An education-focused side project started with a question from a teacher friend: “How can we make this experience better for learners who need extra support?” That question led me into months of research around additional learning needs, the challenges students face after education, and how teachers could create more accessible, personalised learning tasks.

I built the project for UK classrooms, helping teachers create manual, template-based, or carefully reviewed AI-assisted task drafts, with accessibility settings, feedback, and reporting. Then I applied to an award programme and didn’t win. But the process taught me something more valuable: a working app is not the same as a trustworthy product. This talk is about the moment a side project had to become real, and what that taught me about building technology that others can understand, evaluate, trust, and use to make learning support better.

Arzu is a software developer focused on building practical web and mobile applications, with interests in artificial intelligence, accessibility, and user-centred product development. She is also