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- Essential ZoomText and Fusion Features for the Workplace
Vispero: powerful features of ZoomText and Fusion that will help you be more productive in the workplace. - Upcoming Webinar: Beyond the Basics
Vispero: Navigate, Review, and Present More Effectively in PowerPoint Using JAWS. Oct 15, 2026 12pm ET. - October 2026 Training Events
Vispero: opportunities for you to join us in live training sessions and advance your skills. - Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility
Gartner: Report evaluating digital accessibility vendors as Leaders, Niche Players, Challengers, or Visionaries. - Updated Candidate Recommendation: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
W3C: comments are welcome via Github issues by 1 December 2026. - Focus Indicators
Level Access: WCAG Requirements and Best Practices. - Digital Accessibility
Narelle Wright: Structure, Content and WCAG Working Together. - Standards In Progress: Making Video Posters Accessible, Responsive, and an Element
Scott Jehl: This proposal is steadily moving through the WHATWG stages. - Tabbed Interface: The Web Component
Aaron Gustafson: I put together a live demo of the component so you can check it out. - Decorative Images …
Adrian Roselli: … aren’t a thing. At least not as far as people are concerned. - Definition of decorative images update
Alastair Campbell (WCAG3 WG on GitHub): Issue discussing options. - Your website has a blind spot, and it’s probably your best-looking banner
Austin Ballard (LinkedIn): The problem is that those words aren’t really words anymore. They’re pixels. - The best way to use icons in Web UIs
Lea Verou: The pseudo-element has no text, so assistive technology ignores it entirely, which is exactly what we want for an icon next to a label. - Audio Description
Jeff Adams: another practice that makes your video accessible, the one almost nobody talks about. - On the Decision Underlying Decorative Images
Jens Oliver Meiert: Images may be labeled decorative too quickly, too often. - CSS does your tooltip positioning now
Matt Smith: Screen reader users won’t experience this the way sighted users do. Don’t treat this as an accessibility feature. - 5 Good Choices for HTML Containers
Preethi Sam:<output>is the only HTML element that, by default, is an ARIA live region. - Keyboard Focus Styles With :focus-visible
Ronalds Vilciņš::focus-visiblegives the browser room to show focus when the interaction method needs it. - When CSS Layout Order Stops Matching the HTML
Ronalds Vilciņš: That difference becomes a problem when the screen suggests one sequence while the HTML provides another. - When a Control Needs aria-label
Ronalds Vilciņš:aria-labelcan give an icon button a name. It can also replace good visible text with a different name, making one control mean different things to different users. - The HTML Details That Make Forms More Accessible
Ronalds Vilciņš: controls with names, instructions that remain visible, actionable errors, and a sensible keyboard path. - The web needs interactive lists
Sarah Higley: concrete examples of UI where an interactive list role could benefit accessibility. - This Hue Shall Pass
Clearleft: an adjustable matrix of all possible colour combinations and which ones pass or fail accessibility criteria. - Why a website cannot be checked for accessibility in one second
Diana Khalipina: The problem starts when a team treats the automated result as the accessibility check. - The Top 10 Accessibility Testing Practices for Agile Sprints
Kessler West (Silktide): map each accessibility check to its place in the sprint, the role that owns it, and the tool that makes it stick. - Writing an Accessibility Report is no Sorcery
Laura Wissiak: What does a good accessibility test report need? - ContrastChecker bookmarklet explained
Russ Weakley: created by Intopia’s amazing Ani C., who has packed a ridiculous amount of functionality and accessibility features into one bookmarklet. - axe-core, Playwright and Cucumber: how they fit into accessibility testing
Russ Weakley: They do very different jobs. - Color Shift
Shiftnudge: a tool that matches an image to a WCAG AA conformant color combination. - MBraille
Accessible Android: combines fast touchscreen or keyboard braille entry with navigation, powerful editing, and file management for an efficient eyes-free workflow. - Backtalk
Github: An open-source fork of Google’s TalkBack screen reader for Android by independent developers. - Third-Party Screen Readers
Kareen Kiwan (Accessible Android): Are They a Security Risk? - Rapid visual reader
Russ Weakley: shows one word at a time. Paste in your own text, choose a reading speed and see how it feels. - Screen Reader User Survey #11 Results
WebAIM: a follow-up to 10 previous surveys conducted between January 2009 and January 2024. - Improvements to the Web for AI Should Benefit All Users
Aaron Gustafson: Writing accessible HTML should light up as much agentic functionality as possible. - AI agents promise digital independence
Diana Khalipina: but what does the research actually show? - We Need to Change How AI Considers Disability
Disability Belongs: it is built with little attention to disability, risking the entrenchment of outdated stereotypes in the systems that will define our future. - Why AI is exposing design’s craft crisis
Dolphia Arnstein (DOC): If you can’t tell the difference between […] accessible design and inaccessible design, […] these tools just let you fail faster. - Don’t Trust The Number, Understand the Number
Giacomo Petri (UsableNet): Lessons from 100 Audits. - 8 of the Best AEO Monitoring Tools, and How to Choose the Best One
Kessler West (Silktide): how do we get clean, reliable data? - AI vs. Closed Captioning
Level Access: Understanding Audio Accessibility Compliance. - The Chat Place
Kelly Ford: a home for your Claude Code chats, built from the start for the keyboard and screen readers. - AI and Accessibility
Robin Christopherson (AbilityNet): The questions every organisation is asking. - If You Block My AI Agent, You Block Me
Taylor Arndt: A couple of weeks after Muse launched, Amazon blocked it from shopping in its store. - Video: Website Redesign Phase 1: Accessibility in Figma
Accessibility Craft Podcast: Amber Hinds, Chris Hinds, and Steve Jones on the Equalize Digital redesign in WordPress. - Video: Ethical AI & Benevolent Friction
WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Deneb Pulsipher on Rethinking Alternative Text in WordPress. - 7 Common PDF Accessibility Mistakes in Section 508 Audits
Equidox: just passing a checker will not guarantee compliance. - Co-creating the IAAP mobile course
Abra: Mark Steadman of Steady Accessibility and Paul van Workum of Abra co-created a self-paced course on mobile app accessibility, free for IAAP members. - Video: Stephanie Cadieux
ASXChat: Canada’s Chief Accessibility Officer explains how Canada tracks accessibility progress. - Who’s Fit to Judge a Disability?
Kelly Mack: Hospitalizations always come with disability judgments. - “It isn’t fair that they throw us out onto the streets”
Peter Torres Fremlin (Disability Debrief): Housing vultures, feminist fightback and curated news from 30 countries. - Podcast: Smart glasses, Muse from Meta, listener feedback
Access On: Jonathan Mosen hosts the podcast of the National Federation of the Blind. - How to Make Meetings More Accessible for Blind Colleagues
Danielle Lane (Be My Eyes): Most meetings assume that everyone can listen to the speaker while keeping an eye on the screen. - State of Ecommerce Accessibility 2026
Dave Davies: 64% of 59,400 product pages tested had at least one critical accessibility issue. - A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
David Bushell: Accessibility has always been a foundation of web development but it’s never been more critical for everyone to champion it. - Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility
Deque: recognized as a Leader. - Dyslexia & Digital Accessibility: Design Beyond Compliance
Dennis Deacon: Dyslexia does not create an accessibility failure. Inaccessible digital experiences do. - 7 surprising facts about visual accessibility
Diana Khalipina: there is something important we often miss when we talk about sight loss and digital accessibility. - 5 things research reveals about mental health and web accessibility
Diana Khalipina: what happens when someone is struggling to concentrate, feeling anxious or has very little mental energy? - 5 web design features that can make usability worse despite good intentions
Diana Khalipina: Sometimes, a feature looks like a UX improvement in a design review but becomes a barrier when people actually use the website. - Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility
Level Access: recognized as a Leader. - What Sets Sustainable Accessibility Programs Apart
Level Access: governance, communication, training, workflow integration, executive support, procurement requirements, and shared culture. - Discrimination claims over an airline website and mobile app thrown out
Mark Miller: state disability discrimination claims were preempted by federal law. - We’ve Taken the Dyslexia Friendly Workplace Pledge
Michael Halpin (Recite Me): it’s a commitment that has a particularly strong connection to our story. - Event Ticket Website Accessibility
Michael Taylor (UsableNet): At the Event. - LinkedIn Now Supports Native Bold Text (Sort Of)
Moritz Glantz: A small but welcome improvement for accessibility. Now we just need that bold button. - Design Owns Coherence
Peter Merholz: What UX/Design typically owns feels like small potatoes—consistency, usability, accessibility. - My top picks for Interop 2027
Sara Soueidan: favorite features are the ones that allow us to improve both our websites’ user experience (UX and accessibility) and our developer experience (DX). - Living the Low-Contrast Life
Shelly Brisbin: Each day [for a week], I’ll tell you about my experiences with poor contrast dialogs, buttons and other interface items I encounter in my daily life. - Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility
Shilpi Kapoor (BarrirerBreak): recognized as a Niche Player. - Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility
SiteImprove (PR Newswire): recognized as a Leader.