About the event

After this year’s amazing Accessibility Club Summit in Würzburg, Josefine was wondering: wouldn’t it be great to have opportunities to meet like-minded folks more regularly, possibly even without too much travel? Wouldn’t it be nice to have an Accessibility Club in Hamburg?

And this is how the idea of this meet-up was born — the regional chapter of the A11yClub, but with a northern flavour, if you will. Informal, with some informative speaker slots and many chances to mingle and chat. More info below.

Schedule

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
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Presentation title: Cliché-Max is annoying – Let's create more diversity in accessibility personas

In this talk, Nina explains how stereotypes in “accessibility personas” can result in inaccurate assessments. She presents approaches for designing better personas and provides ready-made examples to help you create your own more diverse personas.

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Presentation title: What a baby walker can tell you about EN 301 549

In his presentation, Detlev invites you to look at a Baby Push Walker as a way into EN 301 549, the European accessibility norm for information and communication technology. This norm can be quite daunting, especially if you come to realise that “web” is just one of its thirteen clauses (clause being the EN term for chapters). Far from trying to be exhaustive, Detlev will take a few baby steps towards those bits of the norm that we typically don’t need to consider while auditing web sites or mobile apps.

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Snacks, Drinks & good company

Performers

  • Portrait of Josefine Schaefer

    Josefine Schaefer

    Accessibility Advocate & Engineer, Cat mom & Dance teacher

    Josefine took the scenic route into the tech industry: she used to work in Marketing and Communication before entering a bootcamp and becoming a frontend engineer. These days she is a Google Developer Expert, Women Techmakers ambassador and has a monthly stream with two friends called GirlCode Coffee Chat. She cares deeply about making tech communities more inclusive and opening space to as many as possible. She is a certified pole dance & aerial silks instructor and spends a lot of her time upside down.

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  • Portrait photo of Joschi Kuphal

    Joschi Kuphal

    Designer, programmer, lecturer, event organiser and restless tinkerer from Nuremberg

    Joschi is working on the web since the mid 90s and founded the web agency tollwerk in 2000, which he continues to shape to this day. He has shared leadership of tollwerk with his team in an equal, cooperative and self-organizing way since 2022. He launched a couple of event series like the border:none and Material conferences, the Accessibility Club and the CoderDojo Nürnberg. He's occasionally running IndieWebCamps, hosting the monthly accessibility webcast technica11y and used to be one of the driving forces behind the Nürnberg Digital Festival.

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  • Portrait of Nina Gerling

    Nina Gerling

    Accessibility Expert, Frontend Developer, Speaker and Nerd of all Trades

    Nina Gerling is an accessibility expert with 20+ years of experience. She advises companies and public institutions on digital accessibility, ensuring inclusive design across websites, apps, software, hardware, and documents. With a background as a frontend developer, she combines strong technical knowledge with a practical approach. Nina conducts trainings and workshops to raise awareness and build expertise within teams and develops guidelines and best practices for sustainable implementation. Guided by the belief that accessible digital products create equal opportunities, she is passionate about her work. Outside of accessibility, she enjoys anime, TV series, painting miniatures, as well as role-playing and board games.

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  • Portrait of Detlev Fischer

    Detlev Fischer

    Accessibility Expert & fiction assembler

    After studying Visual Communication at Hamburg's School of Fine Arts, Detlev spent five years in England studying Electronic Graphics. There, he developed animated diagrams of a Rolls Royce aero-engine oil system, and worked on a theory of presentation as his Coventry University PhD thesis. Back in Germany, he was employed by a Swedish company running intermodal transport research projects. In 2009, he joined DIAS GmbH where he took over the test development for BIK BITV-Test. In 2020, he took over ownership and management of DIAS. He has never given up art, using a recombination technique to write by using sets of novels as source material.

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Location

We are delighted to announce that we are able to hold our first-ever Accessibility Club Hamburg Meet-up at the beautiful offices of slashwhy.

The location is fully wheelchair-accessible (with an elevator and accessible toilets). We will put up some signage to guide you to the 13th floor.

There are parking spots available across the street; please get in touch if you need parking, and we will provide further information.

slashwhy
Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 22
20459 Hamburg , Hamburg Germany
53.5499251 9.9753258
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  • View across several tables with chairs in the slashwhy office
  • View along a bench seat by the glass façade of the slashwhy office
  • View across the entire slashwhy office on the 13th floor

Tickets

As always, we’re committed to keeping barriers to participation in our events as low as possible. That’s why we're especially excited to offer our very first Hamburg meet-up free of charge. However, if you are able to donate a small amount, you will help us to make this or future Accessibility Club events even better.

IMPORTANT NOTE: slashwhy is generously providing drinks and snacks for the evening. It would be a real shame if we had to throw away perfectly good refreshments because people registered but didn’t attend. If you know you won’t be able to make it, please cancel your registration in good time so we can plan accordingly. Thank you!

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Hosts

  • Portrait of Josefine Schaefer

    Josefine Schaefer

    Accessibility Advocate & Engineer, Cat mom & Dance teacher

    Josefine took the scenic route into the tech industry: she used to work in Marketing and Communication before entering a bootcamp and becoming a frontend engineer. These days she is a Google Developer Expert, Women Techmakers ambassador and has a monthly stream with two friends called GirlCode Coffee Chat. She cares deeply about making tech communities more inclusive and opening space to as many as possible. She is a certified pole dance & aerial silks instructor and spends a lot of her time upside down.

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  • Portrait of Sonja Weckenmann

    Sonja Weckenmann

    Accessibility Expert & Auditor, Practical Writer, Ultralight Hiker

    Not long after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts Münster in 2003, Sonja ventured into the world of the web. Since 2009, the focus of her work has been accessibility. Beyond her role as an auditor and accessibility consultant, she is involved in the ongoing development of the BIK BITV test procedure, a German-language web accessibility evaluation methodology based on WCAG 2.2 / EN 301 549. Known for her "Tipps & Techniken" articles, she shares practical insights into various accessibility topics. In the summer, you’ll likely find her off the grid on a multi-day mountain hike — carrying the bare minimum and loving every step of it.

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