2025

'tis the season for “end of the year”-posts. Let’s go!

# In 2025, I…

• …started a new job. I am now working full time in digital accessibility.
• …settled my first legal dispute.
• …sold some tech themed shirts in my American shop and international shop and it made me happy, that some people resonate with my humor.
• …moved to a new apartment.
• …traveled to Japan for a few weeks.
• …went bodyboarding in Portugal for two weeks.
• …ate lots of rice.
• …tried lots of new food.
  • Recommend: onigiri, tuna sashimi, miso soup, okonomiyaki, tsukemen, A4 wagyu, Japanese baumkuchen.
  • Cannot recommend: nattō (very slimy), bitter melon, pig ears, any kind of offal.
• …came home to the new apartment completely underwater and had to throw away half of my furniture.
• …continued renovations in the Palatinate Forest.
• …launched 7 tools and websites.
  • Accessibility Link Tester – A tool to build various combinations of links, with different attributes, to test them with screen readers.
  • Daily HTML Bot – a Mastodon bot that helps learning HTML by posting two random HTML elements per day with a short explanation and a link to the spec.
  • Force Focus Bookmarklet – a bookmarklet that highlights focused elements clearly – with an orange outline, and a red background.
  • Mastodon Hidden Posts Stats – A tool that shows you stats about the posts you have hidden via Mastodon filters.
  • Metronome Web App – Well, it is a free online metronome without any fuzz or ads.
  • WhatsApp iOS Backup Viewer – A handy web app that parses and shows your WhatsApp chat backups in a neat interface.
  • The Mighty Triangle – Are you also somebody who underestimates the Triangle? That ends today 😊.
• …published 11 blog posts, including this one.
• …did lots of freelance accessibility work.
• …performed my first inclusive design study. No matter what you think you know, people with disabilities will teach you something new every time.
• …recorded and published 9 podcast episodes with Sarah for #WWSIV
• …stopped streaming and podcasting with #WWSIV 😢.

# Did I achieve my goals for 2025?

For 2025 I planned to…

• ✅ …do even more Accessibility and Frontend-Dev freelance work
• ✅ …redesign the start page of this blog to fit with the new blog design
• ❎ …design the front-end of a really cool remote streaming tool which is in the making right now (I am late on this one, sorry Sarah!)
  – started, but the drive got lost along the way. Maybe we will dig it up again. It was a tool to remotely control OBS Studio.
• ✅ …travel east
• ✅ …help launching accessible versions of lots of websites.
• 🤷 …finish the construction work in the Palatinate Forest
  – when is construction ever finished?

# In 2026 I plan to…

• …start freelancing again, after my new job took away 100% of my time (but no more than one day a week).
• …start making music again. Drums, Guitar, composition, recording. I don’t know what or with whom, but I need the beat back in my life.
• …maybe, just maybe, publish some of my poetry.
• …attend more concerts and other cultural events.
• …organize a Digital Independence Day meetup in Karlsruhe.

👋 Moritz Glantz is my name…

…and I am an Specialist for Web Accessibility and UX-Engineer with over 20 years of experience, by day and a podcaster by night.

I help organizations build accessible websites by offering talks about accessibility, workshops & trainings, accessibility reviews and developing strategies for developers and management.

If that sounds like you could use my help, let’s talk! 💬

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