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Why I joined the Greyd.Suite Creator Program, and why you should consider it too
27.08.2025
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.
Webinar: Building accessible websites without fear
22.06.2025
Can you create a website that is both beautiful and accessible? Absolutely! Join my free webinar on July 21, 2025!
The silent sales killer on your site
17.06.2025
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.
Webinar: Discover how much power the WordPress Block Editor and Site Editor give you!
30.04.2025
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!
Designers, your excuse is gone. Stunning, animated and accessible. Yes, you can!
14.03.2025
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.
The e-commerce industry’s billion-pound mistake
04.03.2025
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.
GSAP animations and accessibility: yes, you can have both!
02.03.2025
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.
Accessible animations – a practical guide for designers and developers
12.01.2025
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.
How to simulate color-blindness and other visual impairments, in your web browser
06.11.2024
A practical guide to simulate color blindness in your browser.
Is there life after page builders?
07.05.2024
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.
Webinar: Smoothly switching to Full Site Editing (FSE)
07.05.2024
Faster websites, the no-coding way, but without the updating and depending on third-party plugin blues! Join my webinar!
Announcement: I’m the first official Greyd Product Ambassador!
09.04.2024
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!
Greyd, the redesign and relaunch
03.04.2024
Greyd did an exceptional job on relaunching their site! The incredible agency growth potential Greyd.Suite offers is apparent at first glance.
The painless conversion from Greyd classic theme to the block theme
02.04.2024
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!
The secret to speaking at WordCamp Asia and leading a CloudFest Hackathon digital accessibility project
08.02.2024
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…
Elementor Anchor Link Accessibility Issue and Fix
10.01.2024
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!
Do you think you’re not fit (yet) to apply as a speaker at WordCamp Europe?
10.01.2024
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!
There is no competition in accessibility
06.01.2024
This was a post I wrote on LinkedIn, after someone quite aggressively asked why I promote my fellow accessibility specialists and advocates.
Accessibility improvements in Greyd.Suite popup and popover hamburger button
07.12.2023
The Greyd.Suite accessibility journey continues! They improved the accessibility of the hamburger button!
Making the GREYD.SUITE menu accessible
04.10.2023
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.
Greyd.Suite improves on alt text
18.09.2023
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!
The first take-aways in the GREYD journey
01.08.2023
We are taking you along in our journey to making the theme accessibility-ready. How did we start? What’s happening now?
There’s no shame in having an inaccessible website
18.06.2023
The headline probably triggered some of you really hard, didn’t it? Good! Because it’s time for a wake-up call.
The journey of making GREYD theme accessibility-ready
25.03.2023
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.
How to connect with a personal message in the mobile LinkedIn App
07.02.2023
Yes, in the mobile application of LinkedIn you can actually send a personal message with a connection request, Here’s how.
Low color contrast is like a faint but lingering bad smell
29.05.2022
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.
Why it seems I am mainly on that cold commercial side of accessibility
17.05.2022
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.
No built in skip link feature in Elementor? That’s bad for conversion!
15.05.2022
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.
The power of the Elementor Display Conditions – tag based template
15.05.2022
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!
Accessibility Advocate Humor
28.04.2022
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.
Why I have affiliate links on my site – full disclosure
27.04.2022
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!
The investment in an accessible web shop that resulted in 37000% ROI
27.04.2022
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.
ADHD is my superpower
27.04.2022
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.
About accessible coding in general
19.04.2022
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.
Accessible design is profitable design
18.04.2022
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.
Why captioning videos is beneficial in more than one way
18.04.2022
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.
Accessibility with Elementor – Social Icons widget
18.04.2022
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.
What triggered my journey into online accessibility
12.04.2022
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.
Did you land here via geekonheels.com?
03.04.2022
So, a search engine directed you to my former tutorial site, called geekonheels.com. I merged that site with this one!
Elementor User Power on GitHub
24.03.2022
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.
About accessible content in general
18.04.2021
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!
Accessible Social Sharing Plugin
11.04.2021
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!
How To Make A € 50.000 Website Crappy With Just One Plugin
07.03.2021
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.
Your Elementor site speed score did not get worse, GTMetrix finally got more accurate
23.11.2020
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!
No message, no effort = no connection!
11.04.2020
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.
The ease of supporting open source developers
13.03.2020
Does your business depend on open source software? Are you aware supporting developers of open source software is very important for YOUR future?
How a web button suddenly costs an additional € 55
12.03.2020
How a web button suddenly costs an additional € 55. Or is it even more? Read and weep!
Why Functional Design Matters
12.03.2020
A proper Functional Design, for any online project, prevents exceeding budgets, unwanted dependencies, and it’s an important tool for expectation management!
So you want your custom taxonomy to appear as a checkbox?
06.03.2020
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.
Why I volunteer in the Elementor Facebook Community as a moderator
06.03.2020
Apparently some would like to know why I invest time as a volunteer for the Elementor Community. Well, that’s easy to explain.
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