Welcome
Here you will find a collection of my current coding and accessibility projects, my blog, media appearances, some samples of my music, and below is my LinkedIn profile and a sample of my past animation work before I lost my vision. Enjoy!
This site and sub-sites have been coded entirely by hand up to WCAG 2.2 AA standards, or as close as I could make it as a blind developer. Everything is keyboard and screen reader navigable and is fully HTML 5 validated.
Project and Page Updates
Web Accessibility Resource Link List
I gave a presentation for the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Books library tech list patrons about my journey into Web Accessibility, and created a link list for all the resources that I have used to build up my knowledge over the years. Educational resources, WCAG references, coding workshops and courses, organizations and companies, automated tools, and much more!
Web Accessibility Links & ResourcesTADA!
Tangible Art & Design Adventures, or TADA, is a curriculum for TVIs to use to teach blind and low-vision students tactile drawing techniques, coding fundamentals, with the aim of guiding them towards building their own tactile and visual graphics using SVG code. I worked with the Northwest Center for Assistive Technology Training at the Washington School for the Blind on this project, writing the Advanced activities, helping with the Beginner tactile drawing curriculum, recorded demonstration videos, presented at the APH Coding Symposium 2023, and built the website that hosts the full curriculum.
Tangible Art & Design Adventures (TADA!)BlindSVG.com
I constructed this site to teach blind and low-vision creatives how to code their own digital illustrations and graphics using SVG code. While the primary goal is to output tactile graphics, SVG can be used for any graphical application, allowing folks to make logos, art, layouts and wireframes, circuit schematics, architecture drafting, and so much more!
Graphic Design is not just for sighted people anymore! And all it takes is a text editor, some syntax, spatial reasoning, and imagination.
Come explore BlindSVG.comSVG Drawings for Tactile Graphics
SVG Drawings and Logos - updated Dec. 15th, 2023
Python Projects
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Oh Craps v.6.4.1 Update - June 25th, 2023
Code overhaul, refactoring outdated patterns into more efficient and modern Python 3 best practices and doing overall code cleanup. Oh Craps! on Github
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Balls to the Wheel Release - Jan. 23rd, 2021
Released Balls to the Wheel, an accessible Roulette game that can be played in Terminal! Balls to the Wheel v.1.9.5 on Github
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Burt Baccarat Release - Jan. 3rd, 2021
Created Burt Baccarat, an accessible Python-based baccarat game for Terminal! Coded it in just a few hours and put a link on the Projects page, but here is the direct link to the Github repo. Burt Baccarat v.1.8.6 on Github
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Hit The Deck v.3.5 - April 29th, 2022
My first python game! Created a fully robust Blackjack game since I was unimpressed with the quality and accuracy of the accessible versions that I was finding around the web and on the iOS App Store. Hit, double down, split, surrender, and get your 5 card Charlies on! Just fixed some of the line break issues, cleaned up code, and added the ability to properly quit the game from the betting prompt. Hit the Deck v.3.5 on Github
Music
Music Page update - Aug. 5th, 2023
Added a variety of Brilliant Orange songs to the Brilliant Orange section. Head over to my Music page.
Media
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Blind Tech Guys and Lorem Ipsum Interviews on July 6th, 2021
For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I was interviewed about my experiences in dating as a blind guy for CTR Radio, and last week during NFB I was on a Clubhouse panel for Blind Tech Guys talking about digital accessibility and why it matters. CTR Lorem Ipsum, Blind Tech Guys
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Lyft Self-Driving Experience NFB 2019 - June 6th, 2021
NFB 2019 was held in Las Vegas, and I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to show off Lyft's self-driving car technology for the convention. Here's the link to the Popular Science article and interview with myself and Tommy Hayes: Lyft's Braille Guides for self-driving robocars
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KALW Cross Currents Specialist episode on Orientation and Mobility trainers - Aug. 10th, 2016
My cane trainer Katt Jones was interviewed about their job and includes my story of how I went blind and how Katt worked with me to give me mobility independence again. KALW Cross Currents - The Specialist - Cane Trainers
Page Updates
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Craps Strategy Page update - Sep 14th, 2024
Added the Claim Jumper strategy. Entire List of Craps Strategies Main Oh Craps Strategy Page
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WCAG 2.2 Breakdowns for Websites and Native APps - Aug 17, 2024
Updated the page to WCAG 2.2 criteria, plus added criteria filters to display or hide by Level A, AA, and AAA. Now working on updating the Native Mobile page for WCAG 2.2 and building in the same filtering features. a11y WCAG 2.2 BreakdownWCAG 2.1 for Native Mobile Apps
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Blind SIghted Blog Returns! - June 25th, 2020
My blog is back up and running! Will be repopulating it with my original posts since I had to rebuild it after losing the original database in the domain transfer. Should be back up and full of my silly musings and stories in a day or two! Blind Sighted Blog
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Pierre's Art Studio Relaunched - June 20th, 2020
As a surprise Father's Day gift, I dug out the old website I built to showcase my dad's artwork and rebuilt and revamped it from the ground up. The whole thing used to be built around a frame and background image with hover links, and the galleries were exported straight out of Photoshop. I built a new gallery system from scratch using CSS Grid and rebuilt each page using HTML 5 with full attention paid to overall accessibility. Pierre's Art Studio
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Past Work Page Launch - June 4th, 2020
Update: I've added a Past Work section to my site where you can poke around my old college work and clips from projects throughout my animation career. Check out my Past Work section here.
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