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Laura Wissiak, CPACC

building assistive‑tech & inclusive web 📝 Author of a11ynews.substack.com 📚 GDG Vienna & WTM organizer 🏆 Forbes 30 under 30

Location Vienna, Austria Joined Joined on  Personal website https://www.laura-wissiak.com/links github website twitter website

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Hope Tech Plus

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DHS Trusted Tester Certification: What is Section 508? Functional Performance Criteria, Web Standards & Testing Tools
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DHS Trusted Tester Certification: What is Section 508? Functional Performance Criteria, Web Standards & Testing Tools

#a11y #beginners #testing #codenewbie
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Catch ‘Em All: Hunting Accessibility Bugs Like a Champion with Automated Testing
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Catch ‘Em All: Hunting Accessibility Bugs Like a Champion with Automated Testing

#a11y #testing #beginners #frontend
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Accessibility Masterpost 2025: Free Courses, Certification Paths, and Testing Tools
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Accessibility Masterpost 2025: Free Courses, Certification Paths, and Testing Tools

#a11y #beginners #learning #ux
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Trusted Tester Study Group 5: Links, Images, and the Clock is Ticking
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Trusted Tester Study Group 5: Links, Images, and the Clock is Ticking

#a11y #tutorial #testing #css
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Things I learned from hosting a certification study group
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Things I learned from hosting a certification study group

#discuss #productivity #career #codenewbie
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Forms Accessibility: The 8 Trusted Tester Test IDs You Need to Know
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Forms Accessibility: The 8 Trusted Tester Test IDs You Need to Know

#beginners #a11y #testing #frontend
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Keyboard Access and Focus: DHS Trusted Tester Study Group Session 3
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Keyboard Access and Focus: DHS Trusted Tester Study Group Session 3

#a11y #design #beginners #ux
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Stop the Noise: Auto PLaying Audio Control and ARIA Live Region Testing
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Stop the Noise: Auto PLaying Audio Control and ARIA Live Region Testing

#a11y #testing #tutorial #learning
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The Hidden Costs of Accessibility Audits: A Project Manager’s Guide
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The Hidden Costs of Accessibility Audits: A Project Manager’s Guide

#webdev #a11y #productivity #beginners
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DevFest Vienna 2025: How Blind People Navigate the World, On and Offline
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DevFest Vienna 2025: How Blind People Navigate the World, On and Offline

#a11y #design #ux #beginners
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Self‑Taught, Not Self‑Neglected: Blue Beanie Day Tips for Indie Developers
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Self‑Taught, Not Self‑Neglected: Blue Beanie Day Tips for Indie Developers

#discuss #webdev #a11y #performance
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Making a Hackerspace Accessible – Lessons from the “Do It Blind” Meetup
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Making a Hackerspace Accessible – Lessons from the “Do It Blind” Meetup

#a11y #3dprinting #webdev #ux
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No A11y No UX
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No A11y No UX

#a11y #ux #beginners #codenewbie
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How Blind People Navigate the World, On and Offline, with Screen Readers and White Canes
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How Blind People Navigate the World, On and Offline, with Screen Readers and White Canes

#a11y #webdev #design #ux
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Accessibility Cheat Sheet 2025: Free Courses, Certification Paths, and Testing Tools
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Accessibility Cheat Sheet 2025: Free Courses, Certification Paths, and Testing Tools

#ux #a11y #webdev #frontend
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Understanding Deaf-Blindness
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Understanding Deaf-Blindness

#ux #userresearch #a11y #inclusion
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The Impact of Invisible Stigma on User Interviews: Lessons from UX Research
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The Impact of Invisible Stigma on User Interviews: Lessons from UX Research

#a11y #ux #bias #userresearch
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The DOM & Accessibility Tree explained with Pokémon
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The DOM & Accessibility Tree explained with Pokémon

#webdev #a11y #api
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Designing for Common Ground (instead of Accessibility Compliance)
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Designing for Common Ground (instead of Accessibility Compliance)

#a11y #design #ux #html
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Catch ‘Em All: Hunting Accessibility Bugs Like a Champion with Manual Testing
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Catch ‘Em All: Hunting Accessibility Bugs Like a Champion with Manual Testing

#a11y #testing #webdev
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Why I wanted to learn coding as a UX designer
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Why I wanted to learn coding as a UX designer

#ux #codenewbie #a11y #career
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The 5 Rules for using ARIA
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The 5 Rules for using ARIA

#frontend #a11y #beginners #webdev
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Mentoring an A11y Hackathon in Nairobi, Kenya
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Mentoring an A11y Hackathon in Nairobi, Kenya

#a11y #hackathon #mentorship #learning
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The Cost of Accessibility Tech Debt
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The Cost of Accessibility Tech Debt

#webdev #programming #a11y #frontend
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Building for Everyone: Takeaways from the GDG‑Mons Accessibility Panel
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Building for Everyone: Takeaways from the GDG‑Mons Accessibility Panel

#webdev #a11y #productivity #devops
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Designing for Disability: Who do we think of?
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Designing for Disability: Who do we think of?

#a11y #podcast #ux #design
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Exclusion by Design
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Exclusion by Design

#ux #design #a11y
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The Story of Hope Tech: It takes a village to build anything, and a community to build it properly.
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The Story of Hope Tech: It takes a village to build anything, and a community to build it properly.

#a11y #startup #ux #career
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