Hi I'm Gio an Accessibility Specialist! 👋

Coding With Empathy

Web accessibility is all about designing with empathy in mind. It's a way for us engineers to write code with compassion. Being compassionate makes me a great leader and makes me a great accessibility engineer. I like to consider everyone and put myself in my user's shoes. Whether it's testing color contrast or auditing a website with a screen-reader, my goal is to write code that helps make the internet a more accessible place for all.

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another. Could you imagine waking up one day with a disability and losing the ability to visit your favorite website? It would be quite an earth-shattering moment since we're so dependent on technology nowadays. But if the engineers who created your favorite website designed with accessibility in mind, you too would've been included. It would've still been available to you. This is coding with empathy.