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Barrierefreiheit , HTML, CSS & Joomla

Open Source Matters (OSM) is the non-profit organization behind the popular open-source project Joomla. The role of OSM is to manage the legal, financial, and organizational aspects of Joomla, ensuring that the project remains transparent, sustainable, and forward-looking. OSM takes care of everything from strategic direction and governance to coordinating the community and developer teams.

 

“I’m really happy to have been awarded the J!Otto 2025 this year – the prize for outstanding Joomla! websites – and even twice.”

 

I am a creative spirit – I have been working with and on the web for more than 25 years: My daily work includes things like digital communication concepts, design, and content strategy, as well as front-end and back-end development, CMS integration, and accessibility. I enjoy this diversity – and I connect people, ideas, and technology with a great deal of empathy.

Übergangsfrist ist vorbei – und warum jetzt der Hype?

Das Europäische Barrierefreiheitsgesetz – offiziell Richtlinie (EU) 2019/882 – ist ein Gesetz der EU, das Menschen mit Behinderungen den gleichberechtigten Zugang zu digitalen Produkten und Dienstleistungen ermöglichen soll. Es wurde bereits 2019 beschlossen, aber seit dem 28. Juni 2025 müssen sich viele Unternehmen verpflichtend daran halten. Ziel ist, dass digitale Angebote für alle Menschen nutzbar werden – unabhängig von körperlichen oder kognitiven Einschränkungen.

How readable a text is often determines whether it actually gets read. The contrast between foreground and background colors plays a significant role in this. In June 2025, WebKit integrated support for a new CSS function called contrast-color() into its engine as a feature flag. Unfortunately, no other browsers support this method yet.

When I read the news that Meta used many books and scientific papers from an illegal online library like LibGen to train its AI model “Llama 3” (It mimics human cognitive abilities by recognizing and ordering information from input data.), I was not surprised.

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