{"id":67,"date":"2019-07-17T16:17:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/interview-with-bruce-lawson-codemotion-berlin-2018\/"},"modified":"2019-11-04T21:32:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T21:32:52","slug":"interview-with-bruce-lawson-codemotion-berlin-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/dev-life\/cto\/interview-with-bruce-lawson-codemotion-berlin-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Bruce Lawson | Codemotion Berlin 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a former teacher, Bruce Lawson is a real stickler for standards.<\/p>\n

But there’s a much more personal reason for his interest in improving accessibility: in 1999 he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n

As manager of computer book publishing house glasshaus, which produced books on web standards, usability and accessibility, Bruce began consulting and building websites.<\/p>\n

Before that, he wore many hats – as a tarot card reader, a punk musician, an actor, a primary school teacher in Istanbul and Bangkok, a volunteer pharmacist in Calcutta, English tutor to a princess’s daughter and a Fortran and COBOL programmer.<\/p>\n

But he found his calling later in life – and says the web must also grow up and accept a role of greater responsibility.<\/p>\n

“The web’s grown out of its difficult teenage years…now it’s time to grow up and be a real citizen that serves the people.”<\/q><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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