Category: Who
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My Process
Due to blindness, I developed a process to minimize errors. – I work with hosts to craete & update a Staging & sometimes Development copy of a website – I use the FTP software WinSCP for Staging & Development sites, and Filezilla for the Live site. This way I wouldn’t accidentally update a Live site.…
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Disclaimers
It’s amazing that I’m a blind Web Developer. But you need to be aware: – I am not fast. It takes 4-5x longer to do work blind. I debug the old-fashioned way. I make typos. – I require client help in QA. I cannot see what my pages look like & strangers may not know…
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My Skills
Languages: PHP, Python. CMS: WordPress, Drupal. Frameworks: Zurb Foundation. WordPress: Custom post types. Custom Taxonomy & Tag bases. Shortcodes. Action Hooks & Filters. Themes. Plugins. SEO. Image Mgmt. Hosting: Domains, hosting, emails.
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Buzzwords
Work Flow – in addition to what you see on a web page, I set up & write code to handle the manual labor it takes to run the website. I have to analyze business process, availability of staff, the work it takes to close a transaction w/clients, security, life-cycle, data mgmt. Migration – I…
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Link to my most recent work
San Francisco Cable Cars Streetcar.org cablecars San Francisco Streetcars Streetcar.org Streetcars Note: The Streetcar fleet page is #4 or #5 on Google Page 1 for phrases Streetcar or Street cars
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My most recent project
I revamped www.streetcar.org Cable car & Street car fleet & individual car pages. Full & scaled images based on Featured images. I crated shortcodes, moving away from template pages. I made it so editors can add a car & see it immediately appear in a Fleet category & next/previous links. The Next/Prev links are custom,…
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I am a blind Web Developer
I use the free treasure, the NVDA screen reader. My monitor is dark, no matter. I have learned to navigate websites & web apps using a few simple keys. I don’t use custom shortcuts. I use 20 years coding experience to visualize my code. I’m 95% capable.
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I am blind since 2019
I was diagnosed in 1995 w/Retinitis Pigmentosa, a disease of the retina. It took nearly 25 years until 2019, when I could no longer read words on my monitor. My left eye is dark but I see some light in my right.