DiGrande.it
Braille and Technologies for Visual Impairment

About Me – Giuseppe Di Grande
Accessibility technologies. A vision that becomes reality.

Giuseppe sitting at his desk

My name is Giuseppe Di Grande, I was born in 1973 and I live in Avola, in the province of Syracuse. I am a software developer and creator of inclusive technologies, with forty years of experience in the IT sector.

In 1995, I lost my sight. Since then, my mission has become even clearer: to design tools that make the world accessible, especially for people with visual disabilities.

I am the creator of Biblos, a free word processor used worldwide by teachers, students, and specialized centers for Braille printing and reading, tactile graphics, and accessible education.

I started programming in 1985, with a Commodore 64. In the early 1990s, I worked as a graphic designer for a private television station. Then, at the age of 22, blindness changed my life – but it didn’t stop my passion for computing.

Programming is my main means of expression, but I love to go beyond boundaries. I’m drawn to challenges: the greater they are, the more they drive me to innovate, create, and share.

Since 2013, I’ve been vegan. It was an ethical and conscious choice, like everything I do.

IT Skills

My work is based on strong and cross-disciplinary skills, the result of years of study, development, and dissemination. I don’t just use technology: I design it, invent it, and put it at the service of inclusion.

Here are some of my main specializations:

Hardware and Programming Languages

Over the years I have worked with dozens of systems and languages. My approach is deep, experimental, never superficial.

If you want to collaborate, create something new, or simply get to know my work better, you can write to me from here. Great ideas deserve to become reality. A reality that is accessible to everyone.