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- Glen Gordon Rejoins Vispero as Software Fellow
Vispero (LinkedIn): The pioneering developer will focus on innovation across the JAWS and AT software ecosystem. - Restaurant Kiosk Accessibility
Vispero: ADA Compliance and Self-Order Requirements. - Video: Know Where You Stand: Understanding Your Digital Accessibility Position
Vispero: Webinar on demand with David Sloan, Chief Accessibility Officer at Vispero, and Stephen Cutchins, Director of Accessibility at Cvent. - September 2026 Student of the Month
Vispero: Kennedy, a fourth grader from Georgia, began learning JAWS in Kindergarten and uses it to read documents and web pages, complete schoolwork, and compose emails. - Case Study: Vintia
Vispero: Building accessible self-service with JAWS for Kiosk. - Video: Digital Accessibility and Travel
Vispero: David Sloan hosts the State of Accessibility podcast, this month with Ryan Jones, Senior Vice President of Product and Customer Experience at Vispero. - The Dunning-Kruger effect in accessibility
Craig Abbott: It’s easy to just assume we’ve got it right. [if you read just one article in this list, make it this one] - WCAG process for assigning levels
Alastair Campbell: I’m not writing this with my AGWG co-chair hat on, although I can’t really get away from that being a major part of my perspective. - Digital Networks Act needs to act on accessible communication
Andre Felix: European Disability Forum calls for provisions that guarantee video and text relay services are always available. - Fintech growth depends on accessible digital services
Annie Mannion: fintech has become a vital part of the UK’s digital and economic infrastructure. - Agentic Web Accessibility Auditing
Arjun Mishra et al: A Criterion-Specific Framework for Translating WCAG Requirements into Assessments. - Beyond EAA compliance
Bob Farrell: Accessibility becomes the benchmark for digital quality. - Sustainable accessibility: compliance, culture, and capability
Craig Abbott: Accessibility programmes often fail […] because the organisation focuses all of their efforts on compliance. - What Accessibility Improvements can we expect to see in the next Windows 11 Update?
Daniel Dunne: Every feature update brings new tools and improvements to the platform. - Achieving Accessibility at Scale Requires More Than a Point Solution
Daniel Sullivan: Why Allyant’s acquisition of Braille Works reflects a broader shift in how organizations approach accessibility. - How Much Is Too Much for a Screen Reader?
Darrell Bowles: This is not about the price of a screen reader, at least not in the monetary sense. - Toolkit: The “Profound Autism” Label Hurts Autistic People
Dean Strauss: It makes the same bad guesses about autistic people’s needs as “low functioning” autism. - 10 surprising facts about WCAG
Diana Khalipina: once you go beyond the individual Success Criteria, some of its rules are surprisingly nuanced. - Deaf people rights & digital accessibility
Diana Khalipina: don’t design accessibility for Deaf people without involving Deaf people. - AI for everyone in every language
James Manyika: Technology is only truly accessible if it works where people live. - How Your Emojis and Hashtags Can Create Noise for Your Audience
Jeff Adams: Here’s how to keep the personality and lose the friction. - Your accessibility tests stop at the page. Your users don’t.
Karl Groves: If your automated accessibility tests pass but a disabled person can’t complete a purchase, what have you actually tested? - How to Seek a Mentor
Kelly Mack: Finding People in Your Life Who Light the Way. - Where JAWS Earns Its Reputation as the Screen Reader Standard
Kessler West: JAWS still justifies its licensing cost for organizations running Windows-based enterprise software, complex legacy applications, or heavy Braille output. - 12 Accessibility KPIs Every Product Team Should Track
Kessler West: Most product teams can point to an audit, but few can point to a trend line. - #IWDeaf: Declaring Deaf People’s Human Rights
Laura Wissiak: The last week of September is the International Week of Deaf People. - How to Build Reusable Accessible Templates
Manish Nepal: a reusable document layout with accessibility requirements […] already built in. - Video: Digital Accessibility as a Right
Maxwell Ivey: My conversation with Mellissa Green, a digital accessibility advocate and host of the podcast Uniquely Abled: Disrupting Disability. - Linguistics and Digital Accessibility
Narelle Wright: Why Words Matter. - Video: Captions, Transcripts, and Audio Description: What Your Video Actually Needs
Natalie MacLees: You uploaded a video, you switched on automatic captions, and the little CC button appeared. Done, right? Not quite. - PDF Remediation Quality Control
Nina Overdorff: What Should You Check Before Publishing an Accessible PDF? - Using AI as Your Accessibility Testing Partner
Ricky Onsman: some key points on how accessibility auditors and testers can use AI. - How to Download Assets from GitHub using a screen reader
Robert Kingett: just in case someone might need a resource somewhere for screen reader users. - How to build accessible AI
Robin Christopherson: Insights from industry leaders. - Simple steps for declaring a dark mode colour scheme
Russ Weakley: how to tell the browser which schemes your site supports, and how to provide light and dark values. - Dark mode checklist
Russ Weakley: covers some of the most common things to check when reviewing a design or interface in dark mode. - Do screen readers actually read the screen?
Russ Weakley (LinkedIn): Most screen readers never look at the rendered screen. - What are form controls?
Russ Weakley: The term “form controls” is used all the time in accessibility, but there is no single, clear definition. - What is palpable content?
Russ Weakley: something with substance: text, an image, media, or a control. - Testing :focus vs :focus-visible
Russ Weakley: explains how they differ, then outlines a series of tests used to understand how they behave across different browsers and form controls. - Foldable Phones and Accessibility
Sheri Byrne-Haber: Benefits, Barriers, Weight, Care, and Cost. - What Is an Accessibility Statement and How Do You Write One?
Shashank Kapur: It helps users know what to expect before they run into trouble, not just after. - Podcast: Doug by the Fire
Steve Faulkner: Doug Schepers has been involved in web standards for longer than I can remember. - Does humour belong in Accessibility?
Steve Faulkner: I guess you can work out what I think. - Accessibility an afterthought in media coverage of software updates
Steven Aquino: nearly all of the OS 27 reviews at various publications give nary a mention to accessibility. - Before You Decide Technology Is the Problem, Talk to the People Who Rely on It
Taylor Arndt: I’m blind, and technology has been the greatest equalizer in my lifetime. - Podcast: smart glasses backlash, RIM for iOS, and more from our Vendor Showcase
Access On: Jonathan Mosen hosts the podcast of the National Federation of the Blind. - Video: 2026 Mid-Year Report, Accessibility Roles, and VPAT Transparency
The Accessibility Breakdown: Mark Miller and Justin Stockton break down three accessibility pieces that connect the dots. - Allyant Strengthens Accessible Communications Portfolio with Acquisition of Braille Works
Allyant: more than doubles Allyant’s accessible alternative format production capability, expanding expertise and capacity. - Podcast: TCS Interpreting with Jessica Aiello
Assistive Technology Update: Josh Anderson hosts the founder and CEO of TCS Interpreting and Captions. - Podcast: Nested Tags to Watch Out For
Chax Chat: Chad and Dax dig into nested tags and the places where the standard, accessibility checkers, and real-world assistive technology do not always agree. - Axe-con 2027 registration is now open
Deque: annual digital accessibility conference. - State of the European Union 2026: disability largely absent
European Disability Forum: no specific disability-related initiatives were announced. - Video: accessible content creation
Funka: Susanna Laurin and Malin Hammarberg on how content creators [have] at least a third of the responsibility for accessibility becoming a reality. - 2027 Call for Webinar Topics
IAAP: Share your knowledge. Inspire our community. Advance accessibility together. - Inclusive Design 24
ID24: free 24-hour online event for the global community is on September 24, 2026. No registration. - Research Finds Broad AI Adoption Isn’t Closing the Accessibility Gap
Level Access: Eighth Annual State of Digital Accessibility Report finds 80% use AI for accessibility, but no single use case was adopted by more than 31% of respondents. - Video: Accessible Financial Services in Practice: What User Testing Reveals
TTC Accessibility: Charlii Parker explores real-world examples from banking and financial services. - Podcast: The History of Adaptive Technology for the Blind — Part 2
Pushing Limits: Denny Daughters talks with Mike Tanner about the technology that helped transform everyday life for blind people from the 1990s into the early 2000s. - What the 2026 Disability Index tells us about the future of digital accessibility
TTC Accessibility: provides a global snapshot of how organisations are approaching disability inclusion. - Using Tables for Layout in Emails
TTC Accessibility: ensure the correct mark-up is provided in the code to make sure the table’s semantics are ignored by screen readers. - Cognitive Accessibility: What Ecommerce Teams Can Overlook
UsableNet: a category that can create friction if you leave it unnamed in your WCAG accessibility audit. - Register to Attend WPAD
WordPress Accessibility Day: Free online 24 hour conference takes place October 7-8, 2026. - Video: How to Learn WCAG
WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Cam Coulter is the Deputy ADA/504 Coordinator for Digital Accessibility at Santa Clara University. - Video: Email Accessibility in WordPress
WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Maria Maldonado discussed both automated transactional and marketing emails. - Please don’t stretch your app for foldables
Allie Paschal: What happens when the screen isn’t a fixed constraint? - Trusted front-end quality rules for humans and AI agents
David Dias: 350+ rules across launch, review, accessibility, performance, security, privacy, and SEO workflows. - Fluid Typography
Donnie D’Amato: An accessibility consideration: zoom level and viewport units can essentially cancel each other out. - CSS-Tricks could be a co-op
Eric Bailey: we should be striving to keep resources like CSS-Tricks going - Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately
Geoff Graham: I’m not angry, mad, or whatever, but I literally can’t afford to work free for months on end. - The Front-End Community is Still Alive and Beautiful
Geoff Graham: I’m still very hopeful that things will work out with CSS-Tricks. - The 100 Most Common UX Design Methods, Ranked by Value
Jakob Nielsen: Accessibility Evaluation comes in at 74, Accessibility Annotations at 78. - The invisible side of design engineering
Jakub Krehel: Things like accessibility, responsiveness and performance. - What’s stopping you from coding like this…?
Josefine Schfr: it is perfectly ok to take things a little slower. - On interfaces that let you change your mind
Karl Koch: Theinertattribute removes the panel’s contents from keyboard focus and the accessibility tree whilst it’s closed. - Video: Digital Ocean killed CSS-Tricks… again
Kevin Powell: discusses the recent developments surrounding the community-focused website CSS-Tricks. - Curated skills for design engineering
Marc Lou: collection of design engineering skills to help humans and agents create better interfaces [including several that include accessibility]. - HTML autocomplete Values Worth Using
Ronalds Vilciņš: Use a token that describes the data. - Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries
Victor Ayomipo: Despite broad browser support, container queries remain surprisingly underused and frequently misunderstood.