Weekly Reading List 29 September 2025

• Creating a truly accessible Flip Card
  TPGi: small blocks of content designed to resemble a playing card or business card, or similar two-sided thing.
• Webinar: An Introduction to ChatGPT – Conversations, Creativity, and Clarity
  Freedom Scientific: Introduction to Using ChatGPT with JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion. Thursday, October 2 at noon ET on Zoom.
• Employee Spotlight: Anthony Priore’s Story
  Freedom Scientific: we’re shining the spotlight on Anthony Priore, Digital Marketing Manager at Vispero.
• Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Call for Decision-Making based on Quality Science and Compassion for the Autism Community
  ASAN: The theories that Secretary Kennedy presented to the public demonstrate his continued disrespect for autistic people.
• DOJ Questioning the New Title II Web Regulation
  Converge Accessibility: a pretty direct indication that they want to water down the requirements.
• Let’s Play Accordion with the HTML details element
  Alexander Lehner: One helpful strategy is to place content in sections with show/hide functionality.
• Black Friday and Cyber Monday
  Dave Davies: why accessibility could be your biggest sales advantage.
• ARIA and Real World Dangers
  Dennis Deacon: When applied correctly, ARIA is invaluable. Think of it as asphalt for the potholes in HTML.
• Baby Steps Accessibility – PDFs
  Dennis Deacon: unless you’ve been creating accessible PDFs for years, chances are most of your files are not accessible.
• Testing Methods: Reflow
  Dennis Deacon: content can be presented without loss of information or functionality, and without requiring scrolling in two dimensions.
• Threats and opportunities for mature design systems
  Erin White: there are some recurring patterns I’ve observed as product teams work with our design system.
• Add an Accessibility Nutrition Label
  Geri Reid: I’ve just completed an audit for one of these labels. Here’s what I learned.
• Turns out I’m not ready to write a book
  Geri Reid: I’m starting a monthly blog about accessibility.
• Does your website need an accessibility statement? (Yes!)
  Helena Ferry: They are not just a formality, but a public commitment to inclusivity.
• Another AI reading list: these books are worth your time
  Hidde de Vries: they provide a critical look at the current wave of AI.
• Control web content with your voice
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: voice control is now a standard feature of devices (OS).
• Podcast: Where to start learning about Accessibility
  Laura Wissiak: Masterpost of Web Accessibility Resources for Developers, Designers, and Editors.
• Human Censored Design
  Liz Jackson & Rua Williams: Inclusive Design was created to systematize — the extraction of disabled ideas.
• HTMHell Advent Calendar
  Manuel Matuzovi?: Any topic or piece of HTML code you love that improves accessibility, performance … Submit ideas by October 1.
• Quick Tip: ARIA Live Regions
  Nat Tarnoff: This tip is to provide a super high level on how they function.
• Liquid Glass: Apple, you know better
  Nat Tarnoff: Update 9.26.25 – Apple has iOS 26.1 in developer beta and some of the concerns about Liquid Glass are being addressed.
• A11y 101: 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context)
  Nat Tarnoff: To make them as effective as they can be, we want to make them clear in what they do.
• What using a screen reader taught me about real web accessibility
  Sebastian Weber: Suddenly, we couldn’t ignore a11y anymore; legal compliance became a business imperative.
• Why Sticky Navigation Can Undermine Accessibility
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: or many people with disabilities, sticky navigation creates more problems than it solves.
• NVDA Keyboard Shortcuts for Different User Needs
  A11Y Collective: Navigate content, test forms, and build more accessible websites with this essential guide.
• Are Accessibility Overlays a Good Investment?
  A11Y Collective: why accessibility overlays create legal liability, break assistive tech, and cost more than fixing code properly.
• Magento Accessibility
  A11Y Collective: Creating Stores Everyone Can Use
• How to Use Accessibility Bookmarklets for Better Testing
  A11Y Collective: quickly identify WCAG issues and streamline your testing workflow for more inclusive websites.
• A Quick Guide to WCAG Color Contrast and Accessibility
  Accessible Web: Text color contrast should typically have a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1.
• Captioning Videos in Vimeo
  Converge Accessibility: a quick post showing how dead simple it is to caption videos in Vimeo.
• Enjoy rapid collaboration and localized compliance expertise with a Deque partner
  Deque: has launched a global partner network comprising carefully selected organizations
• Why false claims and false positives ruin digital accessibility programs
  Deque: our commitment to zero false positives still grounds our approach.
• Shopify Accessibility Guide
  DigitalA11y: WCAG Compliance for E-commerce Stores.
• Video: JAWS Tips
  Easterseals Crossroads: Using PictureSmart with PowerPoints
• Accessibility Matters: Turning High-Level Audits into Tangible Wins
  FE News: the question is no longer whether accessibility matters, but how quickly and effectively it can be embedded.
• Sponsorship of PDF/UA Standard
  Grackledocs: Reinforcing Commitment to Digital Accessibility.
• CAPTCHA, when security takes precedence over accessibility
  Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: its impact on accessibility in general and in Luxembourg in particular.
• Navigating EAA Compliance
  Level Access: Five Core Requirements and How to Meet Them
• How Accessible Are U.K. Retail Websites?
  Level Access: our research suggests many U.K. retailers aren’t keeping pace with evolving requirements.
• 8 in 10 Top U.K. Retail Websites Have Critical Accessibility Issues
  Level Access: the majority of U.K. retail websites do not meet basic digital accessibility requirements.
• Web Accessibility Audit Buyer’s Guide
  Microassist: Not to put too fine a point on it, but a web accessibility audit is important because accessibility is important.
• Annotating designs using common language
  TetraLogical: design documentation often includes annotations, but accessibility-specific ones are still rare.
• What Makes an Accessible College Application Form Work for Screen Reader Users
  UsableNet: When accessibility is built in, you can feel the difference.
• Accessibility First
  UsableNet: WCAG Makes Your Content Easier for People—and for AI to Understand.
• Fall 2025 Accessibility
  UsableNet: A Screen Reader User’s Look Ahead
• Simple ways to make your workplace communications accessible
  Vision Australia: writing descriptive subject lines and headings, creating meaningful links, ensuring sufficient colour contrast, and adding alternative text to images.
• Logitech’s new Signature Slim Solar+ K980 Keyboard is powered by light
  beta news: Good for testers. Switch between three devices. No batteries to replace.
• Podcast: How Meta’s Glasses Could Be the iPhone Moment for Blind Users
  Double Tap: a built-in screen reader and low-vision accessibility features.
• The Need for Accessibility Excellence
  Accessible Android: Google has a long, long way to go to make TalkBack a desktop-class screen reader.
• Beyond convenience: how smart tech can enable disabled lives
  Axess Lab: Smart tech lets me be a writer, a cat owner, and a caffeine addict on my own terms.
• Digital Accessibility Tools for Customer Service Teams
  Be My Eyes: For blind and low-vision consumers in particular, traditional customer service channels often fall short.
• Training: Catching Up With JAWS Chapter 5
  Hartgen Consultancy: Why JAWS 2026 could be the best upgrade in recent years.
• Able Player 4.7.0 & Able Player for WordPress 2.2.0 Released
  Joe Dolson: continues the process of modernizing Able Player, but also includes some useful new key features.
• The Gift Horse’s Mouth is Full of Terrible Braille
  Robert Kingett: The game was not inaccessible. It was anti-accessible.
• The End of the User Interface?
  Alex Cerqueira: The AI Agent Revolution and the Future of Human Experience
• Ambient Animations In Web Design: Principles And Implementation (Part 1)
  Andy Clarke: Check prefers-reduced-motion, and don’t assume everyone’s device can handle complex animations.
• What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (2025 Edition)
  Chris Coyier: There is more this year than there was last.
• Design Attractors
  Donnie D’Amato: stable solutions that emerge as the natural equilibrium of usability, accessibility, and implementation constraints.
• Against the protection of stocking frames
  Ethan Marcotte: it’s long past time I start discussing “artificial intelligence” (“AI”) as a failed technology.
• Unstructured Input in AI Apps Instead of Web Forms
  Luke Wroblewski: Instead of a Web form enforcing the database’s input requirements a dynamic context system can handle it.
• From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant
  Lyndon Cerejo: how to turn one-off “aha” prompts into reusable assistants that are tailored to your audience, grounded in your knowledge, and consistent every time.
• A workaround for using custom properties in media queries
  Manuel Matuzovi?: Instead of using a media query, you can use a container style query.
• Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System
  Michael Ferreira: The web has accents. So should our design systems.
• The Web’s Most Tolerated Feature
  Mike Pennisi: The idea behind zoom was fairly simple: allow developers to visually expand or shrink any given element.
• The Best CSS Unit Might Be a Combination
  Miriam Suzanne: We don’t have to choose between px and rem for spacing.
• Why WordPress Lost the Cool Kids (And How to Win Them Back)
  Nick Hamze: in creative communities, “accessible” gets read as “amateur” rather than “powerful.”
• 7 UX Skills that will be DEAD by 2026: AI will replace them
  Shai Krishna: no one is actually average … and accessibility needs are ignored.
• Call for “More Weirdness” in WordPress Theme Design Sparks Debate About Accessibility
  The Repository: Matt Mullenweg says accessibility expert [ Amber Hinds] “tipping into net negative contribution territory”.
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 — Draft Proposal
  Comedy gold from 2019 (contains swearing)

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-september-29-2025/.