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The photo of Paulina Sedlak-Jakubowska. A caucasian woman in her 30's, with shoulder length brown hair and big glasses. Wearing a green longsleeve. Sitting inside an office space.

Paulina
Sedlak-Jakubowska

senior frontend engineer
& accessibility expert

My education

Accessibility (self-study)

Deque University

2024-2025

I completed Comprehensive Web and Digital Accessibility Training covering web, documents, PDF, mobile apps, and more. This training included preparation for the IAAP exam. Some of the modules I've learned the most from are:

  • Designing an Accessible User Experience
  • Device-Independent User Input Methods
  • Conformance Testing, Detailed Methodology
  • Usability Testing for Accessibility

Programming (self-study)

Online trainings & on-site workshops

since 2016

I learned programming by taking on-line courses, tutorials and reading industry books. I also participated in commmunity workshops. The events I benefited from the most were:

  • WarsawJS - Workshop #50: Unit testing (2020)
  • WarsawJS - Workshop #37: Typescript for intermediate developers (2019)
  • Frontend United - CSS and SVG in 2019 by Lea Verou and Chris Lilley (2019)

Digital Hygiene

Open University, University of Warsaw

December 2025

I participated in intensive workshop focused on proactive habits and practices for working with LLMs. Some of the topics that had an impact on my work:

  • Typology of work with generative AI
  • Over-reliance, deskilling and cognitive debt
  • Carl Newport’s “deep work” concept
  • Silent impacts of using AI

English Philology, B.A.

University of Silesia in Katowice

2012 - 2015

Thesis in applied linguistics on socio-cultural images of femininity in newspaper discourse.

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