Let’s wipe some dust off this old blog, shall we? There’s a lot to do, including accessibility fixes, but sometimes you just have to start somewhere.

In Sunday Seven I publish a list of seven links to things on the internet. The only criteria to make it in this category is that it is interesting to me. Accessibility: Apple Park’s Visitor Center by twitter user @xarph – An interesting twitter thread about the many small …

On Friday, I was invited to talk at [\#ID24](http://www.inclusivedesign24.org) about WAI-ARIA, with a special focus on the ramifications of bad ARIA. You can [view the slides](http://slides.com/yatil/2017-id24/) or [watch the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bH57rWPnYo).

I am thrilled to be speaking at the annual [Inclusive Design 24](http://www.inclusivedesign24.org) event on June 9th. At 5 am UTC time (that is 7 am CEST), I’ll speak about my growing frustrations of ARIA implementations in the wild. The talk is called “ARIA …

As many of you might know, I have been the primary editor of the W3C WAI Web Accessibility Tutorials which provide practical guidance on how to implement web accessibility. A few days ago, the Education and Outreach Working Group and I were able to publish a major update. We …

Next month I will continue the tradition of flying over to Austin, TX, USA to attend the annual AccessU conference and teach some classes. Organized by Knowbility, the conference is a gathering of brilliant minds around accessibility and is an excellent opportunity to broaden …

Great video over at the Google Chrome Developers channel about the upcoming CSS Level 4 :focus-ring selector (draft). The focus is often removed for stylistic reasons when using the mouse, but then keyboard users also have no indication of where they are on the website. …

In 2006 I got my first Mac ever, the 2006 Apple MacBook “Core Duo” 1.83 13”. After owning a humongous Acer 15” Laptop in the previous years, the experience of owning this computer was something from another world. Since 2013 I owned a 13” MacBook Air with 8GB RAM and an 1.7GHz …

Tom Scott on tactile pavement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPymLgfXSY

Over the last year, the name of a city is coming up in German news more often than I like it to be: Aleppo. It is not just a city involved in the war in Syria, it is the scene of a standoff that is lasting for months. This city, the mention of its name on the news, the …

I’m happy to announce here that I will be speaking at Accessing Higher Ground in November, representing Knowbility. The conference is in Westminster, Colorado and coins itself as an “Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference”. I will do two three-hour long workshops: …

I always thought that it is not so difficult to find resources about these basics, the recurrence of that question prompted me to finally write my own take on this topic. So here it is, my list of absolute web accessibility basics every web developer should know about. A very …

Over the past years my social web interaction shifted from Twitter and this very blog more and more to Facebook. I have so many contacts and interactions there that it feels very overwhelming and occupying a good chunk of my free time that I would love to spend otherwise: Hiking …

Wowza, that was a densely packed year 2015 for me. Here is my short,long, personal review of the year: January Slow start into the year, attended a reading by Max Goldt at Zeche Carl (Carl Mine), a former mine and now event location, and even got a poster signed (yes, I’m used …

My personal thoughts about “The Force Awakens” are very well mirrored by the discussion on last week’s The Incomparable, Episode 277: Stormtroopers Are People. The panel consists of Jason Snell, Serenity Caldwell, Dan Moren and the hypercritical John Siracusa. I think that …

I read the Webkrauts advent calendar article by Jens Grochtdreis earlier today, it is about headers with lines on the side, like in the article image. (There is a similar article by Chris Coyier on CSS-Tricks for English-speaking people out there.) He presents a solution with …

I was asked to write an article for 24ways.org, the well known web advent calendar, this year. It was published today! Hop over and read about The Accessibility Mindset. Thanks for all the good work behind the scene, Drew, Brian, Anna, and Owen! If you prefer to read the article …

“The idea is to fill Facebook with music, breaking the monotony of selfies and sensationalism. If you ‘like’ this post you will be assigned a letter for a musician, band, artist or song for you to post on your timeline with this text.” I liked Sandra’s post a few days ago and …

Simplicity is not dumbing down. There is room for creativity even in relatively simple things. Let’s focus on what matters. Helps to provide the right optimizations for users. Benefits about static sites cheaper, simpler hosting fewer points of failure fewer vulnerabilities …