Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultant

I often see claims about "accessible colours".

If your Design System is a bunch of colours in a Figma-file with no reuse, then it's not a system.

I'm moving one service after another to European companies.

We have a guesthouse that we would like to make available for other people.

We went to the alps for 2 weeks, and now my kids (5 and 9) want me to work there.

When are you the creator of something?

It's often presented like that, right?

Imagine every sign stating "you are now in front of a sign".

There's a lot to be said about AI and accessibility.

I'm writing an introduction to accessibility where I feel like I scrap more than I write.

I'm writing an introduction to accessibility for inklusivo.

Some thoughts on the concept of the "accessibility unicorn".

Some thoughts on Floating Action Buttons as I always run into them, their inefficiency and their inaccessible design.

It's 2026.

This is not a new year's resolution.

I mean, at first, they seem useful right?

I have issues with reading books.

How do companies make devices accessible for non-visual use?

Screen readers are great, and they deserve a lot of love.

Summer 2023 I made an overview of things I was doing.

You just ran an automated test and it tells you your buttons don't have accessible names.

There are lots of tools/addons/widgets you can add to your website, with the intent of improving usability or accessibility.

Your assumptions about facilitation and accommodation can be wrong.

I've been looking for something for months.

Designers often (if they're nice) design multiple versions of a website.

Onderzoek wijst uit dat alle landelijke politieke partijen mensen digitaal uitsluiten.

People like people who are like them.

Newsletters aren't for me.

There's a simple question I ask myself whenever I consider the usage of a toast-component.

Accessibility audits are great, except when you want to solve issues.

Often when people talk about accessibility, it appears to be this binary thing.

Look at modern websites at you'll see their code covered in aria-roles: a pretty <div> with role="button" here, a nice <a> with role="link" further along, and so on.

The anchor link is one of the most elemental of HTML-elements.

I’ve spent years working in accessibility doing everything from printing and hanging up posters, to joining and leading a Design Systems team.

Designing a focus state?

Products can be made in a way that they can be used by everybody, including people with disabilities.

Build the most components you can to have the least amount of work.

There are some useful principles to keep in mind when considering accessibility and inclusive design, but this one is probably my personal favorite.

When you're building something and you're moving fast, make sure to look back every now and then.

The color contrast ratios mentioned in WCAG can give you an insight in how usable your color palette is.

I shared an image of Afghan refugees too haphazardly.

Images are visual communication.

In 2019 we started planning for a new house.

Everything you put on your website is old.

This website is 100% semantic.

When people talk about the quality of HTML code, it is often about semantics.

Everybody loves toggle switch on mobile, or so I've heard.

Web Components are a newly supported standard.

I think I'm allowed at least one personal message these days.

Web Monetization is a new proposed API standard.