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Hi, my name is Steve Repsher. I am legally blind and have spent the bulk of my career as an aerodynamics engineer, specializing in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and numerical optimization. How does that help me on GitHub you say? It means I've coded in many different languages, can quickly learn and debug new ones, am a meticulous problem solver, love to automate and streamline, and live inside the world of accessibility (or lack thereof) every day.

Through preach and practice, I am very familiar with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specification. I am also a former member of the W3c Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and the Low Vision Task Force, and was heavily involved in the development of new success criteria added in WCAG 2.1.

Your sponsorship will support my mission to support popular open source projects with the detailed issue reports and high quality pull requests that they need to boost their accessibility.

Currently, I am working furiously on the UI for Home Assistant. Not only is it a great project that perfectly suits my own nerdy hobby, but I also believe that home automation in general can open worlds of new accessibility for all types of disabilities.

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Help me know that my mission is appreciated, validate that I provide high quality code, and maybe even launch me down a new career path

Featured work

  1. webpack/webpack

    A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs,…

    JavaScript 64,225
  2. browserslist/browserslist

    πŸ¦” Share target browsers between different front-end tools, like Autoprefixer, Stylelint and babel-preset-env

    JavaScript 12,761
  3. home-assistant/frontend

    🍭 Frontend for Home Assistant

    TypeScript 3,733
  4. lit/lit

    Lit is a simple library for building fast, lightweight web components.

    TypeScript 17,677
  5. material-components/material-web

    Material Design Web Components

    TypeScript 8,750
  6. vaadin/web-components

    A set of high-quality standards based web components for enterprise web applications. Part of Vaadin 20+

    JavaScript 409

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🍩 A little extra burst to get that pull request done! πŸ’¨

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β˜•πŸ₯›πŸ¬ Now I have the large latte to keep those neurons firing long enough to fix the next issue! 🧰

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🍷🍺 The wife and I will have a celebratory drink on you after one more accessibility barrier is knocked down. πŸ‘Š

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🍨🍫 The kids, wife, and I are going out for ice cream and water ice, and you should definitely feel free to shoot me some mentions to let me know where my services might be appreciated next! 🎊