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Laura Wissiak

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Funka Foundation: Accessible name – make it or break it1 Friday, May 8, 13.30-14.00 CEST Every button, link, and image on your interface must have an accessible name. Get it right and assistive technology users can find it, understand it, and a...
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Last week, we looked at and listened to the symphony of dynamic webpage content. If Session 1 was the quiet theory of Section 508, Session 2 was the loud, blinking, scrolling reality of the web. We tackled the trio of auto-playing audio, moving/blink...
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Trusted Tester Study Group Together with the Google Developer Group Vienna1, I am hosting a study group for the Trusted Tester certification. The dates and topics this month are: Session 2: Auto-Playing and Auto-Updating Content + Flashing Friday ...
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Trusted Tester Study Group1 Together with the Google Developer Group Vienna, I am hosting a study group for the Trusted Tester certification. Watch the previous session recordings on YouTube2. The dates and topics this month are: Session 2: Auto-P...
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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...
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Together with the Google Developer Group Vienna1, I am hosting a study group for the Trusted Tester certification. You can watch the previous session recordings on YouTube and access the presentation and transcript. The next session2 will be on Frid...
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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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Recently, I visited my local hackerspace for the “Do it Blind” meetup. Do it Blind is the in-house effort to make the hackerspace itself accessible for people with visual impairments. My friend, who had invited me, was trying out how far he could ge...
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The State of Accessibility in WordPress1 Thursday, November 6, starting 04:00 PM CET Join the WPCampus community on Thursday, November 6 at 10 a.m. Eastern UTC -5 for a focused two-hour event exploring the current and future state of accessibility...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Catch ‘Em All: Hunting Accessibility Bugs Like a Champion with Manual Testing This post is part of a series on web accessibility. Read the first part here: Web accessibility and automated testing basics explained with Pokémon1. There will come a p...
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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...
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