- Robust roles on Android
John Lilly: we’ll focus on WCAG SC 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value, but primarily just “Role”. - Panel: Policy to Practice: Turning Accessibility Regulations into Action
Eugene Woo (Venngage), Eli Fresquez III (NM Dept of Justice), Jake Abma (W3C), David Sloan (TPGi): July 9 at 2pm ET - Webinar: Creating Accessible Social Media Content
Leilani Mason, Anthony Priore: Designing for Connection and Inclusion, July 16 at 12pm ET. - Webinar: The State of Accessibility – Episode 11
Mark Miller, David Sloan: AI’s Disruption on Design Part 2, July 24 at 10:30am ET. - Webinar: It Takes All Three
Matt Ater, Adrian Thompson (ImageHOLDERS), John Kiss (Aptaero): How Hardware, Software, and Accessibility Experts Create Inclusive Airline Experiences, July 30 at 12pm ET. - Download the July Update of Fusion Suite 2025
Elizabeth Whitaker: new features and enhancements for JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2025. - Freedom Scientific at the ACB and NFB Conventions
Elizabeth Whitaker: ACB Convention July 4-11, Dallas, TX; NFB Convention July 8-13, New Orleans, LA. - July 2025 Training Events
Elizabeth Whitaker: Freedom Scientific July schedule. - JAWS and Multi-Line Braille: Expanding the Way We Read
Elizabeth Whitaker: users will be able to view multiple lines of Braille text at once. - Public release of W3C’s 2025-2028 strategic objectives initiatives
Seth Dobbs: rigorously consider accessibility, internationalization, privacy, and security. - Legal Update: June 2025
Ken Nakata: three of the more interesting cases this month. - India’s Digital Accessibility Laws and Overview
Monika Prasad: one of the fastest growing and emerging markets for innovating, building, and nurturing digital technology. - Why Digital Accessibility Must Be a Priority for State and Local Governments
Key legal requirements - The European Accessibility Act and Banking
What EU Financial Institutions Need to Know - ADA Title II Revision
Kevin Gumienny: Training Needed To Satisfy New Web Content And Mobile App Accessibility Requirements For State And Local Government Entities - ADA Title II
Rob Jolly: What the New Digital Accessibility Rule Means for Public Entities. - Check / Uncheck all in a Table
Adrian Roselli: Unless you have user testing results saying otherwise, maybe put a check-all checkbox outside the table. - Give Users’ Brains a Break
Homer Gaines Jr.: UX Tips for Cognitive Accessibility. - Video: Browsing on the Amazon Fire TV
Patrick Lauke explores some of the accessibility features of the Amazon Fire TV. - The Tiniest Progress
Eric Eggert: newsletter - Looking elsewhere
Robb Owen: the output of LLMs and design-tooling tends to be a chaotic rat-king of <div>s with no regard for semantics or accessibility. - You MUST listen to RFC 2119
Eric Bailey: RFC 2119 establishes language around requirement levels. - Hierarchy in tables
Martin Underhill: I’ve seen a lot of tables that should be lists, but there are still a lot of tables that absolutely should be tables. - Video: How does tech enable me as deafblind?
Torbjörn Svensson: digital accessibility and how it is something that everyone benefits from. - iOS Accessibility Inspector: Beyond Automation
Mark Steadman: what should users be doing with it to catch more accessibility bugs? - Video: Assistive Technology Interview Series: Screen Readers
How screen readers work, which ones are most common, and why user experience varies so widely. - More than a checklist
Ross Mullen: Turn accessibility into real progress. - Video: When and how to use tabindex for better accessibility
Whitney Lewis: learn what tabindex is and three ways to use it to support keyboard accessibility. - Video: Getting started with manual testing
Whitney Lewis: Learn how to include manual testing accessibility testing in your workflow. - Interview with Lola Odelola
Steve Faulkner: TetraLogical sponsors her work on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). - Ensuring Accessibility in Single Page Applications
Michael Beck: A Comprehensive Guide. - How to Create Accessible Data Tables
Michael Beck: Best Practices for Web Developers. - Designing for Cognitive Disabilities
Michael Beck: Best Practices for an Inclusive Web. - Top Tools for Testing Accessibility
Michael Beck: A Guide for Developers and Webmasters. - How to Use ARIA Roles and Properties Effectively
Michael Beck: what ARIA is, when to use it (and when not to), and best practices. - Testing Methods: Orientation
Dennis Deacon: Content must support both portrait and landscape positions unless a specific orientation is essential. - Implement WCAG Rules in Your Infographics
Make your visuals accessible to all. - A11y 101: 2.1.4 Character Key Shortcuts
Nat Tarnoff: Keyboard shortcuts are designed to help multiple disabilities. - Accessible Social Media: Alt Text
Callum McMenamin: how to add alt text to your social media images, and why it’s important. - CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language
Gabriel Shoyombo: The future of CSS … should be a thoughtful expansion, power balanced by clarity and innovation grounded in accessibility. - Why no one takes content design seriously (and how to change that)
Jas Deogan: Content enables accessibility. - 7 Mistakes I Wish I Had Avoided at the Start of My UX Career
Denys Sergushkin: Mistake #7: Ignoring Accessibility. - Meet the Google engineer making Maps more accessible
Robin Young, Karyn Miller-Medzon: Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, “I couldn’t find out if I could get in the door”. - Creating an Effective Website Accessibility Checklist
Paola Gonzalez: One of the most effective ways to incorporate accessibility into your process. - Breaking Barriers
Gabriel Laurent: The Gaming Industry’s Accessibility Revolution - What to Say When You Don’t Know the Accessibility Answer
Josh Crawford: handle unknown accessibility scenarios with confidence while building credibility with colleagues. - The orders of Complexity of websites
Treasa Ní Chonchúir: and what they imply for the design of web platform features. - The Natural Language Interface
Niq Bernadowitsch: The next user interface. - The broken rhetoric of AI
Mike Schindler: A detox guide for designers navigating today’s AI discourse. - Video: Why visual website builders didn’t take off
Salma Alam-Naylor: Step into 1995: when the web got images, JavaScript, and visual dev tools. This is how it all began, where it went wrong, and how it’s still going wrong today. - Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress
Nilay Patel: not a puff piece, goes quite deep. - Feedback Is Not an Attack
Ashley Willis: Feedback should be thoughtful, specific, grounded, and mutual. If you’re not doing it with intention, you’re not doing it right. - Alek
Text-based AAC app designed to help users respond more naturally during real-time conversation. (video demo) - Vivaldi Browser
Android browser Vivaldi is accessible and offers additional customization options. - Narrator Update
AI-Driven image descriptions, speech recap, live transcription, dictate text with voice access. - SortSite
Accessibility Checker - Polypane 25
Helps you make your site more responsive, more accessible and faster. - WooCommerce Accessibility Conformance Report
WooCommerce is a free plugin that adds ecommerce functionality to WordPress websites.
Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-july-7-2025/.