The asset of the “Access for all” foundation is its motivated, competent employees. They contribute with great commitment to the promotion of barrier-free technology use by people with disabilities.
Markus Böni
Managing Director
Markus Böni has been with the “Access for all” foundation since 2023. As a wheelchair user, he encounters a wide variety of barriers on a daily basis, which must be overcome whenever possible.
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Markus Böni has been working at Pro Infirmis for seven years with the aim of reducing such barriers. His area of responsibility is the inclusion office in the region of Eastern Switzerland and the Canton of the Grisons, which is committed to a diverse and versatile society.
He is professionally as well as personally committed to a self-determined and autonomous life for people with a disability. He would like to improve his knowledge in the field of digital accessibility and to link the different projects of accessibility.
He likes to spend his free time with his family. He can often be found outdoors in the mountains, where he always takes his camera with him. He also enjoys watching ice hockey games – whether live in an arena or comfortably in front of the television. Markus Böni also loves to listen to music or read a book.
Jacoba Denker
Junior Accessibility Consultant, Marketing/Communication
Between September 2022 and April 2023, Jacoba Denker completed an internship at “Access for all” and has joined the team as a junior accessibility consultant in May 2023. In order to deepen her knowledge in the topic of accessibility she started her master’s degree with a focus on “Accessible Communication” in February 2023.
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Jacoba has lived near Zurich for just over twenty years. In her free time she likes to go for walks, meet friends or play music. She has wide-ranging interests and is always learning new things.
In summer 2022, she finished her bachelor’s degree in applied languages at the ZHAW. She has great interest in the topic of accessibility and wishes to be able to work in this field one day.
Manu Heim
Eventmanagment, Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC)
Manu Heim is mainly responsible for communication and event management at “Access for all”, together with Thinh-Lay. From 2019 to 2021, she was employed full-time as an accessibility consultant and study leader at “Access for all”. Since 2021, she has been working full-time as a project manager for accessible communication in the program “Barrier-free at ETH Zurich”.
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Her first contact with digital accessibility goes back to 2008. At that time, as the person responsible for online communication at the ZHAW, she attended the CAS Accessible Web Design at her own university. Since then, she has remained true to the topic. In her view, accessibility is also a kind of precaution: Sooner or later, many of us will experience limitations of various kinds. By then, at the latest, we will also be dependent on accessibility. That’s why she also likes the motto “Accessibility is essential for some, and good for all of us”.
Manu lives in Zurich with her husband and child. In her free time she likes to be in the mountains. She loves winter and would love to spend it in Lapland every year.
Email: manu.heim@access-for-all.ch
Anja Herrmann
Fundraising & CRM Consultant
Anja holds a degree in social education and has many years of project experience as a CRM consultant in an international environment.
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Anja’s first personal contact with the foundation was when she attended a one-day course on accessibility. This course helped to raise her awareness of the topic. She joined the team in January 2024 and is looking forward to sharing her knowledge and expertise in CRM, marketing and fundraising.
Philipp Keller
Head of Technology & Innovation
Philipp Keller joined “Access for all” at the beginning of 2022. After many years in the social sector, he graduated as a technical computer scientist and founded the company Assistive Technology AG to develop technical aids for people with disabilities. After a purely technical decade, at “Access for all” his two worlds and interests (social/technical) are united.
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In his free time Philipp is interested in science, literature, music, languages and nature in general, ornithology in particular. He likes to explore new places to live and enjoys cultural exchanges. His ideal world would have many more lived piazzas where people meet, support and exchange in a friendly way.
Jian Li
Intern
Jian is a master’s student in digital linguistics at the University of Zurich. She joined the foundation in January 2024, drawing on her volunteer experience with blind students during her bachelor’s studies in China and her master’s research on accessibility at the University in Switzerland. Prior to moving to Switzerland in 2020, she amassed 10 years of sales and marketing experience in both large-scale companies and startups.
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Jian loves to do sports and improv comedy in her free time. She used to perform English improv with her ZIP team in Shenzhen, China, but she hasn’t had the chance to practice the art in Switzerland yet due to her master’s studies. Jian’s life philosophy is rooted in embracing new challenges and continuously expanding her horizons. Whether learning a new language, mastering a new sport, or navigating the latest technological trends, Jian is a lifelong learner whose curiosity knows no bounds. Her ambition is to leverage this ever-growing knowledge to benefit a wider community, aligning perfectly with our foundation’s mission.
Email: jian.li@access-for-all.ch
Josua Muheim
Accessibility Consultant
Josua Muheim is a trained application developer. In 2014, he joined the foundation, where he learned everything about accessibility until 2018. After a few years of travelling and freelancing, he returned to the team in 2023 and is now responsible for training the interns, among other things.
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Josua supports the development of software that is both highly user-friendly and accessible. Software should allow the immense power of technology to be put at the service of humanity as a whole. This enables everyone to be part of our global community – regardless of physical abilities. Josua enjoys passing on knowledge at training courses and workshops as well as actively helping out with programming.
Jacobo Ortega
Trainee
Jacobo has a master’s degree in corporate communications and a diploma in NPO management. He works as a freelance consultant for professionals and NGOs. In the course of his professional experience, he has become aware of the importance of accessibility in the digital world, because if digitalisation means the democratisation of information, access barriers represent a dictatorship.
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Born in Madrid (Spain), he has lived with his wife at the Lake of Zurich for seven years. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with friends and family, outdoor sports, travelling and is an active singer in several choirs.
Sibylle Rau
Accessibility Consultant
Sibylle Rau has been working as an Accessibility Consultant at “Access for all” since February 2023. She worked for many years as a visual designer and education officer in various graphic agencies and disability organizations.
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In the summer of 2020, due to the pandemic, she began working on the topic of digital accessibility and took online courses to learn how to create accessible PDF documents. At “Access for all” she is involved in the areas of “Accessibility Deafness” and “Digital Media for All”.
For the future, she would like to see access to education, work and social participation for the deaf become more barrier-free.
Sibylle has many interests. She loves nature, art and good food.
Regina Reusser
Trainee
Regina is a commercial employee and has worked for many years in an organisation that supports people with blindness, visual impairment and hearing loss. In January 2024, she started her part-time training at “Access for all”.
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Computers and smartphones are Regina’s daily companions, both at work and in her free time. Thanks to technology, she can lead a self-determined life and participate in social life. She wants to help bring society even closer to accessibility in the digital world.
In her free time, she regularly goes jogging or on long walks, but she also enjoys spending time at home playing the guitar, reading or learning a new language.
Petra Ritter
Accessibility Consultant, Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC)
Petra Ritter has been an Accessibility Consultant at “Access for all” since the foundation was established. Living with disabilities, she knows from her own experience what it is like to cope in a world filled with barriers. Therefore, the topic of accessibility is important to her.
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Petra Ritter grew up in the eastern part of Switzerland and lives near St. Gallen. She has been working from her home office for 22 years so that she doesn’t have to travel to the foundation’s office every day.
In her private life she is interested in technology: Especially in computers and programming in general as well as in programming Android apps in particular – taking accessibility into account, of course.
Mo Sherif
Accessibility Consultant
Mo Sherif is an accessibility consultant. He completed an apprenticeship as a computer scientist in a software company and then trained with “Access for all” to become an accessibility specialist. Due to his own blindness, he is confronted with the topic of accessibility on a daily basis.
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In the past few years, Mo Sherif has obtained his adult Matura certificate and is now studying law on a part-time basis. His hobbies are varied: ranging from sports to doing nothing.
Email: mo.sherif@access-for-all.ch
Marion Stalder
Accessibility Consultant
Marion Stalder has been working as an Accessibility Consultant at “Access for All” since February 2024. She completed her degree in psychology in December 2023 with a research focus on human-machine interaction and completed a three-month internship at “Access for All” during her studies.
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After a course on web accessibility, she realised that she wanted to delve deeper into the field of accessibility. In her Master’s thesis, she dealt with the topic of “Internet use in old age” and knows that good accessibility is not only of great importance for people with disabilities, but also for the older generation, and she would like to make her contribution to this.
Marion is married, has three children and lives near Basel. She enjoys walking her dog and regular workouts at the fitness centre.
Nicole Stallone
Accessibility Consultant
Nicole Stallone has been working as an accessibility consultant at “Access for all” since August 2022. Passionate about web development since 2004, the topic of accessibility has always been one of her key priorities.
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Since 2018, she is the mother of a wonderful daughter, who made the topic of accessible web content appear in a new light. A baby who often only wants to fall asleep in her mommy’s right arm illustrated the importance of keyboard focus, as she was now forced to navigate with her left hand. Nicole Stallone is firmly convinced that sooner or later everyone is confronted with it, consciously or unconsciously, intentionally or unintentionally.
In private time, she gains energy by walking her dog in the forest and enjoys the nature in any kind of weather.
Lars Stötzel
Accessibility Consultant trainee
Lars Stötzel joined the “Access for All” foundation in October 2023. He is a screen reader specialist and is training to become an Accessibility Consultant. He worked in the catering industry for 25 years and had to change his career due to Stargardt’s disease, which was diagnosed in his youth.
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From an early age, Lars had an affinity for IT. In 2019, he started an apprenticeship as a software developer and completed it in 2023. During his training, he already dealt with the topic of digital accessibility. He enriches our team with his experience as a screen reader specialist.
Most of his free time belongs to his family. When there is still time left, he dedicates it to his extensive record collection and enjoys listening to music.
Andreas Uebelbacher
Services Director
Andreas Uebelbacher has been Services Director at the “Access for all” foundation since 2012. From his original area of expertise in usability/UX, he brings many years of experience in how user needs can be efficiently integrated into projects. He is co-leader of the accessibility specialist group at the eCH association.
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Andreas has been fascinated by technology since his childhood (he rejoices at the sight of a C64), but early on he realized that technology has to be oriented towards people and not the other way around. At some point he switched from “mainstream” usability/UX to accessibility. No matter how often you fix the system there, it always ends up in an inaccessible state, and this is a topic he can put his heart and soul into. In his free time, he likes to ride his bike or inline skates, among other things.
Thinh-Lay Wonesky
Accessibility Consultant and Marketing/Communication Responsible
Thinh-Lay Wonesky is an accessibility consultant on assignment at “Access for all”. She first came into contact with the topic of web accessibility in 2009 when she worked with young people with disabilities for a youth online magazine.
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She is convinced that an accessible world is a better one. She was already active at “Access for All” from 2011 to 2012, and the topic of accessibility continued to accompany her after that. After a break of several years, she returned to “Access for all” in the summer of 2021.
The mother of two lives in Pennsylvania in the USA and loves and lives all facets of remote working. So it can also happen that colleagues or customers receive an email from her at three o’clock in the morning in Switzerland.
Fabienne Zappalà
Head of Administration and Accounting
In February 2024, Fabienne started working 50% as Head of Administration and Accounting at “Access for All”. After completing her commercial apprenticeship, she worked in various companies and is now working in a non-profit organisation for the first time. She appreciates the positive working atmosphere.
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Fabienne lives in Zurich and is the mother of three children. She enjoys spending her free time with her family. Fabienne loves travelling and photography. She also enjoys good food.