The Simili Athena 1.5 "Meaning" Demo

Category: Who

  • 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.
    – I always ask for permission to update a Live site. When others use a Staging site, I ask for permission before updating those too.

  • 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 what to look for.
    – It is an iterative process. I limit the amount of back-and-forth it takes to get to production but I cannot avoid it.
    – My rate is $60/hour. But I charge for a fraction of the actual work I do.

  • 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.

  • 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 migrate websites & data. I migrated www.Streetcar.org’s website from another service in 2014 to WordPress-host WPEngine.com

  • 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

  • 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, based on stored data that is updated when an Editor clicks on a particular category. It’s fast, efficient & automatic.

    I worked with WordPress, database, custom post types, taxonomy & tag, shortcode, action hooks, filters, image scaling, automation.

  • 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.

  • 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.