Hasan Özdemir, a visually impaired software developer known for his work for visually impaired users in Turkey, has been promoted to lead Microsoft’s accessibility team at the company’s US headquarters.
Özdemir will be in charge of staff testing the accessibility features of commercial software that Microsoft develops for users with disabilities such as, visually impaired and hearing-impaired.
Özdemir, is behind a Braille translation software that is widely used by visually impaired people in Turkey. He has worked for Microsoft Turkey for the past 10 years and made headlines for being the first visually impaired programmer in Turkey. A self-taught developer, he coded several text-to-speech programs before joining Microsoft.