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.

Currently I am learning Java, and everything about Cyber Security.

I am Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies since 2023. Read my newsletter Newsletter GDI Insights to see what it looks like being a GDE.

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. You can see me on conferences like WeAreDevelopers World Congress, UXCon Vienna, FrontMania, and more.

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.

Check out my Accessibility Webinar series, where I talked monthly about accessibility in the web development process, meaning design, development, testing, and more.

Read my latest blog posts about Accessibility, UX Research and more on Accessibility First in German, English or Japanese.

• Coursera’s Google UX Design Certificate: What It Covers, How It’s Structured, and Why It Can Actually Work
• "Khoor Zruog!", Caesar says.
• Brain.A turns 40 🥳 - A Bedtime Story
• Styling by Language: Using the lang Attribute for Multilingual Design
• This is what I learned organizing an a11y webinar series for a year, now I'm hosting my biggest hybrid event yet

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• 📜 Certified Professional Web Accessibility (CPWA) by IAAP.
• 🏆 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.

Some doors have to be closed to make room for something new.

Until Spring 2024

• I was an Open Source Maintainer and founder 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.
• In 2021 I have been granted "trusted" user on DEV Community built on Forem 🤝