“Welcome. You are not alone.”
Said's own voice. It does not play by itself, and it never talks over a screen reader.
I build for people who don't see the screen, and I build from inside that, not next to it.
A field test with blind users tells me more than a demo that looks finished.
I would rather show the range of what I can actually build than claim one narrow expertise I don't have.
Glasses that listened for obstacles, shoes that buzzed, a GPS module. About $112. Built at seventeen in Herat and tested with blind users at a support centre there, then taken to TEKNOFEST in Turkey, where it won Best Presentation.
An accessibility-first social network for blind and low-vision users. The first beta leaned on sight more than we wanted. The gestures were generic and it took several of them to do one thing. Testers told us, we closed the beta, and the MVP is being rebuilt.
Every status above is the real one. Two of these are documents, and saying so is what makes the first two worth reading.
I'm Said Mohaddes Sadeqi. I lost sight in one eye during the war in Afghanistan.
At seventeen, in Herat, I built a wearable to help blind people move around a city that was not built for them. It cost about $112. We tested it with blind users at a support centre in Herat, and took it to TEKNOFEST in Turkey, where it won Best Presentation.
I've been building for the same people ever since. I'm a developer at PIIIX, and I founded Third Eye Worldwide.
Most sites treat access as something you add at the end. I treat it as the thing being designed. This one is the argument: everything here works without sight, and if that is true then the rest of what I say about my work is worth reading.
If you're building something people use without looking at it, I want to work on it.