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Be a Better Tester

I attended the ATNYC 2025 conference in New York and gave a presentation on how to write better accessibility tickets when submitting feedback on apps and websites. Instead of creating a slide deck, I built a webpage to hold all of the information that I went over in my 30-minute talk, and I also just find that webpages are easier to navigate than any of the slide deck software that is out there.

Be a Better Tester

Braille Converter

When adding braille text to SVG artwork, using Unicode characters is the best way to have braille act like actual text, allowing us to use it on paths, apply different CSS effects, etc. The problem was actually getting those Unicode characters in the first place.

Originally, I was painstakingly pulling them up one at a time from the MacOS Character Palette, then eventually built my own little text file to contain the braille Unicode characters that I could copy and paste out of, though that was still quite a chore. Now I've found a script that will convert BRF files to the exact Unicode I need, and I translated it and recompiled it for anyone to use! Check this out:

Braille Converter

A Walk Through Amsterdam

June 1, 2025 - Chancey Fleet and I took a walk through Amsterdam a day before attending the Tactile Reading Conference, and I recorded our walk with my Meta glasses. I edited everything together, added captions, and this fun 6 minute jaunt is the result!

A Walk Through Amsterdam video

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 & Resources

TADA!

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.com

SVG Drawings for Tactile Graphics

My little compendium of my hand-coded SVG artwork, logos, and functional tactile graphics. Feel free to download the SVG files and check out the code: SVG Drawings and Logos - updated Dec 22, 2024

Python Projects

• Oh Craps v.6.5 Update - Jan 19, 2025

  More code cleanup, made Lay Bets always working on the Come Out rolls, fixed errant punctuation in the dealer calls, finished conversion of all format strings to f strings, and updated ReadMe and Version number. Prepping code for individual On and Off bet states upgrade which will be coming soon. Oh Craps! on Github

• Balls to the Wheel Release - Jan 23, 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

• Burt Baccarat Release - Jan 3, 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

• Hit The Deck v.3.5 - Apr 29, 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 5, 2023

Added a variety of Brilliant Orange songs to the Brilliant Orange section. Head over to my Music page.

Media

• Blind Tech Guys and Lorem Ipsum Interviews on Jul 6, 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

• Lyft Self-Driving Experience NFB 2019 - Jun 6, 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

• KALW Cross Currents Specialist episode on Orientation and Mobility trainers - Aug 10, 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

• Craps Strategy Page update - Jan 20, 2025

  Changed the update log into a details element that shows a list of the last 5 strategy additions. Added this to the All Strats page as well. Added $48 Out strategy. Entire List of Craps Strategies Main Oh Craps Strategy Page

• 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

• Blind SIghted Blog Returns! - Jun 25, 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

• Pierre's Art Studio Relaunched - Jun 20, 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

• Past Work Page Launch - Jun 4, 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.

Social Media and Memberships

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