- Accessibility Programs Are Not Linear
Vispero: How Organizations Build Maturity Over Time - How Virtual Accessibility Consulting Works
Vispero: A Guide for Enterprise Teams. - Accessibility Moments – Lists
Vispero: Brian Elton, Practice Manager of Training at Vispero, breaks down the three types of HTML lists. - Video: The World Cup and Digital Accessibility
Vispero: State of Accessibility podcast with David Sloan and Dave Swallow. - CSS animations, human rights, and big accessibility at the AB Web Meetup
Hidde de Vries: Cynthia Shelly told us no less than five stories from her history in “Big Accessibility”. - What to Look for in a Digital Accessibility Platform
Abhay Kapur: A Buyer’s Guide. - How to make your social media content more accessible
Alan Sleat: Social media is designed to connect us. But for many people, it still creates barriers. - Figma x Intopia
Dan Thomas: Building Accessibility into AI-Generated Prototypes. - Boundary-aware CSS, Time-based CSS, Full-bleed CSS, and More
Daniel Schwarz: read all about boundary-aware CSS, making grid lanes accessible, and more. - Building accessibility into a canvas-based product
David Winslow and Elynn Lee: Building on a canvas … strips away any accessibility the browser gives you for free. Here’s how we built it back in. - 10 facts about assistive technology
Diana Khalipina: assistive technologies are some of the most impressive engineering achievements ever created. - Looking for accessibility opportunities?
Diana Khalipina: I started building the resource that I couldn’t find. - One key can reveal hundreds of accessibility issues
Diana Khalipina: one of the most effective tests starts by putting your mouse aside and pressing the Tab key. - Boosting accessibility at Microsoft with help from neurodivergent employees
Diana Mivelli: we’re turning insights from our neurodivergent employees into smarter, more inclusive products that benefit everyone. - Theming atproto
Donnie D’Amato: designed to be more inclusive and accessible than existing social media platforms. - Accessibility in the age of AI
Ela Gorla: what does the widespread adoption of AI mean for accessibility? - Handling Alt Text in a Linked Image
Geoff Graham: Is there another approach I’m simply missing? Am I over-thinking this? - Accessibility Meets Reality
Grace Dow: The challenge lies in striking a balance that preserves the civil rights of disabled people while giving small businesses a chance to comply. - Every Curb Cut, Every Door, Every Day: What Disabled Students Carry
Grace Dow: Making something accessible means listening to disabled people, providing funding for accessibility, and making inclusion a reality. - My Accessibility Review Process
Homer Gaines: The following high-level descriptions explain the process necessary to evaluate the conformance level of the products. - Video: There’s No Such Thing as Fully Accessible
Jenni Pettican: Because fully accessible for who? - Image to text
Jeremy Keith: I was one of those people with a website that doesn’t havealttext for images. - The Second EAA Ruling Determines “71% Accessible” is Not a Defense
Jessica Chambers: On 4 June 2026, the Tribunal judiciaire de Caen confirmed that the Auchan off-ramp was not available to everyone. - With gratitude and appreciation
Jonathan Mosen: remembering access technology great Jonathan Sharp. - How to Create Disabled Freedom
Kelly Mack: Envisioning a Path for the Future. - The Coming Assault on Disability Rights
Ken Nakata: This post goes way beyond digital accessibility. It should get the usual “red alert” treatment, but it’s much bigger than that. - What the Forbes Accessibility 200 Measures, and What it Doesn’t
Kessler West: The Forbes Accessibility 200 measures a plausible proxy for accessibility, not accessibility itself. - A newbie’s guide to designing good web forms: the technical bits
Kim Grey: The somewhat belated third (and probably final part) in my mini series about web form design. - The 5 accessibility tests to run first
Laura Wissiak: Non-Interference. - Accessibility is resistance!
Léonie Watson: if we’d let the web realise its accessibility potential, far fewer people would be turning to AI to compensate now. - ADA Integration Protections Questioned by DOJ
Mark Miller: especially the requirement that people with disabilities be served in the most integrated community setting rather than institutions. - Hotel Website Accessibility
Michael Taylor: Browsing Room Options. - Hotel Website Accessibility
Michael Taylor: Check-in, Messaging, and In-Stay Barriers for Blind Guests. - Customer Confidence Starts with Accessibility
Narelle Wright: The real measure of success isn’t whether a website passes a checklist. - Three Months Later
Nat Tarnoff: The Algorithm Won. My Wife Nearly Didn’t. - Compliant but Unusable
Nicole L’Etoile (LinkedIn): The checkbox mentality produces artifacts, not access. - A new kind of clock
Peter Torres Fremlin: Crip time, understanding hearing aids, and phantom models of disability. - The Mindful Design Toolkit
Scott Riley: the bulk of useful artefacts that I think have a place in a modern, ethical design practice. - Assistive Access Isn’t ‘Buried’
Steve Aquino: To say Assistive Access is buried is to imply it doesn’t matter. - Use cases for
aria-expanded
Steve Frenzel: This article is intended to help you more easily determine whetheraria-expandedhas been used correctly or not. - The Power Of Tags
Vijayshree Vethantham: Adding tags to your PDF isn’t just a technical step; it’s a critical part of creating an inclusive document. - Canvas Documents and Videos Dashboard
Whitney Lewis: Pope Tech’s Canvas Accessibility Dashboards have a Documents and Video Dashboard, which lists all the documents and videos in the courses. - Global regulation trends
AbilityNet: the accessibility rules UK organisations can’t ignore. - Video: Let’s Get Purple and Old Man PDF
The Accessibility Breakdown Podcast: Mark Miller and Justin Stockton talk about online retail accessibility failing disabled customers. - Video: One Page, Many Problems: Accessibility in SPAs
Accessibility Craft Podcast: We discuss what it takes to build an accessible single page application (SPA). - Video: The worldviews we build with: Why good design starts in the spirit
Accessibility NYC Meetup: Elina Ashimbayeva, drawing on indigenous learnings from Aotearoa New Zealand, and examples from accessibility and AI design. - Visually-dynamic information should have a text equivalent
AccessibilityOz: Correct code and visual demo for a progress meter. - Podcast: Neil Milliken
ASXChat: Neil is a leading strategist and community builder with over two decades of experience within the Accessibility and Assistive Technology fields. - Podcast: Paul Bepey – Digital Accessibility Manager @ PwC UK
The Digital Accessibility Podcast: digital accessibility through the perspective of someone who has been blind since birth. - Apple Readies Movie About Prominent Disability Rights Activist
Disability Scoop: A feature film about an activist known as the “mother of the disability rights movement” is set to debut. - The PDF Accessibility Audit
Equidox: How to Evaluate Your Organization’s Document Library Before a Regulator Does. - Video: M-Enabling Summit 2026
IAAP: Organized by G3ict, this is the premier cross-sector gathering for digital accessibility and inclusive technology, held October 5–7 in Arlington, VA. - Video: Ask the Professionals – Accessibility News
OZeWAI: Amanda Mace moderates the panel: Ricky Onsman (Vispero), Jack McElaney (Microassist), and David A. Kennedy (Ad Hoc) - Podcast: How Accessible is Learning Online?
Remarkable World Commentary: Donna J. Jodhan returns to a long-standing pet peeve. - Video: Bridging the AI Divide: Ensuring AI Works for Everyone
Underrepresented in Tech Podcast: From personal experiences using AI in everyday work to conversations about global accessibility. - Video: Getting Set Up to Build Your First Gutenberg Block
WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Emilio Dominguez. Accessibility was mentioned throughout the session. - Podcast: Amber Hinds on restoring faith in WordPress
WP Builds: Hard work, accessibility, and long term plugin-success. - Effective Patterns for Advanced MCP Usage
Adam Jones: Connecting to multiple servers starts the unlock. - Why I don’t use interruption pages
Adam Silver: Interruption pages are designed to pause the user within a journey – usually to warn them about a possible mistake or give them important information before they continue. - Podcast: There Is No Neutral Design
Design Notes: Megan Kasselberg, Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, Material Design. - Perception and positioning: How great design teams get wasted
Dan Craddock (LinkedIn): Good designers know that design (the verb) is more important than the design (the noun). - Folded between the pages.
Ethan Marcotte: I firmly believe “generative artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. - Make It Work vs. Make It Good
Jim Nielsen: Is it fast? Is it accessible? Is it intuitive? Does it work across multiple devices? - In defense of polyfills
Lea Verou: polyfills are how authors deliver the benefits of native APIs — performance, accessibility, i18n. - “Try quickly typing 1+2+3. I bet you won’t get 6.”
Marcin Wichary: It is oddly enthralling to see a computer fail at basic math. - Designing with web standards: The playbook for this AI moment
Patrick Neeman: Accessibility came bundled with the economics, which is how it got adopted. - Thoughtless features never add up to a thoughtful product
Pavel Samsonov: Delightful user experiences require a higher level of thinking. - Push Things That Roll
Uri Bram: some projects are like pushing a big round rock across a hilly terrain. Others are like pushing a big cube across a hilly terrain. - No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
Vitaly Friedman: they (still) want features that are fast, accessible, reliable, predictable and useful. - Video: Grid Lanes – The Future of Masonry Layout
Winging It: Join us for a deep dive into the workings of Grid Lanes.
Weekly Reading List July 20 2026
