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Laura Wissiak

Accessibility Specialist
Austria laura-wissiak.com/links Joined September 2025
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Posted in Accessibility group
Feb 25 • Articles • 1 min read
A11y Tokyo Meetup: Accessibility and Internationaization1 Tuesday, Feb 17 · 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM CET How does accessibility and internationalisation fit together? Why does one need the other, how do they relate, what does this all mean in real lif...
Posted in WebDev group
Jan 20 • Articles • 8 min read
If you hang around modern frontend discourse or pretty much any React codebase, Tailwind feels like the default. It’s fast. It’s polished. It has great docs. It makes UIs look decent by accident. And yet… I don’t use it. This post is my attempt to...
Dec 2, 2025 • Articles • 3 min read
Sunday, November 30th 2025, marks the 18th annual Blue Beanie Day. Okaaaaay, why is this relevant for inclusion? Blue Beanie Day reminds us to pay attention to web standards in order to create sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less...
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Oct 21, 2025 • Articles • 4 min read
Catch ‘Em All: Hunting Accessibility Bugs Like a Champion with Automated Testing So, you wanna be the very best in software testing, like no one ever was? Testing for access barriers is part of a comprehensive quality assurance process. But where...
Posted in Accessibility group
Oct 4, 2025 • Articles • 1 min read
WordPress Accessibility Meetup1 Thursday, October 2 at 10 AM Central It can be a struggle to convince your client to put in the effort and also conform to any regulation, like Section 508, the EU Accessibility Act, or otherwise. Drawing from her o...
Posted in Accessibility group
Oct 1, 2025 • Articles • 1 min read
Hello World! Welcome to the Accessibility Group! We’re excited to have you here! This is a space where you can share, learn, and connect with other developers who love Accessibility. Start by saying hi! Introduce yourself in the comments below—...
Posted in Accessibility group
Oct 1, 2025 • Articles • 1 min read
Hello World! Welcome to the Accessibility Group! We’re excited to have you here! This is a space where you can share, learn, and connect with other developers who love Accessibility. Start by saying hi! Introduce yourself in the comments below—...
Posted in Accessibility group
Sep 29, 2025 • Articles • 3 min read
Online Navigation Online navigation works quite similarly to offline navigation, only the tools differ greatly. For online navigation, we mainly have zoom, screen magnifiers, and screen readers or SR for short. Zoom and screen magnifiers are pretty...
Sep 25, 2025 • Articles • 1 min read
It’s a curated directory of over 200 open-source tools, perfect for discovering alternatives to popular or commercial software. What’s particularly useful is that it’s integrated with GitHub, showing real-time star counts for each tool, which gives a...
Posted in Accessibility group
Sep 11, 2025 • Articles • 1 min read
WebAIM Conference1 September 16-17, from 12:15 PM– 5 PM US Eastern Time The Web Accessibility in Mind Conference is presented by WebAIM in partnership with Pope Tech. This virtual conference will provide conference participants with content that...
Sep 7, 2025 • Articles • 7 min read
The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap Setting the Benchmarks Alex Russel, a lead performance developer at Google is a firm believer in “an internet for everyone”. He highlights this in a poignant Chrome Dev Summit talk in 2016https://www.youtube.co...
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