Ricky Buchanan
Owner at Computing RJ
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolRicky Buchanan is an accessibility-focused technologist and owner of Computing RJ with 16 years of experience creating inclusive web and desktop experiences for people with disabilities and chronic illness. Based in Melbourne, he blends practical hands-on work—blogging, website creation, OS X and iOS beta testing—with a long-standing commitment to desktop and physical accessibility. He has led volunteer accessibility efforts at Dreamwidth Studios and contributed to community projects like CPAN, bringing a user-centered, cognitive-science-informed perspective from his BSc. Known for tackling the often-overlooked needs of bedridden and housebound users, Ricky pairs empathy with technical know-how to make technology genuinely usable for everyone.
16 years of coding experience
Methodist Ladies CollegeBSc, Cognitive Science, BSc, Cognitive Science at La Trobe University
English, auslan
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Github Skills (10)
perl10
keyboard7
opentype4
macos4
truetype4
fonts3
karabiner3
google-fonts2
font-editor2
macos-sierra1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jeshyr/ButtonUp
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:97 commits, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
anall/SleepTimer
Oct 2009 - Mar 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 3 years 5 months
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