Web Accessibility, Design Systems & Art 🎉 Now: Freelance Consultant 🌐 Previously: Nomensa 🇬🇧 IKEA 🇸🇪 ING 🇳🇱🦁 👤 he/him
The Netherlands
Joined April 2009
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Does Twitter spark joy? No it does not. So I'll be leaving.
I regret any loss of contact. Please find me wherever you spend your time. I'm probably there. Always happy to answer all your questions and push for inclusivity!
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Yes for accessibility efforts!
Even more yes when people actually benefit from them!
#accessibility #inclusiveDesign
ALT A curb cut that does not align with the path right behind it.
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Remember that one time you built a whole custom solution, because there was one tiny detail you couldn't tweak?
ALT A big yellow safety sign warning for a wet floor, covering a single broken egg on what appears to be the floor of a supermarket.
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Your semi-regular reminder:
The ARIA Authoring Practies Guide (APG) contains examples of patterns following specifications.
They are not tried and tested, and should not be copied as if they were. Support is not guaranteed.
#accessibility #wcag
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What are you doing in 2025, to make sure everybody is included?
I will share more and deliver some courses I've had on my mind for too long. No excuses, get more inclusive!
#inclusivity #accessibility #inclusiveDesign
ALT A happy 2025 for everybody (with the word "Everybody" being extra large)
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Complex solutions require diversity. Stop and start doing these things to hire neurodiverse people.
(Because traditional approaches won't reach neurodiverse people. And you want those, especially for your accessibility-related job openings)
ALT Lego 10350 Tudor Corner. An impressive and intricate building with lots of details, odd angles and a wide variety of elements. It includes an inn, a haberdashery, a watch maker on the first floor and an appartment on top. It's richly decorated with a tudor style, decorative flowers and 7 lively Lego figures.
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Reminding you all that aria-label overwrites.
<span aria-label="Price">€30</span>
This changes the accessible name to "Price". It does not concatenate.
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Hypelink instead of hyperlink.
It's probably the most imagination-feeding typo I've seen today. Nice.
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🙏🏿 Dear smart person,
🏆 What is the best accessibility audit report you've ever come across? What can reports improve? Multiple answers possible
📈 I feel like there's a lot of room for improvement
🛠️ Audit practices don't align with how we want to fix things
#accessibility
ALT An illustration of a few pages. It states "REPORT" and shows some graphs.
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Single images can be decorative. Lots of them can still give an impression of a product (physical/service/software).
Describe the product in text for those who can't see or understand the pictures. Enable some, support many!
#accessibility #curbCutEffect
ALT A curb cut (lowered edge of a curb) as an example of something that enables some and supports many.
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There's this complicated professional question I'm struggling with.
Google doesn't show the number of search results anymore. How do people check spelling now?
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Retrospective!
I've written an overview of the things I've been doing for the last 12 months-ish
erikkroes.nl/blog/community-…
#accessibility #inclusiveDesign
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Did you know it's International Day of Sign Languages?
Now you do!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intern…
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Businesses play an essential role in creating an equal and inclusive society.
You can't be part of a society when a large part of it is unusable. Everything that's essential in being part of society should be accessible.
Q4 What role do businesses play in advancing web accessibility in Europe? #AXSChat #accessibility #A11y
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A6: Motivate and facilitate. Make sure accessibility is part of resources, skills and community/culture, while management makes accessibility part of mandate and requirements/goals.
#AXSChat #CultureChange #Accessibility
A5: The Design System we built at ING is mostly internal, but there's a white-label open source component library with it. I think we did a lot of things right. lion-web.netlify.app/
#AXSChat #SuccessStories #Inclusion
A4: Feedback is a gift. Make sure you do whatever you can before burdening others, then treat any feedback you get like gold.
#AXSChat #UserFeedback #AccessibilityTesting
A3: You can't fix a broken design with good development, nor build a good design with terrible development. Everybody plays their role.
#AXSChat #Collaboration #Accessibility
A2: Compliance is not a goal. It's a snapshot and a result of a continuous process of inclusive creation.
#AXSChat #DigitalInclusion