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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

Another year passed by, and I really notice some truth in the saying that the older you get, the more life seems to accelerate. Although there were many (new) things in both my private and professional life, 2019 seems to have come and gone in an absurd pace. But in order ... → Read more about 2019 retrospective

With the start of the new year, it is a good opportunity to look into the accessibility of your web app. Here are 20 starting points to make your web app more inclusive in 2020. Covering the basics is 90% of the way of making your web app accessible! Yes, there are special a... → Read more about Twenty inclusive strategies for building web apps in 2020