- What Is a Digital Accessibility Maturity Model?
Vispero: A Guide to Building Sustainable Accessibility Programs. - Employee Spotlight
Vispero: Jenny Browne, Account Executive supporting the retail, travel, and hospitality industries. - What Is an ADA Compliance Consultant?
Vispero: A Guide for Organizations. - The Cost of Accessibility Remediation Is Only Part of the Picture
Vispero: the cost of a reactive accessibility approach extends well beyond fixing individual issues. - WCAG Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0
W3C: published as a W3C Group Note 23 July 2026. - EPUB Accessibility 1.2
W3C: Comments on the Candidate Recommendation Snapshots are welcome via GitHub issues by 19 October 2026. - GAAD Co-Founders Joe Devon and Jennison Asuncion receive AbilityNet Tech4Good Special Award 2026
Amy Low: AbilityNet CEO celebrates the lasting impact of the founders of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) and their contribution to digital accessibility worldwide. - Under my radar: the highlight API, text-indent and font-family: math
Brecht De Ruyte: screen readers can read this aloud as a structured mathematical equation, making it accessible to everyone. - A loserboard for NZ Govt automated accessibility data
Callum McMenamin: This site lets you see NZ Govt website accessibility compliance over time with pretty charts. - Digital government services increase accessibility gap
Clare McDonald: Many adults are unable to access digital government services in the UK, leading the digital divide to widen. - The Monarch as My Silent Co-Presenter
Darrell Hilliker: Braille Notes That Kept a Live Accessibility Demo on Track. - Thirty-Six Years Later: The ADA at a Crossroads
Dennis Deacon: That is worth celebrating. It is also, this year, worth defending. - What If Accessibility Is Actually A Data Strategy?
Dennis DuFour: accessibility is evolving from a technical obligation into a broader business, operational and reputational concern. - What if your summer holiday become an accessibility adventure?
Diana Khalipina: people experience the world in different ways and that the same thinking applies when we design websites, apps and digital content. - 10 surprising facts about sign languages
Diana Khalipina: and why they matter for web accessibility. - The brain doesn’t care about WCAG, it cares about cognitive effort
Diana Khalipina: Here are 5 accessibility tools that will help your brain to integrate web accessibility in your everyday life easily. - Laws don’t guarantee web accessibility, people do
Diana Khalipina: if legislation and training were enough, wouldn’t we expect most websites to be accessible by now? - A11Y.md
Felipe Arriaga Carriço (GitHub): A context system for building accessible software by default — for developers and AI, with enforceable rules aligned to WCAG. - The Invention of Normal
Fernando Estrada Franco (LinkedIn): Remembering how it was invented is not an exercise in archaeology. It is the precondition for arguing with it. - Announcing: Skeleton, the culminating project of my PhD!
Frank Elavsky: the barriers that sighted practitioners face when authoring non-visual data experiences. - Design accessibility into every Figma file with DesignLint
Gerry Neustatl: helps teams make accessibility intent visible in Figma, reduce handover guesswork, and catch issues earlier in the design workflow. - The ADA at 36: A Promise in Peril
Grace Dow: As the ADA celebrates its 36th anniversary, the stakes are incredibly high. - Should native app screen titles be headings?
Graeme Coleman: an example of the challenges involved in applying WCAG to native apps. - Ten Years of Accessibility in the News
Jack McElaney: Over the past decade, I have watched accessibility move from the margins of compliance into the center of public life. - The Certainty Principles
Kailani Knight (LinkedIn): there are universal truths and predictable elements to accessibility and inclusion that most organisations are missing. - Appreciating Disabled Oracles
Kelly Mack: How Disabled People Light the Way to a Better Future. - Why Do We Take It for Granted That Digital Tools Are Bad?
Kessler West: The most disorienting thing about bad software isn’t that it fails; it’s that it fails in ways that make us feel like the problem. - AI Chatbots Are Inaccessible, and I Can Prove It
Kessler West: A chatbot can pass every automated accessibility scan on the market and still be unusable for someone navigating it with a screen reader. - The Content That Survives Google’s AI Overview Filter
Kessler West: which content gets quoted, which gets buried, and what structural and editorial choices seem to move the needle either way. - Free Accessibility Certifications to take this Summer
Laura Wissiak: where you don’t know how legit or knowledgeable they truly are, try these first. - If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe
Marco Campos: A concrete example of why using native HTML as much as possible is better than slapping ARIA on top of things. - Intersector
Marco Salsiccia (Mastodon): an app built for #Blind and low-vision travelers who quickly want to know what intersections are around them. - Earning Attendee Trust with Accessible Events
Mark Miller: Here is what I learned from my fellow panelists. - First details of TechShare Pro 2026 announced
Mark Walker: AI and Accessibility: Risk and Reward The challenges of accessibility leadership in the age of AI. - The Grand Challenge of Transforming Instructional Design’s Misguided Approach to Accessibility
Matthew Schmidt and Noah Glaser: accessibility must no longer be treated as a peripheral concern, but embraced as a transformative principle that benefits all learners. - A major Windows 11 upgrade drops July 14
Mauro Huculak: here’s what’s new for every PC. - Five lessons from 1776 that leaders and teams need now
Meryl Evans: Strong communication, accessible processes, and inclusive decision-making help teams work better together - Airline Website Accessibility
Michael Taylor: Flight Search Fields That Fail Screen Reader Users. - Return of CSS Outline
Morgan Murrah: People who particularly rely on keyboard access and visual cues may not be able to see what is in focus without an outline. - A11y 101 – 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions
Nat Tarnoff: When content requires user input, you must provide labels or instructions. - Accessibility Was Never a One-Time Purchase
Natalie MacLees: What the European Accessibility Act’s first year taught me about the myth of “done”. - Accessibility Bugs Are Often Architecture Bugs
Niharika P Pujari: when the same accessibility problems keep appearing across different parts of a product, they are usually not just isolated bugs. - Pride, WCAG 3, and another podcast episode
Nicolas Steenhout: what happens when we accept something as normal without ever stopping to examine it? - How Keyboard Shortcuts are my Superpower
Robert Kingett: I often feel a deep, confusing pity for sighted computer users. - Three stories about AI and accessibility that every CTO will recognise
Robin Christopherson: Details have been changed, but the underlying challenges are genuine and increasingly common. - AI could make financial services more inclusive
Robin Christopherson: but only if accessibility is part of the infrastructure. - Empowering Accessibility with AI
Shek Habeebul Haq: AI and community have enabled independence and innovation for employees with visual impairments. - Practical Steps for Disability-Inclusive Recruiting
Sheri Byrne-Haber: Hiring people with disabilities shouldn’t be complicated. - Robin Berjon – Fireside
Steve Faulkner: French computer scientist and political writer, editor of the W3C HTML5 specification. - aViewer – Moderno
Steve Faulkner: A free, open source, modern Windows accessibility API inspection tool inspired by the original aViewer. - Video: Accessibility Widgets Are Not Enough for Screen-Reader Users
Tanner Kohler: Website accessibility widgets add little value in making your site accessible to users with partial or no vision. - To sit under the rain
Teodor Mladenov: What the Independent Living Movement taught me about freedom. - Making an Accessible Emotion Wheel: Why I Built Mine
Tim Dixon: That has helped me become more in touch with my emotions and the physical signals that accompany them. - Continual Engine Introduces SmartHTML for Accessible HTML Conversion
Vijayshree Vethantham: a solution that converts PDFs into structured, accessible HTML while preserving document integrity. - The Evolution of PDF Standards
Vijayshree Vethantham: Accessibility, Security, and Compliance. - Generate high-quality ACRs in VPAT format up to 90% faster
Vipul Khandelwal: Software ships faster than ever, and accessibility documentation needs to evolve as quickly as products do. - Labels for non-text content in mobile apps
Abra: Labels for non-text content matter for a broader group of users than you might realise. - How Be My Eyes Workplace Is Transforming Accessibility at Work
Be My Eyes: Two recent testimonials show how AI-powered accessibility is helping blind employees at Envision Xpress work more independently. - The Wild West of Accessible PDF Remediation
BrailleWorks: Finding an accessible PDF remediation vendor can feel a lot like navigating the Wild West. - Podcast: TOCs vs. Bookmarks: Which Serves Users Better?
Chax Chat: Chad and Dax explore one of the most overlooked accessibility features in document design: the table of contents. - New survey and report
Deque: shows volume of AI-generated code is significantly increasing “accessibility debt” risk. - Video: Kicking the Accessibility Can
Disability Weekly: Jack McElaney, who is the Publisher of “Accessibility in the News,” about how we organizations can better prioritize digital accessibility, and why it matters now. - 2026 Midyear Accessibility Lawsuits
Equidox: The DOJ Delayed Enforcement so Plaintiffs Took Action. - The C.A.R.E. framework
Fable: how to communicate accessibility impact. - Create QR Codes for Everyone
Minnesota IT: Guidance on making QR code usage inclusive and accessible. - Resize text and lessons on conformance and techniques
Minnesota IT: Simple in theory: Why resizing text for accessibility is more complex than it looks. - The next generation of the ACB Radio Tuner
Quill Radio: Free. Built the way a screen reader user would build it. - Accessibility Rant: Reader Mode
Unattributed: There are multiple reasons that Reading Mode is a necessity for many people, myself included. - Video: From “Inaccessible” to Inclusive
WordPress Accessibility Meetup: A Practical PDF Remediation Demo with Samantha Merrett. - The Era of Personal Software
Allen Hutchison: an application or a script built to solve a specific problem for a specific person. - Disappointed Optimists
Christina Wodke: But let me tell you a secret: all design is behavior change. - How to talk about “AI” without adding to the anthropomorphization
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie: In general, we recommend avoiding using artificial intelligence or AI in reference to technologies. - Does Your Form Really Need a Dropdown List?
Huei-Hsin Wang: A well-configured text input … is faster, less error-prone, and more accessible than a dropdown. - Why I built a semantic-HTML first library
Karl Koch: Overcorrecting a bad decision is still a decision worth checking. - AI is not a substitute for knowing how to run software projects
Pavel Samsonov: Despite execs’ best hopes for automating their own jobs, technology will always remain downstream of decision-making. - Visual Regression Testing: The Most Important Test You’re Not Running
Rajasegar Chandran: It takes visual screenshots of your page or components, and compares them against a baseline image to check that nothing changed. - A Concrete Definition of “Product Sense” (and How to Build It)
Tanner Kohler: predicting which product decisions will succeed based on patterns learned through experimentation — and knowing when those patterns apply.
Weekly Reading List July 27 2026
