Richard Stelling
MacOS Accessibility Engineer at Apple
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarRichard Stelling is a macOS Accessibility Engineer with 12 years of software experience, currently focused on improving platform accessibility at Apple from his base in Bath, England. He works across Apple platforms—macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS—bringing deep Swift and Objective-C expertise to make interfaces more inclusive and usable. Known for translating complex assistive requirements into robust engineering solutions, he balances low-level system understanding with user-focused design. His role at Apple suggests hands-on experience with platform accessibility APIs and cross-device coordination that often goes unseen by end users. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to shepherd features from prototype to production while advocating for real-world accessibility outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (82)
json-schema10
command-line-tool10
build-process10
swiftui10
paypal10
elm10
swift10
json10
environment-variables10
java10
xcode10
csharp10
iphone10
kotlin10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rjstelling/Host.swift
May 2016 - Jan 2017
*Host.swift is no longer maintained*, please use Hostess.swift: https://github.com/rjstelling/Hostess.swift. A Swift implementation of NSHost that works on iOS, OS X and tvOS. Host.swift is safe to use in a framework because it does not require a bridging header.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 8 months
iosswifttvoshostess-swiftmacos
rjstelling/SimpleDateFormatting
Aug 2015 - Feb 2026
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch, 13 tags in 10 years 7 months
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