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Hire Me.
Before Airtel does.
I'm Shadab— Full-Stack Developer & Accessibility Specialist. 8+ yearsof making the internet usable for everyone. Three IAAP certifications. The man who built a love letter to his ISP during a blackout... imagine what I'd build for you.
status: available_for_hire | exp: 8yr+ | certs: 3 | bugs: classified
What I bring to the table
WCAG 2.2 / WAI-ARIA
8 yearsThree IAAP certifications deep. I've read more W3C specs than Airtel has dropped calls. AA compliance isn't a checkbox — it's a lifestyle choice I made before it was cool.
React / Next.js / Angular
6 yearsBuilt this entire site during a blackout with Next.js. Server components, app router, the works. Airtel was down but my build wasn't. (It never is.)
Accessibility Auditing & Remediation
8 yearsI audit websites the way Airtel audits their uptime — thoroughly, with receipts. VPATs, WCAG reports, remediation roadmaps. Your compliance team will finally sleep at night.
WordPress & Shopify
5–8 yearsAccessible e-commerce and CMS builds. My Shopify stores pass more audits than Airtel's customer care passes calls. (Love you Airtel, it's a joke.)
Chrome Extensions
building toolsIf the internet won't be accessible on its own, I'll build the tools to make it. Developer toolkits, accessibility checkers — the kind of extensions your browser actually needs.
Full-Stack Development
8 yearsHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Node.js — the full stack. This joke site has better SEO and structured data than most VC-funded startups. You're welcome.
The career arc (yes, there's one outside of blackouts)
The One Where I Run Compliance
2021 – presentCurrently making sure an entire company's output is WCAG-compliant. The title says 'manager' but the job is closer to 'the person everyone pings when an audit goes sideways.'
The One at the Accessibility Tool Company
2020 – 2021Worked at the company that literally built the axe-core engine. If accessibility tools were Avengers, I was inside Stark Tower. Senior role, big impact, and I still use their tools daily.
The One With the E-Commerce Agency
2018 – 2020Made online stores accessible for a living. Clients wanted pretty buttons. I gave them pretty, accessible buttons. Everyone was confused, then grateful.
The Origin Story
2016 – 2018Started as a software engineer at a QA company. Discovered accessibility testing. Fell down the WCAG rabbit hole. Never came back. My family still asks when I'll 'move to AI.'
Proof I'm worth hiring
8+
years of not breaking the internet
3
IAAP certifications collected like Infinity Stones
4
companies survived (they survived me too)
AA
WCAG compliance on a joke site
50
hidden achievements engineered here
∞
loyalty to Airtel despite everything
Professional* endorsements
“He made a more accessible website during our outage than our actual website. We're not mad. We're impressed. (Please stop tagging us though.)”
“I've been connected to billions of devices for decades. This is the first time someone built me a love letter. I'm blushing in TCP packets.”
“Beta, when will you get a real job? — Wait, people pay you to make websites accessible? That's... actually impressive. Send me the link, I'll forward to aunties.”
“He fixed 47 accessibility violations on our site in one sprint. Our compliance score went from 'concerning' to 'how is this the same website.' Strongly recommend.”
“I asked him to add alt text. He restructured our entire component library for accessibility. I didn't ask for that. But I'm glad he did.”
*some endorsements may be from non-human entities. The skills are real though.
Ready to make your site accessible?
I turn “we'll fix accessibility later” into “why didn't we do this sooner.”
WCAG audits, remediation, training, or building accessible UIs from scratch. Let's make the internet work for everyone.
Find me everywhere (except offline during an Airtel outage)
halfaccessible.com
I make websites accessible. Airtel, yours is next. Call me maybe?
Playground
Break accessibility rules here so you don't ship them to production.
YouTube @halfCODER
I explain WCAG so you don't have to suffer through 400 pages of W3C specs.
X @realShadabSaifi
Accessibility hot takes and Airtel appreciation tweets. Sometimes both at once.
Upwork
Hire me before Airtel does. (Airtel, this is your sign.)
Let's connect on a network that's always up. (love you Airtel, it's a joke.)