Abhijit Das

Web developer cum accessibility tester

LearningMate•  March 2022 - Present

I play a dual role of Web developer and accessibility tester. As a developer, I build/fix Web pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and sometimes Bootstrap and jQuery, while having to navigate through technologies I may not know to figure out where to put my code. As a tester, I check a given Web page/site for accessibility issues and report them, along with suggested remediations, to ensure, for example, that a set of radio buttons is identified as such to a blind screen reader user and works with the appropriate keyboard keys. Apart from project work, I take up initiatives of pursuing ad hoc activities, too. E.g., I have developed a framework, in the form of a Node-based CLI tool, to create Web-based presentations; I have taken part in a team-based hackathon where I was the sole front-end developer to create an application for videos with embedded questions, which I created with an accessibility-first approach.