Joschi Kuphal
Chief Accessibility Officer Founder & Working Proprietor at technica11y
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolJoschi Kuphal is a founder and Chief Accessibility Officer with over three decades of web and design experience and 13 years focused professionally on digital accessibility. He leads tollwerk, a democratically run, sustainability-minded agency that practices self-organisation and the Economy for the Common Good, and has shared leadership since 2022. Joschi combines hands-on development—contributing to open-source projects like the svg-sprite Node.js library—with auditing, consulting and teaching roles that embed accessibility as a cultural and structural practice rather than a checklist. He hosts the technica11y webcast and co-founded long-running community initiatives such as the Accessibility Club, CoderDojo Nuremberg and the Material conference series to build cross-disciplinary networks. An educator at multiple universities and a qualified WCAG/BITV auditor, he brings systems thinking and organisational design into pragmatic workflows for accessible, sustainable digital products. Notably, his background in interior design and early adoption of web technologies informs a tactile, user-centered approach to digital inclusion.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
1994, Holz, Glas, Metall, Textil, Gestaltung, Theater, 1994, Holz, Glas, Metall, Textil, Gestaltung, Theater at Werkbund Werkstatt NürnbergDiplom, Innenarchitektur, Diplom, Innenarchitektur at Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg
German, English, Japanese, isländisch, Esperanto
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
css10
svg10
mustache9
lessc9
cli8
sass8
stylus7
html7
xml6
xpath6
php6
typo36
sprite6
gulp6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
svg-sprite/svg-sprite
Feb 2014 - Apr 2021
SVG sprites & stacks galore — A low-level Node.js module that takes a bunch of SVG files, optimizes them and bakes them into SVG sprites of several types along with suitable stylesheet resources (e.g. CSS, Sass, LESS, Stylus, etc.)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:56 releases, 39 reviews, 386 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Joschi significantly contributed to the development of the svg-sprite library, primarily by adding new features and functionality. They implemented new CLI options for outputting LESS, and Stylus style sheet files. They also made improvements to the rendering process, including fixing issues related to caching and ID namespacing, and added support for custom shape orders, and handling of XML entities. Furthermore, the user addressed multiple bug fixes related to the generation of sprite images and CSS output.
cssnodejssassstylesheetssvg-files
jkphl/rdfa-lite-microdata
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
RDFa Lite 1.1 and HTML Microdata parser for web documents (HTML, SVG, XML)
Contributions:11 releases, 91 commits, 66 pushes in 8 months
microdataparserrdfasvgxml
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