about

I am a Frontend Developer & Digital Accessibility Expert

since 2014 and an Accessibility Developer and Concepter since 2016. I am developing complex frontend features, accessibility tools as linters, concepts, on accessible relaunches and audits according to legal requirements and custom accessibility approaches. I have experience in technical lead positions as well as in speaking, teaching and coordinating about my metiers Frontend Development and Accessibility.

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accessiblity

Since 2016 I work on making web more accessible by viewing frontend development as one of the strongest tools we have in this metier.The web once was an idea to make contents and knowledge accessible to all - decades later, this still does not apply.
Besides filter bubbles, paid contents and hidden contents, in germany alone, 80% of the e-commerce platforms are not accessible.
Elder people, people with disabilities such as motoric or visually, people with concentration issues, colorblind, deaf or people with dyslexia -
the internet should be usable for all and I, together with a great community of other accessibility developers and concepters, aim to make the web more accessible to all.

Especially in e-commerce, but also on legal sites and whereever sensitive data is being processed, it's so important to give people the choice what they want to buy not what they can buy; what they want to achieve and not what they can achieve. It is about ensuring people don't make any false spendings or abonnements or sharing data they never planned to. Besides accessible frontend development and technical considerations, I develop concepts for working in teams aiming accessibility, create workflows, critically check AI tools and concept tests, checks, shops and pages.

publications, talks, cooperations

Webinar for germanys federal agency for accessibility (Bundesfachstelle Barrierefreiheit) about accessibility in e-commerce (2024) - to be seen here
Webinar for germanys federal agency for accessibility (Bundesfachstelle Barrierefreiheit) about accessibility in e-commerce (2024) - to be seen here

Several webinars about accessibility in web e.g. at the ecom|xperience (2019, 2023) and other formats

cooperations and interviews with organizations for disabled people (e.g. ZsL Mainz, Sehbehinderten- und Blindenverein Suedbaden e.V.) to drive on approaches for an accessible

articles e.g. for the digital prioneers magazine t3n about accessible e-commerce + print edition: a guide to accessibility (Issue: Dec 2024) or the Lebensmittelzeitung about the impacts of the EAA (issue: July 2025).

experience

Senior Accessibility Consultant & Project Manager // Eleven Ways BV

06/2025 - present

Senior Frontend Developer & Accessibility Specialist // valantic GmbH (fka netz98)

06/2017 - 05/2018, 04/2019 - 06/2025

Frontend Development for Adobe Commerce / Magento 2 online shops
Realisation of the front end of complex e-commerce projects based on the Adobe Commerce / Magento Enterprise E-Commerce Framework (Magento 2)
Lead Frontend Developer in several projects (e.g. for Normagroup, Mey, Herose, bindella ... ) and Frontend Developer in a Frontend Team (e.g. for Head)
Development of complex frontend features
Building up interdisciplinar accessibility teams and cooperations with related companies to improve web accessibility
Technical guidance for developers in accessibility tasks for relaunches and development of new frontend features,
Accessibility consulting especially with technical points of view, task generation and process optimization as technical lead for Telefonica Germany GmbH, Douglas GmbH, mey GmbH
workshops, conducting teachings and webinars about developing accessible online shops, accessibility development and testing
developing accessibility relaunches and features for multiple online shops according to legal requirements such as head.com and mey.com
Accessibility audits for several web presences(e.g. nettokom.de, douglas.de, blackroll.com, bauhaus.info, olymp.com, valantic, mey.com etc. according to legal requirements and custom accessibility approaches
Accessibility audits for several apps e.g. DOUGLAS App, NettoKOM, AldiTalk etc. according to WCAG2ICT (App)
Accessibility consulting for teams in order to create accessible eCommerce Systems with good priorisation, budget transparency, scoping and optimized processes.

Freelance Frontend Developer // INNOVOsense

09/2015 - 09/2017 Shopware5 Frontend development

Freelance Developer // storycrow.media

03/2017 - 05/2017 Wordpressthemes and -plugin development

Ongoing //

Setup and Frontend for Shopify shops e.g. for marxismuss.shop, Accessibility Consulting, Wordpressthemes and -plugin development

education

Bachelor of Science in Online Media / Hochschule Furtwangen University

10/2013 - 03/2017

Bachelor Thesis:

"Web services for the visually impaired - conceptual considerations with focus on shop development"
Read here
Main emphasis: web development

awards and certificates

Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) of IAAP
Adobe Certified Expert - Adobe Commerce Front-End
Award for Computer Science as Project Lead at Hochschule Furtwangen University

tech stack

JavaScript (esp. AlpineJS, React), less, sass, HTML5, CSS (esp. tailwind css), phtml, xml, knockoutJS, php, MySQL
Testing: Cypress, Browserstack, development testing with automation e.g. via pa11y, In depth BITV/WCAG conform manual tests, various accessibility tools and bookmarklets, etc.
AI: GitHub CoPilot, GPT
Versioning Tools: GitHub
Organizing: Jira, Outlook, Slack, MS Teams
Adobe and Office: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, MS Excel