Yesterday, I experienced some trigger after a phone call, which caused anxiety and fluctuations in my blood pressure. If you know someone who is going through chronic health challenges, here are some helpful tips for talking to them: Avoid constantly asking how they are doing with their health, especially if you don’t understand their condition. […]
Small Wins
After more than a year, I read an entire book in one go. It took me 10 hours to finish listening to the audiobook. In 2021-2022, I tried reading a few books but never finished even one. I left each book after reading a few chapters because I lost focus, interest, and got bored. Yesterday, […]
More Than a Decade As a Digital Accessibility Specialist
It has been 11years since I got into the space of accessibility consulting. On a February 23rd morning I attended the bangalore service jam and everything changed after that. I met the right person who helped me to move into accessibility within IBM and from there I never looked back. Eleven years as an accessibility […]
Work and Entrepreneurship
Met few friends for lunch today, they are trying to build a start-up and gave me a rundown of the product, services and how it helps people to be independent. It was a very well spent afternoon after a very long time. Building a start-up when you are disabled is not easy and it sucks […]
Career Rant
In the initial phase of my career when I asked for a pay raise/promotion I was told “I should be grateful that I have a job.” a lot of disabled are not so lucky. neither me or any of my friends in the corporate jobs never pushed when it comes to promotion or pay hikes […]