Patrick H. Lauke
Patrick is a Principal Accessibility Specialist. He specialises in accessibility testing and standards development for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
He is a member and active contributor in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines working group where he leads the efforts of the WCAG 2.x Backlog Task Force, chair and co-editor of the W3C Pointer Events specification, and co-editor of the ARIA in HTML and W3C Touch Events Level 2 specifications.
In a previous life, he was Principal Accessibility Engineer at TPGi, and before that worked as Web Evangelist in the Developer Relations team at Opera Software. He's co-organiser of the Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) conference, and has been involved in the discourse around Web Standards and Accessibility since 2001, actively speaking at conferences and participating in early initiatives such as the Web Standards Project (WaSP).
Posts by Patrick H. Lauke
Foundations: animations and flashing content
Animation and movement can add to the visual appeal of content, but poorly designed animations can cause problems for many people unless they are implemented correctly.
Foundations: session timeouts
Session timeouts are designed to protect privacy and security, but if they’re implemented incorrectly, they can prevent people from completing tasks on a website.
Meeting WCAG Level AAA
In this post, we cover updates we've made to our own site in order to better satisfy the requirements of the Web Content accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AAA.
Why are my live regions not working?
Live regions have a reputation for being "flaky" and inconsistent. While this can be attributed in part to shortcomings in current implementations, the problem can also be caused by developers misunderstanding how live regions are intended to work.