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- Job Vacancy: Software Developer
Vispero: remote, full-time opportunity for an early-career developer who wants to grow quickly in a fast-paced environment. 3 more jobs. - Video: Digital Accessibility in the Workplace
Vispero State of Accessibility Podcast: David Sloan sits down with Ben Knolles, Senior Assistive Technology Engineer at Vispero. - Website Accessibility Remediation
Vispero: A Step-by-Step Guide to Fixing Accessibility Issues - Digital Accessibility Testing Best Practices
Vispero: How to Structure Your Program. - What Is an Accessible PDF?
Vispero: A Guide to Accessible vs. Regular PDFs. - Access More Online with ZoomText and Fusion
Vispero: spotlight powerful features of ZoomText and Fusion that will help you be more productive in the workplace. - Upcoming Webinar: From Roadmap to Action
Vispero: Nathalie Bogatirsky, Program Lead for Digital Accessibility at East Bay MUD, joins David Sloan. November 17, 2026, 12pm ET. - Employee Spotlight – Campbell Rutherford
Vispero: This month we are spotlighting Campbell Rutherford, Associate Software Engineer. - Axe-con ’27 Call For Presenters
Deque: CFP deadline is Friday, October 30, 2026, at 5pm PT. Events takes place virtually on February 23-24, 2027. - Videos: 2026 Web Accessibility Directive Celebration
IAAP: Recordings from IAAP EU’s 6th Anniversary Web Accessibility Directive (WAD) Celebration. - W3C and the State of the Web in the AI Era
Philippe Le Hegaret (W3C): intended to foster discussion […] about how the W3C technical agenda for the web needs to evolve based on the rise of AI agents. - Video: How Federally-Protected Disability Rights are Disappearing – and How to Oppose It with Ken Nakata
Knowbility: Federal agencies are narrowing disability rights without repealing a single statute, by withdrawing the guidance, moving the deadline, or declining to enforce. - FCC Moves to Modernize Digital Accessibility Rules
Mark Miller: What the New NPRM Means for Technology, Innovation, and Compliance. - Do we need a Standard Accessibility Patterns Library for the web?
Moritz Glantz: There seems to be no such thing as an up-to-date standard library for accessible patterns. - Animation Triggers
W3C: The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Animation Triggers. - Accessibility Assistant for Figma v53
Aaron Gustafson: From Design Decisions to Handoff. - I’ve Changed My Mind About CSS Variables
Aaron Gustafson: These days, I use CSS custom properties — the feature we often call “CSS variables” — quite a lot. - The SpeechRecognition API
Chris Ferdinandi: Every transcription app I found required a pretty expensive subscription… so I decided to build my own using web technologies. - Why Orange Is an Accessibility Trap (and What to Do Instead)
Dennis Deacon: Orange isn’t forbidden. It’s demanding. - The Accessibility Compat Data project has a homepage now
Eric Bailey: and you should support the project. - The Accessibility Issue Affecting 96% of University Websites
Kessler West (Silktide): Here’s a rule of thumb for how to fix it. - Bringing accessibility support data to developer tools
Lola Odeola: Accessibility Compat Data adds accessibility support data to the tools developers already use. - Fully customise your select elements
Martin Underhill: Now we can do it properly. - Atomic Accessibility Model
Nat Tarnoff: Accessibility becomes a property of how the organization works, not a project it periodically undertakes. - What the Browser Already Does Without a Framework
Ronalds Vilciņš: Native accessibility is a head start, not a guarantee. - Built in, not bolted on
Thomas Sweet: One argument, in four parts — start anywhere, the thread runs through all of them. - Automated screen reader testing with Claude Code, VoiceOver and Gherkin
Craig Abbott: it could help you to get a good idea of whether something is broken, well before you ship it. - We spend a lot of time checking colour contrast
Diana Khalipina: but are we asking the right questions? - Silence isn’t proof of accessibility
Diana Khalipina: Research shows why we need to look beyond what users report. - Accessibility Checker built into Storyblok
Josefine Schaefer: we are already buzzing with ideas on how to build onto its capabilities. - Campus-Scale WCAG Monitoring for US Colleges Before the 2027 Title II Deadline
Kessler West (Silktide): A public college website is a cluster of sites. - Video: Conducting Accessibility Testing
Knowbility: Testing with people with disabilities first? Don’t. It’s just one of the traps Accessibility Oz’s Gian Wild unpacks. - How to Choose an Enterprise Accessibility Platform
Level Access: streamlining testing, remediation, and reporting across decentralized teams and large digital portfolios. - Testing Your App for Accessibility
Lucy Greco: I put together this hands-on testing checklist to take the guesswork out of verification. - Video: Why you keep paying to find the same accessibility bugs
Ross Mullen (CANAXESS): You could be spending your assessment budget finding the same problems again and again. - Running axe-core from the command line
Russ Weakley (Intopia): I’ve just released a new step-by-step tutorial on running axe-core from the command line. - Find Label in Name issues in every scan with Axe-core 4.14.0
Wilco Fiers (Deque): you’ll now get a result for any control whose accessible name doesn’t contain its visible label. - Assistive technology still inaccessible to many due to outdated funding models
Andre Felix: Inconsistent laws and funding schemes across the EU are still preventing people with disabilities from accessing the devices and technologies they need. - SuperNova and Dolphin ScreenReader 25.06
Dolphin: new Quick Action Recorder, USB Braille Standard (HID Braille) Support, improvements and fixes. - What’s New In TalkBack 17.1
Kareen Kiwan (Accessible Android): Here’s what the new version brings. - Website Login Accessibility
Michael Taylor (UsableNet): Where Sign-In Fails Blind Users. - Podcast: The History of Adaptive Technology for the Blind — Part 3
Pushing Limits: What did Windows XP, iOS, and Android mean for people who are blind? - The Perspective Transcribe Keyboard Is Here
Taylor Arndt: My thoughts never stop, so I built a keyboard that keeps up. - Prompt and Circumstance
Aaron Gustafson: We introduced PACE — Prompt Accessibility Controlled Evaluation — a testbed focused on HTML form components. - AI Agents Don’t Live with Disabilities. People Do
Adam Rodenbeck & Patrick Hermiller: a common assumption [is] that these agents are smart enough to handle accessibility right out of the box. - The Hidden Risk in AI-Generated Code
AudioEye: Our survey shows where trust is misplaced, and what it’s costing organizations. - Debunking AI agent accessibility claims and solving AI alignment for accessibility
Dylan Barrell (Deque): we’re really talking about the gap between what your agent said it did and what it actually did. - Can AI Fix Web Accessibility?
Junaid Masoodi: AI cannot fix web accessibility at runtime, and can help a great deal at authoring time. - Do web components have a future if nobody is writing them?
Nolan Lawson: where do web components fit into this new AI coding world? - Your next customer may be an AI agent.
Robin Christopherson (AbilityNet): Is your organisation ready? - Investigating Model Context Protocol as an Accessibility Interface
Samuel Proulx: Can MCP have accessibility benefits for humans with disabilities, beyond just enabling AI? - Before Copying Someone Else’s CLAUDE.md
Schalk Neethling: Find the Style That Works for You. - AI-generated UI is fast design, not UX
Sophie Shrimpton: problem discovery, the freedom to wander, and craft in the age of AI. - Is Drupal Site Ready for Upcoming Accessibility Deadlines?
Drupal: While Drupal core provides strong accessible foundations and defaults, a finished Drupal site is not automatically accessible. - This is Why WordPress Belongs on an AI Agent’s Website Shortlist
Remkus de Vries: You can decide how content becomes HTML: its structure, layout, styling, and accessibility behavior. - WordPress Accessibility Team Handbook on GitHub
Rian Rietveld (WP Accessibility Team): makes it easier to maintain, allows anyone to suggest changes, and provides better visibility into document history. - Video: Using Accessibility Checker Pro + Claude AI to Remediate a Large WordPress Site
WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Courtney Robertson shares a practical case study. - Tagged vs. Untagged PDFs
Equidox: How to Tell What You’re Actually Starting With. - Password-Protected PDF Accessibility
Manish Nepal (Venngage): How Security Can Break It (And How to Fix It). - Video: Building a More Accessible Future of Mobility
ablr: Mike Iannelli interviews Alan Hejl, founder and lead accessibility consultant at Spark Access. - Remembering Becky Ogle, a Tireless Champion of the ADA and Disability Rights
DREDF: a gifted organizer who rallied disabled people behind the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and spent decades defending it. - Podcast: Interview with Michael Feir, Author, Personal Power
Remarkable World Commentary: Donna J. Jodhan interviews the totally blind writer who founded Audyssey, the free email magazine about games blind people can play. - Where Are the Disabled Characters in Children’s TV?
Disability Belongs: New Research Shows Representation Has Stalled. - Disabled Students Are Fighting Just to Learn
Grace Dow: Access does not necessarily make education easier. Sometimes it simply removes a barrier that never needed to be there. - Should You Learn Windows or Mac?
Jeffrey Stark: When Preparing for Work, From a Blindness Perspective - Video: Invisible Disability Hacks
Jenni Pettican: Just because your disability is invisible doesn’y mean it should be ignored. - The Real-World Consequences of Disability Judgments
Kelly Mack: Disability judgments can and are threatening the very lives of disabled people. - “CRPD A to Z” Course from the International Disability Alliance
Laura Wissiak: This course is a primer on the core articles (Articles 3–33) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). - Traveling with Mobility Equipment
Lucy Greco: The Nightmare Continues on the Ground. - National Deaf Center Receives $24M Federal Grant
Mark Miller: to Improve Education and Career Outcomes for Deaf Students. - Disability Trauma
Narelle Wright: The Hidden Impact of Living with a Disability. - “Let’s block more streets”
Peter Torres Fremlin (Disability Debrief): We are striving to live our days as we choose. - Podcast: All the news about NFBNewsline®
Access On: Jonathan Mosen hosts the podcast of the National Federation of the Blind. - Video: Screen Reader Insights, Accessibility Bug Bounties & AI Agent Barriers
The Accessibility Breakdown Podcast: Mark Miller and Justin Stockton explore screen reader preferences, accessibility bug bounties, and the barriers created by blocking personal AI agents. - Starting in Accessibility is like the Hype Cycle
Alastair Campbell: I try to help people past the trough of disillusionment as quickly as possible. - Ecommerce accessibility
Barbara Poblocka: where your customers get stuck. - Website Accessibility for Temporary Disabilities
David Gevorkian (Be Accessible): A website has to keep working when a user is limited for hours, days, or weeks. - Website Accessibility for Dyslexia, ADHD, and Memory Differences
David Gevorkian (Be Accessible): Every page makes four demands of its visitors. - The accessibility job market is shrinking
Diana Khalipina: where are employers still looking? - Your website may be accessible on a good day
Diana Khalipina: but what about a bad one? - UK Inclusion monitoring report 2026
GOV.UK: 75% of organisations surveyed adhere to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 (AA) or higher, the highest in the past three years. - ‘The one piece of training every marketer should do’
Jonathan Hassell (The Drum): If you follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), you’ve ‘completed’ accessibility, right? - No More Icons In Every Menu By Default
Jim Nielsen: Have you heard the good news? - Video: What Should an Accessibility Overlay Actually Do?
Knowbility: Jan McSorley and Allyable’s David Adi examine common overlay claims, their real-world impact, and the role these tools can appropriately play. - Video: Digital Accessibility Ethics with Lainey Feingold, Jess Moore Matthews, and Erin Brown
Knowbility: Learn how the Framework can be applied across sectors – and how you can use it in your work too. - How to reduce cognitive load for neurodivergent users in digital services
Lucy Woodcock (AbilityNet): can slow task completion, increase errors, lead to abandoned journeys, and create poor customer experiences. - Visual Guide: Industry vs. Inferiority
Megan Anna Neff (Neurodivergent Insights): For many neurodivergent kids, early school is where the mismatch between environment and neurology first shows up. - Website Accessibility in Housing
Michael Halpin (Recite Me): Why is website accessibility important for housing providers? - Air quality, shared accessibility knowledge, and who gets a say
Nicolas Steenhout: a stuffy meeting room in Chicago has me thinking about air quality and accessibility. - Download: Digital Inclusion Guide for Charities
Recite Me: common barriers people face online and practical steps you can take to make your website more inclusive.