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  • An abandoned shopping cart in the jungle.

    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.

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  • An abandoned shopping cart in the jungle.

    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.

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  • collage of web page screenshots, with the logos of Bricks Builder, Elegant Themes, Elementor and WP Bakery visible, and the Gutenberg logo dominating in the front.

    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.

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  • Collage of screenshots of the websites of WordCamp Europe 2024, Wordcamp Asia 2024 and the 2024 CloudFest Hackathon.

    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…

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  • Anne on stage, wearing a huge blond ponytail, white trousers and a black shirt. On the screen behind her her talk called How to counter arguments against accessibility from desgners, developers and managers" is announced.

    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!

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  • Painting of a lonely girl standing in heaps of snow while it's snowing.

    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.

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  • Drawing of three sharks in the sea and many other fish in the background.

    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.

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  • An overgrown dystopic ancient machine with green and blue lights in the jungle.

    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.

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  • A single person in a dark dystopian city, looking at fog that lights up pink, and green windows.

    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.

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  • Painting of a pink fantasy car with pink wheel elements.

    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.

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  • Painting of a dystopian pink chimpanzee with orange rimmed goggles.

    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!

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  • Painting of a deep green fantasy forest with a white glowing lake and the sun rising

    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.

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  • Classic painting of a huge fantasy peacock

    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.

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  • Painting of a lonely girl standing in heaps of snow while it's snowing.

    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.

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  • Painting of a group of planets in a fantasy universe

    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!

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  • Painting of a fairytale princess in a forest talking to a giant green dragon

    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.

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  • Painting of two fantasy pheasants looking right

    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.

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  • Painting of a fantastic sphere like space machine floating in a jungle

    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?

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  • Paiting of lots of coins lying around on a forest floor

    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!

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  • Painting of a fantasy universe

    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!

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  • Image of a sole person sitting in a purple jungle with a laptop

    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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