Tales from the job hunt: Telekom
I don't think they actually read my cover letter.
Blog by Steve Frenzel
A blog about web accessibility, nerdy music stuff, everything beyond and in-between by Steve Frenzel. Go away if these things offend you: 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ✊🏿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
Latest posts
Quality assurance, accessibility and Astro: Part 3
Fixing small accessibility issues and overhauling form validation and screen reader support.
Things that keep me going
Writing, music and the "AI" industry slowly eating itself.
Quality assurance, accessibility and Astro: Part 2
Time for spring cleaning!
A year and a half using GoatCounter
Tracking page visits in a GDPR compliant way to learn what people read the most.
Quality assurance, accessibility and Astro: Part 1
Exploring a different angle of frontend development. Somehow familiar, yet unknown.
My thoughts on the "focusgroup" attribute proposal
Using only HTML to create complex patterns like menus and tabs.
Tales from the job hunt: Deloitte
They’re quick to say no via email, but they’re impossible to reach by phone.
I can't help myself
Consider this article NSFW.
October 2025: It’s Bandcamp Friday! Here’s what I got
Der Weg einer Freiheit, Teenage Wrist, Architects, Hammock and more!
Supporting musicians in the digital age
Stop supporting another white, male and fascist tech bro CEO and start giving something back to the artists you love!
I moved my Astro websites to Europe
It's time to move and bring my digital stuff to the old continent.
How to (not) use aria-label, -labelledby and -describedby
Same, same but different. Let's find out how to (not) use which attribute!
How I organise a Logic Pro X session
Get in here if you wanna know how to avoid messy LPX sessions!
Menu and navigation: The difference
The eternal war of buttons against links taken to a new hight and complexity.
My top albums of 2024
One album for each month of the year. We've got Metal, Pop, Folk, Country, Rap and something in between.
Cool shit from the wwweb #1
Am I getting into newsletter territory here? Who knows, but here's some stuff about accessibility!
Two quarters of 2024 in (new-ish) music
We've got some Country, Metal, Ambient & Pop
“Fuck off” to hand-off: Holistic web design
How I do a hand-off from design, to ticket, to development. Might be borderline micromanaging.
Webmentions in Astro (for blog posts)
Code for you to copy and things for me to learn. This blog became part of the IndieWeb! 💥
From boot camp to blog: Five years in the tech industry
It's been quite a ride and I haven't even mentioned all of it in this giant article. 🥵
1/4 of 2024 in music
We got some Emo, Pop, Rock, Black Metal and even german Pop. Get in, come have some fun!
Five web accessibility law suits
Pointing fingers at five HUGE enterprises and looking at the (very avoidable) issues.
Screen reader check: TIDAL widget
Let's find out how my favorite streaming service's widget performs with screen readers. And how NVDA dominates them all! 💪
How to: Cancel a Figma subscription
You think it's easy to cancel their subscription? Think again, they perfected the art of deceptive patterns.
Developer & design conferences (in Europe)
Mostly smaller conferences recommended by the cool kids on Mastodon. ❤️ Suggest something and I might add it to the list!
Celebrating women in music
It's international women's fight day. ✊ A day to celebrate the superior sex and worship them and their music!
Create a custom theme in iA Presenter (reworked)
No disrespect to the iA team, but their documentation had plenty of room for improvement. I hope this will be a useful reference to you. 🤗
WCAG? More like, W-what?!
Three resources (text, map and video) to help you better understand the WCAG.
Screen reader check: SoundCloud widget
Inspired by one Mastodon post, I tested how JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver and Narrator interact with this widget.
Easy web accessibility wins: Hashtags
Is there a way to create hashtags that work for everyone? I did some screen reader testing and was surprised by the outcome!
Tour blog: Kora Winter in Austria
Travelling Austria with a metal band and doing live sound in Vienna, Linz and Salzburg.
X marks the spot: Landmark elements
It's not like I hate WAI-ARIA, but often it's better to stick to what the internet gods have given us: Native HTML!
Preparing for the WAS exam
Gotta level up my web accessibility skills so I'm gonna prepare for getting a certificate. But I'm not gotta take the exam. 😏 (Maybe I will, though.)
Should links open in a new tab?
The answer will probably not surprise you very much, as there are not many plausible use cases for this practice. In other words, it depends.
Books I read in 2023
Six books I enjoyed in 2023, mostly novels and biographies. Featuring Trevor Noah, Dave Grohl and more!
Should text be truncated?
A CSS feature that should have never made into to production, and why you sh...
Creating more inclusive workspaces
Usage of pronouns, how to address groups, inappropriate emojis and more.
TIDAL "Wrapped" 2023
My favorite tunes from the year Tina Turner died, Twitter turned X and mass shootings in the U.S. reached a new all-time high.
My thoughts on accessibility overlays
Predicting what will happen and a couple useful links.
The great confusion: Links & Buttons
Me trying to explain the key differences between links, anchors and buttons.
How the Washington Post design system made me learn about Perceptual Contrast (APCA)
Using the Accessible Perceptual Contrast Algorithm on a real world example.
The six most common accessibility issues on the web
A lot less than 99 problems, but these six issues can still be a real b**** to fix if you don't know how.