Daniela Kubesch@dnikub

Accessibility Engineer | Speaker | #UX Researcher | co-creator of @a11yphant 🐘 | passionate about creating #inclusive, human-centred digital experiences ✨

 Barcelona, Spanien
dnikub.dev
Joined November 2018
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It's almost time for Global Accessibility Awareness Day and I can finally share my thesis in an accessible format — for everyone to read 🎉 It took a year, but I managed to create a website with an #accessible version of the 160-pages thesis on #overlays: overlays.dnikub.dev

The Impact of Web Accessibility Overlays | Master's Thesis by Daniela Kubesch

This thesis, published in 2024, investigates the impact of accessibility overlays on the usability and user experience (UX) for individuals with permanent visual impairments. The conducted research...

overlays.dnikub.dev
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Simplified Accessibility Testing, right from your browser?!💡🔍 I designed and coded this little landing page to showcase all the #accessibility browser #bookmarklets powered by #CAAT and created by the team at mindscreen. Take a look: tools.caat.report/

Accessibility Bookmarklets by CAAT.report

Simplify accessibility testing, right from your browser with bookmarklet powered by CAAT.report.

tools.caat.report
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Daniela Kubesch retweeted
WeAreDevelopers
@WeAreDevs
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Daniela Kubesch says that even though the web now has more AI-written articles than human ones, they often don't perform as well. Will AI content always come second place? 🤔
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Daniela Kubesch retweeted
Kent C. Dodds 🐨
@kentcdodds
9 Jan 2019
You 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 it's 𝒸𝓊𝓉ℯ to 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 your tweets and usernames 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖜𝖆𝖞. But have you 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 to what it 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 with assistive technologies like 𝓥𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓞𝓿𝓮𝓻?
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I'm on my way to #DWX2025, swapping the heat of Barcelona for what appears to be the heat of Mannheim😄 I'm looking forward to the speaker dinner tonight, and to taking to the stage at 16:00 on 2 July! 🎙️ If you see me, please come and say hello and grab your CAAT button! 🐱
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I love clients who ensure that their disabled buttons have sufficient colour contrast, while also working to remove the anti-pattern of disabled buttons from their websites altogether ❤️‍🔥
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On July 2, I will be at the #DWX2025 in Mannheim! 📷 Once again, I will be on stage talking about the impact of #accessibility overlays on the #usability and #UserExperience of people with permanent visual impairments. Hope to see you there!
Poster of the DWX with all speakers in the track Web Design: Vicky Priker, Nina Hauer, Ulrike Stirnweiss, Keren kenzi, Roman Rackwitz, Daniela Kubesch. The TWX is from June 30th to July 3rd 2025 in Mannheim, Germany.

ALT Poster of the DWX with all speakers in the track Web Design: Vicky Priker, Nina Hauer, Ulrike Stirnweiss, Keren kenzi, Roman Rackwitz, Daniela Kubesch. The TWX is from June 30th to July 3rd 2025 in Mannheim, Germany.
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Let devs design and let designers code. It is about not being put into boxes. It is about looking beyond the tellerrand. – Matthias Ott at #BTConf
A screen displaying the text "Let devs design & Let designers code" in a bold, modern font.

ALT A screen displaying the text "Let devs design & Let designers code" in a bold, modern font.
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Matthias Ott talk covered so many interesting options for painting on the web. 🤯 For example, fluid web typography (using clamp()), colour space options (using oklch()) and the power of CSS grid. So inspiring, I want to rewrite my website right now and try them all out.
A large screen displays the text: "CSS is now the most powerful design tool for the Web“.

ALT A large screen displays the text: "CSS is now the most powerful design tool for the Web“.
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This slide of Léonie Watson’s talk has to be my favourite of the whole conference already, as it perfectly visualises what I often think in my head in my daily work as an accessibility engineer 😅
A presentation slide features a humorous sticker with the character Bob the builder. The text reads: "CAN WE FIX IT? NO. IT'S F**KED."

ALT A presentation slide features a humorous sticker with the character Bob the builder. The text reads: "CAN WE FIX IT? NO. IT'S F**KED."
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First day of #BTConf, my favorite conference of the year, let’s go! 🚀✨
A conference stage featuring a large screen displaying the event title "BEYOND TELLERRAND" in Düsseldorf. The stage is illuminated with green lights, and the audience is seated in front.

ALT A conference stage featuring a large screen displaying the event title "BEYOND TELLERRAND" in Düsseldorf. The stage is illuminated with green lights, and the audience is seated in front.
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I accidentally got a sunburn yesterday, and today it's heavily raining and cold. I'm really unsure what to pack for my trip to #BTConf as the weather forecast for Germany is also a bit unpredictable these days. 😅
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I forgot to post this yesterday as I was already too busy reading the book I was gifted with, but feliç diada de Sant Jordi to all those who are celebrating! 🌹📚
Daniela‘s hand holding a book titled "Extra Bold, an inclusive, anti-racist, and non-binary feminist handbook for graphic design“, alongside a red rose and barley wrapped in decorative paper with the Catalan flag. The text "Feliz St. Jordi" is displayed prominently.

ALT Daniela‘s hand holding a book titled "Extra Bold, an inclusive, anti-racist, and non-binary feminist handbook for graphic design“, alongside a red rose and barley wrapped in decorative paper with the Catalan flag. The text "Feliz St. Jordi" is displayed prominently.
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Working in #a11y means spending an afternoon writing tickets explaining why a <div> with only an onClick listener is not automatically a button and how wrapping an <a> element without a href attribute in a <form> is not good either. 🤷‍♀️
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In terms of #email #accessibility is it still necessary to add role=presentation to every table, tr and td element, as adding it to the table element alone is not enough, especially for #ScreenReaders and old email clients? 🤔
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This is definitely an implementation of a search button I've never seen before… I have so many questions, primarily WHY 🥴
Code snippet of the following code: <form method="post" action="" name="searchform" onclick="window.open('...', '_self')"><a class="SearchLabel">Search<img class="SearchIcon" src="..." name="search"></a></form>

ALT Code snippet of the following code: <form method="post" action="" name="searchform" onclick="window.open('...', '_self')"><a class="SearchLabel">Search<img class="SearchIcon" src="..." name="search"></a></form>
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Just arrived in Vienna to attend this year's #ZeroCon (zerocon25.zeroproject.org). Anyone else gonna to be there? 👀

The Zero Project Conference 2025: Employment, and ICT

zerocon25.zeroproject.org
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“I implemented an image that uses onClick, but now I realise that there needs to be a button cause some users can't access it. It also needs an accessible name. I must change that.” I'm so glad my students are relearning HTML while realising the impact their code can have.
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No “year in review” post from me this time, as a broken pipe in my apartment literally lets me slide into the next year 🥴 no need to wish me a „Guten Rutsch“ for NYE (aka. a good slide into the new year), as we do in Austria haha
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While auditing different sites this year, I've found that a description list (<dl>) would have been a good fit multiple times. It's nice to see a short post about it by David Luhr, as it is indeed highly underrated! htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2…

The underrated element - HTMHell

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

htmhell.dev
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