What if the support costs you cannot explain are caused by the users you forgot to design for? This article connects the CX data you already have to the accessibility gap nobody put in the measurement model.
Date: March 18, 2026
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I keep hearing the claim that visually hidden text will trigger an SEO penalty. That, in fact, is a costly myth!
Date: December 7, 2025
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Building accessible websites starts with clean HTML. In this article from the Greyd Series, we look at why query loops should use lists, how the Post Slider Variation makes this possible, and how the right structure improves navigation for all users.
Date: September 22, 2025
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If you’re using Greyd.Suite already, or testing it with the free version, and you’re sharing knowledge through blog posts, tutorials, talks, or training, I’d genuinely recommend looking into the Creator Program.
Date: August 27, 2025
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Can you create a website that is both beautiful and accessible? Absolutely! Join my free webinar on July 21, 2025!
Date: June 22, 2025
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Your site looks polished, your funnel is solid, yet conversions lag behind. Often, it’s not the design or the offer, but an invisible accessibility issue quietly breaking the flow for users who rely on assistive tech. You won’t see it in your layout, but you will in your numbers.
Date: June 17, 2025
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Join me on May 8, 2025! Learn how you can build faster websites, the no-coding way, but without the updating and depending on third-party plugin blues! – And yes, there is time for questions at the end!
Date: April 30, 2025
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Sorry, dear designers, your excuses are officially dead. For years, I’ve heard the same tired argument: “We can’t make a beautiful website if we have to follow accessibility guidelines.” GitHub just proved you wrong.
Date: March 14, 2025
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In 2019, in the UK, E-commerce businesses lost £17.1 billion yearly to inaccessible websites. With disabled shoppers holding £24.8 billion in spending power, accessibility isn’t optional. It’s a competitive advantage.
Date: March 4, 2025
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Many designers believe accessibility means saying goodbye to animation, but that’s far from the truth. With GSAP, you can create stunning, accessible motion that respects user preferences while keeping your designs engaging.
Date: March 2, 2025
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Although the gold standard is to fully respect prefers-reduced-motion by stopping animations, I understand that sometimes animations are deeply woven into your design vision (or that of your customer). Here’s what you can do.
Date: January 12, 2025
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A practical guide to simulate color blindness in your browser.
Date: November 6, 2024
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It’s this question that I asked myself about two years ago when I began researching to see if I could find another solution to efficiently build accessible, sustainable websites for my customers.
Date: May 7, 2024
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Faster websites, the no-coding way, but without the updating and depending on third-party plugin blues! Join my webinar!
Date: May 7, 2024
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If you have been closely following me in the past year, you have probably noticed I talk about Greyd and their Suite a lot. In fact, I rarely shut up about them and their software. For good reason!
Date: April 9, 2024
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Greyd did an exceptional job on relaunching their site! The incredible agency growth potential Greyd.Suite offers is apparent at first glance.
Date: April 3, 2024
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Using the conversion companion tool from Greyd to switch my classic theme based site to the new FSE theme was the smoothest experience ever. Which again shows how well Greyd understands agency life!
Date: April 2, 2024
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A year ago, I would not have dreamed of applying to either, nor for my role as Team Lead of the WordCamp Europe 2024 Sponsor Team. Let me tell you what happened…
Date: February 8, 2024
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This is the smooth scroll accessibility workaround for Elementor. At this point in time (January 2024) Elementor has not been able to fix it, which may be related to backwards compatibility. But now YOU can do it right on your site!
Date: January 10, 2024
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Do you believe that what you have to say is not interesting enough? Here’s some solid encouragement from a seasoned speaker who once was beginner too, like all speakers in the world!
Date: January 10, 2024
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This was a post I wrote on LinkedIn, after someone quite aggressively asked why I promote my fellow accessibility specialists and advocates.
Date: January 6, 2024
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The Greyd.Suite accessibility journey continues! They improved the accessibility of the hamburger button!
Date: December 7, 2023
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On the day we started this project, Jakob and I walked through the greyd.de site using keyboard navigation and a screen reader (voice over, on Mac) and tripped over the menu.
Date: October 4, 2023
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An improvement that enables you to create a more accessible experience for your visitors, and to really improve on SEO, instead of only appeasing score taking analysis tools!
Date: September 18, 2023
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We are taking you along in our journey to making the theme accessibility-ready. How did we start? What’s happening now?
Date: August 1, 2023
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The headline probably triggered some of you really hard, didn’t it? Good! Because it’s time for a wake-up call.
Date: June 18, 2023
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A contact request from Thomas Koschwitz on LinkedIn, a year ago, marked the start of an accessibility love affair. This site runs on the GREYD block theme, and we’re publicly sharing the journey of making it fully accessible. It’s a work in progress.
Date: March 25, 2023
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Yes, in the mobile application of LinkedIn you can actually send a personal message with a connection request, Here’s how.
Date: February 7, 2023
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Often it’s hard to convince people with 20/20 vision why contrast is so important on their sites. Here’s an easy-to-understand analogy of how bad color contrast results in people leaving a web shop or site.
Date: May 29, 2022
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Small changes happen through kindness and generosity, big changes happen through capitalism and greed. Big industries make choices that determine which technologies thrive and which ones are to be abandoned.
Date: May 17, 2022
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This post was updated! Elementor does not provide a native way to simply set (and style) a skip link. That’s bad for your visitors and bad for your conversion.
Date: May 15, 2022
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A no-code solution to hide or show just one element in your blog display. Adding plugins, only to visually achieve the same in one template, causes unnecessary bloat. This is a very easy solution!
Date: May 15, 2022
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There are days when I want to scream, curse and morph into an acid oozing dragon to torch the bliss out of some people’s ignorance. But getting angry never works. Humor does.
Date: April 28, 2022
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Are you wondering why I have affiliate links on this site? I already sponsor and donate to open source developers and accessibility activists. With affiliate commission earned, I can go beyond my personal limits, and donate more!
Date: April 27, 2022
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Mind-blowing: a study shows that a £35 000 investment in online accessibility by a supermarket chain brought them additional revenue of over £13 million a year.
Date: April 27, 2022
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This is one of the facts that I don’t have to apologize for: I have ADHD, and it’s actually one of the qualities that makes me successful at what I do.
Date: April 27, 2022
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Often heard: “There’s so much to learn about accessible code, I don’t even know where to start.” As your accessibility mentor I will guide you in such a way that you will always know where to start, in any project.
Date: April 19, 2022
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A great online shopping experience makes happy returning customers! And that’s best explained by examples of a bad experience. Let me take you on a little journey of examples in daily life.
Date: April 18, 2022
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The difference between closed captions and open captions, is that the latter are auto-generated, lack punctuation (which sucks for anyone following your video with audio off) and you miss out on a massive SEO opportunity: closed captions are indexed.
Date: April 18, 2022
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The social sharing icons widget in Elementor is a comfortable way to quickly add in the symbols of your social media channels, and their links. You can make these accessible by adding aria-labels in the attributes field.
Date: April 18, 2022
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In short: it was an emotional tweet by the daughter of a blind father. Five short lines that catapulted me into wanting to learn all about online accessibility. In that process, I realized that the online world needs accessibility made accessible to the people who, directly or indirectly, can make online accessibility happen.
Date: April 12, 2022
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So, a search engine directed you to my former tutorial site, called geekonheels.com. I merged that site with this one!
Date: April 3, 2022
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A short pointer how to report your feature request or your bug report effectively to Elementor. GitHub is THE place where we, as a community, really get to flex our muscles towards Elementor. And it’s not happening nearly enough.
Date: March 24, 2022
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Accessible content is content without barriers. If it is accessible to people without having to jump through hoops with or without their assistive technology, it is also accessible to search engines!
Date: April 18, 2021
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At this time (April 2021) the Share Links widget in Elementor Pro is not (yet!) fully accessible. Here’s a great alternative plugin for you to use!
Date: April 11, 2021
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What if you think your site is like a Mercedes SLK, but when you look closer, door handles are missing, and the wheels are square. That’s what it is, when it’s not designed, coded and populated with accessibility in mind.
Date: March 7, 2021
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Don’t let pseudo-experts scare you out of using Elementor, when they come with the “bad GTMetrix score” and “Google will give you a red badge” arguments!
Date: November 23, 2020
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Have you ever been successful in connecting with someone at a business event, simply by mindlessly throwing your business card in their face? I don’t think so.
Date: April 11, 2020
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Does your business depend on open source software? Are you aware supporting developers of open source software is very important for YOUR future?
Date: March 13, 2020
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How a web button suddenly costs an additional € 55. Or is it even more? Read and weep!
Date: March 12, 2020
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A proper Functional Design, for any online project, prevents exceeding budgets, unwanted dependencies, and it’s an important tool for expectation management!
Date: March 12, 2020
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When you finally figured out how to create a custom taxonomy, and then it appears in your sidebar like a search field, just like the regular tags do.
Date: March 6, 2020
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Apparently some would like to know why I invest time as a volunteer for the Elementor Community. Well, that’s easy to explain.
Date: March 6, 2020
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Greyd is the perfect tool for everyone who wants to efficiently design and manage complex web projects with the latest WordPress features.
With Greyd, you’re using the WordPress Block Editor with additional features and optimizations. Creating professional websites has never been easier!
Full control. Minimal effort. Specify colors, shapes, and fonts for your entire website centrally. From buttons to forms, all elements automatically adapt to your styles.
Headers, 404 templates, footers, or post templates – with Greyd.Suite you can customize any part of your website and use all blocks and functions.
Build and share your design viewing all affected elements.
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100 – Thin
200 – Extra Light
300 – Light
400 – Regular
500 – Medium
600 – Semi-Bold
700 – Bold
800 – Extra Bold
900 – Black