Moritz Glantz — Blog

Have you ever wanted a simple way to request a bank transfer without making somebody copy a long IBAN?

Hat das Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz eigentlich überhaupt nichts gebracht?

I wanted a simple way to watch PeerTube on Apple TV.

I went to a conference and wanted to make some stickers, but only a small number.

If you work with or test Web Components you already know the pain of inspecting them.

Do you remember that HTML memory test on CodePen?

The Roborock Saros 10R has its own built-in voice assistant.

'tis the season for “end of the year”-posts.

At the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3), Marc-Uwe Kling introduced the idea of a Digital Independence Day and it deeply resonated with me.

Do you know someone who answers “Do you play an instrument?”

When I started using an iPhone around 2020, I migrated ten years of Android WhatsApp chats via a shady app from the internet™️ to the new iPhone.

I wasn’t satisfied with any of the metronome apps out there.

I ran into this again today: macOS kept auto-joining an old Wi-Fi network, and every attempt to “Forget” it in System Settings → Wi-Fi demanded an admin password.

Mastodon’s filters are powerful, but also a little invisible.

Some websites don’t show any visual indicator when elements receive focus – making accessibility testing frustrating or impossible without DevTools gymnastics.

Even though I work with HTML all the time, I keep coming across elements or details I’ve either forgotten or never fully noticed.

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When working on accessible websites, I often found myself manually testing different combinations of link attributes – aria-label, title, pseudo-elements, and images with or without alt text.

'tis the season for “end of the year”-posts.

English version below Mein Name hat sich von Moritz Gießmann in Moritz Glantz geändert.

I searched for accessible WordPress themes for an upcoming project, but the Google results were disappointing.

I just came across this nice website.

Tired of inconsistent browser title bar colors?

People often overlook adding alternative texts to images, and that's problematic.

Hi there!

I wanted to write a compelling introduction to this post, but the truth is: I want to write down the steps for myself for future reference.

How do you get your news online?

Create useful and minimal page/view transitions on your site with just two lines of CSS.

Are you also annoyed by the “smart” emoji suggestions when opening the emoji picker in MacOS Sonoma?

I thought about writing a post about the absurdity of LinkedIn posts, but diving deep into this special hell would give it way more attention than it deserves.

During the next week I’m gonna go on the biggest journey I’ve ever been on.

When Brad Frost released his article “a global design system” a few weeks ago, it reignited a thought I’ve been having for a long time.

Dieser Leitfaden wurde erstellt, um es Redakteur*innen leichter zu machen barrierefreie Inhalte zu erstellen.

Don’t you love it when every Git project you start on your Mac needs a .gitignore file before anything else, because the .DS_Store files are spawning and haunting your machine like a wandering ghost from the past?

“YewTube Redirect”, a browser add-on that simplifies the process of redirecting YouTube links to the privacy-focused and ad-free YewTube platform.

Wie beständig ist unser Glaube an geordnete Strukturen?

I made a firefox plugin, that ensures that when you click on links, they open in the same browser tab instead of creating new tabs, therefore removing target="_blank" from websites.

Last night, I thought I might challenge ChatGPT to create something complex.

I really really loved Lea Verou’s color contrast checker!

Is the using AI a good idea when it comes to building accessible experiences on the web?

Are you experiencing issues with the backlight of your Samsung Smart TV turning off when the screen goes black, such as during the credits of a movie?

When I started using VSCode as my main editor back in 2018 I was searching for a theme to fit my needs: high contrast, dark and not boring.

I was in need of an automatic CLI-deployment for my 11ty blog right here and I solved it using rsync. # Rsync?

Almost 10 years after I wrote the last blog post on my old blog, I decided to start something new, simple and text-based.