I am a Dev & UX Accessibility Specialist at Atos. I love to learn about new technology, connect with people around the world and help others get into tech as well.
I am Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies since 2023.
I am the founder of Accessibility First, where I share articles, tutorials and more about web accessibility in UX Design, Web Development, Testing and more. Articles are available in German, English, and Japanese.
I am a public speaker and give talks and workshops, as well as panel discussions about accessibility and how to get into tech as a selftaught developer.
Check out my Accessibility Webinar series, where I talk monthly about accessibility in the web development process, meaning design, development, testing, and more.
Some doors have to be closed to make room for something new.
Until Spring 2024
- I was an Open Source Maintainer and founde of YurisCodingClub, an inclusive open source community. The projects were part of Hacktoberfest to help CodeNewbies get into open source and tech from an early stage.
- I was a mentor and CoC responder by 💟 at The Collab Lab since 2021.
- I was regularly writing blog posts on DEV.to since 2021.
- 🏆 Runner Up - MindsDB x Hashnode Hackathon 2023. Check out my article about the project Develop Interview Winning Portfolio Projects With Mindsdb Predictions article for this challenge.
- 🏆 Winner - Hashnode DebuggingFeb Writeathon 2023. Check out my article How Debugging For Accessibility Helped Me Finally Understand useRef for this challenge.
- 🏆 Winner - Hashnode Writeathon 4 articles 4 weeks 2022. Check out my most engaged article How I got my first job as a developer for this challenge.
- 🏆 Runner Up - Clerk x Hashnode Hackathon 2021. Check out my article about the project SOS Animals App for this challenge.
Read my latest blog posts about Accessibility, UX Research and more on Accessibility First in German, English or Japanese.
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