Work with me

👋 Moritz Glantz is my name…

…and I’m a web accessibility specialist and UX engineer from Karlsruhe, Germany, with over 20 years of experience. Accessible websites are better websites, for everyone. I’ll get you there without the headache: with audits that show what to fix first, workshops that get your team up to speed, and help right in the code.

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Organizations I work(ed) with

What I offer

• Accessibility Audits and Reviews

  I check your sites for accessibility issues. Quick check or full WCAG check. You decide what’s best for you.

• Accessibility User Testing with People with Disabilities

  Meet the people you build for! In moderated sessions, people with disabilities show you how they use the web with their assistive technology, or try out your website or app. Your team can join live and ask questions directly.

  I find the participants, plan and moderate the sessions, and sum up all findings in a prioritized list with concrete fixes. And your team gains an understanding that goes beyond any audit.

• Accessibility Front End Development

  After we know what’s wrong, let’s fix it! I can help you with the implementation of accessible components, templates and websites and train your developers on the way.

• Accessibility Talks and Workshops

  A motivational talk about accessibility can be a great way to kick off accessibility in your project or company. I also provide deep dives for developers, designers, writers, management, quality assurance, legal, HR, and more.

• Accessibility Strategy Development

  Accessibility is more than just making your product accessible once. It is a process and a strategy. Let’s talk about how you can not only meet the requirements initially, but also integrate accessibility into your company’s DNA.

• Semantic HTML Audits

  Not sure if the HTML of your site is as expressive as it could be? Let’s take a look at how you can improve SEO, accessibility, code readability and make your HTML machine readable with semantic HTML!

• UX Reviews

  Need an outside view on your user experience? Identify pain points and quick UX improvements with a UX review.

How I work

I approach accessibility like a good experiment: with curiosity, evidence and a clear process.

1. Understand: What are your goals, who uses your product and what are your deadlines?
2. Test: Audits and tests with assistive technologies like screen readers, voice control and others show where the barriers are.
3. Prioritize: Not everything is equally urgent. We start where barriers affect people the most.
4. Fix: Together with your team, with concrete solutions instead of vague recommendations.
5. Verify: We check that the fixes really work, and your team learns to do this on their own.

What matters to me: a friendly, respectful and inclusive work environment with open and constructive communication. Good collaboration is built on mutual trust and honesty, and that’s what you can expect from me, too.

Testimonials

“The Accessibility Workshop Moritz provided for my organisation was one of the most successful ones, which effectively prompted our tech. colleagues to reevalute our website on its accessibility. On top of it, it was a perfect example of a workshop based on neuroscience principles, which targets to emotions to ‘make it stick’.”

“Moritz’ presentation really touched me - we can all do something to break down barriers and enable inclusion. Moritz succeeds in conveying many concrete tips for practice - comprehensible, practical and sustainable.”

“We are happy that we could win Moritz as an accessibility consultant for our web project. His careful and thorough analysis and the identification of minor and major opportunities for improvement, has helped us to gain a better understanding of this important topic. But more importantly, that with his help, we were able to develop a better and more accessible website.”

“The accessibility workshop with Moritz was a real eye-opener for our entire team - from product managers to developers. Moritz managed to make the topic tangible and provide us with practical methods that we can use to test and improve accessibility independently in the future. The open Q&A session at the end, where we were able to discuss individual challenges, was particularly valuable. An all-round successful session that created lasting awareness.”

About me

Creating websites and web applications since 2001, I am enthusiastic about the web (and its standards), writing clean, semantic and handcrafted code, always on the lookout for the latest techniques and resources of the ever-evolving web development industry. My work is driven by idealism, holism, sustainability and the thirst for knowledge quenched by reading blogs, listening to podcasts, visiting conferences and having my own front end development podcast / livestream.

Accessibility plays an integral role in my work: the web must be usable by everyone. Access to information and participation are basic human rights. It’s good craft, improves usability, builds trust, supports sustainability and public perception, and, ultimately, it’s simply the right thing to do. ✊

In my free time I like tinkering on small, sometimes weird web projects like my Accessibility Cheatsheet, Morse Code Generator, tracking-free QR-Code generator and a Relax Sound Board as well as hardware like Arduinos and sensors.