch, Oklab, and the Display P3 color space. It’s also a color contrast checker to help designers meet WCAG 2 accessibility standards.
Popover, CSS Anchor Positioning, Cascade Layers
Along with our work for the W3C developing specifications for the CSS language, OddBird has started and maintains a number of powerful polyfills for new web platform features including the Popover attribute, CSS Anchor Positioning, and Cascade Layers.
Automated style guides
Design systems streamline development, communication, and consistency – but often rely on dedicated teams and extended budgets. We wanted a tool that helps create and maintain living style guides & pattern libraries in an agile process, and on a budget. Herman helps you keep your development process simple – and your UX consistent – as you scale over time.
Integrated design-system management in Sass
OddBird’s Accoutrement tools help keep design tokens meaningful to both humans and machines – opening the door for automation, while improving readability. These tools also integrate with Herman, our automated pattern-library generator.
100% test coverage is a contentious metric! In this piece, Olu explores the impact of pursuing it.