- A Beginner’s Guide to Kiosk Accessibility
Vispero: What It Is and How to Get Started. - Who Owns Digital Accessibility?
Vispero: Why Shared Responsibility Requires Clear Accountability - Accessible Self-Service
Vispero: What It Is and Why It Matters - Employee Spotlight – Jenny Browne
Vispero: Account Executive supporting the retail, travel, and hospitality industries. - What Does a Digital Accessibility Specialist Do?
Vispero: The role extends well beyond identifying accessibility issues on a website. - JAWS Jumpstart
Vispero: Getting Started with Essential JAWS Navigation Shortcuts - Accessibility Is an Operations Deadline, Not an IT Project
Albert Nii Noi Okwei: Call an inaccessible portal what it is: an administrative burden with a legal deadline attached. - Don’t Use A Class For That!
Alvaro Montoro: Using attributes instead of classes isn’t just cleaner, it’s more semantic, more accessible, and more future-proof. - How do you feel about accessibility in the age of AI?
Annie Manion: AbilityNet’s sixth annual Attitudes to Digital Accessibility Survey is now live for your input. - Promises of accessibility complAIance
Bogdan Cerovac: Deliberate typo in the title, you know, with all the AI hype out there. - Accessibility Audit
Chantal Seiter: How to Make Your Digital Products EAA-Compliant. - Accessibility: Start with “why”
Craig Abbott: I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about why accessibility initiatives are so hard. - 10 surprising facts about screen readers
Diana Khalipina: 1. Screen readers don’t actually read what’s on your screen. - Research-backed typography checklist
Diana Khalipina: (beyond choosing a nice font). - Video: What’s behind the label “Top 5% accessible webpage”?
Diana Khalipina: I recorded my audit to share what I found and why I think we need to look beyond the numbers. - Accessible by Design Issue 13
Emi Hutton (LinkedIn): Customer experience begins in the boardroom long before customers open your app, enter your space, or use your service. - Here’s yet another metaphor about tech debt
Eric Bailey: The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary landfill. - Using and Styling the Dialog Element
Geoff Graham: when the modal dialog is open, the popover dialog is not in the top layer, making it inaccessible. - New in Axe MCP Server
Harris Schneiderman: More automated coverage and streamlined developer workflows. - Mapping the Revised 508/255 ICT Accessibility Standards to the WCAG 2.2
Homer Gaines: I wanted to highlight the similarities between the WCAG and the Revised 508/255 ICT Standards. - Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake
Jake Archibald: I made an accessibility error, and I want you to learn from my mistakes. - AI and Accessibility for Ecommerce
Jeff Adams: What the Tools Really Do and What they Don’t. - The Dirty Secrets of Accessibility
Jeffrey Thompson: The intent of this article is to give people with no experience in accessibility testing and compliance the confidence and principles to get started. - Introducing name and informational tool tips in WordPress 7.1
Joe Dolson: two new functions for rendering tool tips and informational help in core. - Legal Update: July 2026
Ken Nakata: July was pretty uneventful for me. There also wasn’t much happening in the courts. - A Brief History of AI in Accessibility Testing Platforms
Kessler West: Every accessibility platform vendor now touts some form of AI-powered WCAG compliance, but many of them don’t go beyond the buzzwords. - Digital Accessibility Ethics for the Legal Profession
Lainey Feingold: A Disability Inclusion in Tech Resource. - What a Furry Convention Taught Me About Event Accessibility
Laura Wissiak: Oh, I bet I have your attention now, don’t I? - Why Some PDF Checks Can Never Be Fully Automated
Marcel Ludwig: there is one crucial area that cannot be fully automated: the assessment of meaning, context, and comprehensibility. - The Hidden Costs of Non-Accessible Mass-Produced Documents
Marcel Ludwig: non-accessible mass-produced documents incur significant costs without being recognized as such. - Apple adds nearly 45 hearing devices to its Made for iPhone compatibility list
Marcus Mendes: Apple updated its official list of supported MFI hearing devices, bringing the total to 623 models across 104 brands. - Don’t Override Screen Reader Pronunciation
Matthias Zöchling: - Video: From Carnival Midways to Accessible Retreats
Maxwell Ivey: My conversation with Holly Porter, host of All Things Retreat. - Video: Authentic Accessibility & Inclusion
Maxwell Ivey: My conversation with lawyer and disability advocate Daniel Hodges. - What is a Dynamic Disability? (Digital Download)
Megan Anna Neff: one where symptoms and needs shift, and with them capacity and ability fluctuate. - The accessibility paradox
Michael Buckley: How making the web easier for humans also made it easier for machines. - Airline Website Accessibility
Michael Taylor: Comparing Flight Results while Blind. - WCAG-ODC
Mohammed Alannsary: an orthogonal defect classification framework for web accessibility defects. - The Invisible Barriers in Social Media
Narelle Wright: For many people with disability, social media is much more than entertainment. - A11y 101 – 3.3.4 Error Prevention
Nat Tarnoff: is about preventing catastrophic mistakes before they happen. - Accessibility getting dropped in the process
Nic Steenhout: When accessible designs become inaccessible products. - The Perfect Cripple: A User Guide to Being Palatable
Pluto Rennie: There is a correct way to be disabled. No one tells you outright. - One year of working on documentation about accessibility for WordPress
Rian Rietveld: The goal is for WordPress community to have consistent, easy to find, reliable, and up-to-date information about what is important. - The “Disability Dongle”: Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
Robert Kingett: There is a feel-good genre of viral video that I call “The Inspiration Porn Industrial Complex.” - Using AI tools to drive an accessible dev process
Robin Christopherson: the tools are starting to exist that could materially improve the accessibility of digital products at scale, provided we use them in the right way. - The EU AI Act has a message for accessibility teams: get involved earlier
Robin Christopherson: Human oversight only works if the right humans are involved. - WordPress 7.1 Accessibility Change May Break Some Plugins
Roger Montti: a change that improves accessibility but will cause a breaking change to the admin page for a small number of users. - HTML email accessibility tester
Russ Weakley: Paste your email HTML markup or upload an HTML email file. - AI Has Ideas About Intellectual Disabilities
Shaun Heasley: It’s Not Always Accurate. - ‘A Lone Voice In The Wilderness’
Steve Aquino: perfectly captures the essence of my entire career covering accessibility and assistive technologies. - Passing the Accessibility Torch to Sarah Margolis-Greenbaum
Ted Drake: the new Head of Accessibility at Intuit. I will be shifting to Intuit Design System and other projects. - How State, Local Governments Can Make the Accessibility Deadline
Thad Rueter: Experts say getting there will require a clear plan and strong collaboration. - Global tech firms to come under India’s mandatory disability-access rules
Vrinda Tulsian: Each firm will have to publish an Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR), free of cost, on its website or app. - Video: How to navigate headings with NVDA screen reader
Whitney Lewis: Headings are the main way screen reader users navigate a page. It’s important that they’re made with proper heading HTML elements. - Exploring 1.2.9 Audio-only (Live)
Will Slone: If your site streams live audio with no accompanying video … this criterion requires a real-time text alternative for that audio. - Talk Forward
Yannick Plassiard: a powerful screen reader that makes your Android phone and tablet fully usable by voice and touch. - Podcast: Sriram Ganesh
AXSChat: Sriram built Lumin, a voice-first AI assistant for blind and low-vision people, on the belief that designing for accessibility produces better products for everyone. - Podcast: Complex Infographics: A Tactical Approach
Chax Chat: Chad and Dax break down a practical framework for evaluating, designing, and remediating complex visual content. - How AI Is Expanding Accessibility
Consumer Technology Association: If developed inclusively, AI could become one of the most impactful accessibility tools in modern history. - Video: Lucy Collins
The Digital Accessibility Podcast: Managing Director of Web Usability and founder of CollectivA11y. - The Cadence Tactile Tablet
Easterseals Crossroads: A Bold New Use of Braille. - Video: Introducing BoardScribe
Equalize Digital: Accessible Board Meeting Minutes for WordPress. - Call for Volunteers
WordPress Accessibility Day: a nonprofit event organized and run by volunteers. We need your help to ensure the event goes smoothly. - The Difference Between a Button and a Link
Alexander Petros: makes the web simpler, safer, and more accessible for all. - Don’t Use A Class For That!
Alvaro Montoro: As with everything related to accessibility, tread carefully. - How to build a design system strategy you’ll actually deliver
Amy Hupe: if one of your priorities was to improve the accessibility of your design system, you could plan the following actions. - Unlock Immediate Diagonal Scrolling with CSS
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Bramus Van Damme: you can disable the browser’s default scroll axis-locking behavior, allowing users to immediately perform a diagonal scroll. - View Transitions: Careful Not To Make Stuff Unclickable
Chris Coyier: If you don’t deal with it specifically, it’s likely you’re blocking interactivity on the rest of the page. - Anarchy and modern convenience
Chris Ferdinandi: Socialism, anti-work, and degrowth … can provide you with even more comfort, more evenly distributed and accessible to all. - How To Make Your WordPress Website AI-Friendly
Eric Karkovack: We know that things are changing. The confusion lies in how to adjust to this brave new world. - How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
Jad Joubran: A huge amount of modal-related code exists to solve accessibility problems. - 76 Open Research Questions in AI Usability
Jakob Nielsen: Attempt complete AI sessions using only the keyboard, then run an automated accessibility checker. - Maybe the “Webmaster” Isn’t Dead After All
Jens Oliver Meiert: AI enables and leverages, but the webmaster orchestrates and takes the responsibility. - Blossom Carousel
Jesper Vos (GitHub): the first carousel library that builds on native browser scrolling instead of replacing it. Full performance and accessibility. - On turning opinions into constraints
Karl Koch: Turn opinions into constraints when you keep repeating the same feedback to a model. - Dark mode toggles: two states are enough
Lea Verou: A lot of the hate towards two-state toggles is based on poor implementations. - Limits and Methods
Mark Pesce: how can we with our limited knowledge know the difference between sublime truth and utter malarkey? - Can we make default tailwind a more accessible choice?
Nick Bevins: And I’ll be honest, I got the answer wrong the first time I thought about it. - Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi: explores a different approach to creating a new AI assistant (to text boxes). - State of CSS 2026
Patrick Brosset: Strong demand for built-in support for accessible contrasting colors. - Progressive Enhancement inside of JavaScript
Remy Sharp: doesn’t only apply to HTML being enhanced with JavaScript. It also applies within JavaScript. - Results from the 2026 State of CSS Survey
Sacha Greif: Developers report anchor positioning as their favorite new CSS feature of this past year.
Weekly Reading List August 10 2026
