Mr Jabbar, who lives in Birmingham, said he enjoyed working on computers from a young age and started teaching himself to code when he was about 13 using publicly available resources and screen readers.
“I really liked using computers and I thought that ‘I want to be able to build something with it,'” he added.
However, he was told at school that a GCSE in computer science might be “too fast paced” for him and the exam board may not be able to make the required adjustments.
“Their logic was ‘it’s going to be too hard for you because of your disability, you might not be able to do it,'” he said.
Mr Jabbar said his mum tried to convince the school to let him study computing but her efforts were unsuccessful and he ended up studying a BTEC in IT which he said he found “easy”.