Wow this is funny, my first steps in programming were out of pure necessity, one of my best childhood friends had a very high level of blindness, he was very fond of soccer and loved to read sports news every day. Unfortunately his vision got much worse in a few months and he couldn't read as much news as he liked, so I researched about tools that could improve his user experience.
Here I discovered the exciting opensource ecosystem, but on the other hand I realized that most websites were not accessible for people with special needs, something that still happens today. I was obsessed for weeks to get my friend could continue to enjoy reading that he liked so much, I spent the day saving lines of code to later juggle until he could hear the news directly, it was something simple but it made me feel like a little wizard of the web.
Months later I started to offer web accessibility services to some local companies, I charged ridiculous prices but I made sure I kept learning, my goal was simply to turn the webs into accessible spaces for everyone. So yep, I don't consider myself an expert, I just fell in love with python years ago, although my creative nature makes me feel happier and more comfortable in frontend and UI dev
Wow this is funny, my first steps in programming were out of pure necessity, one of my best childhood friends had a very high level of blindness, he was very fond of soccer and loved to read sports news every day. Unfortunately his vision got much worse in a few months and he couldn't read as much news as he liked, so I researched about tools that could improve his user experience.
Here I discovered the exciting opensource ecosystem, but on the other hand I realized that most websites were not accessible for people with special needs, something that still happens today. I was obsessed for weeks to get my friend could continue to enjoy reading that he liked so much, I spent the day saving lines of code to later juggle until he could hear the news directly, it was something simple but it made me feel like a little wizard of the web.
Months later I started to offer web accessibility services to some local companies, I charged ridiculous prices but I made sure I kept learning, my goal was simply to turn the webs into accessible spaces for everyone. So yep, I don't consider myself an expert, I just fell in love with python years ago, although my creative nature makes me feel happier and more comfortable in frontend and UI dev