Bart Delrue

Development & Accessibility

"Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog."
Roald Dahl - Matilda

About me

Writing this, I realized I'm a pendulum.

Back in the nineties I made my first websites using notepad at our local library. After first pursuing a teaching career, and consequently working in logistics for four years, I decided to return to my old passion for web and app development and enrolled at Howest to study New Media and Communication Technology.

I became a full-stack developer with a high interest in accessibility and a background in education and history.

During my four years with the city of Ghent, I had the opportunity to contribute to diverse projects that made a measurable and positive impact on our citizens. My proudest contributions are those to the city of Ghent Style Guide — forever, my baby — and the platform for the low emission zone initiative.

In 2020, I traded my citizens for college students and started teaching web development at Odisee University of Applied Sciences.

Education

365 ECTS credits

  • Bachelor in secondary education
    167 credits
    Subject bachelor thesis: e-learning
  • Additional classes at UGent history dept.
    15 credits
  • Bachelor multimedia and communication technology: NMCT
    180 credits - summa cum laude
    Subject bachelor thesis: web accessibility @ development
  • Multidisciplinary project
    Co-constructing healthy experiences & smart objects, spaces and places
    3 credits

Timeline

  • 1987 - born

    Ostend, Belgium

  • 2005-'09 bachelor in secondary education

    Artevelde Hogeschool

  • 2008-'09 additional history courses

    UGent

  • 2010-'14 logistic employee

    DSV solutions

  • 2014-'17 full time student

    New Media and Communication Technology, Howest
    graduated summa cum laude

  • 2017-'20 developer at Digipolis Gent

    Accessibility and frontend development in Vue.js and Angular 2+

  • 2020 Lecturer at Odisee Univerity of Applied Sciences

    Full time lecturer in web development.

Showcase

A small selection of personal projects.
Some are rather silly, others have a more nostalgic value, most have been abandoned.

Allietabs

This is the last remnant of my bachelor thesis Accessibility @ development.
It's a fully accessible tab component which is still being used by the city of Ghent.

Available on NPM

Color contrast checker

While developing the city of Ghent styleguide, I noticed most color contrast checkers only compare two colors at a time.
This proved impractical, we have several color schemes with over a hundred variations...
So I created a contrast checker for entire color palettes.

Color contrast checker

Put some balls in your CSS

A simple tool to help you play around with background 'balls' in CSS.
I made it to avoid adjusting my own CSS for the nth-time while working on my internship project mensenmaken.gent

Put some balls in you CSS

Three.js tutorial

A three.js google cardboard tutorial, created in collaboration with Tijl Bulcaen.

Three.js google cardboard tutorial

Weunt a lief in Wachtebeke?

Originially a school project and a bit of joke, I presented this site in 2016 during Apps for Ghent.
I never expected it to gain so much traction!

It's a very simple websites which uses open data to show you which neighbourhood in Ghent has a surplus of men or women in your age category.
Hence making it more likely to find a date!

The site has been used to showcase open data and to promote future hackathons.
It's one of the reasons I applied for a job at Digipolis Gent.

Gentse lieven

Boekmap

Another school project, but a more practical one.

I used library data to show books based on destinations.
This allows you to travel without walking out your front door!
(And we all know it's dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door.)

Boekmap