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- Podcast: Sid Gaitonde, Brian Hartgen, and Agentic AI
Vispero Connect: host Oleg Shevkun welcomes Sid Gaitonde, Vispero’s new CEO, for an introduction to the community. - VPAT vs. ACR: What’s the Difference and Which Do You Need?
Vispero: They are closely related, but they are not the same thing. - Employee Spotlight – Sarai Bucciarelli
Vispero: This month, we are spotlighting Sarai Bucciarelli, Technical Support Specialist. - Temporary Issue Affecting Some JAWS and Fusion Features
Vispero: A recent Microsoft update is changing how accessibility support is enabled for applications that use certain Microsoft web technologies. - Members Survey 2026
W3C: to get to know our community better, investigate needs, and understand how we can improve. Available to members as well as those who are part of the larger W3C community. - The New Education Portal Is Officially Open
IAAP: The new platform provides an improved learning experience and makes it easier to access IAAP courses, educational resources, and continuing education opportunities all in one place. - What Is AI-Powered Accessibility Testing and How Does It Work?
Abhay Kapur: The real limitation of pure rule-based scanning is that it usually checks for the presence of something, not the quality of it. - Is Digital Accessibility Actually a Competitive Advantage?
Abhay Kapur: The advantage comes from how well an organization designs, tests, and maintains its digital products, not simply from having an accessibility statement. - Evaluating a Success Criterion
Adrian Roselli: it’s best to have a plan for how to interpret the uninterpretable. - La Liga’s Web Accessibility Table: How Do Clubs Actually Score?
Alvaro Montoro: Each team has a card […] providing the core results at a glance. - How accessibility gets lost between base and product design systems
Anna E. Cook: how product systems can structure documentation so that deviation doesn’t quietly become accessibility debt. - Download: AbilityNet and Mova reveal hidden human cost of inaccessible services
Annie Mannion: A new report shows that poorly designed services and a lack of choice make it hard for people with vulnerabilities to access essential support. - Video: Manage Your Email With Just Your Voice using Lumin
Carrie Morales: I sit down with Lumin’s founder to talk about what the app does and the story behind building it. - Why TalkBack keeps switching accents
Craig Abbott: It’s an issue I’ve noticed only tends to happen on short strings of text, rather than full paragraphs. - The Truth About PDF Accessibility Automation
Dan Tuleta: AI, Accuracy, and Compliance. - Deaf Awareness Month: What Digital Accessibility Requires
Dennis Deacon: does our digital content actually work for these audiences, or have we just checked a compliance box? - Why a visible focus indicator isn’t enough
Diana Khalipina: A focus indicator can be accessible and still make the interface harder to use. - Coursera and edX courses to learn web accessibility
Diana Khalipina: Looking to build your knowledge of web accessibility or strengthen your practical skills? - 10 interesting connections between web accessibility and SEO
Diana Khalipina: Which of the facts you find the most interesting? - Why don’t we use black text anymore?
Diana Khalipina: instead, we see grey colors like #333, #444, #555 and sometimes lighter versions. - Foxit PDF Editor 2026.2 — Release Notes
Dusan Baranec: New features and enhancements. - Reusability determines value
Erik Kroes: If you don’t invite people with disabilities to the table, don’t be surprised that accessibility isn’t on the table. - If you have to ask, is it accessible?
George Joeckel: As one of the researchers identifying products and tools for inclusion in the NCADEMI EdTech Accessibility Directory, VPATs have been on my mind. - Disability Isn’t a Trend
Grace Dow: the idea that it is trendy or cool to be disabled is unrealistic. - How many pages is enough in an accessibility audit?
Karl Groves: There is no especially satisfying answer to this question. - Chapel Hill’s Fizz Studio Makes Data Visualization Accessible to the Blind
Hail Zulueta: Doug Schepers has spent much of his career making the web better for people who experience it differently. - Styling Open Captions So Everyone Can Read Them
Jeff Adams: Sometimes closed captions aren’t an option. Here’s how to make the ones you burn into your video actually readable. - Podcast: More on structured discovery in tech, processing printed receipts, and touch screens on airlines
Jonathan Mosen: Access On is the weekly podcast from the National Federation of the Blind. - Podcast: Accessibility has Limits
Laura Wissiak: Discussing Disability Heterogeneity and Accessibility Measures with Dott. Mag. Arjun Pfaffstaller. - What Makes Websites Get Cited by AI? Meta-Analysis Results
Kessler West: five independently published studies, tracking which domains large language models cite, how often, and why. - The 6 Best Website Governance Software Platforms for 2027
Kessler West: starting with a side-by-side look at how they stack up on accessibility monitoring, content auditing, and multi-site rollout. - PDF Accessibility Checklist Before Publishing
Manish Nepal: covers document structure, alt text, color contrast, tables, links, forms and final accessibility testing. - PAC Engine in Enterprise Use
Marcel Ludwig: Automated PDF Accessibility Testing. - Accessibility for Small Business
Michael Harshbarger: No IT team. No legal department. No accessibility specialist. Here is how a small business owner actually starts. - A11y 101 – 4.1.3 Status Messages
Nat Tarnoff: Status messages must be programmatically determined through role or properties so they can be presented to the user by assistive technologies without receiving focus. - Video: Building an Accessible Modal Dialog From Scratch
Natalie MacLees: building a modal dialog from an empty file, testing it with a keyboard and a screen reader as we go. - People are the point
Nathania Gilson: Why cognitive accessibility needs to be part of your design system - Focus Order and Meaningful Sequence
Nicole L’Etoile (LinkedIn): visual order and navigation order are not the same thing. - Investigating the IP Relay Shutdown
Robert Kingett: IP Relay is very beneficial to people who are deaf, have a speech disability, or who are deaf blind. [It’s] becoming less available in the US. - Image Alt Text: When to Use It and When Not To
Ronalds Vilciņš: Not every image needs a written description. - Video: Why testing every website may be unnecessary
Ross Mullen: When you have dozens of websites to test, the smartest accessibility strategy may be to test less and learn more. - Focus and navigation bookmarklets explained
Russ Weakley: These bookmarklets help you inspect how keyboard focus moves through a page. Use them to review focus order and identify howtabindexhas been used. - Names and descriptions bookmarklets explained
Russ Weakley: These bookmarklets help you inspect how accessible names and descriptions have been provided. - Form bookmarklets explained
Russ Weakley: These bookmarklets help you inspect common accessibility features in forms and form controls. - States bookmarklets explained
Russ Weakley: These bookmarklets help you inspect dynamic ARIA state attributes on custom interactive widgets. - Website Accessibility: B Corp Values in Action
Ryan Wieland: B Corp Certification is built on the idea that business can be a force for good. Website accessibility fits right into this mission - Why the R-Word Is the Defining Slur of the Trump Era
Sadie Dingfelder: The resurgence of the R-word, I have come to believe, is fueled by a foundational American contradiction. - A guide to AI prompting from a blindness perspective
Samuel Proulx: assuming you’re not proofreading the AI alt text for accuracy, no alt text is better than AI generated alt text. - Accessible Color Choices Are About So Much More Than Just Contrast
Sheri Byrne-Haber: the color requirements that WCAG actually contains, followed by the color decisions that affect users and that no conformance requirement addresses. - Best Mobile Accessibility Testing Tools for Native Android and iOS Apps in 2026
Shilpi Kapoor: Some are built specifically for accessibility, some are part of Android or iOS development tools, and others can be added to the testing tools a team already uses. - Video: DAVE visits the fire
Steve Faulkner: I apologise to Dave [Letorey], as I have been slothlike in my preparing and publishing of his visit to the fireside. - Travel with your mind to the Fireside
Steve Faulkner: Episodes 1-25, Nov. 2025 – Sept. 2026, 25 conversations with 24 people. - Remembering Tim Cook’s Time at Apple
Steven Aquino: accessibility awareness and innovation has taken great strides in his time. - Video: The updated EN301549 is here
Susanna Laurin: Managing Director and Chair of the Funka Foundation talking about the new EN 301 549. - GPT-6 Astra Is Here, But I Think AI Has a Rollout Problem
Taylor Arndt: I don’t see many blind creators getting early access to these things. - Breaking Transit Barriers: England Expands 24/7 Free Bus Travel
Venkat Rao: disabled people across England will be able to travel by bus for free at any time of day. - Video: Speech Recognition Basics
Whitney Lewis: Setup and a Quick Table Demo. - Podcast: Why accessibility should be every WordPress developer’s priority
WP Builds: Nathan Wrigley with Danielle Zarcaro. - Schedule for WordPress Accessibility Day 2026 is now available
WPAD: 24 free, virtual accessibility-focused presentations in 24 hours, including a keynote by Ed Summers, Head of Accessibility at GitHub. Registration is open. - Video: Event Accessibility, ROI, and the Cost of Backsliding
The Accessibility Breakdown: Mark Miller, Justin Stockton, and Stephen Cutchins from Cvent discuss three accessibility stories that all point to the same lesson. - Video: Building Slack’s Simplified Layout Mode
Accessibility NYC: Chris Xu, Lena Wang, and Kaili Liang demo SLM and discuss its evolution from an accommodation request by an ALS advocacy group. - Video: Inclusive Arts Gallery
Accessibility Talks: gathers inclusive artists and ideas that scientific director, Enrico Bisenzi, has encountered during his thirty-year teaching career. - BlindGram
Accessible Android: an independent accessible Telegram client for blind and low-vision Android users. - Podcast: Instantly Improve InDesign Accessibility
Chax Chat: Chad and Dax walk through MadeToTag and explain why they consider it essential for creating accessible PDFs from Adobe InDesign. - Finding Freedom with a Sip and Puff
Easterseals Crossroads: The IntegraMouse AIR allows users to control their computers entirely with their mouths. - Include – Accessibility Annotations
Figma: a tool built to make annotating for accessibility easier — easier for designers to spec requirements and easier for developers to understand and implement them. - September Android Drop
Google: Guided vision, remember where you put things, ease motion sickness, and more. - 7 Digital Accessibility Roles to Fill in 2027
Onward Accessibility: ranked in order of demand by our in-house team of CPACC-certified digital accessibility recruiters. - Beauty E-Commerce Accessibility
UsableNet: Shade Matching, Virtual Try-On, More. - Why I don’t recommend Tailwind CSS
Andros Fenollosa: The only thing I ask of you is an open mind, self-criticism, and a willingness to learn. - New Things You Should Know About HTML Here in Mid 2026
Chris Coyier: elements, attributes, and HTML fun that might have slipped under your radar in recent years. - Superprimary
Donnie D’Amato: There’s been a recent trend in having the logos of companies seem to glow. - Fine, I’ll build my own text editor!
Dave Bushell: My demos […] are unoptimised and far from perfectly accessible. - Nine Design Fixes for Your UX Research Reports
Fernanda Villalobos & Jeff Sauro: Prioritizing readability ensures that your deliverable is accessible and inclusive for all. - 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. - CSS is Still Awesome
Jason Santa Maria: We’re closing in on the 30th anniversary of CSS (already a little past 30 years since Håkon Wium Lie proposed it) and it still feels like actual magic. - Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools
Jeffrey Zeldman: Why first impressions are often correct. Today’s jerk is tomorrow’s techno-fascist. - My Spanish Writings Had a South African Accent
Julia Solórzano: I shipped an accessibility feature that was broken for half my readers - Handwritten code
Katherine Yang: But what a privilege it is to read your code. - The best dark mode toggle is probably none
Lea Verou: Can we stop trying to solve the wrong problem? - Try these 10 skills — and show off your own
Miggi Cardona: you can author skills for our agent, directly in Figma [including for accessibility]. - On not becoming a cyborg
Nolan Lawson: how do we fight this horde of agents colonizing our brains? In short: stay human. - The Head of Design is not the head of design.
Renato Valdés-Olmos: Your company’s head of design is whoever ranks highest and cares most. That is almost never the person with the title. - Native HTML and CSS Features That Replaced JavaScript
Ronalds Vilciņš: I generally prefer native browser features when they solve the problem well enough. - Feeling ignored? Here’s what to do
Scott Berkun: One of the hardest situations designers face is being ignored.