Blog by Steve Frenzel

Let's find out how my favorite streaming service's widget performs with screen readers. And how NVDA dominates them all! 💪

You think it's easy to cancel their subscription? Think again, they perfected the art of deceptive patterns.

Me getting very angry about an out-of-touch web accessibility influencer.

Mostly smaller conferences recommended by the cool kids on Mastodon. ❤️ Suggest something and I might add it to the list!

It's international women's fight day. ✊ A day to celebrate the superior sex and worship them and their music!

No disrespect to the iA team, but their documentation had plenty of room for improvement. I hope this will be a useful reference to you. 🤗

Three resources (text, map and video) to help you better understand the WCAG.

Inspired by one Mastodon post, I tested how JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver and Narrator interact with this widget.

Is there a way to create hashtags that work for everyone? I did some screen reader testing and was surprised by the outcome!

Travelling Austria with a metal band and doing live sound in Vienna, Linz and Salzburg.

It's not like I hate WAI-ARIA, but often it's better to stick to what the internet gods have given us: Native HTML!

Gotta level up my web accessibility skills so I'm gonna prepare for getting a certificate. But I'm not gotta take the exam. 😏 (Maybe I will, though.)

The answer will probably not surprise you very much, as there are not many plausible use cases for this practice. In other words, it depends.

Six books I enjoyed in 2023, mostly novels and biographies. Featuring Trevor Noah, Dave Grohl and more!

A CSS feature that should have never made into to production, and why you sh...

Usage of pronouns, how to address groups, inappropriate emojis and more.

My favorite tunes from the year Tina Turner died, Twitter turned X and mass shootings in the U.S. reached a new all-time high.

Predicting what will happen and a couple useful links.

Me trying to explain the key differences between links, anchors and buttons.

Using the Accessible Perceptual Contrast Algorithm on a real world example.

When creating a website or fixing one, look for these issues: Low contrast text, missing alternative text, empty links, missing form labels, empty buttons and missing document language.