Weekly Reading List 2 February 2026

• Webinar: From Project Ideas to Polished Writing
  Vispero: Research and Organize with Claude Using JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion. Thursday, February 5 Noon ET.
• Podcast: On reading, mentorship and Braille Advocacy
  Freedom Scientific: Olga Espinola shares her life story. Dave Williams discusses tactile Braille displays. Elizabeth Whitaker introduces upcoming training opportunities.
• 2025 World Wide Web Consortium Membership Survey
  W3C: Members of W3C gave positive feedback about the current W3C, as well as helpful suggestions for our future.
• Group Note Draft: Cryptography usage in Web Standards
  W3C: clear, practical, and standards-compliant guide for recognized cryptographic algorithms and their appropriate applications in various scenarios.
• Group Note Draft: Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements
  W3C: describes user requirements related to text-to-speech rendering of electronic documents containing ruby annotations.
• Texas and Eight Other States Renew Attack on Section 504
  DREDF: It allows people with disabilities to receive services in the community rather than in institutions.
• The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It
  New York Times: The term, long considered a slur for those with intellectual disabilities, is seeing a resurgence on social media and across the political right.
• Cognitive Accessibility Institute
  COGAI: supports cognitive accessibility as an organisational capability helping organisations evidence responsibility, governance, and readiness.
• Repeatable Form Fields Made Simple
  Aaron Gustafson: To improve the experience for screen reader users, the remove-label value is combined with the associated label/legend to create accessible names.
• Please do not use auto-scrolling content on the web and in applications
  Bogdan Cerovac: auto-scrolling content can be a real nightmare for multiple groups of users.
• Styling ::search-text and Other Highlight-y Pseudo-Elements
  Daniel Schwarz: So that covers the usability, but what about the accessibility?
• From Demand Letter to Lawsuit
  Dennis Deacon: Understanding the Digital Accessibility Escalation Path.
• How the same content always has multiple different versions
  Diana Khalipina: the same content can create clarity for one person and confusion, stress, or exclusion for another, without changing a single word.
• Stories of small businesses with big hearts
  Diana Khalipina: accessibility is not connected inclusively to big corporations.
• Digital Trust in Europe: what 2026 might hold
  Diana Khalipina: 93% of European websites still fail basic accessibility checks.
• How web accessibility supports women’s health
  Diana Khalipina: Here are some real ways accessibility helps women stay healthy and engaged online.
• A small confession about web accessibility and motherhood
  Diana Khalipina: web accessibility can be an extra piece of wood that helps to stabilize the mental state of parents.
• MacOS Accessibility with pyax
  Eitan Isaacson: A tool to inspect and test accessibility behaviors on MacOS.
• Predictions for the future of accessibility
  Eric Bailey: compliance deadlines and automated tools risk creating performative accessibility that fails users.
• How an accessibility designer adds keyboard shortcuts to a web app
  Eric Bailey: another window into the sometimes unglamorous-yet-vital tasks that being an accessibility designer demands.
• “WCAG is difficult to read, don’t read it” is a self-fulfilling prophecy
  Eric Eggert: reading WCAG, and then proceeding to understanding it, is essential despite its difficulty.
• What Is MCP, and How Can It Help Your WordPress Website?
  Eric Karkovack: They might also scan PDF files to ensure compliance, generate transcripts for your multimedia content, or add accurate ALT attributes to images as you upload them.
• Unicorns exist
  Erik Kroes: Some thoughts on the concept of the “accessibility unicorn”.
• Accessibility in visualization, full course out now!
  Frank Elavsky: In collaboration with Alberto Cairo’s Open Visualization Academy, I have released a full course on accessibility in visualization.
• CSS in 2026: The new features reshaping frontend development
  Jemima Abu: the native accessibility and semantics of a real <select> with the kind of styling flexibility we previously only got from JavaScript-powered components.
• A Decade of Building for Everyone
  Jenny Lay-Flurrie: Ten years ago, Accessibility at Microsoft started a new chapter.
• Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary
  Josh Tumath: when you increase the system text size in your iOS or Android phone’s accessibility settings, the text gets bigger everywhere except on the web.
• Being Strong Is Exhausting
  Kelly Mack: Burnout Is The Cost of Relentless Overexertion.
• Book: Accessibility for Everyone
  Laura Kalbag: Perhaps someday I will find time to write a second edition, but first I wanted to make the book free
• Accessibility Events in February 2026
  Laura Wissiak: A curated guide to the February events driving real change for people with disabilities.
• The Mistake Of CES’s Accessibility Stage
  Lucy Greco: This year’s accessibility coverage was abysmal and incredibly hard to find.
• Automated Accessibility Testing on the Web: Possibilities and Limitations
  Maria Korneeva: why a significant portion of barriers remain invisible even with the most modern automation.
• Designing and building from our own worldview
  Martin Underhill: why accessibility exists: to continually remind people who design and build that their experience of the world is not the only one.
• Between the Dots: What Designers Miss Without Braille Users
  Megan Dausch: how to create better digital experiences for the braille community.
• Fedra
  Quin Gillespie: lightweight, fast, and accessible Mastodon client for Windows, designed to be completely usable with screen readers and keyboard navigation.
• 10 Digital Accessibility Predictions for 2026
  Ricky Onsman: I could, of course, be very wrong but, anyway, here goes.
• Editable tables: choosing the right approach
  Russ Weakley: it helps to understand the three most common approaches and what each one is actually good at.
• Preventing Common Issues When Working with AI-Generated Code
  Schalke Neethling: Accessibility Testing – Use ARIA snapshots as the default.
• A Measure of Humanity
  Sharyn Morrow: This blog focuses on accessibility and disability. In the next three sections, I’ll explain how ICE operations connect to those topics.
• Why I Don’t Call Myself an Accessibility Expert
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: It’s the result of significant discomfort with the term “expert,” resulting from a lot of overthinking and concerns about saying the wrong thing.
• Designing beyond the happy path in design systems
  Stéphanie Walter: The designer’s happy path is only a fraction of the real experience.
• Apple Creator Studio’s Secret Sauce is iPadOS
  Steve Aquino: the iPad is the most accessible computer Apple has ever made.
• Do we all see the same colors?
  Tatyana Bayramova: Discovering how color blindness affects color perception and accessibility.
• Your 2026 Accessibility Game Plan
  Aaardvark: framework to help you build accessibility into how your agency works without burning out your team or blowing up your processes.
• Building Accessible Tab Interfaces
  A11y Collective: Master ARIA roles, keyboard navigation, and screen reader compatibility.
• Mobile app accessibility under EN 301 549 v4.1.0
  Abra: EN 301 549 v4.1.0 introduces a combination of conceptual clarifications and changes in both the definitions and Clause 11 that directly affect how mobile apps are assessed for accessibility.
• A Galaxy of Difference
  Accessible Android: I’ve noticed a big difference in Android accessibility.
• ta11y
  Accessible Community: An evaluation tool to help organizations around the world become more accessible.
• Why Drupal CMS 2.0 is the Innovation Engine Your Enterprise Needs
  Acquia: you can now apply Recipes for common site functionality such as SEO tools, AI, and accessibility tools.
• PDF Accessibility Index
  Allyant: This practical resource takes you through these Title II requirements, giving you the six steps to get started.
• The Calculus of Inclusion
  Assistive Technology Blog: Navigating the Intersection of AI and Accessibility in Higher Education.
• Podcast: Heather Hepburn
  AXSChat: a passionate accessibility evangelist who kick-started the accessibility programme at Skyscanner, now Head of Accessibility.
• WCAG 2.1 AA Compliance for Interactive Maps
  Concept3D: How Concept3D Is Helping Higher Education Meet New Digital Accessibility Requirements
• ADA reform and the path to a true win-win for businesses and people with disabilities
  Deque: These proposed changes deserve careful, thoughtful examination.
• Make accessibility testing up to 4x faster with Deque’s new AI-powered features
  Deque: To solve AI-created accessibility challenges, you need AI-powered accessibility solutions.
• How to design great alt text: An introduction
  Deque: On the surface, it’s a simple concept to learn and is usually straightforward to implement.
• Why Figma Annotations Are Critical for a Shift-Left Accessibility Approach
  DigitA11y: Accessibility annotations in Figma are notes, labels, and specifications added to design files to communicate accessibility requirements clearly.
• Podcast: Matt Roberts – When Accessibility Gets Personal
  Digital Accessibility Podcast: a designer, design leader, and accessibility advocate whose lived experience has profoundly shaped his approach to inclusive design.
• The government’s good scores are no fluke
  Digital Accessibility Portal: reassuring news regarding compliance with digital accessibility on public websites in Luxembourg.
• Digital accessibility gets its own observatory
  Digital Accessibility Portal: the Digital Accessibility Observatory aims to provide you with all the latest data on accessibility, updated frequently.
• Why Accessibility Checker Doesn’t Have a Toolbar
  Equalize Digital: A high quality website shouldn’t require an accessibility widget or toolbar.
• Video: How the New WordPress Accessibility Ready Testing Process Works
  Equalize Digital: shows exactly how to test a theme from start to finish.
• Video: Demystifying Screen Reader Use for Manual Testing
  Equalize Digital: Deneb and Kosi break it down for you and show you how to use the free screen reader of your choice.
• Why Accessibility Should Be Your Business’s New Year’s Resolution
  GrackleDocs: It’s a strategic business decision that opens doors to new markets.
• Podcast: Disability Inclusion, Trust, and Belonging
  IAAP: Chris Ruden, a transformational keynote speaker, change management expert, and disability inclusion advocate.
• ReadAble
  Knowbility: extension to simplify online reading by rephrasing sentences into fragments, making digital content more accessible.
• Video: Accessibility 101 + Core Concepts
  Knowbility: This includes making the case for accessibility, describing a UI component, native applications, navigation and design.
• Video: Straight Talk What Disabled Users Want You to Know When Designing Your Product
  Knowbility: User Experience Research makes a profound difference when creating products for all.
• From Plateau to Progress
  Level Access: How Proactive Planning Can Revive Accessibility.
• Revisit (Reflow?) the past to prepare for the future
  Minnesota IT: PDF accessibility is still a hot topic. Get tips to prepare for April 2026 and beyond.
• PDF Scan Results
  Pope Tech: powered by GrackleDocs PDF Testing engine which uses the PDF/UA standard for its tests.
• Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey #2
  WebAIM: results of a survey conducted in December 2025 and January 2026 to collect salary and job-related data.
• AI Can Explain Your Code. Stop Documenting the Obvious
  David Lewis: You can ask it to explain a module, trace a request, describe a component, or summarise a flow.
• On Coding Agents and the Future of Design
  Jeffrey Veen: we’re at the beginning of a new era of further crystallization, and it feels both more disruptive and more enabling than the shift to responsive design 15 years ago.
• We named them after the humans they were replacing
  Jeffrey Zeldman: “The word ‘computer’ only really slid over to mean ‘a machine’ in the late 19th and early 20th centuries”.
• Little Fish Eat Big Fish
  Leah Reich: This weekend, you may have learned that social media and relentless footage of atrocities do not, in fact, desensitize us.
• Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer
  Stefan Kaltenegger: AI coding tools like agents can be valuable allies in everyday development work.
• Introducing ReliCSS: A Tool for Front-End Archaeology
  Stuart Robson: an online tool that finds those browser hacks you no longer need.
• How to think about Gas Town
  Steve Klabnik: This isn’t a fundamentally novel idea. The novel part comes in that it’s agents doing the work, not humans.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-february-2-2026/.