Hi there 👋

my name is Bogdan Cerovac.

📫 You can reach me by e-mail, on Twitter or on LinkedIn

If not for others - be egoistic - do it for yourself - make it as accessible as possible. Some day you might appreciate it as well.

Some facts about me:

• I’m currently working as front-end developer and web accessibility lead for Vokser AS (new name for ItumX AS) but this is my private repo.
• I'm also a sole enterpreneur / independant consultant behind IDEA lab (Inclusion Diversity Equity and Accessibility).
• I'm volunteering as Head of the expert council at The Institute for Digital Accessibility A11Y.si (in Slovenian),
• I’m trying to be a better team player, student, teacher, lecturer and mentor teaching people around me about accessibility, front-end, SEO and all that has to do with the web.
• I'm trying to learn more about disabilities and accessibility, both very wide and deep subjects at the same time - with a goal to make digital products that work for as much people as possible.
• I’m always learning more about web technologies in general as the changes and advancement in the field does not sleep and I ❤ WEB & I would ❤ A11y will be more embraced, respected and integrated in the future.
• I also like to think and blog on accessibility, from theoretical to practical aspects of it.
• I’m Web Accessibility Specialist certified by the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP).
• I was a Mobile Web Specialist certified by Google but they discontinued the certification (it was a true hands-on coding exam with real world problems that had to be solved by coding in 4 hours frame, so not your typical A/B/C/D multiple choices lottery).
• I stil like to play - I used to play a lot of Sid Meier's Civilization (TM), but now I love to play with GenAI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Augmented and Virtual reality and sometimes even with some Arduinos, Particles, NodeMCU's and ATTiny85's.
• Fun personal facts:
  • Born and raised in beautiful Slovenia 🇸🇮, living and working in beautiful Norway 🇳🇴, part of family in beautiful Canada 🇨🇦 and in beautiful Croatia 🇭🇷.
  • Wife, a daughter, a son, 3 dogs and 3 horses,
  • Only child but huge family, 14 cousins,
  • One year of small scale farming 👨‍🌾 and chainsaw lumberjacking 🪵🪚,
  • I try to experience world as much as I can, my personal offline favorites:
    • Svalbard with dog sledge 🇳🇴🐺,
    • Rapa Nui on horseback 🇨🇱🗿 ,
    • Madagascar whale safari scuba-diving 🇲🇬🤿,
    • Botswana self-driving road-trip (5000 km (3100 miles)) 4x4 and safari 🇧🇼🐘,
    • Namibian desert experience 🇳🇦🏜️ ,
    • Madagascar self-driving road-trip (4000 km (2485 miles)) with 4x4 🇲🇬🚙,
    • Switzerland - breathing on Jungfraujoch (3,466 metres (11,371 ft)) 🇨🇭🏔️,
    • Senja observing northern lights (Aurora Borealis) 🇳🇴🌌,
    • Soča valley mountains hiking 🇸🇮🌄,
    • Anguila swimming with dolphins 🇦🇮🐬,
    • Machu Picchu sunrise experience 🇵🇪🌄,
    • Borobudur temple at sunrise 🇮🇩🛕,
    • Saint Martin swimming on horseback 🇫🇷🐎,
    • Italian boot - drove it round and round, Sicily included 🇮🇹👢
    • Gettysburg horseback tour 🇺🇸🐎,
    • Attended gala dinner hosted by King and Queen of Norway in the royal palace 🇳🇴👑👑,
• Fun geek facts:
  • My first programming language was assembly, followed by Turbo Pascal, C, C++, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Java, C#,
  • My first computer had a Winchester hard drive and 8086 CPU with 512Kb RAM and 256 levels of green provided by Hercules graphic card,
  • Made my first webpage with 4 subpages in the previous millenium (1999)

Web and accessibility is my Ikigai, code is haiku.