Guy Barker
Technical Accessibility Enthusiast at Guy Barker
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGuy Barker is a Technical Accessibility Enthusiast with 10 years of focused experience and over two decades of engineering history, most notably as a Senior Accessibility SDE at Microsoft where he shaped screen reader and accessibility APIs across Windows. He builds practical, user-centered accessible apps—like Accessible Solitaire—which has received enthusiastic feedback from braille display and VoiceOver users for making games genuinely playable. Guy combines deep platform-level know-how (UI Automation, Narrator, on-screen keyboards) with hands-on app development in .NET MAUI and cross-platform scenarios, and he regularly shares learnings through talks, workshops and articles. He has acted as a technical liaison for AI for Accessibility grantees, applying Azure AI to real assistive problems and mentoring teams on inclusive design. Collected public training materials and bug fixes he authored have been used company-wide and by the wider developer community to improve accessibility quality. Trained as an electronic engineer and mathematician at the University of Nottingham, he brings a systems-thinking approach to making software efficient and enjoyable for everyone.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electronic Engineering and Mathematics, BS, Electronic Engineering and Mathematics at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (70)
windows10
winforms10
microsoft-store10
dotnet10
windows-forms10
windows-desktop10
ui-framework10
csharp10
uwp10
desktop10
chrome10
git-client10
inno-setup10
javascript9
microsoft-cognitive-services9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
guybark/AIForay
Jul 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
guybark/Sa11ytaire
Sep 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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