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 2021, I traded my citizens for college students and started teaching web development at Odisee University of Applied Sciences.

Education

364 ECTS 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
  • Bachelor in secondary education
    168 credits (incomplete)
    Subject bachelor thesis: e-learning
  • Additional classes at UGent history dept.
    13 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-’21 developer at Digipolis Gent

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

  • 2021 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

    One last project from my old school days. It uses the API of Flemish libraries to help you discover books set in specific cities, regions, or countries.

    The idea? Travel without leaving home. Explore places you can't visit in person through the pages of fiction.

    It dates back to november 2015. So yes, it's old! It must have been in the second year of my bachelors. In 2026 I asked claude to revive it.
    The old php is still in the repo as 'legacy'. Was it well written? No.
    It's kept for nostalgia, it's kept to remind me of what I was doing at that stage in my education, but it has now been replaced by a small node.js app.

    The same goes for the front-end. Is it accessible? No. Does it use modules? No, 2015 remember. Does it look outdated? Surprisingly, not that much?!

    Boekmap