Accessibility First
Designing and developing for various visual impairments can be challenging, especially when one doesn’t know exactly how people with visual impairments perceive colors and content on the web. Google Chrome DevTools offers a simple solution by simulating these impairments, thus helping to ...
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See you at uxcon vienna
At this years uxcon in Vienna, Laura and Julia are holding a workshop about how to create and test website to not only fulfill requirements but go far beyond the checklist ...
Monthly a11y newsletter
There are a lot of resources and events that can be hard to find outside the online accessibility bubble. Gatekeeping is the opposite of accessibility, which is why I send out (approximately) monthly newsletters about upcoming events in web accessibility...
2023 has been eventful here at Accessibility First
2023 has been eventful here at Accessibility First! Laura has joined the party, a brand new website, march for inclusion, and much more ...
Define project
On October 10, we took part in the presentation of the DEFINE project. Define stands for Digital Equipment For Inclusive Empowerment. The mission behind it is not only to bring low-cost assistive tech to the market but also to improve digital literacy in the process...
How do people learn to use a white cane?
At the first real user trial, we finally put our actual prototype on an actually blind person, instead of a blindfolded engineer. The participant gave us a great tip: to get in touch with an orientational mobility officer.Since there is no industry standard for haptic...
Why blind people in Vienna hate trashcans
When I first started doing research for Hope Tech’s Sixth Sense, we quickly encountered the challenge of “What exactly should we define as a threat and what would just be an obstacle? For the classification of threats, my mind went immediately to traffic, moving cars,...
Deaf blindness
When you hear the word deaf-blind, you might think “How do you communicate then?” And if you have ever studied anything related to communication, I’m sure your old professor is haunting you right now with Paul Watzlawick’s “One cannot not communicate” with that uuh spooky echo uuuh...
Accessibility First collaborates with UX Researcher Laura Wissiak
Some paths should not be walked alone. I’m excited to announce that Accessibility First welcomes a new face to its previously one-man team. When I started Accessibility First in the summer of 2022, my goal was to create content about accessibility, design, ...