Patrick Lauke
Principal Accessibility Specialist at Inclusive Design 24
Preston, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top School
Top expert inWeb Development and JavaScript Ecosystem
Patrick Lauke is a Principal Accessibility Specialist with 14 years of experience making web interfaces more usable and inclusive, currently leading accessibility work at TetraLogical from Preston, UK. He combines pragmatic front-end development chops with deep standards knowledge—contributing accessibility fixes and guidance to heavyweight projects like Bootstrap, Bitwarden, W3C ARIA practices and the WCAG repository. Known for improving semantic HTML, keyboard support and ARIA usage, he’s fixed tricky modal and focus-management bugs and brought accessibility-first thinking to both design systems and low-level libraries like Hammer.js. A seasoned technical writer and community organiser (Inclusive Design 24), Patrick blends hands-on code contributions with documentation and events to drive real-world change. Notably, his work spans both high-profile open-source frameworks and standards bodies, demonstrating an unusual mix of engineering, advocacy and editorial rigor.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Creative Technology, Master of Arts - MA, Creative Technology at The University of SalfordComputer Sciences, Computer Sciences at ETH Zurich
English, German, Italian, French
Stackoverflow
282reputation
42kreached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (35)
accessibility10
javascript10
acc10
media-queries10
wai-aria10
accessibilityservice10
testing10
technical-writing10
css10
ria10
carbon-design-system10
ui-design10
system-design10
system10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
jquery-archive/PEP
Mar 2017 - Feb 2021
Pointer Events Polyfill: a unified event system for the web platform
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 31 commits, 27 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on implementing and maintaining the Pointer Events Polyfill for the web platform. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to touch event handling, particularly in calculating width/height and pressure. They also added support for Pointer Events Level 2 features like twist and tangential pressure, and refactored code to address style violations and to update exceptions. The user’s work also included modifying the build and test infrastructure, and altering code to make the library compatible with various environments.
web-platformeventspolyfilljavascriptpointer
sakofchit/system.css
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
A design system for building retro Apple interfaces
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility and usability of the front-end components within the design system. They implemented ARIA labels for improved accessibility, reworked dropdown menus using `<details>` and `<summary>` elements, and ensured correct labeling of form elements. Furthermore, the user addressed visual aspects by refining styles for focused states and correcting icon rendering.
retrocssdesign-systeminterfacesmacos
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.