Hey, I'm Nat
I build accessibility tools from lived experience.
Design for one, help everyone.
iOS developer who's shipped to millions · M.Sc. in AI in progress
I build accessibility tools from lived experience.
Design for one, help everyone.
iOS developer who's shipped to millions · M.Sc. in AI in progress
A while back my tech lead, Chris Ward, an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and neurodivergent communities, gave a talk about the curb cut effect: the ramps cut into curbs for wheelchairs ended up helping everyone, from strollers to suitcases to delivery carts. It stayed with me. I'm autistic and dyslexic, and I realized I could cut the curbs I already know from the inside, designing from lived experience, for everyone's benefit.
Cut one curb, and everyone rolls through.
That thread runs through everything I make. By day I'm an iOS developer who's shipped apps to millions of users; on the side I'm working toward a Master's in Artificial Intelligence, with my thesis still ahead of me. Both of my apps, Tacet and ClearPage, grew straight out of that idea, and both are free, forever.
Built from love. My husband has tinnitus. I couldn't make the ringing stop, so I enrolled in a Master's in AI. The result: a free app that learns which masking sound works for each person, psychoacoustic matching plus Bayesian optimization, entirely on-device.
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Removing barriers, not fixing deficits. Dyslexia is a formatting problem, not a reading problem. Snap a photo or screenshot, and ClearPage re-renders text in your layout, your spacing, your typeface, your colors. Free, offline, on-device OCR in English, Spanish, and German.
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