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- Video: State of Accessibility – Understanding EN301549 Version 4.1
Vispero: David Sloan joins Dave Swallow for a practical conversation about the European Standard for Accessibility Requirements for ICT products and services. - Airport Kiosk Accessibility
Vispero: Requirements, Standards, and How to Comply. - Podcast: Meeting Campbell Rutherford, Backing Up JAWS Settings, And Making AI Agents Work For You
Vispero Connect: we meet Campbell Rutherford to hear about her passions for math, biology, and assistive technology. - Video: AI Agents, Accessible Kiosks, and Product Updates
Vispero Connect: In the June 2026 episode of Vispero Connect, host Oleg Shevkun covers the latest product updates. - Final draft EN 301 549 V4.1.0 (2026-06)
ETSI (PDF): The present document has been developed from EN 301 549 (V3.2.1) (03-2021) [i.30]. - Closed Captioning Display Requirements for Equipment
FCC: Today’s closed captioning requirements also enable consumers to configure the display of closed captions in ways that suit their viewing needs. - 2027 Call for Webinar Topics
IAAP: now accepting webinar proposals for our 2027 educational programming. All submissions must be received by October 15, 2026. - The 2.1.1 “specific timings” Clause
Adrian Roselli: Very few (I counted 1 out of 10) pay attention to the part [of Success Criterion 2.1.1 Keyboard] mentioning timings. - How Shadow DOM and accessibility are in conflict
Alice Boxhall: any HTML feature which creates a relationship between elements can’t work when a relationship needs to be expressed between an element within a shadow root and one outside of it. - WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou”
Anne McCarthy: WordPress 7.1 continues to improve accessibility across WordPress Core and the editor. - From paramedic to aphasia advocate
Avi Golden: based on a presentation at Accessibility New York City. - Dynamically Setting Accessibility Custom Content Pairs in SwiftUI
Bas Broek: allows you to present key-value information pairs to users they can scan at their leisure. - Accessibility is currently required to let us spend money, but still not to let us earn money
Bogdan Cerovac: Accessibility is a requirement for the web and apps we shop with, but not the systems we work in. - How ITHAKA built an on-demand PDF remediation pipeline on AWS
Dane Hillard et al: that remediates documents when users need them, serving researchers while using nonprofit resources responsibly. - 10 Simple Fixes to Instantly Improve Your Content’s Accessibility
Dave Jones: The following fixes can help content creators, designers, marketers, and web administrators remove common barriers before publishing. - ADA Title II Explained: What It Means for Website Accessibility
David Gevorkian: Title II matters for website accessibility because it moved government digital accessibility from a general, interpretive obligation into a rule. - ADA Title III Explained: What It Means for Website Accessibility
David Gevorkian: Title III matters for digital accessibility because courts have increasingly weighed whether “public accommodation” extends to a business’s website. - Website Accessibility for Users with Speech Disabilities
David Gevorkian: As more websites lean on voice search, voice assistants, and voice-activated support tools, understanding how these disabilities affect web use has become more important. - 10 surprising facts about keyboard accessibility
Diana Khalipina: that even people who build websites sometimes overlook. - Bold is not the same as
<strong>
Diana Khalipina: Visually, these can look identical, but semantically, they are not. - 7 accessibility myths that sound true, but aren’t
Diana Khalipina: Which accessibility myth have you heard repeated the most? - Your website can be 100% WCAG compliant and still be difficult to use
Diana Khalipina: There is a difference between being accessible on paper and being truly accessible in real life. - After The Cheap-Token Era
Dylan Barrell: What Digital Accessibility Teaches About Effective AI Use. - Designing digital public services that work for everyone
Elizabeth Anderson and Yatin Mahandru: examine the importance of designing UK digital public services that are accessible to everyone - America’s Special Ed Reckoning
Grace Dow: Special education complaints are soaring nationwide. Families are growing more frustrated. - AI and Accessibility
Helen Burge: Promise, Limitations, and the Importance of Human Expertise - AI Weeds Out Job Applicants With Disabilities, Lawsuit Claims
Jean Marbella: Workday, the dominant human resources platform, uses artificial intelligence tools that discriminate against older and minority applicants as well as those with disabilities. - Page Titles
Jeff Adams: The First Thing Screen Readers Read. - How to write accessible times
Josh Crawford: Small formatting choices can make reading the time confusing or inaccessible. - Where Usability Testing and Accessibility Audits Overlap
Kessler West: it’s rarely clear whether one already covers the other. - One Year of the EAA: The Netherlands Is the Benchmark
Kessler West: the Dutch consumer and markets authority published reporting rules nobody else in Europe has matched. - UW AI researcher wins top Marconi award
Kurt Schlosser: aims to put ‘superhuman hearing’ in billions of devices. - Why Accessibility Widgets Don’t Make Your Website Accessible
Lauren Sherrard: The idea sounds appealing: install one tool and make your website more accessible. - Victory in Small Claims: Holding Uber Accountable for Service Animal Discrimination
Lucy Greco: the court ruled in my favor, proving that accessibility is not an optional feature, but that it is my right and the law. - The Hidden Costs of Non-Accessible Mass-Produced Documents
Marcel Ludwig: non-accessible mass-produced documents incur significant costs without being recognized as such. - Why Some PDF Checks Can Never Be Fully Automated
Marcel Ludwig: why human judgment will remain indispensable in the future. - Hyperaudio Lite Editor
Mark Boas (GitHub): for creating, editing and correcting machine‑generated transcripts — then turning them into captions, edited media and interactive transcripts. - Steady Accessibility
Mark Steadman: brings together articles on mobile, web, and automation that I have created over the years. - Ubisoft Had the Recipe for a Fully Inclusive Game
Matt Packard: Then They Broke It! - Podcast: Turning Adversity Into Impact
Maxwell Ivey: I recently joined Henry Chiwetelu on Telling My Story for a conversation about accessibility, resilience, and how the two connect. - Be My Eyes Partners with Tracfone
Michele Paris: to Bring 24/7 Accessible Customer Support to Blind and Low Vision Users. - Access to Information: How We Use Technology
Narelle Wright: Why access to information depends on using the tools we already have, properly. - What Language Does Your Business Actually Speak
Narelle Wright: Digital accessibility starts with speaking your customer’s language. - A11y 101 – 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value
Nat Tarnoff: if your HTML is a<div>with a click handler and no label, the accessibility tree has nothing to say. To a screen reader, that<div>doesn’t exist. - The Bypass Mechanism Screen Reader Users Still Don’t Have
Neil Osman: “Screen reader user” and “blind user” aren’t the same population. - Disability, Meta glasses, datasets, and MAiD
Nic Steenhout: How do you govern a disability dataset you’re told doesn’t exist? - Deque and Microsoft
Preety Kumar: Two decades of shaping the future of accessibility - Why accessibility is one of the most important AI procurement decisions you can make
Robin Christopherson: The decisions that determine whether AI will work for disabled people are increasingly being made before the technology is bought. - Page structure bookmarklets explained
Russ Weakley: These Intopia bookmarklets help you inspect the overall structure of a page, including headings, images, lists, landmarks and language. - Table bookmarklets explained
Russ Weakley: These bookmarklets help you inspect the structure and accessibility of HTML and ARIA tables. - Understanding
readonlyandaria-readonly
Russ Weakley: Thereadonlyandaria-readonlyattributes both tell users that a value cannot be changed. However, they work in different ways. - Ways of working with AI
Russ Weakley (LinkedIn): three broad ways teams can work with AI […] from conversational use through to connected systems and multi-step workflows. - AI Roleplay is a Good Thing, Actually
Samuel Proulx: AI roleplay is an excellent way to mitigate some of the harms done by closed AI platforms. (includes accessibility notes) - Figure, video, figcaption, and accessibility
Schalk Neethling: When captions, descriptions, and a transcript are out of reach, what are the remaining options for giving a video element an accessible name? - What do prechopped vegetables and self-tying shoes have in common?
Sheri Byrne-Haber: what it costs to be a disabled consumer and who feels entitled to comment on it. - How Arkansas Scaled Digital Accessibility for 436,000 Students
Sneha Chugh: Here’s what Arkansas actually did, why it worked and how other districts can apply the same approach. - How LACCD Built an Accessibility Model Across Nine Campuses
Sneha Chugh: It developed an Accessibility Maturity Model with 89 checkpoints across four areas. - Meta Smart Glasses Empower Blind People to Participate in Corporate Surveillance
Sy Hoekstra: Christina Lawrence always dreamed of surveilling her fellow citizens for a gigantic conglomerate, but she couldn’t because she is blind. - Your alt text passes automated checks
Taarik Ashenafi and Keenan Zhou: That doesn’t mean it’s any good. - PDF Accessibility for Higher Education
Tammy Albee: Why Colleges Choose Equidox. - How I Actually Develop Apps Being Blind
Taylor Arndt: People keep asking me what my development process actually looks like, so here is what I really do. - Microsoft makes major accessibility improvement in PowerPoint
Usama Jawad: PowerPoint now makes SmartArt more accessible by automatically updating dynamic descriptions for screen readers as visuals change. - Am I Disabled Or A Robot?
Utku Demiryakan (LinkedIn): Not having ‘normal’ vision does not mean I am a robot. - Test your custom elements and trust the results
Wilco Fiers: with Axe-core’s support for ElementInternals. - Focusable element’s value correct
Abra: A slider appears set to 50%. But if the value in the code says something else, that is what the screen reader announces. - Video: Accessibility Game Theory, AI, and the politics of assistive tech
The Accessibility Breakdown Podcast: Mark Miller, Justin Stockton, and guest Pete from Onward Accessibility on who benefits when accessibility is treated as a business, technical, or political problem. - Download: ADA Title II Accessibility Compliance Checklist
Allyant: includes a practical, month-by-month roadmap and readiness checklist. - HHS Accessibility Compliance Checklist
Allyant: includes a practical, month-by-month roadmap and readiness checklist. - Discussion: Meta Glasses – Will They Actually Give Me Real Independence as a Blind Person?
AppleVis: Ramy wanted to hear from blind users who have actually tested them in the real world. - MouthPad goes public, and we introduce VOX
Augmental: public US launch of tongue-driven computer mouse, and, at the same time, releases a beta of its “invisible keyboard.” - Video: How the European Parliament Can Make Accessibility Real
AXS Chat: Katrin Langensiepen [is] the only woman with a visible disability in the European Parliament. - Choosing the right tool for accessible forms
Minnesota IT: When a fillable PDF makes sense. - Podcast: Using principles of structured discovery when learning technology
NFB: Jonathan Mosen hosts a seminar conducted by the Accessibility Excellence team. - Testing the accessibility of an iOS application
Orange: Update of the article from March 08, 2024 - What Is a VPAT?
UsableNet: Voluntary Product Accessibility Template Explained. - About the accessibility-ready program
WP Accessibility Knowledge Base: The WordPress theme directory lets you filter themes by the accessibility-ready topic, which marks themes that have been manually reviewed against a set of minimum accessibility requirements. - Video: Building Bridges to a Post-SPA Future
Alex Russell: This talk [from React Summit 2026] boils down the types of evidence and approaches that help senior leaders develop confidence in the new analysis. - The 4 Hs of HTML
Alvaro Montaro: clarity is important because semantics, maintainability, and accessibility depend on it. - Rediscovering Sublime Text
Blake Watson: I was pleasantly surprised with my return to Sublime Text. - Make Care Visible
Chris Ferdinandi: It’s important, necessary even, to make care of others as visible as possible. - AI
Chris Ferdinandi: A guide to what it is and is not. - A day in a life of the AI-assisted technical content writer
Elizabeth Tai: All stripes of writers […] can benefit from the assistance of AI, especially if they know how to use them well. - A proposal for new Netflix content rating icons
Eric Bailey: to better explicitly capture the nuance that apparently comes with the humble act of watching streaming media. - Controlling when CSS custom property values are computed
Jake Archibald: When and how CSS custom property values are calculated might not be what you expect, and it has a big impact on your styles. - My Experience Has Nuance, Yours Is a Data Point
Jim Nielsen: “I’m pressing ‘thumbs up’ here, but what I really mean is …” - “I just chose words carefully.”
Marcin Wichary: You can rewrite the text to choose only words that precisely add up to the line length to avoid any double spaces. - Rethinking Data Visualisation
Meriem Benhabiles: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisions. - Design’s Legibility Gap
Peter Merholz: I believe it to be crucial to understanding why UX/Design struggles within so many organizations. - Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing
Pierre Burgy: A third [agent] flags an accessibility regression a new component introduced, and either fixes it or leaves it for you to check. - Video: The Rise of Design Engineering
Rafael Salaja: What happens when designers can code and engineers have taste? You get a design engineer. - Understanding ChatGPT Work
Simon Willison: ChatGPT Work is actually two products.