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- Digital Accessibility Audit Checklist
Vispero: a step-by-step guide. - Download the September Update of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026
Vispero: new functionality and enhancements that increase efficiency and productivity. - Enhancements in JAWS 2026.2609.84 (September 2026)
Vispero: improvements made between the August 2026 release and the September 2026 update. - Podcast: September 2026
Vispero Connect: Exciting company news, global survey on braille, and a bit on math and student life, with Oleg Shevkun. - Video: Keyboard Accessibility
Vispero Accessibility Moment: Brian Elton walks through the key principles of keyboard accessibility. - Employee Spotlight – Brian Elton
Shelly Klure (Vispero): This month we are spotlighting Brian Elton, Practice Manager for Training. - Upcoming Webinar: Beyond the Basics
Vispero: Navigate, Review, and Present More Effectively in PowerPoint Using JAWS. Oct 15, 2026 12pm ET. - UN General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on access to assistive technology
ATscale: “Access to Assistive Technology” (PDF) marks a significant milestone in the global effort for inclusion, access and opportunity for all. - Consortium Members elect Board of Directors
W3C: seven people have been elected to the World Wide Web Consortium Board of Directors. - Gaadys 2026 winners
GAAD Foundation: whose impactful contributions continue to advance digital accessibility. - W3C Newsletter – September 2026
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux: includes updates on accessibility. - Mobile app accessibility under EN 301 549 v4.1.1
Abra: updates Clauses 9, 10 and 11 to align with WCAG 2.2 and incorporates concepts and interpretations from WCAG2ICT. - Beyond Success Criteria
Abra: interoperability, accessibility features and user preferences in EN 301 549 v4.1.1. - Ten Years of the Marrakesh Treaty
Accessible Books Consortium: removed legal barriers to the production and cross-border exchange of books in accessible formats. - EN 301 549 V4.1.1 Explained: WCAG 2.2 & Compliance
Adam Fenwick: what’s new and what does it mean for you? - We need to change the way we talk about digital accessibility
Crosby Burns (Route Fifty): Accessibility should be more than about whether systems meet standards. - UK Accessibility Law and Website Accessibility Compliance
David Gevorkian (Be Accessible): UK website accessibility law works through two main pieces of legislation, and they apply to different organisations in different ways. - Sorry for this – but please avoid lists in content of mobile apps
Bogdan Cerovac: if we try to make a list in the content of a mobile app we may introduce a barrier to people using assistive tech. - Designing for people who are colour blind
Demelza Feltham (TetraLogical): Colour blindness can get overlooked in accessible design. - Does your colour combination actually work?
Diana Khalipina: what does colour actually look like when we use it in an interface? - Designing Accessible Keyboard Focus States With CSS
Ilknur Eren (Hackernoon): A small CSS decision can have a much bigger impact on how easily someone is able to navigate your website. - How to make your Google Forms more accessible
Maddie Reardon (Pope Tech): what choices can you make to get there? - Using
light-dark()without getting caught out
Martin Underhill: In most cases, CSS is probably the way to go. - Accessible Components: Skip Links
Michael Halpin (Recite Me): why they are useful and how they should be built. - The Menubar That Refused to Choose
Neil Osman: The easyJet implementation appears to preserve ordinaryTabnavigation while also supporting arrow-key navigation. - It’s time to retire the concept of decorative images
Nicolas Steenhout: We should consider what an image adds before deciding that a screen reader should ignore it. - Opening the can of tooltips
Patrick Brosset: I think we should provide a built-in tooltip on the web, and make it fully accessible and customizable. - Accessible Components: Accordions
Richard Albary (Recite Me): an ideal way to build expandable accordion sections for web pages and keep them accessible for all users. - Color Contrast Checker for NVDA
Carter Temm (GitHub): Most automated solutions only filter contrast issues as “suggestions”, miss things, and do not examine the focus indicator. - Front-End Checklist: Accessibility
David Dias: A checklist for developers of 93 items covering WCAG conformance, screen reader support and general accessibility issues. - What is an accessible kiosk?
Even Grounds: a working definition, the legal requirements, and a test you can run this afternoon. - How to test MCP Apps for accessibility, and why it matters
Harris Schneiderman (Deque): whatever approaches we can establish now will be the ones that stick. - What UX Teams Should Test Before Development Begins
Naresh Chauhan: resolve the most consequential usability assumptions before engineering effort makes them harder to revisit. - Podcast: A review of iOS 27
Access On: Jonathan Mosen hosts the podcast of the National Federation of the Blind. - RealTime AI Cam
Accessible Android: tells you what your camera is pointed at, out loud, and every part of it runs on your phone. No account, no ads, nothing to buy. - About iOS 27 Updates
Apple: includes VoiceOver, Magnifier, Accessibility Reader, and Voice Control enhancements. - Meta’s speech-only glasses and Muse AI
Blind Ambition: Meta unveiled its first glasses with no camera and no screen — just speech, sound and an AI you talk to. - PresentAble
Brian Hartgen: Accessible PowerPoint Presentation Creation for JAWS Users. - What a Screen Reader and a Stairlift Have in Common
Kessler West (Silktide): A stairlift doesn’t repair a staircase, just as a screen reader doesn’t rewrite a broken website. - When Accessibility Issues Stop Me and When I Can Work Around Them
Michael Taylor (UsableNet): sorts the screen reader barriers he runs into. - Google Enables HiLight Feature In Latest Android 17 Beta
Steven Aquino: glows colored light when delivering a message notification. - Study Finds up to 68% Drop in AI Agent Task Completion on Inaccessible Websites
AudioEye: Agents also used up to 6x more tokens on inaccessible sites. - The AI-Ready Site Is (Mostly) the Accessible Site
Jeff Adams: The same work that makes your site readable to a screen reader also makes it readable to AI. - Podcast: Is AI Deskilling Accessibility Work?
Ken Nakata (Converge) and Thomas Logan (Equal Entry): what happens to accessibility skills when AI does the first pass. - AI will kill open source
Kim Grey: No code-writing AI I’ve tried has ever output frontend code that I consider to be of acceptable quality. - The invisible gatekeepers
Robin Christopherson (AbilityNet): AI, opportunity and who gets left behind. - WordPress Accessibility Day: 2026
Joe Dolson: The first WordPress Accessibility Day was 6 years ago. The 2026 edition starts on October 7th. - WP A11y docs update September 2026
Rian Rietveld (Make WordPress Accessible): New and updated documentation, Accessibility Team Handbook migration, October plans, project roadmap. - Video: Accessible PDF without fixes
Peter Kemeny (Funka): if you have to have a PDF document and you don’t have a PDF editor. - How to Meet WCAG Color Contrast Requirements Before Exporting a PDF
Sneha Chugh: where contrast issues usually come up and how to fix them before you export the PDF. - How to Test Remediated PDFs with a Screen Reader
Tammy Albee (Equidox): A Step-by-Step Guide. - Fireside Chats
Steve Faulkner: Mat Marquis(Oct 3), Shell Little (Oct 2), Aaron Gustafson (Sep 16), Mark Miller (Sep 14). - No accessibility for old men – endless tour
Steve Faulkner: I have found a new appetite for talking about accessibility, web standards, W3C, the #a11y industry, web accessibility history, AI etc. - Video: Ten Years of Accessibility in the News with Jack McElaney
AXSChat: Neil Milliken, Debra Ruh and Antonio Vieira Santos ask Jack how he finds his stories. - Consumer Duty update
Annie Mannion (AbilityNet): 4 key themes for financial services. - The bingo card of awful accessibility comms
Christiane Link: Some phrases make me wince every time they land in my inbox or when I hear them while travelling. - Breakthroughs and Barriers in the Deaf Community
Easterseals Crossroads: it’s important to note how far the deaf community has come and how much further it can go. - A Story About Being Both Too Disabled and Not Disabled Enough
Kelly Mack: It’s impossible to square. It’s an unsolvable equation. - Video: Improving Financial and Physical Independence
Maxwell Ivey: My conversation with Jarrett Gist, financial advisor. - Podcast: Left Out or Left Behind?
Remarkable World Commentary: Donna J. Jodhan on online forms that are not accessible to persons with disabilities. - Use and Misuse
Sheri Byrne-Haber: How Abuse of Disability Accommodations Comes Back to Hurt Disabled People. - Video: Exclusion by Design – Michele A. Williams
Accessibility Talks: calls for a “disability mindset” centering disabled perspectives in products, teams, and research - #Corpowid and #Skynet Technologies Will Get You Sued
Adrian Roselli: They have not followed any advice I’ve offered over the years, other than temper their claims ever so slightly. - Podcast: What’s New in Accessibility
Chax Chat: Chad and Dax break down the advances that are actually worth knowing about. - Survey on Producing and Reading Accessible Mathematics Content 2026
DAISY: provide valuable insights that will enable informed decisions about projects including MathCAT. - Website Accessibility for Auditory Disabilities
David Gevorkian (Be Accessible): giving everything communicated through sound a text or visual alternative. - How One Meetup Mistake Led to Better Inclusive Design
Dennis Deacon: The very fix meant to remove one barrier had quietly built another. - GitHub repository landing pages now show an accessibility tab, if provided
Eric Bailey (GitHub): My last official contribution to GitHub was something I’ve wanted for a long time. - The 3 Habits of Accessible Customer Support Teams
Kessler West (Silktide): What separates accessible support teams from those that only claim to be accessible? - A Trump team wants to automate U.S. Web Design System accessibility testing. Experts are worried.
Madison Alder (FEDSCOOP): GitHub community and accessibility experts are concerned about a reversal of progress. - A design system is what it does
Matt Henry: The US Web Design System is about to get a radical overhaul. I’m not going to go super deep on accessibility here, but … - Windows screen comfort survey 2026
Microsoft: Help make Windows screens more comfortable to see and use for everyone. - Growth Through Better Communication
Narelle Wright: This is where accessibility becomes much bigger than technology. - Tailoring Accessibility Training to Individual Roles
WebAIM: will go a long way toward ensuring the time and money invested delivers the best return.