All Topics Archive - Anne Bovelett

The first take-aways in the GREYD journey

We are taking you along in our journey to making the theme accessibility-ready. How did we start? What’s happening now?

August 1, 2023

Status: up to date

There’s no shame in having an inaccessible website

The headline probably triggered some of you really hard, didn’t it? Good! Because it’s time for a wake-up call.

June 18, 2023

Status: updated on June 22, 2023. Added a paragraph about the European Accessibility Act.

The journey of making GREYD theme accessibility-ready

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.

March 25, 2023

Status: up to date

How to connect with a personal message in the mobile LinkedIn App

Yes, in the mobile application of LinkedIn you can actually send a personal message with a connection request, Here’s how.

February 7, 2023

Status: updated on March 29, 2023

Low color contrast is like a faint but lingering bad smell

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.

May 29, 2022

Status: Up to date

Why it seems I am mainly on that cold commercial side of accessibility

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.

May 17, 2022

Status: Up to date