- Download the June Update of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026
Vispero: new functionality and enhancements that increase efficiency and productivity. - Podcast: Product Updates, Agentic AI, And the Corporate Side Of Accessibility
Vispero Connect: the transition from FSCast; a corporate perspective on accessibility; accessible kiosks; AI agents. - W3C Web Accessibility Initiative receives renewed Ford Foundation support
W3C: The $1,050,000 USD grant will provide funding over a three-year period. - Why Accessibility Must Be in the Developer’s IDE
Abhay Kapur: The Case for an VS Code Accessibility Extension. - European Accessibility Act first year
Bogdan Cerovac: a toddler still waiting for the first tooth. - The “Why” Behind the “What”
Caleigh Clements: Why True Alt-Text Excellence Requires a Human Touch. - Google’s Agentic Browsing Lighthouse Scoring Factor
Crystal Scott: The Well-Formed Accessibility Tree. - Digital barriers make visitors of Dutch websites stumble
Dante Göbbels: many commercial websites still fall short when it comes to meeting the WCAG accessibility standard - ARIA, anti-patterns, and you
David Bushell: Please take a minute to understand what ARIA is and is not. - Screen Reader Users Statistics, Market Share and Survey Data
David Gevorkian: device and browser preferences, navigation behavior, and the most common barriers screen reader users encounter online. - Web accessibility is not something you understand by reading the criteria
Diana Khalipina: The criteria are important, but accessibility is primarily about people and their experiences. - Automated accessibility checks versus manual testing
Diana Khalipina: Automated accessibility tools are good at spotting some code-level issues, but they are much less reliable at judging meaning, context, clarity and real usability. - Accessibility isn’t just about disability, it’s about who gets included
Diana Khalipina: they all come back to who is considered during design, development and testing. - Accessible Document Sharing
Duncan Edwards: How We Share Documents is Important For Accessibility. - Belonging Is a Right, Not a Reward
Grace Dow: Maybe we should stop asking disabled people to prove their worth. - Designing for people with reading disabilities
Grace Snow: Design can overlook reading disabilities, but many people struggle to process written text. - AI and greener choices
Hidde de Vries: industry and governments alike seem keen to leverage the latest tech. Can we make greener choices? - Historical Ruptures of Disabled Decorum
Kelly Mack: Sometimes Activist Actions Speak Louder Than Polite Words. - A developer toolkit to make your website agent-ready
Kasper Kulikowski, Michael Hablich: A well-formed accessibility tree is the primary way AI agents understand your page. - Marketing Budgets Hit Record Highs While 61 Million Americans Can’t Use Company Websites
Kessler West: Accessibility improvements are likely to directly translate to conversion rate gains, expanded market reach, and measurable ROI. - Buried Menus, Broken Toggles: The 7-Point Accessibility Gap of Synchronized Media
Laura Wissiak: A practical breakdown of Live vs. Pre-recorded standards and the specific UI requirements for media players - Your Grid Lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3
Manuel Matuzović: I liked the versatility of its use cases, but I was also concerned that it’s inaccessible by default. - One year of the EAA
Matthew Luken: What’s changed, what’s coming, and what to do next. - How accessible is CX in 2026?
Melanie Mingus: vulnerable customers are less satisfied with their service experiences. Is AI contributing to the situation? - A11y 101 – 3.2.3 Consistent Navigation
Nat Tarnoff: Identifying components that have the same functionality across multiple pages must be presented consistently. - A11y 101 – 3.2.4 Consistent Identification
Nat Tarnoff: Components that have the same functionality within a set of web pages must be identified consistently. - How UX Design Shapes Modern Customer Trust
Natasha Lane: Accessibility Communicates Customer-Centricity. - WCAG 3.0 Will Create a Governance Problem Most Organizations Aren’t Ready For
Nic Steenhout: organizations will need to understand two standards at the same time. The one they must legally follow and the one that shows where accessibility is heading. - What’s missing from SVG
Patrick Brosset: Developers need better, consistent support for semantic relationships, ARIA graphics roles, and assistive-technology behavior. - Difference is the starting point
Peter Torres Fremlin: Hot weather, inclusive education and curated news from 34 countries. - Native Speakers: Why AI’s Most Powerful Users Are Blind
Philip Lamb, Liad Yosef: Large language models don’t “see” interfaces, buttons, or navigate visually … one of the most consequential accessibility developments in the history of computing - Using the R-word is so 2008
Raleigh Nolan: Simply put: if you use the R-word, you’re projecting an image of hatred onto the world. - AugmentAble
Sarah Mayrhofer, Stefan Klikovits & Manuel Wimmer (PDF): Teaming Web Augmentation and LLMs for Instant Accessibility Improvements. - How digital accessibility is empowering Malaysians with disabilities
Sheela Chandran: As Malaysia advances its digital agenda, accessibility must be built into technology, services and policies. - So, Your WordPress Theme Isn’t Accessible
Sheri Byrne-Haber: How to Fix It Using a Phased Plan That Survives Updates. - How Section 508 Relates to ADA and WCAG
Shilpi Kapoor: Key Differences and Connections. - The Accessibility Tree Is How AI Agents Read Your Site & It’s Breaking
Slobodan Manic: The accessibility tree decides whether an AI agent can read and act on your page. - Welcome to the Scott O’Hara show
Steve Faulkner: Scott and I have been friends and collaborators on web standards work for years. We used to work together at TPG, before he moved on to Microsoft. - The accessibility of this year’s World Cup
Steven Aquino: the FIFA tournament app supports adjustable font sizes, captions, and customizable color contrast. - Everybody Is Vibe Coding
Taylor Arndt: Here Is What That Does to Accessibility, and What to Actually Do About It. - When Color Is the Only Thing Telling You What’s Going On
Taylor Arndt: Use color as much as you like, just never make it the only messenger. - Navigating digital accessibility standards in product development
Valerie Kenyon et al: key developments product teams should be keeping a close eye on, focusing particularly on the updated harmonised standard supporting the EAA. - How a Hospital Tech Specialist Started 3D Printing Wheelchairs for Kids
Venkat Rao: a low one-time equipment cost, cheap consumable materials, an open-source design, and no specialized expertise required. - Video: A Blind Look at AI & More than WCAG to Me
The Accessibility Breakdown Podcast: Understanding the Future of Accessibility and AI: Insights from Wilco Fiers and Jonathan Mosen - Podcast: Web Accessibility 101
Accessibility Craft Podcast: Small Things That Make a Big Difference with Maria Maldonado. - Video: The Myth of the Difficult User
Accessibility Talks: Angela Fowler on users labeled as “difficult” when they struggle with a product or process. - Orla Pearson, Shani Dhanda, and Catherine Grinyer
AXSChat: Three passionate inclusion and accessibility advocates. - Podcast: The Hidden Cost of PDF Navigation
Chax Chat: PDF navigation menus might seem helpful, but are they actually creating barriers for assistive technology users? - When Scan Results Become a Legal Risk (Part 3)
Converge: If the first two posts were about the work of accessibility, this one is about risk. - Bringing the Automated Scanning Series Together (Part 4)
Converge: the part where we set the pieces side by side and see how they fit. - Recapping our multi-city European roadshow celebrating the EAA’s one-year anniversary
Deque: We’ve taken our Axe-con Mini format on the road and hosted incredible events in The Hague, Barcelona, Munich, and Paris. - How To Scale Digital Accessibility With Design Systems
Equal Entry: based on a presentation at Accessibility New York City (A11yNYC ) by Jesse Gardner. - How to Escape the PDF Accessibility Backlog
Equidox: Moving From Reactive Workflows to Sustainable Processes. - Beyond the Webpage
GrackleDocs: Is Your Entire Digital Ecosystem Compliant? - Level Access Now Available in the Microsoft Marketplace
Level Access: with smooth integration and streamlined management across Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft products. - When you need a PDF
PDF Association: Big Tech adds support for accessible math according to PDF 2.0. - Video: Accessibility Isn’t Built into AI, And That’s a Problem
Underrepresented in Tech Podcast: AI, accessibility, and why creating technology that works for everyone isn’t just good design, it’s essential. - Podcast: Designing for Real People
United in Accessibility: Accessibility with Chandra Harrison. - Real Estate Website Accessibility
UsableNet: Browsing Search Results With a Screen Reader. - How to Create Accessible Presentations and Handouts That Meet PDF/UA Standards
Venngage: how organizations can move from fixing problems after publishing to preventing them during creation. - Video: Getting Set Up to Build Your First Gutenberg Block
WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Emilio Dominguez provides a practical overview of the tools, technologies, and workflows used in modern WP block development. - Someone designed this
Arun Bakirathan: Nobody cared about accessibility until ADA compliance became impossible to ignore. - Technology and Power
Christopher Butler: Every technological cycle is a cycle of power. The promise of empowerment is part of how the cycle works. - The Web is for People
Daniel Appelquist: I’m a big believer in driving everything by user need. - Designing for the Wrong User
Hal Ferello: There’s a moment in an emergency when the world narrows. Not metaphorically. Literally. - “Doctor, it hurts when agents create unreviewable PRs.” “Don’t do that.”
Jon Udell: I dislike the phrase “human in the loop” because it cedes authority to the machines. Let’s flip the narrative. - Human Dignity
Nikos Kitsakis: On the Perils of Indifference. - Om Malik, 1966-2026
Om’s Family: Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital. - Even with a silver bullet, you still have to aim
Pavel Samsonov: Ten years after design thinking’s heyday, there’s a new silver bullet that everyone has pinned their hopes on. - React Testing Questions That Trip Up Engineers
Rajasegar Chandran: The trick is to think less ‘drag and drop’ and more about other accessible ways to write tests. - The ideal viewport doesn’t exist
Set Studio: make sure you consider the vast fragmentation of screen sizes and browser viewports. - Professional Resilience: Lessons from 25 Years in Tech
Steven Woodson: a personal toolkit of advance planning, habits, and interpersonal rituals, all designed to help when times got tough. - Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries
Una Kravets: One line for accessible text. But black and white can feel harsh, which brings us to the last step.
Weekly Reading List June 29 2026
