Weekly Reading List 6 October 2025

Weekly Reading List October 6 2025

• Understanding the Removal of 4.1.1 Parsing in WCAG 2.2
  TPGi: what SC 4.1.1 covered, why it was removed, how it affects accessibility in practice, and which criteria now address issues once covered by parsing.
• Webinar: An Introduction to ChatGPT: Conversations, Creativity, and Clarity
  Freedom Scientific: Rescheduled to Thursday, October 9 at 12noon ET.
• Podcast: Enhancing Web Accessibility With JAWS Tools + Kristina Misiunaite
  Freedom Scientific: FSCast #262: latest tools in JAWS and a chat a tax policy officer from the Netherlands.
• Why I gave the world wide web away for free
  Tim Berners-Lee: My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for.
• Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
  New Yorker: In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.
• Video: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) adopts a new logo to signal positive changes
  W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium is rolling out a new logo.
• Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) becomes a first public Draft Note
  W3C: The Sustainable Web Interest Group published a first public Draft Note of Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG).
• Videos: #id24 2025
  Full list of videos on inclusive design and digital accessibility streamed live on September 25 2025.
• How to Create an Accessible Table with Clickable Rows
  Alexander Lehner: what if you want to make the rows clickable, e.g., to show more information about the thing that the row is about?
• A threat model for accessibility on the web
  Alice Boxhall: The primary threat for accessibility on the web is neglect.
• Auditing your Design system for accessibility
  Allie Paschal: How to fix A11y issues at the system-level.
• Five years goes fast – they go even faster when it comes to accessibility
  Bogdan Cerovac: 5 years of Web Accessibility Directive went fast. Progress is evident, but is it enough?
• Why are NHS trusts buying Accessibility overlays?
  Chris Yoong: These trusts are wasting public money on useless overlays.
• HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The
  Tag
  Den Odell: It’s been in the spec for years. Yet it’s hiding in plain sight.
• Digital Accessibility and Mufflers
  Dennis Deacon: whether it’s a muffler that disrupts your neighborhood or a chatbot that excludes users, the responsibility is yours.
• Testing Methods: Non-text Contrast
  Dennis Deacon: visual elements must have a contrast ratio of at least 3:1 against adjacent colors.
• Nothing About Us Without Us
  Christiane Link: It’s the difference between designing for everyone and designing for disabled people with incidental benefits for others.
• Headings: the invisible compass of web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: there’s a hidden hero of accessible content that too often gets forgotten: headings.
• WCAG’s Longevity
  Eric Eggert: There are several reasons why WCAG 2 is such a long-living standard.
• “The primary threat for accessibility on the web is neglect.”
  Joe Dolson: It’s easy to believe that once something is a standard that it is safe to use…but that’s just not true.
• ADA Title II and PDFs: Fix, Archive, or Delete?
  Karl Groves: The DOJ has provided an important distinction between documents that are part of current services and those that are purely historical.
• Control web content with your eyes (or head or facial movements)
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: macOS and iOS actually have built-in features that allow you to control web content using your gaze, head, or facial movements.
• Video: Why you should take your makeup advice from a blind woman
  Molly Burke: universal design isn’t just good for disabled people – it’s good for business and for everyone.
• Why Americans with Disabilities Should Consider Entrepreneurship During Economic Upheaval
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: The harsh reality is that traditional employment is rarely designed with accessibility and flexibility in mind.
• WP A11y Docs update September 2025
  Rian Rietveld: In September we made the website wpaccessibility.org ready to contribute.
• Lazy
  Todd Libby: I am still around and up to some new shenanigans.
• cielo24 Acquisition: The Case for Migrating
  3Play Media: captioning, transcription, and data labeling provider cielo24 been acquired by Rev. 3Play suggests migrating to them.
• Make Navigation Accessible with aria-current
  A11y Collective: Simple examples for navigation, breadcrumbs, and multi-step processes.
• Podcast: Overlays vs Automation: What’s the Difference
  The Accessibility Advantage: Maxwell Ivey Jr. interviews Mike Paciello, AudioEye’s Chief Accessibility Officer.
• Video: When Accessibility Isn’t Easy: Features That Need Love
  Accessibility Talks: Suzanne Dergacheva on features and design patterns that often require additional attention to meet accessibility standards.
• How to handle accessibility reporting under the European Accessibility Act (EAA)
  Axess Lab: If you’re covered by the EAA, you’ll need to handle two types of accessibility reporting.
• Podcast: From Developer to Advocate: Building an Accessible Future in Germany
  AXS Chat: Guest is March Haunschild, 20 years an accessibility developer, teacher, author, and tester.
• Be My Eyes and BT/EE Pilot New Accessibility Support in UK
  Be My Eyes: on-demand, accessible customer support for blind and low-vision users across the UK.
• Accessibility Standards Explained
  Be My Eyes: What You Need to Know.
• Podcast: What Makes a Table Accessible?
  Chax Chat: Chad Chelius and Dax Castro break down the nuts and bolts of accessible tables.
• Make accessible carousels
  Chrome for Developers: when a carousel is implemented, it should be robust and accessible.
• Legal Update: September 2025
  Converge: Third Circuit and “Intent to Return” in Web Accessibility Cases, Bill Tracker.
• How to test the new ARIA Notify API with Cypress
  Cypress: helps make interactive web applications more accessible and solves some problems with current workarounds.
• axe-con 2026
  Deque: The global community is coming together to accelerate digital accessibility at axe-con 2026.
• Podcast: Breaking the ‘Overlay’ Stigma
  The Digital Accessibility Podcast: Joe James interviews Chris Holloway, head of Recite:Me.
• WordPress Cookie Banner Accessibility Lies
  Equalize Digital: false accessibility claims can put the website owner on the wrong side of not just accessibility laws but privacy laws, too.
• Accessibility Info Bites – The anatomy of an accessible button
  Intopia: Learn how to create buttons that are clear, easy to interact with, and properly coded.
• Accessibility Info Bites – The anatomy of an accessible link
  Intopia: improve access for people with disability and boost usability for everyone.
• How to conduct user testing with people with disabilities
  Intopia: You’ve finally gotten senior exec buy-in to include people with disabilities in your research study – what now?
• Accessibility Testing Comparison
  Intopia: Automated Testing vs Human Auditing vs Usability Testing.
• I completed an IT degree… What’s accessibility?
  Intopia: unfortunately, the lack of accessibility in tech education wasn’t unique to my university.
• Closing the Gaps
  Level Access: Harnessing AI Accessibility Agents in Your Workflows.
• Beyond Compliance: The Economic Case for Digital Accessibility
  NASCIO: context about the importance of digital accessibility, its benefits to state and local economies and the repercussions of inaccessible platforms.
• A guide to creating accessible PDFs using free tools
  Piccalilli: I’m going to show you how to do the following things using a practical example.
• Video accessibility strategy
  Pope Tech: Identify environment, Put processes in place, Fix existing content.
• Silktide Expands Globally
  Silktide: New Offices Across Three Continents in 2025.
• Meet the team: Ian Lloyd
  TetraLogical: Lloydi to you and me.
• The European Accessibility Act in Action: Key Takeaways
  UsableNet: understand the EAA’s scope, implement sustainable accessibility practices, create effective testing programs, and maintain compliance over time.
• Common Accessibility Challenges When Interacting With Navigation Menus
  UsableNet: common accessibility challenges that screen reader users face when interacting with menus on desktop websites.
• Navigating College Course Catalogs as a Blind Student: Barriers and Fixes
  UsableNet: In practice, this experience is frequently flawed for screen reader users.
• How Chunking Makes Content More Accessible
  Vision Australia: a simple but powerful technique that makes content more accessible by breaking information into manageable pieces.
• Reading List, Oct 2025
  WebAxe: 12 selected digital accessibility articles.
• Google’s New Rules Could Threaten Sideloading And Accessibility Along With It
  Accessible Android: the ability to install (or “side-load”) apps from outside the Google Play Store, or to use alternative app stores such as F-Droid.
• Apple confirms Voice Control bugs in macOS 26
  Aestumanda: Accessibility team acknowledges multiple dictation issues, promises fixes in future updates.
• 6 ways Kindle supports readers with disabilities
  Amazon: Discover how Kindle provides the best reading experience for all kinds of readers.
• Apple releases iOS 26.0.1 and iPadOS 26.0.1
  Apple: with fix for VoiceOver loss of speech.
• Terminal Mode Goes Live with JAWS on Monarch
  The Braillists Foundation: Thanks to the newest updates from NVDA and Vispero’s JAWS, the two screen readers are officially ready for terminal mode use with Monarch.
• AI Is Overlooking Accessibility.
  Built In: Here’s how to Change That.
• Target launches accessible self-checkout
  Fox: an accessible self-checkout for guests with disabilities, including blind and low-vision shoppers.
• User cum expert judgement model for accessibility using fuzzy approach
  Nature.com: The datasets of 20 websites have been evaluated against the conformance of WCAG 2.1.
• The Rogue Prince of Persia
  Ubisoft: developed by Evil Empire, the team worked hard to ensure the game’s new version would be accessible to everyone.
• Design for All feat. Martin Underhill
  AdLib: Interview with a digital accessibility consultant with a background in user experience design and frontend development.
• ADHD pride
  Chris Ferdinandi: my ADHD is not “a disorder.” My brain is different. Not better. Not worse. Different.
• Storefront & Warehouse
  Donnie D’Amato: One of the problems I’ve seen is a person coming into design system resources and being immediately overwhelmed by the options.
• Community language doesn’t mean inclusive language…
  Lauren Sherrard: I’m talking about inclusive language (again) — this time in relation to themed brands.
• In the economy of user effort, be a bargain, not a scam
  Lea Verou: design the tradeoff curve of use case complexity to user effort with the same care you design your pricing scheme.
• Boring is good
  Scott Jenson: I want to answer the question: why should we still care?