Elevenly
A11Y for Shops and Web Apps
Period: 2025 – Present
Hi. I'm Daniel. I build for everyone.
I care about building software that is clear, accessible, and nice to use, from small tools to full web apps and everything behind them.
Selected work
DeepSpectrum Lab
Community
Period: 2024 – Present
Teaching Maths
VU Amsterdam
Period: 2025 – Present
Speaking
FrOSCon
Period: 2019 – 2024
Writing.
Short essays on digital accessibility.
Screen reader testing in 20 minutes
Most developers have never used a screen reader on their own site. VoiceOver is already on the Mac, NVDA installs in 90 seconds, and nine commands cover 90% of the testing.
prefers-reduced-motion is one boolean
Only the users who found one OS setting send it. Autoplay video, canvas animations and GIFs don't listen to it on their own.
The overlay industry is selling compliance as a product
Overlays inject ARIA into your page and give your legal team a compliance statement. Screen reader users get a worse site. In 2025 the FTC fined accessiBe $1 million over its claims.
AI alt text only sees the image
Every time a new multimodal model ships, someone claims alt text is solved. Correct alt text depends on the image, the page and the reader. The model gets the image.