Laura Wissiak, CPACC articles - 18 total
No A11y No UX
This one is inspired by Julia's "No Accessibility No UX". The first thing I learned about usability...
How Blind People Navigate the World, On and Offline, with Screen Readers and White Canes
Online Navigation Online navigation works quite similarly to offline navigation, only the...
Accessibility Cheat Sheet 2025: Free Courses, Certification Paths, and Testing Tools
Some resources I appreciated along my own a11y way and can recommend not only for...
Understanding Deaf-Blindness
When you hear the word deaf-blind, you might think “How do you communicate then?” And if you...
The Impact of Invisible Stigma on User Interviews: Lessons from UX Research
Invisible stigma is a concept many UX researchers may not fully recognize, yet it deeply influences...
The DOM & Accessibility Tree explained with Pokémon
In the last episode of the Accessibility Championships, we covered the basic to intermediate training...
Designing for Common Ground (instead of Accessibility Compliance)
Inclusive design is a wonderful word, but what we actually need is designing for the minimal common...
Catch ‘Em All: Hunting Accessibility Bugs Like a Champion with Manual Testing
There will come a point on your path to becoming an A11y Master when you will need to add manual...
Catch ‘Em All: Hunting Accessibility Bugs Like a Champion with Automated Testing
So, you wanna be the very best in software testing, like no one ever was? Testing for access...
Why I wanted to learn coding as a UX designer
I think by now it is universally agreed upon that it’s a good idea for designers to have a basic...
Accessibility Masterpost 2025: Free Courses, Certification Paths, and Testing Tools
A curated list of web‑accessibility resources for developers, designers, and anyone interested in...
The 5 Rules for using ARIA
ARIA or WAI-ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich...
Mentoring an A11y Hackathon in Nairobi, Kenya
TL;DR Day 4 of the “How Can I Be a Part of the Solution to an Accessible World – An...
The Cost of Accessibility Tech Debt
On average, amending accessibility bugs in the testing phase costs 30 times as much compared to...
Building for Everyone: Takeaways from the GDG‑Mons Accessibility Panel
Highlights from our panel at Google Dev Group Mons with Julia Undeutsch, Emma Dawson, and Laura...
Designing for Disability: Who do we think of?
Listen to this on Spotify or Substack (11 minutes). Who do we think of when we think of an assistive...
Exclusion by Design
Listen to this A11y Yap episode. Disability is part of every community, every country, and every...
The Story of Hope Tech: It takes a village to build anything, and a community to build it properly.
Throughout my blogging lifetime, I never took the time to introduce myself and what I do properly. As...