Weekly Reading List June 1 2026

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• Webinar: Inclusive by Design: Using WCAG to Improve Usability For Everyone
  Vispero: David Sloan and David Swallow explore how accessibility and usability work together to create better digital experiences for everyone.
• W3C leadership transition
  W3C: Seth Dobbs is stepping down as CEO. The Board has appointed Dominique Hazaël-Massieux as Interim CEO with immediate effect.
• A New Website, A Redesigned Archive: 2008 to 2026
  Aaron Di Blasi: 19 Years of Access Technology News Now At Your Fingertips.
• Why the accept attribute degrades file upload UX
  Adam Silver: Error hiding is not error prevention. Which is why the accept attribute is so bad.
• Maybe Don’t Rely on Google’s “Modern Web Guidance”
  Adrian Roselli: Unfortunately, MWG accessibility doesn’t satisfy.
• Should I design for humans or machines?
  Allie Paschal: Rethinking UX as we start designing for agents and automation.
• Your website is now an API for AI agents, and you’re NOT ready
  Anne-Mieke Bovelett: it actually has a LOT to do with accessibility.
• Things I enjoy about Dungeons & Dragons
  Blake Watson: As a disabled player and DM, I’ve found D&D to be an accessible game to play.
• Video: Why can’t all washers be accessible out of the box?
  Carrie Morales: Touch button panels are inaccessible for people who are blind or visually impaired.
• Accessibility question: is nesting interactive elements bad?
  Christian Heilmann: I am mixing two interaction modes here, navigation and selection, one being link based and the other form based. I am wondering if that creates any issues for screenreader users.
• How an impending digital accessibility compliance deadline impacts all levels of government
  Christina Adams: Digital accessibility is not a static achievement, but an ongoing commitment to the public that must evolve alongside technology.
• Americans with Disabilities Act Statistics and Trends
  David Gevorkian: website accessibility litigation has grown every year since 2017 and shows no signs of slowing down.
• 8 unexpected facts about web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: but here’s a twist: one of them isn’t entirely correct. Could you guess which one?
• Decorative HTML ≠ Accessible HTML
  Diana Khalipina: I still see many websites using HTML elements for visual styling instead of their actual semantic purpose.
• Visually-hidden content ≠ harmless
  Diana Khalipina: I often find “hidden” buttons, links, headings, labels and even entire navigation sections left in the DOM.
• World Multiple Sclerosis Day and web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: I think most people never think about what it means to use the internet while living with multiple sclerosis.
• A link is not a button and a button is not a link
  Diana Khalipina: Visually, links and buttons can look exactly the same. But for assistive technology users, they behave very differently.
• The (Printable) Page Still Matters
  Duff Johnson: Digital transformation has not eliminated the need for the “OG hard copy” document.
• Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With contrast-color()
  Durgesh Pawar: After years of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and JavaScript libraries, we needed better CSS. contrast-color() is that better CSS.
• Accessible (I Think) Split-Cell Table Headers
  Eric Meyer: does this solution fall down for you, or is it good enough? Please let me know!
• Accessibility and AI
  Erik Kroes: These are some thoughts on what goes wrong, and what could be improved.
• MBraille Desktop app for Windows
  Harri Pasanen: free app allows you to learn and practice Braille on your Windows PC using a regular keyboard.
• Seeing colors differently: discovering ColorADD the Color Alphabet
  Helena Ferry: I want to focus on something I discovered in a standard edition card game.
• Hamm v. Smith Explained
  Jackie Dilworth: Can IQ Scores Alone Determine Intellectual Disability in Death Penalty Cases?
• Not Every Form Field Needs to Be in a Fieldset
  Jeana Clark: Teams learn that they have to use fieldsets, but not when to use them
• Able Player: 1 year later
  Joe Dolson: I feel like it’s time for an update on where things stand.
• How to avoid bias and stay compliant with the new breed of laws and regulations on disability inclusion in AI
  Jonathan Hassell: Covers EU AI Act, European Accessibility Act and much more.
• A Practical Guide to Flutter Accessibility Part 2: Hiding Noise, Exposing Actions
  Karol Wrótniak: this guide covers two of the most impactful accessibility patterns in Flutter.
• Neurodiversity and Web Accessibility
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: I’d like to briefly summarize what neurodiversity is and then consider its relationship to web accessibility.
• Searching for Respect with Lucy Webster
  Kelly Mack: Fighting Persistent Dehumanization.
• Inclusion & Accessibility Events in June 2026
  Laura Wissiak: a curated look at accessibility and disability‑inclusion events in June 2026.
• Do it properly now
  Martin Underhill: accessibility can’t be treated as something we’ll tidy up later.
• Apple’s New AI-Powered Accessibility Features
  Mark Miller: AI-powered accessibility features across VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, Reader, and other tools using on-device AI.
• AI-generated accessibility, an update
  Michael Fairchild: frontier models still fail, but skills change the game.
• Why SaaS companies are facing growing accessibility legal risk
  Mike Paciello: There’s a common assumption in SaaS that accessibility lawsuits are someone else’s problem.
• Five Risks That Quietly Kill Accessibility Programs
  Neil Osman: The honest version of what can go wrong, and what taking it seriously actually requires.
• Accessibility-Supported: Does Your Audit Actually Check It?
  Neil Osman: In practice, what it requires is unspecified: which combinations to test, what threshold counts as “supported,” who decides.
• “An industry we cannot escape”
  Peter Torres Fremlin: On the red carpet, education incentives, and a disability lens on news from 30+ countries.
• WP A11y Docs update May 2026
  Rian Rietveld: updated accessibility-ready requirements for themes, work on documentation, WordCamp Europe.
• Where can aria-label and aria-labelledby be used for naming elements?
  Russ Weakley: ARIA attributes that allow authors to provide an accessible name to elements.
• Framework-agnostic design systems: a practical approach to web components
  Scott Riley: we get an inherently more progressive, accessible (or, at least, easier-to-make-accessible) and web-native component library.
• AI-Generated Code is Inaccessible by Default
  Simon Miner: AI coding tools can turn a prompt into a polished interface with unnerving speed. That’s exciting and useful. It’s also risky.
• Disabled People Held a Federal Building for 25 Days So I Could Have a Life. Seven States Are Trying to Take It Back.
  Steve Way (LinkedIn): To this day, it’s the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in United States history.
• Navigating the age-old problem of checkmarks in UI with progressive enhancement
  Sunkanmi Fafowora: What about accessibility and users who want to navigate via keyboard?
• The Piano-Playing Robot Changing the Future of Assistive Technology
  Venkat Rao: machines can learn from brief, real-world experiences and adapt to unpredictable environments—opening the door to highly personalized assistive tech.
• Design for all, part 1: WCAG isn’t enough
  Wilco Fiers (LinkedIn): I think we’re reaching the end of what can be achieved with a standard like WCAG.
• Design for all, part 2: Mind the gaps
  Wilco Fiers (LinkedIn): But to understand why these gaps persist we need to understand WCAG a little better.
• Making the Web More Accessible for People with Disabilities
  Ability Central: new ADA web accessibility regulations are shaping the future of digital access for people with disabilities.
• Video: How Sam Seavey Built ‘The Blind Life’ and Changed Accessibility Online
  Ablr: Sam, the creator of the influential YouTube channel “The Blind Life,” discusses his 30-year journey to becoming a leading voice in assistive technology.
• Video: The Clarity of Social Accessibility
  Accessibility NYC: Peter Slatin on the ongoing resistance to the comprehensive adoption of accessibility in all forms, where it comes from and why it endures.
• Video: Solving for the Edges
  Accessibility Talks: Gerard K. Cohen challenges conventional thinking by exploring what happens when we move beyond the middle and include those often left out of research and decision-making.
• Sharon Newhardt
  ASXChat: Inclusion strategist at Morgan’s Wonderland, where “accessible” is not a single modified option, it is the whole experience.
• Accessible PDFs Explained Simply
  axes4: Accessible documents promote digital inclusion and enable equal access to digital content.
• Video:Google I/O’s AI push had an accessibility lesson
  CANAXESS: with the agentic theme came plenty of details about accessibility across Google’s ecosystem with updates for Angular, the web, and of course agents.
• Accessible Canva: Progress over Perfection
  Chax Chat: From real-time color contrast feedback to improved tagging and built-in accessibility checks, there are some genuinely meaningful steps forward. But it’s not perfect.
• Multi-level navigation
  Eleven Ways: How do we translate an “active parent” visual highlight into something a screen reader user actually understands?
• Best WordPress Accessibility Plugins in 2026
  Equalize Digital: Building an accessible WordPress site in 2026 is more achievable than ever, thanks to a growing ecosystem of accessibility-focused plugins.
• What’s New in Digital Equity: Global Accessibility Awareness
  GovTech: state and local governments commemorated GAAD by raising awareness for accessibility.
• Reflections from GAAD
  GrackleDocs: What Happens When We Go Beyond Checking Boxes?
• Video: Making Digital Content Accessible
  GrackleDocs: Transforming Nebraska Schools with Grackle Workspace.
• How Government Agencies Can Simplify PDF/UA Compliance Without Complicating Their Tech Stack
  GrackleDocs: many agencies struggle with fragmented remediation processes and growing software stacks.
• How I Limit Overwhelm When Auditing
  Intopia: Serene Mishteler, a junior accessibility consultant at Intopia, takes you inside her auditing process.
• Keyboard Accessibility and Custom Components
  Level Access: Why ARIA Widgets Aren’t Enough.
• Web Accessibility Lawsuits
  Level Access: Trends, Risks, and How to Protect your Business.
• New Office of Accessibility Resource: WCAG 2.1 Role-based Materials
  Minnesota IT: These resources are useful to everyone, even to those who may be new to digital accessibility.
• Pope Tech partners with Grackle to introduce PDF scanning
  Pope Tech: This partnership means a more comprehensive solution for your digital accessibility efforts.
• Podcast: Interview with Dr. Alan Chase
  Remarkable World Commentary: Donna Jodhan interviews the founder of the EYE Retreat, a one-week intensive summer program now in its 19th year.
• What Is Talking Signage? A Complete Guide
  RightHear: a form of audio wayfinding technology that uses smartphones to deliver accessible information about a person’s surroundings.
• Screen Reader Users Can Tell When You Use AI for Alt Text
  Silktide: Screen reader users can reliably identify AI-generated alt text, and they abandon navigation tasks more frequently compared to when human-written alt text is used.
• What Meta and YouTube’s Addiction Verdict Could Mean for Social Media
  Silktide: Depending on the final results after appeals, it’s possible our current understanding of how social media looks and feels will be outdated before too long.
• Chain Restaurant Online Ordering
  UsableNet: How Item Customization Fails Blind Customers.
• An Extension is Not an Excuse
  WebAIM: The extension should be treated not as a reprieve from accessibility, but as a reprieve from panic.
• Video: Training Support Staff on Accessibility with Donata Stroink-Skillrud
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: President of Termageddon discusses drafting an internal Accessibility Support Policy
• The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet
  Jonas Dolezal et al: Notably, our findings diverge from public perception of AI’s impact on the internet.
• CSS vs. JavaScript
  Josh Comeau: Exploring the performance implications of different animation strategies.
• How to write accessible dates
  Josh Crawford: common date formats like numeric dates and abbreviations can create barriers for screen reader users.
• What a Turkish Barber can teach you about great UX
  Karl Koch: The skill isn’t doing more. It’s doing the right thing at the right moment.
• The Human Skills AI Can’t Replace
  Kelsey Hall (LinkedIn): The skills that AI cannot replace […] are the foundational cognitive and communicative capacities that sit underneath all complex human performance.
• Writing about fonts
  Marcin Wichary: This will extend to a lot of other writing about design, not even necessary even just about typography.
• Jira is Turing-Complete
  Nicolas Seriot: Engineering folklore holds that Jira (Atlassian’s project-tracking tool) is Turing-complete. This article supplies a proof.
• Designing for AI means designing like it’s 1999
  Patrick Neeman: That means looking back at the unfinished, handmade web to reinvent how we design.
• More than 340 newspapers block the Wayback Machine
  Straight Arrow News: What that means for the future of the internet.