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Laura Wissiak, CPACC

self-taught to C-level, now building assistive‑tech & inclusive web 📝 Author of a11ynews.substack.com CPACC-certified IAAP member 🏆 Forbes 30 under 30

Location Vienna, Austria Joined Joined on  Personal website https://laura-a11y.carrd.co/ github website twitter website

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Accessibility Specialist at Hope Tech

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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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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
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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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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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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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