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- What Is a Digital Accessibility Program?
Vispero: A Guide to Building Inclusive Digital Experiences. - How to Move From a Digital Accessibility Audit to Ongoing Accessibility
Vispero: Digital accessibility is not a one-time project. - Webinar: Use AI Features in JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion to Navigate Digital Content
Vispero: Thursday, June 4 at noon ET. - Employee Spotlight – Omar Wahby’s Story
Vispero: “At Vispero, I focus on applying AI to enhance our products, including JAWS screen reading software.” - Join Us for Our June 2026 Training Events
Vispero: The Freedom Scientific training team offers ongoing opportunities for you to join us in live training sessions and advance your skills. - Upcoming: W3C/GS1 Workshop on E-commerce for Humans and AI Agents
W3C: 8-9 September 2026, in Zurich, Switzerland, with remote participation, hosted by Google. - Sens. Markey, Capito, Reps. McGarvey, Rutherford Reintroduce Legislation to Expand Access to Educational Services for Students with Communications Disabilities
Sen. Ed Markey: “Every student deserves the opportunity to learn and grow in the classroom.” - Fixing Accessibility After the Fact Is Too Late
Aaron Gustafson: At Ability Summit 2026, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on a topic that feels more urgent by the day. - How good is Browser Support for the ARIA Notify API?
Alexander Lehner: a thorough check with different screen readers on different platforms and browsers. - Designing with Mustard
Anna E. Cook: Tools don’t define design. Apparently, we need to talk about this again. Just with a different condiment. - The hidden but costliest blunder in budgeting for website and digital products
Anne-Mieke Bovelett: why the conversation about accessibility belongs in the budget meeting, not just in the developer backlog. - Equal Access Public Media to rebrand as Organization for Accessible Journalism
Beth McCowen: National nonprofit says clearer name will better communicate a focus on accessibility in journalism. - Will agentic browsing scoring actually help accessibility for people?
Bogdan Cerovac: It has the potential, but only when human understands accessibility. - Overflow bug with
.visually-hiddenclass
Chris Ferdinandi: used to hide content visually while keeping it accessible to screen readers. - Keyboard Accessibility for Better Website Navigation
David Gevorkian: Strong keyboard accessibility improves website usability for everyone. - Alzheimer’s & digital accessibility
Diana Khalipina: small design choices, real cognitive relief. - When dark mode becomes hard to read: a halation problem
Diana Khalipina: halation (also called the irradiation effect). - What a 12-month web accessibility journey actually looks like in practice
Diana Khalipina: Twelve months, 12 phases. - 5 most common web accessibility issues
Diana Khalipina: If you’re looking for a checklist to make your website accessible, there’s a better place to start. - Video: We all receive digital newsletters every day, but how accessible are they really?
Diana Khalipina: It’s a small part of digital communication, but it affects a huge number of people every day. - College grad designs new sticker reminding us accessibility is for everyone
Emily Scarlett: “How do we create a world together that includes everybody?” - NFB sues DOJ and HHS over deadline extensions
Glenda Sims: What it means for your ADA Title II and Section 504 compliance program. - Artificial Intelligence, History, and Blindness: Lessons and Musings
Jonathan Mosen (LinkedIn): If we’re not deliberate and careful, we risk fragmenting social cohesion completely. - Updated Japanese translation of WCAG 2.2
Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: overall refinement including success criterion names. - 10 Ways to Make Your Emails More Accessible
Lauren Sherrard: Almost every marketing email has accessibility problems. - Why “Click Here” Is Bad for Accessibility (And What to Use Instead)
Lauren Sherrard: considered poor accessibility practice for years, and there are several good reasons why. - Context-aware headings in HTML
Manuel Matuzović: Theheadingoffsetcontent attribute allows us to offset heading levels for descendants. - ADA Website Accessibility Class Action Settlement- Pharmavite
Mark Miller: an accessibility class action alleging their websites were not accessible to blind or visually impaired users under the ADA and similar laws. - Using the browser console for accessibility testing – Part 2
Russ Weakley: how simple console scripts can help identify accessibility features and potential issues directly in the browser. - A bookmarklet highlighting roles that must never have author-provided names
Russ Weakley: I converted one of those console scripts into a standalone bookmarklet. - A bookmarklet highlighting mismatches between the visible label and accessible name
Russ Weakley: I converted another of those console scripts into a standalone bookmarklet. - The Faces Age Verification Cannot Read
Sheri Byrne-Haber: Half of U.S. states now require online age verification, and the systems doing the verifying were not built with disabled faces in mind. - Fireside: Glenda Sims AKA the GoodWitch
Steve Faulkner: we both have worked to make digital stuff more accessible to people with disabilities over the years. - Quality assurance, accessibility and Astro: Part 3
Steve Frenzel: I’ve tackled two major topics: accessible form validation and improved screen reader support in general. - InnoCaption’s Cristina Duarte Talks the CODA life, Accessibility Advocacy, Captions in interview
Steven Aquino: I connected with Duarte earlier this week over email. - The Need for Accessible Kiosks
Taylor Arndt: Here’s the Thing — It’s Fixable. - Learn from your AI Development process
Ted Drake: Have Claude create a test strategy from your projects to save time and improve quality on your next AI development project. - Common Accessibility Challenges in PDF Documents
Vijayshree Vethantham: A single PDF may contain several problems that make it difficult for people using assistive technology to access and understand the content. - Video: Accessibility in WordPress 7.0
Accessibility Craft Podcast: what changed, what accessibility improvements made the release, and why the new admin color updates sparked so much debate. - Talk Forward
app-suite: a free Android screen reader with an iOS-inspired gesture model. - Podcast: Jasmin Ambiong and Steve Tyler
ASXChat: Ambiong is a blind Filipina disability advocate based in Wellington, NZ. Tyler is from UK pan-disability organisation Leonard Cheshire. - ADA Title II & HHS Accessibility Deadline Extensions
BarrierBreak: What the ADA Title II and HHS Accessibility Deadline Extensions Mean for Your Organization. - BarrierBreak Selected by Washington State to Deliver Accessible Document Remediation Services
BarrierBreak: Through this agreement, we will provide accessible document remediation services to a whole range of public organizations. - Legal Update: May 2026
Converge Accessibility: May was a noticeably calmer month with hardly any cases to report on. That’s not to say it’s been a slow month. - Introducing the HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial
Chrome for Developers: draw DOM content directly into a 2D canvas or a WebGL/WebGPU texture while keeping the UI interactable, accessible, and hooked up to your favorite browser features. - Another Stab at the Perfect CSS Pie Chart… Sans JavaScript
CSS Tricks: CSS should be powerful enough to let us style a pie chart. JavaScript should not be required. - Tooltips that work for everyone
Eleven Ways: Building accessible tooltips is a minefield — especially when you mix in rich content and screen reader quirks. - Multi-level navigation
Eleven Ways: the challenge of identifying parent sections for screen readers. - Accessibility Report 2026
Email Markup Consortium: The data is clear: a major reason why accessibility is failing in email is a lack of implementation. - Video: ACT rules – update on automatic and manual testing
Funka: Malin Hammarberg on Accessibility Conformance Testing rules, part of the Web Accessibility Initiative. - Video: All the questions you wanted to ask during GAAD – but didn’t get the chance
Hassell Inclusion: If you’re trying to make progress with accessibility in the reality of your organisation, we hope you’ll find the conversation useful. - Videos: AccessU 2026
Knowbility: Six videos from the AccessU 2026 conference. - Join the AR/VR User Research Panel and help make tech more accessible
Meta: Your feedback will help shape more accessible experiences for everyone. - Video: Ask The Professionals: Accessible Events
OZeWAI: Ricky Onsman moderates a panel with Jennison Asuncion, Julia Svaganovic, and Rosie Putland on making online, offline and hybrid events accessible. - Using BeeLine Reader in your Canvas Course
Pope Tech: BeeLine Reader uses color gradients to help students and faculty read more easily. - How Salesforce Is Scaling Accessibility in the Age of AI
Salesforce: introducing a suite of AI-powered accessibility skills designed to bring guidance directly into the tools where development work happens. - Google Built Antigravity for Everyone Except People Who Need It
Silktide: To show off MWG they used Antigravity, a prototype AI coding tool designed to turn natural language prompts into clean, accessible code. - LLMs Don’t Understand Text. They Do Something Way Weirder
Silktide: When AI models process your 200,000-word document, they don’t read sequentially like you do. - Self-Paced Accessibility Courses
Teach Access: New to Accessibility? Start Here. For those just beginning to explore disability and accessibility. - Designing accessible documents
TetraLogical: Making documents accessible ensures everyone can access the same content. - Video: AI Ownership & X-Ray Accessibility
The Accessibility Breakdown Podcast: Justin and Mark explore the future of accessibility with AI tools. - Video: Coast Duo Review
The Blind Life: Is This The Most Portable Low Vision Magnifier Yet? - Chain Restaurant Online Ordering
UsableNet: Where Checkout Breaks for Blind Customers. - The Accessibility Mindset
UsableNet: Building a Program That Sticks. - Canva Accessibility Review: Can It Create Accessible PDFs?
Venngage: Canva might not be the complete solution you think it is. - Real-time AI transcription for conferences, workshops, and in-person events.
VolenScribe: Built by event organizers who understand accessibility matters. - Do web components make your design system framework-agnostic?
Adam Silver: this is down to the false dichotomy between engineers. - The Intent Debt
Addy Osmani: Intent debt lives in the artifacts you never wrote – the goals, constraints and rationale that explain why the system is the way it is. - The 2–7 problem
Anton Sten: Picture a one-to-ten grade for quality. AI output never leaves the middle. It always lands somewhere between a 2 and a 7. - Conway’s Law
Donnie D’Amato: Stop trying to own the artifacts, own the infrastructure. - Write-first design
Karl Koch: write-first, build later. It runs through the whole design process, and it changes what design feels like to do. - Output isn’t design
Karri Saarinen: Design keeps being misunderstood in our industry. - Claude Code sucks at UI design
Nick Babich: It perfectly matches what people have in mind when they say “AI slop.” - Obscuring Text with
@counter-style
Preethi Sam: handy in various ways, like generating a sequence of characters to hide data or to create a word rotator. - Lowering the Barrier to CSS
@propertyAdoption
Schalke Neethling: has so many benefits that become more and more apparent once you spend some time with it. - Voice is the New UI
UX Planet: people are more and more relying on voice to describe what they want in natural language. - How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
Vitaly Friedman: We shouldn’t assume that AI knows how to choose the right component and how to design with accessibility in mind.
