About Me
Education, accessibility, and the open web
I'm Kumaran Kumarathurai — an educator and consultant based in Aarhus, Denmark, working at the intersection of e-learning and web accessibility.
With a BSc in Educational Science and years of hands-on work in digital pedagogy, I help schools, organisations, and independent projects build learning experiences that actually reach everyone — including the users who are most often left out.
Accessibility isn't a checkbox at the end of a project for me; it's a design principle from the first sketch.
I work in English, Tamil, and Danish, which shapes how I think about communication: clear language, multiple formats, and respect for the reader's context.
Building, teaching, sharing
Alongside consulting and teaching, I build and maintain a small ecosystem of open, self-hosted projects. Among them: Tamilworld.org — a trilingual encyclopedia of Tamil culture and diaspora; Signeducation.org — a Moodle-based learning platform; and Signevents.net — an event map for community gatherings.
I prefer self-hosted, open-source tools over closed platforms. Not out of dogma, but because owning the infrastructure means I can guarantee privacy, accessibility, and longevity for the people who depend on these sites.
What I work with
Rather than a list of percentages, here's what I actually spend my time on:
- E-learning design
- Moodle
- Web accessibility
- WCAG 2.2
- Multilingual content
- Self-hosted infrastructure
- WordPress
- Docker & Traefik
- Video editing
- Website design
Stay in touch
I'm available for consulting on e-learning platforms, accessibility audits, and infrastructure work for educational and community projects.
In my spare time I work in filming and web development, watch films on Netflix, HBO and Disney+, and read news on the web.
On this blog I write about daily life, research, and knowledge.
Interests and activities
- Learning new computer technologies
- Designing websites
- Editing videos
- Travelling
So far I've travelled to USA, England, France, Switzerland, Slovakia, India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and more.