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Just a month ago I wrote in my 2019 retrospective for the first time in this blog about my plans to release an ebook. The idea is actually six months old and my intention back then was to do the following: Writing an ebook about web accessibility in German Covering what ... → Read more about Change of ebook plans

I've written about accessible routing in Vue.js before and tried to sketch an accessible strategy for "page" changes in this particular framework – but frankly, the advice I was giving in said article originated from what I learned from what I read and found looking into other frameworks. It was ex... → Read more about Improved accessible routing in Vue.js (updated)

Following the publication of my "Accessibility notes on the www.spiegel.de relaunch", it was a little bit by chance, and a little bit due to Twitter that I was able to contact a member of the spiegel.de NextGen team. Though Daniel Schulz came into the project relatively late he... → Read more about Follow up on my spiegel.de notes: Interview with Daniel Schulz from SPIEGEL Tech Lab

I really like relaunches of websites. Not only as part of my job, of course, but also when teams or stakeholders behind big projects like websites of newspapers, TV station or governments decide to roll out a new and updated version. Often enough some time has passed between two relaunches, ... → Read more about Accessibility notes on the www.spiegel.de relaunch

Just a quick heads-up: Accessible App (finally) received a content update, and it's a new pattern called "Showing progress". It deals with communicating interstitial (or: loading) states of web apps to screen readers by using the <progressbar> element in combination with focus management. I came across this strategy ... → Read more about Progress on accessible-app.com