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Vispero News

• From Word to Teams
  Vispero: Using ZoomText and Fusion Across Your Workday.

Global Industry News

• Installing Websites Must Be Easy
  W3C: Draft Finding of the TAG, 16 October 2026
• We’re on a roll – EPUB 3.4 is coming
  Wendy Reid (W3C): includes the core specification, the reading systems specification, and an update to EPUB Accessibility 1.2.

Standards & Legislation

• The ARIA Role Conformance Matrices
  Bryan Garaventa: These matrices summarize role-level requirements and common authoring considerations; they are not complete conformance checklists.
• ADA Guidelines for Color Blindness
  David Gevorkian: How to Make Your Website Accessible.
• WCAG 3.0 Is Coming
  Jeff Adams (UsableNet): Here’s Why Your WCAG 2.2 Work Still Matters Most.
• WCAG 3: a different future for accessibility
  Léonie Watson (TetraLogical): WCAG 3 is the first ground-up rebuild of the standard since it was first released in 1999.
• What Digital Accessibility Laws Apply in Each Country?
  Shashank Kapur (BarrierBreak): The right answer depends on where your users are, what you offer, and whether you are a public or private organization.
• Video: US Digital Accessibility Laws and Resources: Follow-Up Q&A
  US Access Board: Katherine Eng and Jay Wyant catch up with unanswered questions from the July webinar.

Techniques

• Sortable Tables with Progressive Enhancement
  Aaron Gustafson: What you see isn’t always what to sort.
• Accessible search in Android and iOS apps
  Abra: a checklist.
• Scroll-triggered animation as the missing piece for scrollytelling on the web
  Brecht De Ruyte: while these demo’s are fun, we do need to think of our users relying on assistive technology such as screen readers.
• Introducing the Accessible Components Library
  Craig Abbott (TetraLogical): we’ve also published our documentation, including the accessibility requirements, test scenarios, and even the working automated tests which validate each one.
• Do not confuse a big text with a heading
  Diana Khalipina: heading levels aren’t a design system, they communicate the hierarchy of information on a page.
• On what a clean interface hides
  Karl Koch: An accessible name helps someone using a screen reader; it doesn’t give a sighted reader the visible explanation we’ve removed.
• Video: Content on images
  Malin Hammarberg (Funka): a common design choice with unexpected consequences.
• Exceptions to 1.1.1: When the Alt Text Isn’t the Answer
  Nat Tarnoff: All non-text content needs a text alternative that serves an equivalent purpose. Except when it doesn’t.
• Keeping a Website Usable When JavaScript Fails
  Ronalds Vilciņš: The useful question is not whether that can happen. It is what the visitor gets when it does.
• Exploring 1.3.6 Identify Purpose
  Will Slone: asks pages to expose a component’s purpose so each user’s own tools can present it in terms they already recognize.

Testing & Auditing

• Pop-Ups Without Trapping People
  Jeff Adams: The trouble starts when a visitor can’t get into one, or worse, can’t get back out.
• Automating UX Audits with AI: What Works and What Doesn’t
  Joy Anderson (Loop11): Sites that score poorly on accessibility can have usability issues that affect all users.
• Testing Your App for Accessibility
  Lucy Greco: The Hands-On Playbook.
• Accessibility Testing with NVDA
  NV Access: This module is designed to teach you to incorporate NVDA into your accessibility testing workflow.
• Web accessibility smoke testing
  Rachele DiTullio: six quick checks for developers to complete in a web browser before submitting a PR.
• Accessibility testing with Playwright
  Russ Weakley (Intopia): Hopefully useful. Or not!

Assistive Technology

• When Technology Opens Doors, We Shouldn’t Close Them
  Anna Presser (VisAbility): For some children and students, smart glasses are not merely a gadget. They are an important accessibility tool.
• Assistive Access — iOS Easy Mode, Revisited
  Bas Broek: an accessibility feature released in iOS 17, to “distill apps and experiences to their essential features in order to lighten cognitive load.”
• Accessible Auphonic: Downloads, User Guide and Resources
  Brian Hartgen (Hartgen Consultancy): Make your recordings easier to listen to with a free Windows application designed for keyboard use with JAWS and NVDA.
• The most interesting thing about WebAIM’s new screen reader survey
  Diana Khalipina: is what users are doing to work around its failures.
• How Audio Description Narration Differs From Advertising Campaigns as a Blind Voiceover Artist
  Fern Lulham (VoiceBox): On the surface, these may look like two completely opposite things.
• Making Pinball Accessible for Everyone
  John Mohler: The Adaptive Flipper Control is about the size of a deck of cards and has two buttons.
• Video: Accessible Communication Beyond Captions
  John O’Neill and Jolene Hyppa-Martin (UMN): a Voice UX research project investigating how synthetic voices can reduce communication barriers.
• Introducing My Photo Library Described
  Kelly Ford: Your Photos, Described as You Browse, on Mac and Windows.
• Introducing Quick Describe
  Kelly Ford: Press a Key, Get a Description.
• Sony, you magnificent beast!
  Stephen (AppleVis): imagine my surprise when I find out that Sony has a screen reader on their cameras [a great thread on being a blind photographer].
• Building a JAWS-Inspired Screen Reader for macOS
  Uğur Gürbüz (AppleVis): The goal with Armoni is not to replace VoiceOver entirely, but to provide an alternative, highly optimized environment.

Artificial Intelligence

• How accessible is AI-generated code?
  Intopia: The Intopia AI Accessibility Benchmark is a repeatable way to measure how accessible AI-generated code is.
• Video: The Cost of Accessibility in AI
  Jemima Abu (CAIS): building inaccessible products is more expensive than building accessible ones — and AI coding agents make the gap wider, not narrower.
• Can AI Make a Website Accessible?
  Level Access: AI generally cannot make a website fully accessible by itself.
• AI can operate a screen reader
  Nicolas Steenhout: What does that actually test?
• Can AI replace disabled users in accessibility testing?
  Robin Christopherson (AbilityNet): Identifying accessibility barriers and living with their consequences are very different things.
• What Can Web Accessibility Do for AI Search Visibility?
  Shilpi Kapoor (BarrierBreak): Web accessibility does not guarantee that a page will appear in AI search.
• Why I’m Seeing More People Turning to Human Subtitles
  Sophie Muller (VoiceBox): I’m seeing more and more people clock on that human subtitles are much easier to work with than AI subtitles.

Content Management Systems

• An Open Letter to Matt Mullenweg on Accessibility in WordPress
  Darrell Hilliker: I am writing to you publicly as a blind daily screen reader user, an IAAP Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (CPWA), and the publisher of Blind Access Journal.
• Video: State of Drupal presentation (September 2026)
  Dries Buytaert: lowering the barrier for a much larger community of developers to build with Drupal.
• Matt Mullenweg Orders Accessibility Revert, Tells Core Committer to “Contribute Your Talents to Another Project”
  Rae Morey (The Repository): Andrea Fercia has spent more than a decade making WordPress more accessible.

PDF

• Podcast: Tags Tree Tips You Should Know
  Chax Chat: Dax Castro and Chad Chelius explain what it means to “walk the tags tree” and why this manual review remains essential to accessible PDF remediation.
• New standards available in Foxit Editor
  Dusan Baranec (Foxit): Foxit Editor 2026.2 brings AI-assisted formula accessibility via MathML.
• How to Build a Mature PDF Accessibility Workflow
  Equidox: 5 Stages to Scale Your Process.
• PDF Case Study – Public Sector
  Recite Me: How a Public Sector Organisation Tackled 500+ Inaccessible PDFs Following a Government Accessibility Audit.

People

• Video: Accessibility careers, mentoring and recruitment
  Ask The Professionals (OZeWAI): Jaunita Flessas moderates a panel featuring Rachael Bradley Montgomery, Sheri Byrne-Haber, and Amanda Mace.
• Video: Dignity Across Every Age
  ASX Chat Podcast: Ambassador Luis Gallegos chaired the UN committee that drafted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
• Podcast: The Quantum Revolution with Turing Award Winners Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard
  Hanselminutes: Scott Hanselman sits down with the recipients of the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often called the “Nobel Prize of Computing.”
• Sara Soueidan – fireside
  Steve Faulkner: Sara is a web developer, advocate from Lebanon. She helps people to better understand how to make UI accessible.

Disability

• Being Heumann – Dropped kerbs didn’t fall from the sky
  Christiane Link: There is a cultural and historical context to accessibility.
• RJ Mitte’s Legacy
  Grace Dow: and the Struggles Many People With Cerebral Palsy Carry in Silence.
• ‘Breaking Bad’ Actor With Cerebral Palsy, Disability Advocate Dead At 34
  Greg Braxton (LA Times): Mitte brought authenticity to the role and built a platform on disability awareness and inclusion.
• Can’t Run, Can’t Hide, Can’t Fight: Silver Rail Elementary, Gun Violence, and the Vulnerability of Disabled Lives
  Kathleen Downes: the targeting of a classroom for children with disabilities.
• How to Evade Disability Judgments
  Kelly Mack: How do we […] defuse the bomb of ableism before it ultimately goes off and creates serious harm?
• How Do Blind People Learn to Use a White Cane?
  Laura Wissiak: It’s time to re-share one of the articles that taught me the most about mental models.
• Labs Suck
  Liz Jackson and Rua Williams: Labs conceal the humans that compose them.
• Podcast: California’s Disability Report Card
  Pushing Limits: California ranks 47th out of all 50 states as a place to live for people with disabilities.

Miscellaneous

• Podcast: A European perspective on access tech advocacy, and iOS 27 feedback
  Access On: Jonathan Mosen hosts the podcast of the National Federation of the Blind.
• Video: Accessible Websites, Screen Reader Barriers, and Automated Testing on U.S. Web Design System
  The Accessibility Breakdown Podcast: Mark Miller, Justin Stockton, and guest Keith Casebonne examine how accessibility and artificial intelligence increasingly affect one another.
• Designing for low vision: how Radio NZ improved
  Callum McMenamin: Radio NZ’s website had a severe accessibility issue which impacted low vision users. Here’s how it improved.
• Why does big tech not run Accessibility bug bounties?
  Chris Yoong: 10 reasons why this would be great.
• A Defining Moment for Digital Accessibility
  Daniel Sullivan (Allyant): Allyant recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Accessibility.
• Digital Accessibility Release Blockers
  Dennis Deacon: How to Decide What Stops a Launch.
• Web accessibility in France and Sweden
  Diana Khalipina (A11yBlog): same principles, different ways of putting them into practice.
• Your website might not be the problem, but your ignorance definitely is
  Diana Khalipina: Many teams and CEOs still consider their choice about whether to follow web accessibility standards as a personal choice, a private matter.
• What happened with web accessibility jobs in 2026?
  Diana Khalipina: I decided to analyse what could be possible explanations.
• Video: The Barriers We Don’t See
  Gareth Slinn (COGAI): A personal account of moving through education and work in systems that did not recognise neurodivergence.
• Why Digital Accessibility? Because it is an Ethical Imperative
  Lainey Feingold: Text of 15 minute talk at M-Enabling Summit 2026.
• Building a Culture of Accessibility Leadership
  Michael Harshbarger: Here is the maturity arc, the objections you will hear, and the work it takes to get from compliance to embedded.
• Make content clear by listening first
  Nikki Fiedler (DASAT): there is a process, and it starts in a place that might surprise you: not with writing, but with listening.
• Accessibility isn’t about adding more information
  Rochelle Ratkaj Moser (Ratkaj Designs): It’s about removing what gets in the way.
• We read 102 accessibility statements written by EU online shops
  Scandiary: Plenty of shops publish an accessibility statement. Far fewer say when they last looked.
• They Keep Announcing Accessibility Wins
  Tracy Stine (humans): The gap between the press release and the lived experience is getting harder to ignore.

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• Essential ZoomText and Fusion Features for the Workplace
  Vispero: powerful features of ZoomText and Fusion that will help you be more productive in the workplace.
• Upcoming Webinar: Beyond the Basics
  Vispero: Navigate, Review, and Present More Effectively in PowerPoint Using JAWS. Oct 15, 2026 12pm ET.
• October 2026 Training Events
  Vispero: opportunities for you to join us in live training sessions and advance your skills.

Global Industry News

• Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility
  Gartner: Report evaluating digital accessibility vendors as Leaders, Niche Players, Challengers, or Visionaries.
• Updated Candidate Recommendation: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
  W3C: comments are welcome via Github issues by 1 December 2026.

Standards & Legislation

• Focus Indicators
  Level Access: WCAG Requirements and Best Practices.
• Digital Accessibility
  Narelle Wright: Structure, Content and WCAG Working Together.
• Standards In Progress: Making Video Posters Accessible, Responsive, and an Element
  Scott Jehl: This proposal is steadily moving through the WHATWG stages.

Techniques

• Tabbed Interface: The Web Component
  Aaron Gustafson: I put together a live demo of the component so you can check it out.
• Decorative Images …
  Adrian Roselli: … aren’t a thing. At least not as far as people are concerned.
• Definition of decorative images update
  Alastair Campbell (WCAG3 WG on GitHub): Issue discussing options.
• Your website has a blind spot, and it’s probably your best-looking banner
  Austin Ballard (LinkedIn): The problem is that those words aren’t really words anymore. They’re pixels.
• The best way to use icons in Web UIs
  Lea Verou: The pseudo-element has no text, so assistive technology ignores it entirely, which is exactly what we want for an icon next to a label.
• Audio Description
  Jeff Adams: another practice that makes your video accessible, the one almost nobody talks about.
• On the Decision Underlying Decorative Images
  Jens Oliver Meiert: Images may be labeled decorative too quickly, too often.
• CSS does your tooltip positioning now
  Matt Smith: Screen reader users won’t experience this the way sighted users do. Don’t treat this as an accessibility feature.
• 5 Good Choices for HTML Containers
  Preethi Sam: <output> is the only HTML element that, by default, is an ARIA live region.
• Keyboard Focus Styles With :focus-visible
  Ronalds Vilciņš: :focus-visible gives the browser room to show focus when the interaction method needs it.
• When CSS Layout Order Stops Matching the HTML
  Ronalds Vilciņš: That difference becomes a problem when the screen suggests one sequence while the HTML provides another.
• When a Control Needs aria-label
  Ronalds Vilciņš: aria-label can give an icon button a name. It can also replace good visible text with a different name, making one control mean different things to different users.
• The HTML Details That Make Forms More Accessible
  Ronalds Vilciņš: controls with names, instructions that remain visible, actionable errors, and a sensible keyboard path.
• The web needs interactive lists
  Sarah Higley: concrete examples of UI where an interactive list role could benefit accessibility.

Testing & Auditing

• This Hue Shall Pass
  Clearleft: an adjustable matrix of all possible colour combinations and which ones pass or fail accessibility criteria.
• Why a website cannot be checked for accessibility in one second
  Diana Khalipina: The problem starts when a team treats the automated result as the accessibility check.
• The Top 10 Accessibility Testing Practices for Agile Sprints
  Kessler West (Silktide): map each accessibility check to its place in the sprint, the role that owns it, and the tool that makes it stick.
• Writing an Accessibility Report is no Sorcery
  Laura Wissiak: What does a good accessibility test report need?
• ContrastChecker bookmarklet explained
  Russ Weakley: created by Intopia’s amazing Ani C., who has packed a ridiculous amount of functionality and accessibility features into one bookmarklet.
• axe-core, Playwright and Cucumber: how they fit into accessibility testing
  Russ Weakley: They do very different jobs.
• Color Shift
  Shiftnudge: a tool that matches an image to a WCAG AA conformant color combination.

Assistive Technology

• MBraille
  Accessible Android: combines fast touchscreen or keyboard braille entry with navigation, powerful editing, and file management for an efficient eyes-free workflow.
• Backtalk
  Github: An open-source fork of Google’s TalkBack screen reader for Android by independent developers.
• Third-Party Screen Readers
  Kareen Kiwan (Accessible Android): Are They a Security Risk?
• Rapid visual reader
  Russ Weakley: shows one word at a time. Paste in your own text, choose a reading speed and see how it feels.
• Screen Reader User Survey #11 Results
  WebAIM: a follow-up to 10 previous surveys conducted between January 2009 and January 2024.

Artificial Intelligence

• Improvements to the Web for AI Should Benefit All Users
  Aaron Gustafson: Writing accessible HTML should light up as much agentic functionality as possible.
• AI agents promise digital independence
  Diana Khalipina: but what does the research actually show?
• We Need to Change How AI Considers Disability
  Disability Belongs: it is built with little attention to disability, risking the entrenchment of outdated stereotypes in the systems that will define our future.
• Why AI is exposing design’s craft crisis
  Dolphia Arnstein (DOC): If you can’t tell the difference between […] accessible design and inaccessible design, […] these tools just let you fail faster.
• Don’t Trust The Number, Understand the Number
  Giacomo Petri (UsableNet): Lessons from 100 Audits.
• 8 of the Best AEO Monitoring Tools, and How to Choose the Best One
  Kessler West (Silktide): how do we get clean, reliable data?
• AI vs. Closed Captioning
  Level Access: Understanding Audio Accessibility Compliance.
• The Chat Place
  Kelly Ford: a home for your Claude Code chats, built from the start for the keyboard and screen readers.
• AI and Accessibility
  Robin Christopherson (AbilityNet): The questions every organisation is asking.
• If You Block My AI Agent, You Block Me
  Taylor Arndt: A couple of weeks after Muse launched, Amazon blocked it from shopping in its store.

Content Management Systems

• Video: Website Redesign Phase 1: Accessibility in Figma
  Accessibility Craft Podcast: Amber Hinds, Chris Hinds, and Steve Jones on the Equalize Digital redesign in WordPress.
• Video: Ethical AI & Benevolent Friction
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Deneb Pulsipher on Rethinking Alternative Text in WordPress.

PDF

• 7 Common PDF Accessibility Mistakes in Section 508 Audits
  Equidox: just passing a checker will not guarantee compliance.

Training

• Co-creating the IAAP mobile course
  Abra: Mark Steadman of Steady Accessibility and Paul van Workum of Abra co-created a self-paced course on mobile app accessibility, free for IAAP members.

People

• Video: Stephanie Cadieux
  ASXChat: Canada’s Chief Accessibility Officer explains how Canada tracks accessibility progress.

Disability

• Who’s Fit to Judge a Disability?
  Kelly Mack: Hospitalizations always come with disability judgments.
• “It isn’t fair that they throw us out onto the streets”
  Peter Torres Fremlin (Disability Debrief): Housing vultures, feminist fightback and curated news from 30 countries.

Miscellaneous

• Podcast: Smart glasses, Muse from Meta, listener feedback
  Access On: Jonathan Mosen hosts the podcast of the National Federation of the Blind.
• How to Make Meetings More Accessible for Blind Colleagues
  Danielle Lane (Be My Eyes): Most meetings assume that everyone can listen to the speaker while keeping an eye on the screen.
• State of Ecommerce Accessibility 2026
  Dave Davies: 64% of 59,400 product pages tested had at least one critical accessibility issue.
• A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
  David Bushell: Accessibility has always been a foundation of web development but it’s never been more critical for everyone to champion it.
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility
  Deque: recognized as a Leader.
• Dyslexia & Digital Accessibility: Design Beyond Compliance
  Dennis Deacon: Dyslexia does not create an accessibility failure. Inaccessible digital experiences do.
• 7 surprising facts about visual accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: there is something important we often miss when we talk about sight loss and digital accessibility.
• 5 things research reveals about mental health and web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: what happens when someone is struggling to concentrate, feeling anxious or has very little mental energy?
• 5 web design features that can make usability worse despite good intentions
  Diana Khalipina: Sometimes, a feature looks like a UX improvement in a design review but becomes a barrier when people actually use the website.
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility
  Level Access: recognized as a Leader.
• What Sets Sustainable Accessibility Programs Apart
  Level Access: governance, communication, training, workflow integration, executive support, procurement requirements, and shared culture.
• Discrimination claims over an airline website and mobile app thrown out
  Mark Miller: state disability discrimination claims were preempted by federal law.
• We’ve Taken the Dyslexia Friendly Workplace Pledge
  Michael Halpin (Recite Me): it’s a commitment that has a particularly strong connection to our story.
• Event Ticket Website Accessibility
  Michael Taylor (UsableNet): At the Event.
• LinkedIn Now Supports Native Bold Text (Sort Of)
  Moritz Glantz: A small but welcome improvement for accessibility. Now we just need that bold button.
• Design Owns Coherence
  Peter Merholz: What UX/Design typically owns feels like small potatoes—consistency, usability, accessibility.
• My top picks for Interop 2027
  Sara Soueidan: favorite features are the ones that allow us to improve both our websites’ user experience (UX and accessibility) and our developer experience (DX).
• Living the Low-Contrast Life
  Shelly Brisbin: Each day [for a week], I’ll tell you about my experiences with poor contrast dialogs, buttons and other interface items I encounter in my daily life.
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility
  Shilpi Kapoor (BarrirerBreak): recognized as a Niche Player.
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility
  SiteImprove (PR Newswire): recognized as a Leader.

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Vispero News

• Digital Accessibility Audit Checklist
  Vispero: a step-by-step guide.
• Download the September Update of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026
  Vispero: new functionality and enhancements that increase efficiency and productivity.
• Enhancements in JAWS 2026.2609.84 (September 2026)
  Vispero: improvements made between the August 2026 release and the September 2026 update.
• Podcast: September 2026
  Vispero Connect: Exciting company news, global survey on braille, and a bit on math and student life, with Oleg Shevkun.
• Video: Keyboard Accessibility
  Vispero Accessibility Moment: Brian Elton walks through the key principles of keyboard accessibility.
• Employee Spotlight – Brian Elton
  Shelly Klure (Vispero): This month we are spotlighting Brian Elton, Practice Manager for Training.
• Upcoming Webinar: Beyond the Basics
  Vispero: Navigate, Review, and Present More Effectively in PowerPoint Using JAWS. Oct 15, 2026 12pm ET.

Global Industry News

• UN General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on access to assistive technology
  ATscale: “Access to Assistive Technology” (PDF) marks a significant milestone in the global effort for inclusion, access and opportunity for all.
• Consortium Members elect Board of Directors
  W3C: seven people have been elected to the World Wide Web Consortium Board of Directors.
• Gaadys 2026 winners
  GAAD Foundation: whose impactful contributions continue to advance digital accessibility.
• W3C Newsletter – September 2026
  Dominique Hazaël-Massieux: includes updates on accessibility.

Standards & Legislation

• Mobile app accessibility under EN 301 549 v4.1.1
  Abra: updates Clauses 9, 10 and 11 to align with WCAG 2.2 and incorporates concepts and interpretations from WCAG2ICT.
• Beyond Success Criteria
  Abra: interoperability, accessibility features and user preferences in EN 301 549 v4.1.1.
• Ten Years of the Marrakesh Treaty
  Accessible Books Consortium: removed legal barriers to the production and cross-border exchange of books in accessible formats.
• EN 301 549 V4.1.1 Explained: WCAG 2.2 & Compliance
  Adam Fenwick: what’s new and what does it mean for you?
• We need to change the way we talk about digital accessibility
  Crosby Burns (Route Fifty): Accessibility should be more than about whether systems meet standards.
• UK Accessibility Law and Website Accessibility Compliance
  David Gevorkian (Be Accessible): UK website accessibility law works through two main pieces of legislation, and they apply to different organisations in different ways.

Techniques

• Sorry for this – but please avoid lists in content of mobile apps
  Bogdan Cerovac: if we try to make a list in the content of a mobile app we may introduce a barrier to people using assistive tech.
• Designing for people who are colour blind
  Demelza Feltham (TetraLogical): Colour blindness can get overlooked in accessible design.
• Does your colour combination actually work?
  Diana Khalipina: what does colour actually look like when we use it in an interface?
• Designing Accessible Keyboard Focus States With CSS
  Ilknur Eren (Hackernoon): A small CSS decision can have a much bigger impact on how easily someone is able to navigate your website.
• How to make your Google Forms more accessible
  Maddie Reardon (Pope Tech): what choices can you make to get there?
• Using light-dark() without getting caught out
  Martin Underhill: In most cases, CSS is probably the way to go.
• Accessible Components: Skip Links
  Michael Halpin (Recite Me): why they are useful and how they should be built.
• The Menubar That Refused to Choose
  Neil Osman: The easyJet implementation appears to preserve ordinary Tab navigation while also supporting arrow-key navigation.
• It’s time to retire the concept of decorative images
  Nicolas Steenhout: We should consider what an image adds before deciding that a screen reader should ignore it.
• Opening the can of tooltips
  Patrick Brosset: I think we should provide a built-in tooltip on the web, and make it fully accessible and customizable.
• Accessible Components: Accordions
  Richard Albary (Recite Me): an ideal way to build expandable accordion sections for web pages and keep them accessible for all users.

Testing

• Color Contrast Checker for NVDA
  Carter Temm (GitHub): Most automated solutions only filter contrast issues as “suggestions”, miss things, and do not examine the focus indicator.
• Front-End Checklist: Accessibility
  David Dias: A checklist for developers of 93 items covering WCAG conformance, screen reader support and general accessibility issues.
• What is an accessible kiosk?
  Even Grounds: a working definition, the legal requirements, and a test you can run this afternoon.
• How to test MCP Apps for accessibility, and why it matters
  Harris Schneiderman (Deque): whatever approaches we can establish now will be the ones that stick.
• What UX Teams Should Test Before Development Begins
  Naresh Chauhan: resolve the most consequential usability assumptions before engineering effort makes them harder to revisit.

Assistive Technology

• Podcast: A review of iOS 27
  Access On: Jonathan Mosen hosts the podcast of the National Federation of the Blind.
• RealTime AI Cam
  Accessible Android: tells you what your camera is pointed at, out loud, and every part of it runs on your phone. No account, no ads, nothing to buy.
• About iOS 27 Updates
  Apple: includes VoiceOver, Magnifier, Accessibility Reader, and Voice Control enhancements.
• Meta’s speech-only glasses and Muse AI
  Blind Ambition: Meta unveiled its first glasses with no camera and no screen — just speech, sound and an AI you talk to.
• PresentAble
  Brian Hartgen: Accessible PowerPoint Presentation Creation for JAWS Users.
• What a Screen Reader and a Stairlift Have in Common
  Kessler West (Silktide): A stairlift doesn’t repair a staircase, just as a screen reader doesn’t rewrite a broken website.
• When Accessibility Issues Stop Me and When I Can Work Around Them
  Michael Taylor (UsableNet): sorts the screen reader barriers he runs into.
• Google Enables HiLight Feature In Latest Android 17 Beta
  Steven Aquino: glows colored light when delivering a message notification.

Artificial Intelligence

• Study Finds up to 68% Drop in AI Agent Task Completion on Inaccessible Websites
  AudioEye: Agents also used up to 6x more tokens on inaccessible sites.
• The AI-Ready Site Is (Mostly) the Accessible Site
  Jeff Adams: The same work that makes your site readable to a screen reader also makes it readable to AI.
• Podcast: Is AI Deskilling Accessibility Work?
  Ken Nakata (Converge) and Thomas Logan (Equal Entry): what happens to accessibility skills when AI does the first pass.
• AI will kill open source
  Kim Grey: No code-writing AI I’ve tried has ever output frontend code that I consider to be of acceptable quality.
• The invisible gatekeepers
  Robin Christopherson (AbilityNet): AI, opportunity and who gets left behind.

WordPress

• WordPress Accessibility Day: 2026
  Joe Dolson: The first WordPress Accessibility Day was 6 years ago. The 2026 edition starts on October 7th.
• WP A11y docs update September 2026
  Rian Rietveld (Make WordPress Accessible): New and updated documentation, Accessibility Team Handbook migration, October plans, project roadmap.

PDF

• Video: Accessible PDF without fixes
  Peter Kemeny (Funka): if you have to have a PDF document and you don’t have a PDF editor.
• How to Meet WCAG Color Contrast Requirements Before Exporting a PDF
  Sneha Chugh: where contrast issues usually come up and how to fix them before you export the PDF.
• How to Test Remediated PDFs with a Screen Reader
  Tammy Albee (Equidox): A Step-by-Step Guide.

People

• Fireside Chats
  Steve Faulkner: Mat Marquis(Oct 3), Shell Little (Oct 2), Aaron Gustafson (Sep 16), Mark Miller (Sep 14).
• No accessibility for old men – endless tour
  Steve Faulkner: I have found a new appetite for talking about accessibility, web standards, W3C, the #a11y industry, web accessibility history, AI etc.
• Video: Ten Years of Accessibility in the News with Jack McElaney
  AXSChat: Neil Milliken, Debra Ruh and Antonio Vieira Santos ask Jack how he finds his stories.

Disability

• Consumer Duty update
  Annie Mannion (AbilityNet): 4 key themes for financial services.
• The bingo card of awful accessibility comms
  Christiane Link: Some phrases make me wince every time they land in my inbox or when I hear them while travelling.
• Breakthroughs and Barriers in the Deaf Community
  Easterseals Crossroads: it’s important to note how far the deaf community has come and how much further it can go.
• A Story About Being Both Too Disabled and Not Disabled Enough
  Kelly Mack: It’s impossible to square. It’s an unsolvable equation.
• Video: Improving Financial and Physical Independence
  Maxwell Ivey: My conversation with Jarrett Gist, financial advisor.
• Podcast: Left Out or Left Behind?
  Remarkable World Commentary: Donna J. Jodhan on online forms that are not accessible to persons with disabilities.
• Use and Misuse
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: How Abuse of Disability Accommodations Comes Back to Hurt Disabled People.

Miscellaneous

• Video: Exclusion by Design – Michele A. Williams
  Accessibility Talks: calls for a “disability mindset” centering disabled perspectives in products, teams, and research
• #Corpowid and #Skynet Technologies Will Get You Sued
  Adrian Roselli: They have not followed any advice I’ve offered over the years, other than temper their claims ever so slightly.
• Podcast: What’s New in Accessibility
  Chax Chat: Chad and Dax break down the advances that are actually worth knowing about.
• Survey on Producing and Reading Accessible Mathematics Content 2026
  DAISY: provide valuable insights that will enable informed decisions about projects including MathCAT.
• Website Accessibility for Auditory Disabilities
  David Gevorkian (Be Accessible): giving everything communicated through sound a text or visual alternative.
• How One Meetup Mistake Led to Better Inclusive Design
  Dennis Deacon: The very fix meant to remove one barrier had quietly built another.
• GitHub repository landing pages now show an accessibility tab, if provided
  Eric Bailey (GitHub): My last official contribution to GitHub was something I’ve wanted for a long time.
• The 3 Habits of Accessible Customer Support Teams
  Kessler West (Silktide): What separates accessible support teams from those that only claim to be accessible?
• A Trump team wants to automate U.S. Web Design System accessibility testing. Experts are worried.
  Madison Alder (FEDSCOOP): GitHub community and accessibility experts are concerned about a reversal of progress.
• A design system is what it does
  Matt Henry: The US Web Design System is about to get a radical overhaul. I’m not going to go super deep on accessibility here, but …
• Windows screen comfort survey 2026
  Microsoft: Help make Windows screens more comfortable to see and use for everyone.
• Growth Through Better Communication
  Narelle Wright: This is where accessibility becomes much bigger than technology.
• Tailoring Accessibility Training to Individual Roles
  WebAIM: will go a long way toward ensuring the time and money invested delivers the best return.

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• What Is a VPAT Audit?
  Vispero: A Guide to Accessibility Conformance Testing.
• Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.2
  W3C: W3C Working Draft 22 September 2026
• Authorized Translations of WCAG 2.2 and 2.1 in French updated
  W3C: encourages authorized translations of WCAG 2.2 and other technical specifications.
• Crafting WCAG 3 for more accessible user experiences
  W3C: Shawn Lawton Henry covers some of the stakes and challenges in developing W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.
• Recap of the web & AI international standards seminar: generative UI and WebSkill
  Xueyuan Jia and Xiaoqian Wu: Topics included interoperability, performance optimization, accessibility, privacy and security.
• Organisations file complaint against Belgium for deepening digital inequality
  JP Antonucci Rezende: European Disability Forum joined a group of organisations n filing a collective complaint against Belgium.
• The couch test
  Alicia Jarvis: rethinking streaming accessibility through the customer journey.
• Foundations: the accessibility tree
  Craig Abbott: with modern screen readers, they actually read something called the accessibility tree.
• Little stories (Part 1)
  Dani Devesa Derksen-Staats: on my journey to making Xarra as accessible as possible.
• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act Explained
  David Gevorkian: prohibits disability discrimination by any organization that receives federal financial assistance.
• Section 508 Compliance and Accessibility Standards
  David Gevorkian: requires federal agencies to make their information and communication technology accessible to people with disabilities.
• 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA)
  David Gevorkian: ensure people with disabilities have equal access to modern communications technologies and video programming.
• Website Accessibility for Motor Disabilities
  David Gevorkian: the physical act of clicking, dragging, or typing becomes difficult or impossible using a standard mouse and keyboard.
• pour for Meta Quest
  David Yarham: pour, a free set of accessibility auditing tools for web pages, has released a version for Meta Quest headsets.
• 10 apps to understand better digital experiences of Deaf people
  Diana Khalipina: Trying some of the tools Deaf people actually use in real life can help us.
• Today is the International Day of Sign Languages
  Diana Khalipina: For many Deaf people sign language is their first or preferred language.
• WCAG 3.0 is changing and the changes are quite interesting
  Diana Khalipina: On September 10 W3C published a new Working Draft of WCAG 3.0.
• RGAA 5.0 is coming – how to prepare for it?
  Diana Khalipina: The Référentiel Général d’Amélioration de l’Accessibilité is a French national digital accessibility standard.
• Available ≠ accessible
  Diana Khalipina: The content or service might exist, but availability and accessibility aren’t the same thing.
• Deriving PDF to HTML, version 1.2
  Duff Johnson: substantially expanded and improved to take advantage of Well-Tagged PDF (WTPDF).
• Easily making an accessible PDF textbook
  Frank Mittelbach & Timothy Prescott: how modern LaTeX provides a viable roadmap for STEM authors to create accessible PDFs.
• For Disabled Americans, This Section 504 Ruling Is Personal
  Grace Dow: A judge in Texas ordered the DHHS to remove references to community integration from regulations implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
• Intelligent automation and the new era of guided testing
  Harris Schneiderman: Automated Intelligent Guided tests move accessibility testing to where the code is being written.
• CSS Media Features and Privacy: A Word of Caution
  Homer Gaines: “Can’t we just check to see if someone is using assistive tech?” TL;DR answer … No.
• When AI Writes Your Site Code
  Jeff Adams: I moved my website off WordPress and worked with Claude Cowork to rebuild it.
• A Perfect Accessibility Scan Score Isn’t the Goal for an E-commerce Site
  Jeff Adams: AI Makes That Easy to Forget.
• Video: What I Said When I Won a National Diversity Award
  Jenni Pettican: I’ve won an award […] at the same time the government has cut the support I get to be able to do my job.
• Missouri SB 907: What the New Web Accessibility Law Does
  Jessica Chambers: Missouri’s counter-suit law is a copy of Kansas’s 2023 act with the plaintiff protections removed.
• Google Is Rolling Out Guided Vision to Gemini Live
  Kareen Kiwan: Here’s How to Use It and My Early Impressions.
• We need more choices in automated testing
  Karl Groves: When one engine becomes dominant, its capabilities can start to define the boundaries of the practice around it.
• A Web Accessibility Textbook
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: Learning Through Concrete Examples and Solutions.
• 10 Annoying (But Effective) Tips to Get Cited by AI
  Kessler West: Why do so many AEO playbooks sound suspiciously like SEO from 20 years ago?
• Respecting your users’ preferences
  Martin Underhill: It’s important we listen to what our users tell us and design accordingly.
• UAE National Digital Accessibility Policy
  Michael Halpin: What Your Website Must Do.
• What I Wish Developers and QA Teams Understood About Screen Readers
  Michael Taylor: describes the barriers that clear an automated scan and still stop him cold.
• Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Improve Accessibility
  Narelle Wright: They could travel, explore and make decisions for themselves without constantly needing another person to step in and help.
• Coming Home
  Nat Tarnoff: Back at the desk and planning out the next few articles, as well as some ideas on where I think the industry is headed.
• A11y 101 – 3.3.8 Accessible Authentication (Minimum)
  Nat Tarnoff: Authentication is supposed to be a gateway. For too many users, it’s a gatekeeper.
• Video: Accessibility Scores Explained: What a 98% Actually Means
  Natalie MacLees: What did that number measure, and what did it skip?
• A Scanner Is Not Guidance
  Natalie MacLees: What an accessibility tool should hand your AI coding agent.
• Upcoming book, frustration and accessibility, and podcast stuff
  Nicolas Steenhout: The working title is “100 things you need to know about accessibility”. That title is likely to change.
• Healthcare happens when we aren’t at our best
  Nicolas Steenhout: organizations need to make the whole virtual healthcare process accessible.
• Video: Dolphin Computer Access Products
  Nikol Prieto: Simon Kitchen demonstrates three assistive technology solutions designed to improve accessibility and independence for people with vision impairments.
• PDF Accessibility at Scale
  Nina Overdorff: When Should You Automate?
• Dark Mode Very Much Matters To Me
  Preethi Sam: The dark mode is an accessibility feature for me.
• AI and Vulnerable customers
  Robin Christopherson: The hidden risk of helpful AI
• HTML form submission visualiser
  Russ Weakley: a simple teaching tool that shows what happens when an HTML form is submitted.
• Testing a “Back to top” pattern
  Russ Weakley: one of the simplest patterns on the web, but there are still things that can go wrong.
• Accessibility tooling: Contrast Checker
  Scott Vinkle: Contrast Checker is built around one philosophy: extreme simplicity and native desktop speed.
• What Does the EAA Deadline Mean for Non-EU Companies?
  Shashank Kapur: the EAA can apply to companies established outside the EU when they place covered products on the Union market.
• Following Up on tvOS and Text Size
  Steven Aquino: On the whole, the new software is unexciting — except for accessibility.
• Use tags to organize courses and subaccounts
  Whitney Lewis: Tags are another way to organize and filter accessibility data for courses and subaccounts.
• Podcast: Microsoft CAO, NLS Director and Deputy-director, and NFB Accessibility Excellence initiatives.
  Access On: Jonathan Mosen hosts the podcast of the National Federation of the Blind.
• Video: UX Prototypes, Overconfident Accessibility, and the Automation Trap
  The Accessibility Breakdown: Mark Miller and Justin Stockton examine three timely questions at the intersection of UX, accessibility, and AI.
• Video: WP Accessibility Day 2026 Preview
  Accessibility Craft Podcast: Ryan Bracey, Speaker Team Lead for WordPress Accessibility Day, joins Amber and Chris.
• Video: How A Neurodivergent Dating And Community App Gets Built
  AXSChat: Holly Fowler built Wable because she saw a different need: a safer, calmer place for neurodivergent people.
• Video: Minecraft Accessibility Guide
  The Blind Life: Can You Play Minecraft With Low Vision?
• W3C Australia Chapter Breakfast
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: feature Dr Jason White, visiting Chair of the W3C Research Questions Task Force.
• Podcast: Paul Braddock – Lead Designer and A11y Specialist @ ASDA
  The Digital Accessibility Podcast: What does accessible retail really look like when the customer journey stretches from smartphone to supermarket aisle?
• Survey on dyscalculia and digital services
  Funka: Do you find numbers or math difficult? If so, we hope you are willing to answer a few questions!
• Videos: Inclusive Design 24 Playlist
  ID24: didn’t catch all the talks on September 24, 2026? The entire event playlist is available on YouTube.
• Skip Links
  Level Access: What They Are, How to Build One, and How to Test It
• How to Connect Accessibility Metrics to Organizational Outcomes
  Level Access: how to connect your work to regulatory risk, cost and efficiency, revenue readiness, and customer experience.
• Podcast: Built-in accessibility, virtual meetings, magnifier v. screen reader, AT when, back-to-school
  Assistive Technology FAQ: Brian Norton, Josh Anderson and Belva Smith address five questions on assistive technology, answered by an expert panel.
• Welcome to ta11y.org
  ta11y.org: learn about and evaluate the accessibility of social media, websites, facilities, events and procedures.
• Detect when elements overlap with CSS
  Ahmad Shadeed: can I detect when an element hits or collides with another?
• How AI Can Help You Document Your WordPress Projects
  Eric Karkovack: Perhaps AI is just the tool we need to document projects without missing a beat.
• Introducing the new Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot
  Jared Spataro: Microsoft unveils a new Copilot app to bring together a collection of AI tools.
• On the Engineering Philosophy for HTML Minifier Next
  Jens Oliver Meiert: HMN is and is to remain the most effective HTML minifier.
• Humane Interfaces
  Jim Nielsen: a humane interface — or a humane system, even a humane technology — is considerate of human frailties.
• From query to condition
  Jono Alderson: My query would have become a standing condition, which the system could continue evaluating.
• On keeping the door open
  Karl Koch: I’d like people to feel comfortable asking me for help, even if I can’t always give it.
• “First, don’t interfere with user input.”
  Marcin Wichary: time wasted on the uninterruptible animation might be seconds separating failure from success.
• The death of web development education
  Mаthias Schäfer: GenAI has catastrophic effects on web development education and learning.

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• Glen Gordon Rejoins Vispero as Software Fellow
  Vispero (LinkedIn): The pioneering developer will focus on innovation across the JAWS and AT software ecosystem.
• Restaurant Kiosk Accessibility
  Vispero: ADA Compliance and Self-Order Requirements.
• Video: Know Where You Stand: Understanding Your Digital Accessibility Position
  Vispero: Webinar on demand with David Sloan, Chief Accessibility Officer at Vispero, and Stephen Cutchins, Director of Accessibility at Cvent.
• September 2026 Student of the Month
  Vispero: Kennedy, a fourth grader from Georgia, began learning JAWS in Kindergarten and uses it to read documents and web pages, complete schoolwork, and compose emails.
• Case Study: Vintia
  Vispero: Building accessible self-service with JAWS for Kiosk.
• Video: Digital Accessibility and Travel
  Vispero: David Sloan hosts the State of Accessibility podcast, this month with Ryan Jones, Senior Vice President of Product and Customer Experience at Vispero.
• The Dunning-Kruger effect in accessibility
  Craig Abbott: It’s easy to just assume we’ve got it right. [if you read just one article in this list, make it this one]
• WCAG process for assigning levels
  Alastair Campbell: I’m not writing this with my AGWG co-chair hat on, although I can’t really get away from that being a major part of my perspective.
• Digital Networks Act needs to act on accessible communication
  Andre Felix: European Disability Forum calls for provisions that guarantee video and text relay services are always available.
• Fintech growth depends on accessible digital services
  Annie Mannion: fintech has become a vital part of the UK’s digital and economic infrastructure.
• Agentic Web Accessibility Auditing
  Arjun Mishra et al: A Criterion-Specific Framework for Translating WCAG Requirements into Assessments.
• Beyond EAA compliance
  Bob Farrell: Accessibility becomes the benchmark for digital quality.
• Sustainable accessibility: compliance, culture, and capability
  Craig Abbott: Accessibility programmes often fail […] because the organisation focuses all of their efforts on compliance.
• What Accessibility Improvements can we expect to see in the next Windows 11 Update?
  Daniel Dunne: Every feature update brings new tools and improvements to the platform.
• Achieving Accessibility at Scale Requires More Than a Point Solution
  Daniel Sullivan: Why Allyant’s acquisition of Braille Works reflects a broader shift in how organizations approach accessibility.
• How Much Is Too Much for a Screen Reader?
  Darrell Bowles: This is not about the price of a screen reader, at least not in the monetary sense.
• Toolkit: The “Profound Autism” Label Hurts Autistic People
  Dean Strauss: It makes the same bad guesses about autistic people’s needs as “low functioning” autism.
• 10 surprising facts about WCAG
  Diana Khalipina: once you go beyond the individual Success Criteria, some of its rules are surprisingly nuanced.
• Deaf people rights & digital accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: don’t design accessibility for Deaf people without involving Deaf people.
• AI for everyone in every language
  James Manyika: Technology is only truly accessible if it works where people live.
• How Your Emojis and Hashtags Can Create Noise for Your Audience
  Jeff Adams: Here’s how to keep the personality and lose the friction.
• Your accessibility tests stop at the page. Your users don’t.
  Karl Groves: If your automated accessibility tests pass but a disabled person can’t complete a purchase, what have you actually tested?
• How to Seek a Mentor
  Kelly Mack: Finding People in Your Life Who Light the Way.
• Where JAWS Earns Its Reputation as the Screen Reader Standard
  Kessler West: JAWS still justifies its licensing cost for organizations running Windows-based enterprise software, complex legacy applications, or heavy Braille output.
• 12 Accessibility KPIs Every Product Team Should Track
  Kessler West: Most product teams can point to an audit, but few can point to a trend line.
• #IWDeaf: Declaring Deaf People’s Human Rights
  Laura Wissiak: The last week of September is the International Week of Deaf People.
• How to Build Reusable Accessible Templates
  Manish Nepal: a reusable document layout with accessibility requirements […] already built in.
• Video: Digital Accessibility as a Right
  Maxwell Ivey: My conversation with Mellissa Green, a digital accessibility advocate and host of the podcast Uniquely Abled: Disrupting Disability.
• Linguistics and Digital Accessibility
  Narelle Wright: Why Words Matter.
• Video: Captions, Transcripts, and Audio Description: What Your Video Actually Needs
  Natalie MacLees: You uploaded a video, you switched on automatic captions, and the little CC button appeared. Done, right? Not quite.
• PDF Remediation Quality Control
  Nina Overdorff: What Should You Check Before Publishing an Accessible PDF?
• Using AI as Your Accessibility Testing Partner
  Ricky Onsman: some key points on how accessibility auditors and testers can use AI.
• How to Download Assets from GitHub using a screen reader
  Robert Kingett: just in case someone might need a resource somewhere for screen reader users.
• How to build accessible AI
  Robin Christopherson: Insights from industry leaders.
• Simple steps for declaring a dark mode colour scheme
  Russ Weakley: how to tell the browser which schemes your site supports, and how to provide light and dark values.
• Dark mode checklist
  Russ Weakley: covers some of the most common things to check when reviewing a design or interface in dark mode.
• Do screen readers actually read the screen?
  Russ Weakley (LinkedIn): Most screen readers never look at the rendered screen.
• What are form controls?
  Russ Weakley: The term “form controls” is used all the time in accessibility, but there is no single, clear definition.
• What is palpable content?
  Russ Weakley: something with substance: text, an image, media, or a control.
• Testing :focus vs :focus-visible
  Russ Weakley: explains how they differ, then outlines a series of tests used to understand how they behave across different browsers and form controls.
• Foldable Phones and Accessibility
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Benefits, Barriers, Weight, Care, and Cost.
• What Is an Accessibility Statement and How Do You Write One?
  Shashank Kapur: It helps users know what to expect before they run into trouble, not just after.
• Podcast: Doug by the Fire
  Steve Faulkner: Doug Schepers has been involved in web standards for longer than I can remember.
• Does humour belong in Accessibility?
  Steve Faulkner: I guess you can work out what I think.
• Accessibility an afterthought in media coverage of software updates
  Steven Aquino: nearly all of the OS 27 reviews at various publications give nary a mention to accessibility.
• Before You Decide Technology Is the Problem, Talk to the People Who Rely on It
  Taylor Arndt: I’m blind, and technology has been the greatest equalizer in my lifetime.
• Podcast: smart glasses backlash, RIM for iOS, and more from our Vendor Showcase
  Access On: Jonathan Mosen hosts the podcast of the National Federation of the Blind.
• Video: 2026 Mid-Year Report, Accessibility Roles, and VPAT Transparency
  The Accessibility Breakdown: Mark Miller and Justin Stockton break down three accessibility pieces that connect the dots.
• Allyant Strengthens Accessible Communications Portfolio with Acquisition of Braille Works
  Allyant: more than doubles Allyant’s accessible alternative format production capability, expanding expertise and capacity.
• Podcast: TCS Interpreting with Jessica Aiello
  Assistive Technology Update: Josh Anderson hosts the founder and CEO of TCS Interpreting and Captions.
• Podcast: Nested Tags to Watch Out For
  Chax Chat: Chad and Dax dig into nested tags and the places where the standard, accessibility checkers, and real-world assistive technology do not always agree.
• Axe-con 2027 registration is now open
  Deque: annual digital accessibility conference.
• State of the European Union 2026: disability largely absent
  European Disability Forum: no specific disability-related initiatives were announced.
• Video: accessible content creation
  Funka: Susanna Laurin and Malin Hammarberg on how content creators [have] at least a third of the responsibility for accessibility becoming a reality.
• 2027 Call for Webinar Topics
  IAAP: Share your knowledge. Inspire our community. Advance accessibility together.
• Inclusive Design 24
  ID24: free 24-hour online event for the global community is on September 24, 2026. No registration.
• Research Finds Broad AI Adoption Isn’t Closing the Accessibility Gap
  Level Access: Eighth Annual State of Digital Accessibility Report finds 80% use AI for accessibility, but no single use case was adopted by more than 31% of respondents.
• Video: Accessible Financial Services in Practice: What User Testing Reveals
  TTC Accessibility: Charlii Parker explores real-world examples from banking and financial services.
• Podcast: The History of Adaptive Technology for the Blind — Part 2
  Pushing Limits: Denny Daughters talks with Mike Tanner about the technology that helped transform everyday life for blind people from the 1990s into the early 2000s.
• What the 2026 Disability Index tells us about the future of digital accessibility
  TTC Accessibility: provides a global snapshot of how organisations are approaching disability inclusion.
• Using Tables for Layout in Emails
  TTC Accessibility: ensure the correct mark-up is provided in the code to make sure the table’s semantics are ignored by screen readers.
• Cognitive Accessibility: What Ecommerce Teams Can Overlook
  UsableNet: a category that can create friction if you leave it unnamed in your WCAG accessibility audit.
• Register to Attend WPAD
  WordPress Accessibility Day: Free online 24 hour conference takes place October 7-8, 2026.
• Video: How to Learn WCAG
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Cam Coulter is the Deputy ADA/504 Coordinator for Digital Accessibility at Santa Clara University.
• Video: Email Accessibility in WordPress
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Maria Maldonado discussed both automated transactional and marketing emails.
• Please don’t stretch your app for foldables
  Allie Paschal: What happens when the screen isn’t a fixed constraint?
• Trusted front-end quality rules for humans and AI agents
  David Dias: 350+ rules across launch, review, accessibility, performance, security, privacy, and SEO workflows.
• Fluid Typography
  Donnie D’Amato: An accessibility consideration: zoom level and viewport units can essentially cancel each other out.
• CSS-Tricks could be a co-op
  Eric Bailey: we should be striving to keep resources like CSS-Tricks going
• Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately
  Geoff Graham: I’m not angry, mad, or whatever, but I literally can’t afford to work free for months on end.
• The Front-End Community is Still Alive and Beautiful
  Geoff Graham: I’m still very hopeful that things will work out with CSS-Tricks.
• The 100 Most Common UX Design Methods, Ranked by Value
  Jakob Nielsen: Accessibility Evaluation comes in at 74, Accessibility Annotations at 78.
• The invisible side of design engineering
  Jakub Krehel: Things like accessibility, responsiveness and performance.
• What’s stopping you from coding like this…?
  Josefine Schfr: it is perfectly ok to take things a little slower.
• On interfaces that let you change your mind
  Karl Koch: The inert attribute removes the panel’s contents from keyboard focus and the accessibility tree whilst it’s closed.
• Video: Digital Ocean killed CSS-Tricks… again
  Kevin Powell: discusses the recent developments surrounding the community-focused website CSS-Tricks.
• Curated skills for design engineering
  Marc Lou: collection of design engineering skills to help humans and agents create better interfaces [including several that include accessibility].
• HTML autocomplete Values Worth Using
  Ronalds Vilciņš: Use a token that describes the data.
• Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries
  Victor Ayomipo: Despite broad browser support, container queries remain surprisingly underused and frequently misunderstood.

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• Digital Accessibility Audit Guide
  Vispero: What It Is and How to Perform One.
• Issue Affecting Some JAWS and Fusion Features Now Resolved
  Vispero: The issue we reported on September 4 has been resolved with no action needed on your part.
• Podcast: with Oleg Shevkun
  Vispero Connect: Meeting Campbell Rutherford, Backing Up JAWS Settings, And Making AI Agents Work For You.
• Vispero Connect: Now Also On YouTube
  Vispero: Each episode features product news and tips, interviews with members of our Vispero team, user stories, as well as previews of our upcoming training events.
• For Review: WCAG 3 Working Draft – September 2026
  W3C: For a list of changes in the September 2026 draft and review questions on the conformance model, see Status: In-progress drafts.
• WCAG 3 – New Draft
  Rachael Bradley Montgomery: Thoughts from the Accessibility Guidance Working Group co-chairs on the updated working draft for WCAG 3.
• Which Accessibility Platform Is Best for Enterprise Governance?
  Abhay Kapur: This guide explains what enterprise accessibility governance requires and how to evaluate a platform against those requirements.
• Support for headers Attribute
  Adrian Roselli: This post only covers the headers attribute in HTML tables.
• Mobile accessibility tells half the story
  Charles Berg: web app design systems may need to take a lesson from one on a different platform.
• Using maths to balance your heading styles
  Craig Abbott: six visually distinct heading levels using a single ratio, and it’s all calculated from the size of the body copy.
• How I Curate Accessibility Weekly
  David A. Kennedy: I put a lot of thought into the links that land in Accessibility Weekly.
• Canada Accessibility Law and Website Accessibility Requirements
  David Gevorkian: the Accessible Canada Act, how it relates to provincial legislation, and what technical standard your website needs to meet.
• Why experience in web development ≠ experience in web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: web development experience and web accessibility expertise are not the same thing, here’s why.
• Accessibility problems we don’t always know how to classify
  Diana Khalipina: I was surprised to find out that WCAG doesn’t have a general requirement saying that every link must lead to a working page.
• Popular accessibility testing tools: which ones to use?
  Diana Khalipina: Here’s my practical take about popular accessibility testing tools.
• Why a link should look like a link before you click it
  Diana Khalipina: an underline is one of the clearest ways to show that the text is interactive.
• Download: Understanding WCAG 2.2 as EPUB and PDF
  Doeke Norg: I converted it. Same content, different wrapper.
• Typography scales
  Donnie D’Amato: Follow-up to Craig Abbott’s article using a less verbose method.
• React vs Vue Accessibility Setup: 12 Steps, 90 Min
  Elias Virtanen: This tutorial builds a working accessibility pipeline for both a React 19.2.8 project and a Vue 3.5.42 project, side by side
• WCAG 3’s road to hell is paved with supplemental requirements
  Eric Eggert: Conforming to anything remotely optional just won’t happen.
• Accessible colours don’t exist
  Erik Kroes: I often see claims about “accessible colours”.
• When Accessibility Isn’t Considered Care
  Grace Dow: Real change requires a shift in culture, one that views disabled people as equal partners in their healthcare.
• Financial Conduct Authority guidance on supporting vulnerable people
  Henny Swan: a useful set of guidelines for all organisations to keep in mind when supporting vulnerable customers, some of whom may also be disabled.
• I Launched A Product By Accident
  Homer Gaines: I just wanted to build something to help me solve a quick problem.
• The Dangers of Flashing and Patterned Content
  Jeff Adams: find the flashing, strobing, and patterned images that might be hiding wherever you post.
• What the WCAG Is and What It Means for You
  Jeff Adams: Here’s what they actually are and which parts are yours to worry about.
• The Leadership We Become: What Happens When We Stop Trying to Prove We Belong
  Jonathan J Kaufman (LinkedIn): I have been thinking about what Disability Leadership might mean.
• Agentic Accessibility
  Josefine Schfr: Can AI help us ship more accessible code?
• What the AFM expects from financial institutions in three EAA updates
  Julia Tol: The Authority for the Financial Markets is the regulator of the European Accessibility Act for banking services and financial e-commerce services to consumers.
• WCAG 3.0 (W3C Working Draft, September 10, 2026)
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: Outline of WCAG 3.0 and an overview of the changes in the current Working Draft and the draft guidelines.
• Two Accessibility Leaders On What Happens When AI Writes The Next Decade Of Software
  Keely Cat-Wells: Rachel Grossman-Kahn and Nandita Gupta, authors of Accessibility: The Illustrated Guide
• The 6 Best Free Web Accessibility Toolbars
  Kessler West: automated scanners that flag WCAG violations directly on the page.
• Digital Accessibility Ethics Book Discussion Guide
  Lainey Feingold: This is a guide for people who want to read a book with others and discuss it.
• Invisible Stigma in UX Research #ID24
  Laura Wissiak: The annual Inclusive Design 24 (ID24) livestream is just around the corner.
• PDF Reading Order
  Manish Nepal: How to Check and Fix It for Accessibility
• Human cost of accessibility failures revealed
  Mark Chillingworth: While digital services were valued by many for their convenience, issues arose when digital journeys were difficult to complete without effective alternatives.
• Video: Labrador: A Smarter, More Accessible WCAG Audit Tool
  Mark Miller: a tool platform that you can use for manual accessibility auditing.
• Understanding WCAG 1.3.4 Orientation in WordPress
  María José Maldonado: 1.3.4 Orientation requires that users can view and operate content in both portrait and landscape orientations.
• Screen Reader Tips: Mobile
  Mary Brunelle: Today, we’ll explore screen readers for mobile.
• EN 301 549 v4.1.1 is final
  Matthew Luken: What changed, what it means, and what you should do.
• A11y Experience Guide
  Matt Soriano: An accessibility specification for experience designers.
• Video: Neuroinclusive Leadership
  Maxwell Ivey: My Conversation with Ron Sosa
• Video: Visible and Invisible Disability
  Maxwell Ivey: with Jennifer Chassman Browne and Dr. Arielle Dance.
• Foundations: accessibility roles and responsibilities
  Mayi Wilson: Here’s what good looks like across the disciplines that build digital products and services.
• How I Shop an Unfamiliar Website With a Screen Reader
  Michael Taylor: I am going to walk through a purchase I made recently on an online electrical supply retailer.
• 2026 Mid-Year Report
  Minh N. Vu, Kristina M. Launey and Susan M. Ryan: ADA Title III Federal Lawsuit Numbers Are Climbing.
• Digital Accessibility and Trust
  Narelle Wright: Trust is the foundation of every strong relationship.
• What is the Stammering Tax?
  Nick Freear: The hidden costs of communication barriers
• Your frontend observability has an accessibility blind spot
  Niharika Pujari: If users can’t complete a critical workflow, your application isn’t healthy.
• “Nobody’s Complained, So We’re Fine”
  Nina Overdorff: Why Waiting for a Complaint Is the Costliest Compliance Strategy.
• EN 301549 version 4.1.1
  Priti Rohra: What’s New?
• How to Test Touch Target Size for WCAG Compliance
  Raghavendra Satish Peri: when touch targets are too small or positioned too closely together, even simple interactions can become difficult and frustrating.
• Using AI as Your Accessibility Testing Partner
  Ricky Onsman: a brief summary of some key points on how accessibility auditors and testers can use AI.
• Five questions to ask about every AI deployment
  Robin Christopherson: Organisations need a practical way to identify where accessibility debt may already be accumulating.
• Image Alt Text: When to Use It and When Not To
  Ronalds Vilciņš: The important part is understanding why the image is on the page.
• Video: Inclusive Design: Make video accessible
  Ross Mullen: Understand the principles of accessible design that make video easier for everyone to use.
• Dark mode test
  Russ Weakley: This quick test page shows what your browser is currently reporting.
• What’s new in Accessibility in iOS 27 for Blind and DeafBlind Users
  Scott Davert: Extensive, detailed user review on AppleVis.
• Interview Accommodations: A Legal Necessity, not a Favor
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: When companies talk about diversity and inclusion, they often forget about a crucial aspect: accessibility in the hiring process.
• EN 301 549 vs WCAG
  Shilpi Kapoor: What Is the Difference for EU Compliance?
• Section 508 vs ADA vs WCAG
  Shilpi Kapoor: What Is the Real Difference?
• AI — me
  Steve Faulkner: I don’t believe in AI/LLM’s vendors claims of autonomy or intelligence or signs of consciousness.
• On Audio Intelligence and amplifying Accessibility’s Steep Climb
  Steven Aquino: [Apple’s] Audio Intelligence functionality, many people have posited, feels creepy and unnecessary.
• Apple’s new CEO, a foldable iPhone, and what I actually want to try
  Taylor Arndt: when John Ternus opened Apple’s event talking about the iPhone as an intelligent personal hub, I thought, that’s what it is.
• Video: AI, federal regulations, sign language tools, and Hyperblam
  The Accessibility Breakdown Podcast: Mark Miller is joined by Justin Stockton and guest Steve Faulkner for a wide-ranging conversation.
• Video: All About Accessibility Lab with Joe and Anne
  Accessibility Craft Podcast: Joe Dolson and Anne McCarthy join Amber and Steve to talk through the vision behind Accessibility Lab.
• Podcast: A recap of Apple’s Surprise and Shine event
  Access On: Jonathan Mosen is joined by Judy Dixon, Lina Howard and Heidi Taylor to discuss Apple CEO John Ternus’ first keynote from a perspective of the NFB.
• UN General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on access to assistive technology
  ATscale: establishing assistive technology as a global priority for sustainable development and universal health coverage.
• Video: How Japan Is Rethinking Web Accessibility Without Laws
  AXSChat: Makoto Ueki joins us from Japan to share the moment that changed his career.
• Microsoft Treats Accessibility Like Security And Privacy
  AXSChat: We sit down with Neil Barnett, Microsoft’s new Chief Accessibility Officer, to talk about what it takes to make technology work for everyone, especially people with disabilities.
• Is WCAG Conformance Enough for EAA Compliance?
  Level Access: The short answer is no.
• What Is a Screen Reader and What Is It Used For?
  UsableNet: allows people, primarily those who are blind or have low vision, to navigate and interact with […] digital content.
• WCAG Radar
  WCAG Toolkit: 50 accessibility checks in your own browser.
• Custom Scrollbar Component In 2026
  Alexander Inkin: since this technique doesn’t interfere with native scrolling mechanics and focuses solely on bar customization, it should be fine for most users.
• Design Principles vs. The Principles of Design
  Ben Brignell: They operate at different levels, serve different purposes, and guide different kinds of decisions.
• The Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No Interface
  Carrie Webster: The underlying AI understands layout principles, accessibility guidelines.
• Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts
  Declan Chidlow: The bits of HTML that were included for reasons, and which have been forgotten for present irrelevance.
• CSS Curiosities of the Past
  Declan Chidlow: this is a look at CSS largely outside the specifications.
• 2026: 2 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML
  Jens Oliver Meiert: This is up from 0 home pages that were valid in 2025.
• An Ode to Links
  Jim Nielsen: a link is a cultural thing: an invitation, a citation, a gift, a shortcut, a connection.
• Teaching agents product design at Vercel
  John Phamous: A settings form loads labels, validation, progressive disclosure, and accessible-name guidance.
• Does Ranking First on Google Mean You’ll Appear in AI Overviews?
  Kessler West: It used to, but not anymore.
• Why visitors aren’t clicking past your homepage
  Lauren Sherrard: It’s that the homepage isn’t creating enough interest, excitement or trust.
• How to Test Interface States AI Agents Usually Miss
  Marcelo Cedeno: These checks make the test more representative without turning every session into a full accessibility audit.
• On artificial intelligence
  Matt May: for many of us, this isn’t a knee-jerk reaction or a culty, cosmic doomer rant.
• The best dark mode toggle is absolutely the one I have on my personal website because I say so
  Mike Mai: Why go for two-state or tri-state when I can go for hexa-state?
• Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era
  Patrick Neeman: the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.
• Being an digital experience troubleshooter
  Paul Boag: The approach I use to diagnose digital problems.
• initial-scale no longer needed
  Peter-Paul Koch: This is the end of an era.
• Switching Password Managers in 2026
  Ricky Mondello: Would you believe me if I told you that the best device to switch password managers on might be your iPhone or iPad?
• Introducing WebDev Bench: A Coding-Agent Benchmark
  Schalk Neethling: A page can match a reference screenshot exactly and still compute the wrong accessible name for an element.
• The expectations of privacy in driverless cars
  Terence Eden: Do riders in autonomous vehicles think that they are in a private space?

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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 how tabindex has 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.

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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 readonly and aria-readonly
  Russ Weakley: The readonly and aria-readonly attributes 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.

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• How to Complete a VPAT
  Vispero: Creating a Credible Accessibility Conformance Report.
• How Accessibility Consulting Helps Reduce Legal and Operational Risk
  Vispero: Effective accessibility consulting helps organizations move beyond short-term remediation.
• Webinar: Know Where You Stand: Understanding Your Digital Accessibility Position
  Vispero: Vispero’s David Sloan and Cvent’s Stephen Cutchins make the case for a meaningful accessibility baseline. Thursday, Sep 10, 2026 12pm ET.
• JAWS JumpStart
  Vispero: A Deep Dive into Managing Documents with JAWS.
• Video: Tables
  Vispero: Brian Elton walks through how properly structured HTML tables communicate relationships and provide the context that assistive technologies rely on to make complex information understandable and navigable.
• Help shape the Accessibility Lab plugin
  Anne McCarthy: The goal is not to move accessibility fixes out of Core and into a separate plugin.
• Video: I Audited My Own 10-Year-Old Website for Accessibility (ARC Toolkit + Screen Reader)
  Ariel Guzman: I run ARC Toolkit for an automated pass, then put the mouse away and drive the site with the keyboard and VoiceOver to find the things a tool can’t catch.
• Video: Accessible and Sustainable AI with Hidde de Vries
  Brad Frost: AI could lower barriers to building websites but raises concerns about credit, control, hosting complexity, and accessibility.
• Does this menu work with keyboard?
  Chris Yoong: The surprising number of big brands that fail.
• Navigation, Cognitive & Usability Research for a Public-Facing Digital Service
  Charlii Parker: the impact of usability research and testing for a large government department.
• Testing accessibility in our Figma Make Skill
  Claire Webber: how Intopia tested the accessibility Skill they built for Figma Make and what the results showed.
• Website Accessibility for Visual Disabilities
  David Gevorkian: Each type of visual disability changes the way a person interacts with a website in a different way.
• How to check color contrast properly
  Diana Khalipina: It is actually more complicated than just using a color contrast checker.
• Why H1 is not just the biggest text on the page
  Diana Khalipina: It can help answer one of the first questions a user has when arriving on a page.
• Designing for people with no or limited mobility
  Ela Gorla: important considerations for designing for people with moving disabilities.
• Canada’s next phase of ACA enforcement: Are you ready?
  Glenda Sims: where does your organization currently stand, where are the gaps, and what actions should you prioritize?
• Jimothy’s Acceptance Should Extend to Disabled People Too
  Grace Dow: A disabled animal is more accepted by society than a disabled person.
• The vanishing art of disability reporting
  Grant Stoner: I’m fearful that without consistent disability reporting, disabled people won’t have their stories told at all.
• Keyboard Navigation
  Jeff Adams: A 5-Minute Test to See If Visitors Can Find Their Way.
• Real Proof of Accessibility Includes the Process, Not Just the Outcome
  Jonathan Vial (LinkedIn): Accessibility is not just about what you fixed, but about how you found it, why it happened, and most importantly, what you’re doing to stop it from happening again.
• Comments on the WCAG 3 Conformance Model
  Karl Groves: The draft is trying to accommodate several real problems at once.
• Five accessibility trends shaping the future of Financial Services
  Kelly Chan: accessibility, AI, customer experience and inclusion trends that are shaping financial services.
• AI Reviews Changes in Federal Regulations
  Ken Nakata: What 90 Days of the Federal Register Says About Disability Rights: A Report Written Entirely by Claude.
• Content Formatting Guidelines for LLMs vs Google Search
  Kessler West: Getting cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google’s AI Overviews depends less on keywords or backlinks than on how well a machine can parse the page.
• How Brands Get Cited in AI Search Results
  Kessler West: retrieval behavior, crawlability, semantic structure, schema markup, and off-site consistency.
• prefers-reduced-motion, explained (and how to test it)
  Kevin Fröba: what the media query is, the CSS and JavaScript patterns that actually pass, four ways to test on a real page, and how it maps to WCAG.
• All In Frame: Inclusive Stock Image Library
  Laura Wissiak: A free stock photography collection led by disabled creatives.
• My HTML boilerplate in 2026
  Manuel Matuzović: Every element I use for the basic structure of a HTML document, with explanations why.
• How long does it take to remediate accessibility audit findings?
  Mark Miller: this is probably one of the most common questions I’ve been asked when discussing audits with folks.
• Video: Seeing Accessibility As An Investment Rather Than An Expense
  Maxwell Ivey: with Scott Wintheiser, CEO and Founding Partner of Lightburn, a Milwaukee-based digital CX agency he co-founded in 1998.
• Video: Turning Blindness Into Purpose, Entrepreneurship, & Advocacy On Beyond The Draft
  Maxwell Ivey: with Imma, host of Beyond the Draft, a podcast for writers who’ve poured themselves into their words and want to know what happens next.
• Podcast: Sharing Accessibility As Opportunity, Not Compliance on The Growth Table With Blessing Arutere
  Maxwell Ivey: a conversation about growth, purpose, and where accessibility fits into how entrepreneurs build their businesses.
• Video: Is Accessibility A Strategy Or A Tactic
  Maxwell Ivey: I sat down with Lauren Harris, co-founder of Reliable PR & Marketing.
• Airline Website Accessibility
  Michael Taylor: Online Check-In Barriers.
• The R2 Unit We Deserve vs. The Cloud We’re Selling Our Souls Into
  Nat Tarnoff: accessibility tech moves slow when it’s built by profit-driven giants.
• Video: Is It Time to Get Ready for WCAG 3? Let’s Read It Together
  Natalie MacLees: This one is for anyone who has been asked “are we ready for WCAG 3?” and wanted a better answer than a shrug.
• I Spent Years Refusing to Build an Accessibility Score
  Natalie MacLees: What changed my mind, and what we built instead.
• When You Can’t Stop the Ship
  Nathan Ortiz: A Developer’s Guide to Handling Inaccessible Releases .
• WCAG 2.3.1 Flash Test
  Oleksandr Moskalenko: How to Test Websites for Seizure Hazards.
• Axe-core at 5 billion: Accessibility meets the moment
  Preety Kumar: quite a milestone, with a lot of significance for the future of digital accessibility at a time when global regulation and AI are rapidly evolving.
• The hidden cost of AI bias
  Robin Christopherson: Why disability may be the ultimate test of trustworthy AI.
• Understanding aria-level
  Russ Weakley: allows authors to define an element’s level within a hierarchy so assistive technology can understand that structure.
• Understanding aria-posinset and aria-setsize
  Russ Weakley: used to inform assistive technologies of the level of each row of a file structure.
• Understanding aria-current
  Russ Weakley: marks an element as the current one within a set and lets assistive technology announce that information.
• Understanding aria-haspopup
  Russ Weakley: tells assistive technologies that the control opens a popup, and what type of popup it is.
• Understanding aria-controls
  Russ Weakley: identifies another element that is controlled by the current element.
• An Accessible Theme for Oh My Posh
  Samuel Proulx: a set of configurations and themes for powershell.
• Here’s how to use sign-to-text translation on Pixel 11
  Sharlene Yuan: It analyzes hand shapes, facial expressions, and body movements to translate ASL into written English sentences in real time.
• Accessibility Game Theory
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Why do capable organizations keep buying and building inaccessible products, and how do you change the payoffs?
• SEBI’s Revised Digital Accessibility Deadline
  Shilpi Kapoor: What Organizations Should Do Next.
• Guided Alt Text Generation
  Simon Miner: fill in the blanks, get alt text that actually works.
• How to Check PDF Accessibility Using PAC Checker (2026)
  Sneha Chugh: how to use PAC Accessibility Checker, how to fix common errors and what to check beyond the automated test.
• Your Vibe-Coded App Probably Doesn’t Need That Custom Control
  Taylor Arndt: Sometimes you can still have the custom design without throwing the underlying accessibility away.
• Video: Plain Language & Unicorns
  The Accessibility Breakdown Podcast: Mark Miller and Justin Stockton break down three accessibility-focused articles.
• EAA Enforcement News
  Allyant: One Year into the European Accessibility Act.
• Podcast: Accessible Graphic Novels
  Chax Chat: Chad and Dax explore the unique accessibility challenges created by panels, speech balloons, visual action, pacing, suspense, and complex reading order.
• Accessories for Accessibility
  Easterseals Crossroads: It’s amazing to think of how far wearables have come.
• How Poorly Tagged PDFs Deceive Screen Readers
  Equidox: a partially or poorly tagged document can create a worse experience for users with disabilities than a completely untagged one.
• Video: The standards and the users: What is needed for a PDF to be accessible?
  Funka: standards and accessibility legislation and user needs.
• Survey on dyscalculia and digital services
  Funka: Your answers will help us to develop practical guidance.
• Google Accessibility Help Community
  Google: a global hub designed to support anyone using assistive technology and accessibility features across Google’s ecosystem.
• Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
  Google DeepMind: Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features.
• 2027 Call for Webinar Topics
  IAAP: This year, we are simplifying the submission process with one Call for Webinar Topics covering all three of our webinar series.
• Understanding ICT Accessibility
  Level Access: five steps you can take to build accessibility into the technology you create, buy, and maintain.
• From storytelling to inclusive design
  Macquarie Group: how Liam O’Kane is shaping digital accessibility at Macquarie.
• Video: Ask the Professionals: Accessibility Deep Dive for Developers
  OZeWAI: Ricky Onsman moderates a panel including Julie Grundy, Eric Baily and Laurence Lewis.
• Video: Accessibility, Ethics & AI Panel
  Teach Access: The panel featured Ariana Aboulafia, Jutta Treviranus, and Rolando J. Mendez
• Video: US Digital Accessibility: Laws, Resources, and Real‑World Insights
  US Access Board: a review of U.S. accessibility laws, share helpful resources, and dive into implementation—covering lessons learned, best practices, and recommendations for the future.
• Patterns to avoid: Disappearing toast notifications
  WordPress Accessibility: There are different ways to dynamically provide a user with information.
• Video: Accessibility Testing: What Automated Tools Will NEVER Catch
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Tanveer Khan explored critical accessibility problems that automated tools often miss.
• The Future of CSS: Target Multiple Classes with the Class Prefix Selector
  Bramus Van Damme: CSS is getting a new selector: The Class Prefix Selector .prefix-*.
• The Case for Tri-State Dark Mode Toggles
  Bramus Van Damme: I firmly believe a tri-state control is the way to go.
• HTML Can Do That
  Chris Burnell: by all means, try it out, but make it as accessible as you can.
• Datatype: A variable font that turns text into charts
  Frank Tisellano: be aware of accessibility issues. You should probably go with a role="img" and span combination when using it.
• From Prototype Testing to AI-Powered Sites: The New Design Process
  Hazel Raoult: A website is no longer only a set of pages, forms, menus, and conversion paths.
• The Most Important Industrial Designer of All Time
  Jeffrey Zeldman: One man designed all of it. The fridge, the cigarette pack, the bus, the logo, the locomotive, the car.
• The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development
  Nolan Lawson: the agent could mess up accessibility, it could cause an infinite loop that blocks users, etc.
• Multiple-column layout, rows, rules, and floats
  Rachel Andrew: This post is a collection of the things I think would be interesting to do in future.
• Making digital identity work across the Web: GDC 2026
  Simone Onofri: an opportunity to compare standards, architectures, implementations, and policy requirements.
• Video: Inspecting Inspectors
  Winging It Podcast: Miriam and Stacy troubleshoot an issue with the dev tools available in each browser.

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• How Much Does Digital Accessibility Consulting Cost?
  Vispero: What Organizations Should Expect.
• How to Choose an Accessibility Audit Company
  Vispero: if you’re new to digital accessibility audits, it can be difficult to know which provider to partner with.
• Research Ready
  Vispero: Using JAWS for Web Browsing and Online Research
• Download the August Update of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026
  Vispero: This release significantly improves the PowerPoint experience with JAWS.
• Join Us for a Back-To-School Webinar on the Dot Pad X and JAWS
  Vispero: a powerful combination that puts multiline Braille at your fingertips.
• Updated W3C Recommendation: ARIA in HTML
  W3C: defines the authoring rules for the use of ARIA on HTML elements.
• New Version of W3C’s WCAG-EM Report Tool Published
  Hidde de Vries: The WCAG-EM Report Tool turns your accessibility evaluation findings into a report.
• The digital accessibility software market reached an estimated USD 0.84 billion in 2025
  Market Research Future: with forecasts projecting the sector to grow from USD 0.91 billion in 2026 to USD 1.58 billion by 2035.
• Should a Dialog Close When Clicked Outside?
  Adrian Roselli: Maybe not, but I’ll break these down into three categories because it depends on context and intent.
• Update: A Model for WordPress Accessibility
  Adrian Roselli: We’ve always known Matt has an ableist streak, but here he’s at least being overt about it.
• The anatomy of accessible forms: Required form fields
  Aparna Pasi: Accessible forms are essential for creating an inclusive digital experience.
• Recording VoiceOver on iOS & macOS
  Bas Broek: on iOS, recording the sound output of VoiceOver does not require extra steps. On macOS, we’re not so lucky.
• Disability as pawn in Geopolitics
  Bianca Prins (LinkedIn): These opportunities are where the trouble starts from a compliance and ethical perspective.
• You tagged PDFs for screen readers.
  Benson Hendall: Turns out the machines needed it too.
• When a disabled submit button becomes a dead end
  Bogdan Cerovac: Disabled buttons for sign up, login, password resets are often a lazy solution with giant possibility to block users out.
• Testing accessibility in our Figma Make Skill
  Claire Webber: how we tested the accessibility Skill Chris built for Figma Make and what the results showed.
• Article 50 of the EU AI Act, and what it means for you
  Craig Abbott: The watermarking will apply everywhere, not just in Europe.
• ADA Title I Explained
  David Gevorkian: Title I matters for digital accessibility today because so much of the hiring process has moved online.
• 5 accessibility lessons from the 2026 Disability Index Report
  Diana Khalipina: Here are some encouraging numbers.
• An icon can be obvious to you and invisible to a screen reader
  Diana Khalipina: the goal … is to make sure the interactive element has the right accessible name.
• The web you build today is the web your future self will use
  Diana Khalipina: one thing none of us can avoid – we are getting older and, as we age, our abilities can change.
• Best web accessibility opportunities in August 2026
  Diana Khalipina: currently open for everyone working toward more accessible and inclusive digital experiences.
• What your contrast checker doesn’t know about color
  Diana Khalipina: One of the common mistakes in accessible color design is treating a contrast checker as the finish line, but in reality it isn’t.
• Blocked aria-hidden
  Durgesh Rajubhai Pawar: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong.
• Why I Don’t Trust Accessibility Overlay Widgets
  Jeff Adams: Here’s why the people who actually use assistive technology don’t like them.
• Images of Text, and Why Your Promo Graphics May Be Hurting You
  Jeff Adams: When words are baked into an image, they can’t be resized, restyled, searched, or read aloud.
• Accessibility Improvements in WordPress 7.1
  Joe Dolson: WordPress 7.1 continues to polish accessibility across WordPress Core and Gutenberg
• Accessible is conformant
  Karl Groves: The problem begins when a percentage is treated as a measure of conformance.
• Building the Live Captions App I Wish Windows Shipped
  Kelly Ford: I’ve been sitting on this project for a couple weeks, and it’s time to write about it.
• ClaudeSpeak
  Kelly Ford: Having Claude Code Read Its Replies Through Your Screen Reader.
• How to Write Readable Content
  Kessler West: This guide aims to show how different readability formulas work, which tools calculate them for free, and why the score matters for both SEO and accessibility.
• 6 Questions to Ask About Your Accessibility Conformance Report
  Kessler West: six questions to ask a vendor who hands you one of these reports, to check to see if they did the due diligence they’re claiming.
• Sensory Characteristics & Tables
  Laura Wissiak: covers Use of Color, Sensory Characteristics and Color Contrast.
• Accessibility Audit Conformance Reporting
  Laura Wissiak: how to best package our test findings to ship them off.
• Is your board getting accessibility governance right?
  Léonie Watson: Whereas accessibility delivery can be delegated, accountability for accessibility risk oversight cannot.
• Understanding WCAG 1.3.3 Sensory Characteristics in WordPress
  María José Maldonado: following WCAG 1.3.3 helps ensure that everyone can identify and use the correct elements.
• Airline Website Accessibility
  Michael Taylor: Booking and Seat Selection While Blind.
• Why Change Fails Before It Starts
  Michael Harshbarger: The organization believed accessibility was a nice to have with no ROI. They were wrong on both counts.
• What a Pikelet Taught Me About Digital Accessibility
  Narelle Wright: The doing taught me the why, the what and the how.
• A11y 101 – 3.3.7 Redundant Entry
  Nat Tarnoff: If a user has entered data, that data must be available for reuse in subsequent inputs on the same session.
• Is it worth using an accessibility plugin?
  Patrícia Mendes: also known as “accessibility overlays”: are they worth implementing on a website?
• What’s in New Zealand’s draft Digital Accessibility Standard
  Praneita Narayan and Steve Barnett: and what it means for government agencies.
• WordPress Accessibility Team Initiative “Permanently Delayed”
  Rae Morey: Matt Mullenweg declares team has “overstepped its authority”.
• SEBI Extends Digital Accessibility Audit and Remediation Deadline to October 31, 2026
  Raghavendra Satish Peri: the extension does not change the underlying accessibility requirements.
• Understanding aria-activedescendant
  Russ Weakley: starting with a familiar native <select> and then showing what changes when developers build their own custom version.
• Understanding aria-roledescription
  Russ Weakley: how native and ARIA roles work, then showing how it can override how a role is announced, without creating a new role.
• Understanding aria-details
  Russ Weakley: when an element on a page has additional detailed information available elsewhere.
• Understanding aria-roledescription
  Russ Weakley: starting with how native and ARIA roles work, then showing how it can override how a role is announced, without creating a new role.
• Understanding aria-valuenow
  Russ Weakley: A quick explanation of aria-valuenow – looking at native and non-native controls.
• Understanding aria-valuemin and aria-valuemax
  Russ Weakley: shows how assistive technology can understand the boundaries of a range control.
• Understanding aria-pressed
  Russ Weakley: A quick explanation of aria-pressed – including an example, when it can be used, and when it should not be used.
• Practical Guidelines for Making Destructive Actions Accessible
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Destructive flows deserve stricter review than the rest of the product.
• The Faculty Accessibility Factor
  Stephanie W. Cawthon: Lessons learned from our latest national research on faculty accessibility and the role faculty play in student success.
• AI Finally Gave Some of Us a Level Playing Field
  Taylor Arndt: I don’t want watermarking to take that away.
• How One University Reduced Web Accessibility Errors by 90%
  Whitney Lewis: What makes their story especially compelling, though, is not just the result. It’s the replicable approach they used to get there.
• The myth of the accessible typeface
  Zeynep Akay: Accessibility isn’t a tick-box exercise or a threat to creativity.
• Video: AI, Screen Readers, and the Real User Experience
  Accessibility Craft Podcast: With Chris Hind, Alex Stine, and William Patton.
• Video: From paramedic to aphasia advocate
  Accessibility NYC: Avi Golden shares his personal journey from working as a critical care and flight paramedic to becoming a stroke survivor living with Broca’s aphasia.
• Could Your Job Ad Be Turning Away Great Talent?
  Disability Belongs: help ensure qualified applicants with disabilities are not unintentionally excluded.
• Video: Creating a Digital Accessibility Program in Higher Education
  Equalize Digital: Jesse Loesberg at WordPress Accessibility Meetup Group August 6 2026.
• The Global Declaration on Braille Literacy in Education
  ICEVI: to recognise braille literacy as a fundamental human right and an essential component of inclusive education.
• Update: Accessibility Testing in WordPress
  Learn WordPress: Downloadable Activity Kit with Facilitator Guide and Slide Deck.
• Measuring What Matters
  Level Access: A Quick Guide to Digital Accessibility Metrics.
• Level Access Makes Inc. 5000 for the Tenth Time
  Level Access: as AI Raises the Bar for Digital Accessibility.
• Microsoft 365 Copilot training for screen reader users
  Microsoft: created through a partnership between Microsoft and the National Federation of the Blind.
• Wait, who made this?
  Allie Paschal: The rise of creative provenance.
• Towards a personal online third-space
  Ana Rodrigues: what a safe personal online space focused on creativity, community, and self-expression could look like.
• If You Build It, They Probably Won’t Come
  Andy Budd: The problem is that your prospective customers are busy doing their actual jobs.
• Anti-Social Media
  Christian Heilmann: When you ask yourself “why am I doing this”, maybe stop doing it.
• Contextual Styling With CSS Nesting
  Cory LaViska: browser support for native nesting is green across the board now.
• Substack writers, you need a website
  Elizabeth Tai: Substack is just a distribution tool to amplify your website. It should not be your digital home.
• Interface Cheat Sheet
  Jakub Krehel: Includes 16 items in section on accessibility.
• Using AI To Find Usability Problems: A Replication
  Jim Lewis and Jeff Sauro: If AI can code problems and potentially moderate a structured interview, can it also reliably find usability issues from watching a video?
• I didn’t set a cookie
  Kuber Studio: A live demonstration of everything a website learns about you before you click anything. No cookies, no permissions, no consent dialog. Nothing is stored.
• You can just choose how many bugs you want now
  Nolan Lawson: correctness, performance, accessibility, reliability, etc.
• Your UX team is set up for the wrong job
  Paul Boag: Accessibility problems accumulate because generated interfaces look fine and fail quietly.
• No amount of velocity can shield your team from opportunity cost
  Pavel Samsonov: The real cost of a decision is the loss of the roads not taken.
• Video: A Pragmatic Guide to Browser Support
  Pixel Pioneers: Rachel Andrew in Bristol on 20 June 2026.
• There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
  Sophie Albert: one day better AI tools might be able to help us think, but until then I fear that using AI to write does the exact opposite.
• The case for spec-driven design
  Tuomas Härkönen: Product-level standards, from the design system to accessibility, are contracts agents build to.
• New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling
  Vitaly Friedman: clearly visible, with a plain language label and accessible to assistive technologies.

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• A Beginner’s Guide to Kiosk Accessibility
  Vispero: What It Is and How to Get Started.
• Who Owns Digital Accessibility?
  Vispero: Why Shared Responsibility Requires Clear Accountability
• Accessible Self-Service
  Vispero: What It Is and Why It Matters
• Employee Spotlight – Jenny Browne
  Vispero: Account Executive supporting the retail, travel, and hospitality industries.
• What Does a Digital Accessibility Specialist Do?
  Vispero: The role extends well beyond identifying accessibility issues on a website.
• JAWS Jumpstart
  Vispero: Getting Started with Essential JAWS Navigation Shortcuts
• Accessibility Is an Operations Deadline, Not an IT Project
  Albert Nii Noi Okwei: Call an inaccessible portal what it is: an administrative burden with a legal deadline attached.
• Don’t Use A Class For That!
  Alvaro Montoro: Using attributes instead of classes isn’t just cleaner, it’s more semantic, more accessible, and more future-proof.
• How do you feel about accessibility in the age of AI?
  Annie Manion: AbilityNet’s sixth annual Attitudes to Digital Accessibility Survey is now live for your input.
• Promises of accessibility complAIance
  Bogdan Cerovac: Deliberate typo in the title, you know, with all the AI hype out there.
• Accessibility Audit
  Chantal Seiter: How to Make Your Digital Products EAA-Compliant.
• Accessibility: Start with “why”
  Craig Abbott: I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about why accessibility initiatives are so hard.
• 10 surprising facts about screen readers
  Diana Khalipina: 1. Screen readers don’t actually read what’s on your screen.
• Research-backed typography checklist
  Diana Khalipina: (beyond choosing a nice font).
• Video: What’s behind the label “Top 5% accessible webpage”?
  Diana Khalipina: I recorded my audit to share what I found and why I think we need to look beyond the numbers.
• Accessible by Design Issue 13
  Emi Hutton (LinkedIn): Customer experience begins in the boardroom long before customers open your app, enter your space, or use your service.
• Here’s yet another metaphor about tech debt
  Eric Bailey: The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary landfill.
• Using and Styling the Dialog Element
  Geoff Graham: when the modal dialog is open, the popover dialog is not in the top layer, making it inaccessible.
• New in Axe MCP Server
  Harris Schneiderman: More automated coverage and streamlined developer workflows.
• Mapping the Revised 508/255 ICT Accessibility Standards to the WCAG 2.2
  Homer Gaines: I wanted to highlight the similarities between the WCAG and the Revised 508/255 ICT Standards.
• Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake
  Jake Archibald: I made an accessibility error, and I want you to learn from my mistakes.
• AI and Accessibility for Ecommerce
  Jeff Adams: What the Tools Really Do and What they Don’t.
• The Dirty Secrets of Accessibility
  Jeffrey Thompson: The intent of this article is to give people with no experience in accessibility testing and compliance the confidence and principles to get started.
• Introducing name and informational tool tips in WordPress 7.1
  Joe Dolson: two new functions for rendering tool tips and informational help in core.
• Legal Update: July 2026
  Ken Nakata: July was pretty uneventful for me. There also wasn’t much happening in the courts.
• A Brief History of AI in Accessibility Testing Platforms
  Kessler West: Every accessibility platform vendor now touts some form of AI-powered WCAG compliance, but many of them don’t go beyond the buzzwords.
• Digital Accessibility Ethics for the Legal Profession
  Lainey Feingold: A Disability Inclusion in Tech Resource.
• What a Furry Convention Taught Me About Event Accessibility
  Laura Wissiak: Oh, I bet I have your attention now, don’t I?
• Why Some PDF Checks Can Never Be Fully Automated
  Marcel Ludwig: there is one crucial area that cannot be fully automated: the assessment of meaning, context, and comprehensibility.
• The Hidden Costs of Non-Accessible Mass-Produced Documents
  Marcel Ludwig: non-accessible mass-produced documents incur significant costs without being recognized as such.
• Apple adds nearly 45 hearing devices to its Made for iPhone compatibility list
  Marcus Mendes: Apple updated its official list of supported MFI hearing devices, bringing the total to 623 models across 104 brands.
• Don’t Override Screen Reader Pronunciation
  Matthias Zöchling:
• Video: From Carnival Midways to Accessible Retreats
  Maxwell Ivey: My conversation with Holly Porter, host of All Things Retreat.
• Video: Authentic Accessibility & Inclusion
  Maxwell Ivey: My conversation with lawyer and disability advocate Daniel Hodges.
• What is a Dynamic Disability? (Digital Download)
  Megan Anna Neff: one where symptoms and needs shift, and with them capacity and ability fluctuate.
• The accessibility paradox
  Michael Buckley: How making the web easier for humans also made it easier for machines.
• Airline Website Accessibility
  Michael Taylor: Comparing Flight Results while Blind.
• WCAG-ODC
  Mohammed Alannsary: an orthogonal defect classification framework for web accessibility defects.
• The Invisible Barriers in Social Media
  Narelle Wright: For many people with disability, social media is much more than entertainment.
• A11y 101 – 3.3.4 Error Prevention
  Nat Tarnoff: is about preventing catastrophic mistakes before they happen.
• Accessibility getting dropped in the process
  Nic Steenhout: When accessible designs become inaccessible products.
• The Perfect Cripple: A User Guide to Being Palatable
  Pluto Rennie: There is a correct way to be disabled. No one tells you outright.
• One year of working on documentation about accessibility for WordPress
  Rian Rietveld: The goal is for WordPress community to have consistent, easy to find, reliable, and up-to-date information about what is important.
• The “Disability Dongle”: Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
  Robert Kingett: There is a feel-good genre of viral video that I call “The Inspiration Porn Industrial Complex.”
• Using AI tools to drive an accessible dev process
  Robin Christopherson: the tools are starting to exist that could materially improve the accessibility of digital products at scale, provided we use them in the right way.
• The EU AI Act has a message for accessibility teams: get involved earlier
  Robin Christopherson: Human oversight only works if the right humans are involved.
• WordPress 7.1 Accessibility Change May Break Some Plugins
  Roger Montti: a change that improves accessibility but will cause a breaking change to the admin page for a small number of users.
• HTML email accessibility tester
  Russ Weakley: Paste your email HTML markup or upload an HTML email file.
• AI Has Ideas About Intellectual Disabilities
  Shaun Heasley: It’s Not Always Accurate.
• ‘A Lone Voice In The Wilderness’
  Steve Aquino: perfectly captures the essence of my entire career covering accessibility and assistive technologies.
• Passing the Accessibility Torch to Sarah Margolis-Greenbaum
  Ted Drake: the new Head of Accessibility at Intuit. I will be shifting to Intuit Design System and other projects.
• How State, Local Governments Can Make the Accessibility Deadline
  Thad Rueter: Experts say getting there will require a clear plan and strong collaboration.
• Global tech firms to come under India’s mandatory disability-access rules
  Vrinda Tulsian: Each firm will have to publish an Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR), free of cost, on its website or app.
• Video: How to navigate headings with NVDA screen reader
  Whitney Lewis: Headings are the main way screen reader users navigate a page. It’s important that they’re made with proper heading HTML elements.
• Exploring 1.2.9 Audio-only (Live)
  Will Slone: If your site streams live audio with no accompanying video … this criterion requires a real-time text alternative for that audio.
• Talk Forward
  Yannick Plassiard: a powerful screen reader that makes your Android phone and tablet fully usable by voice and touch.
• Podcast: Sriram Ganesh
  AXSChat: Sriram built Lumin, a voice-first AI assistant for blind and low-vision people, on the belief that designing for accessibility produces better products for everyone.
• Podcast: Complex Infographics: A Tactical Approach
  Chax Chat: Chad and Dax break down a practical framework for evaluating, designing, and remediating complex visual content.
• How AI Is Expanding Accessibility
  Consumer Technology Association: If developed inclusively, AI could become one of the most impactful accessibility tools in modern history.
• Video: Lucy Collins
  The Digital Accessibility Podcast: Managing Director of Web Usability and founder of CollectivA11y.
• The Cadence Tactile Tablet
  Easterseals Crossroads: A Bold New Use of Braille.
• Video: Introducing BoardScribe
  Equalize Digital: Accessible Board Meeting Minutes for WordPress.
• Call for Volunteers
  WordPress Accessibility Day: a nonprofit event organized and run by volunteers. We need your help to ensure the event goes smoothly.
• The Difference Between a Button and a Link
  Alexander Petros: makes the web simpler, safer, and more accessible for all.
• Don’t Use A Class For That!
  Alvaro Montoro: As with everything related to accessibility, tread carefully.
• How to build a design system strategy you’ll actually deliver
  Amy Hupe: if one of your priorities was to improve the accessibility of your design system, you could plan the following actions.
• Unlock Immediate Diagonal Scrolling with CSS scroll-axis-lock: none
  Bramus Van Damme: you can disable the browser’s default scroll axis-locking behavior, allowing users to immediately perform a diagonal scroll.
• View Transitions: Careful Not To Make Stuff Unclickable
  Chris Coyier: If you don’t deal with it specifically, it’s likely you’re blocking interactivity on the rest of the page.
• Anarchy and modern convenience
  Chris Ferdinandi: Socialism, anti-work, and degrowth … can provide you with even more comfort, more evenly distributed and accessible to all.
• How To Make Your WordPress Website AI-Friendly
  Eric Karkovack: We know that things are changing. The confusion lies in how to adjust to this brave new world.
• How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
  Jad Joubran: A huge amount of modal-related code exists to solve accessibility problems.
• 76 Open Research Questions in AI Usability
  Jakob Nielsen: Attempt complete AI sessions using only the keyboard, then run an automated accessibility checker.
• Maybe the “Webmaster” Isn’t Dead After All
  Jens Oliver Meiert: AI enables and leverages, but the webmaster orchestrates and takes the responsibility.
• Blossom Carousel
  Jesper Vos (GitHub): the first carousel library that builds on native browser scrolling instead of replacing it. Full performance and accessibility.
• On turning opinions into constraints
  Karl Koch: Turn opinions into constraints when you keep repeating the same feedback to a model.
• Dark mode toggles: two states are enough
  Lea Verou: A lot of the hate towards two-state toggles is based on poor implementations.
• Limits and Methods
  Mark Pesce: how can we with our limited knowledge know the difference between sublime truth and utter malarkey?
• Can we make default tailwind a more accessible choice?
  Nick Bevins: And I’ll be honest, I got the answer wrong the first time I thought about it.
• Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
  Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi: explores a different approach to creating a new AI assistant (to text boxes).
• State of CSS 2026
  Patrick Brosset: Strong demand for built-in support for accessible contrasting colors.
• Progressive Enhancement inside of JavaScript
  Remy Sharp: doesn’t only apply to HTML being enhanced with JavaScript. It also applies within JavaScript.
• Results from the 2026 State of CSS Survey
  Sacha Greif: Developers report anchor positioning as their favorite new CSS feature of this past year.

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• August 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.
• Podcast: July 2026
  Vispero Connect: Introducing Sid Gaitonde, Catching Up With Brian Hartgen, and More AI Tips From Mohammed Laachir.
• Webinar: From Prompting to Productivity: Building Better AI Workflows
  Vispero: Elizabeth Whitaker and Rachel Buchanan. Thursday, August 6, 2026, 12:00 pm Eastern time.
• Podcast: Ryan Jones
  Vispero Travel Trends: a conversation about the growing importance of digital accessibility in the travel industry.
• Group Note Draft: EPUB Accessibility 1.2 Explainer
  W3C: how to understand and evaluate the accessible publications conformance requirements of EPUB Accessibility 1.2.
• EU Icons for labelling AI-generated content
  European Commission: Users of the icon are encouraged to implement accessibility measures.
• Designing voice first, without the answers
  Anton Sten: I’m in the middle of designing a voice-first product right now, and I have more questions than answers.
• Why DevTools and screen readers are inconsistent
  Cezary Tomczyk: Why DevTools and screen readers show different accessibility information, and why manual testing is essential for reliable accessibility.
• Building accessibility into Figma Make prototypes
  Chris Pigden: how we built the accessibility Skill for Figma Make: the problem it solves, why AI-generated prototypes fall short on accessibility.
• Assistive Technology Market Size & Usage Statistics
  David Gervorkian: Assistive technology is not a niche global issue. It touches a significant share of the world’s population.
• How to Create an Accessible Menu for Website Navigation
  David Gervorkian: Whether you are auditing an existing accessible navigation menu or building a new one from scratch, the same core principles apply.
• Will the web accessibility specialist become the next unicorn job?
  Diana Khalipina: I’ve noticed that some of the job descriptions for these positions contain responsibilities from multiple positions.
• What is the difference between display: none and aria-hidden=”true”
  Diana Khalipina: One of the common accessibility issues is caused by hiding content the wrong way.
• The colors that are compliant on both white and black backgrounds
  Diana Khalipina: can make it much easier to build components that work consistently in both light and dark themes.
• Announcing What Can’t I Press?
  Eric Bailey: I made this app to help speed up and streamline the process of adding keyboard shortcuts in a safe and responsible way.
• Efficient accessibility needs both
  Gerry Neustatl (LinkedIn): Automation finds the obvious. Humans find the important.
• No, Disability Isn’t a Luxury Identity
  Grace Dow: I have cerebral palsy, and not a single thing about it is “trendy”.
• The vanishing art of disability reporting
  Grant Stoner: Without consistent support, accessibility and disability reporting in the gaming industry will become a thing of the past.
• AI and Accessibility: Promise, Limitations, and the Importance of Human Expertise
  Helen Burge: As AI rapidly integrates into software development, from code generation to interface review, it promises unmatched efficiency.
• Invisible Problems
  Ibrahim Diallo: He panicked, and he was embarrassed. It turned out he was colorblind.
• Plain Language Is an Accessibility Feature
  Jeff Adams: Plain language isn’t writing down to anyone. It’s doing the hard part so your audience doesn’t have to.
• The Click-to-Cancel Rule Is Gone
  Jessica Chambers: Your Cancellation Maze Is Still a Problem.
• How to get started with Web Accessibility in 2026
  Josefine Schfr: We are still far from Web Accessibility being a code quality standard across the board, but there has been some uptick in awareness.
• Use the Axe Monitor MCP integration
  Kate Spalla: within your preferred AI assistant to accelerate issue prioritization.
• Social Media’s Accessibility Crisis
  Kessler West: If you use a screen reader, rely on captions, or navigate by keyboard, the daily experience of social media in 2026 is still a frustrating one.
• 100 lawmakers urge DOJ to withdraw opinion putting HCBS in jeopardy
  Kimberly Bonvissuto: “undermines decades of protections for disability rights,” including the provision of home- and community-based services in assisted living communities.
• Why you need to add subtitles to your online videos
  Krishi Chowdhary: and it’s not just because 69% of viewers watch on mute.
• There’s no going back
  Martin Underhill: The further I go on my accessibility journey, the more I learn, and the more I cringe at some of my earlier practices.
• WWDC 2026 roundup
  Martin Underhill: wishing for a year focused on refinement, and it looks like that has finally happened.
• The Story Between the Lines: An Open Letter to Crunchyroll
  Melanie Sumner: Over the years, I’ve come to believe that quality and accessibility reinforce one another.
• Breaking the PDF Habit in Higher Ed: Why Website Bloat is a Governance Problem, Not a Tech One
  Michael Bolton: PDFs often create poor mobile experiences, accessibility challenges, duplicate content, and outdated information.
• Airline Web Accessibility
  Michael Taylor: Filters That Break for Screen Reader Users.
• Accessible Digital Communication Builds Trust
  Narelle Wright: When people can easily understand your message, they feel confident that your organisation knows what it is doing.
• A11y 101 – 3.3.3 Error Suggestion
  Nat Tarnoff: its message is simple: tell people how to fix it.
• Progress is real, but fragile
  Peter Torres Fremlin: The long term impacts of inclusion, and curated news from 39 countries.
• For your business to thrive in the agentic AI era
  Preety Kumera: treat accessibility as foundational to your AI strategy.
• Disability Pride Month 2026
  Sharyn Morrow: Progress, Pride, and the Work Ahead.
• Bend, Do Not Break
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Building Resilient Accessibility Programs.
• How Much Does PDF Accessibility Cost?
  Sneha Chugh: Complete Pricing Guide for 2026
• ARIA Testify Live Monitor
  Steve Faulkner (GitHub): free open source Windows desktop application for recording accessibility announcements exposed through Windows UI Automation.
• Video: ARIA notifier
  Steve Faulkner: Working example using aria-notify to convey a status message.
• Video: Mean What You Say & Stoic Accessibility
  The Accessibility Breakdown: Mark Miller and Justin Stockton are joined by special guest Nic Steenhout.
• Video: Beyond the Scan: 7 Manual Accessibility Tests to do Right Now
  Accessibility Craft Podcast: Amber, Chris, and Steve explain how manual accessibility testing fills the gaps left by automated tools
• Video: Tech as Cognitive Accessibility
  Accessibility Talks: Designing Systems for ADHD Brains – Eleanor Beilby.
• Bespoke Visual Assistance
  arxiv: What and How do Blind and Low-Vision People Create with Agentic Programming?
• Why digital accessibility is a strategic priority for HSBC
  Deque: With online banking now the norm, digital accessibility is essential.
• Building accessible digital experiences through user journey testing
  Equal Entry: PAC NYC built accessibility into its digital ecosystem from the very beginning, creating a smoother and more usable experience for all visitors.
• The worldviews we build with: Why good design starts in the spirit
  Equal Entry: based on a presentation at Accessibility New York City (A11yNYC) by Elina Ashimbayeva.
• Using a Computer with Vision Loss
  Future in Sight: Your guide to accessible computing.
• Podcast: Stack Overflow for the Agent Era
  Hanselminutes: Alexandra Lato, VP of Product at Stack Overflow, joins Scott.
• Why Mature Enterprise Accessibility Programs Plateau
  Level Access: where mature programs tend to stall, why it happens, and five practical ways to bring your program back up to speed.
• Digital Accessibility Lawsuits in 2026
  UsableNet: Five Trends Companies Should Know.
• Tabbed Interfaces
  WebAIM: Tabbed interfaces, or simply tabs, organize content into layered sections that display one at a time.
• Screen Reader User Survey #11
  WebAIM: This survey is primarily intended to collect new information and track updates/trends from previous surveys.
• The CSS lh unit
  Ahmad Shadeed: A look at the CSS line height unit and how it works.
• Designing for the proxy
  Aurélie Radom: Why AI is changing who reads first.
• The Launch of CodePen 2.0
  Chris Coyier: we set out to rebuild our online editor to better support what today’s developers want and expect.
• WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C’s journey of fonts on the web
  Chris Lilley: the story of a very interesting historical milestone on the decades-long road of W3C’s work on fonts on the web.
• The future of the website
  Joost de Valk: What even is “the website” five years from now?
• Designing Systems That Decide
  Josh Clark: more than learning new tactics or design patterns, the next era of design requires a fundamental shift in perspective.
• Stop the tracking circus
  Kill the Cookie Banner: a campaign backing an EU proposal to replace cookie banners with a browser privacy signal.
• Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible
  No One’s Happy: Some Things Need to Be Apps, But Most Don’t.
• No New Name Has Replaced “UX”
  Rachel Banawa: human-centered work reduces uncertainty, uncovers unmet customer needs, prevents costly rework, identifies accessibility problems.

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• What Is a Digital Accessibility Maturity Model?
  Vispero: A Guide to Building Sustainable Accessibility Programs.
• Employee Spotlight
  Vispero: Jenny Browne, Account Executive supporting the retail, travel, and hospitality industries.
• What Is an ADA Compliance Consultant?
  Vispero: A Guide for Organizations.
• The Cost of Accessibility Remediation Is Only Part of the Picture
  Vispero: the cost of a reactive accessibility approach extends well beyond fixing individual issues.
• WCAG Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0
  W3C: published as a W3C Group Note 23 July 2026.
• EPUB Accessibility 1.2
  W3C: Comments on the Candidate Recommendation Snapshots are welcome via GitHub issues by 19 October 2026.
• GAAD Co-Founders Joe Devon and Jennison Asuncion receive AbilityNet Tech4Good Special Award 2026
  Amy Low: AbilityNet CEO celebrates the lasting impact of the founders of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) and their contribution to digital accessibility worldwide.
• Under my radar: the highlight API, text-indent and font-family: math
  Brecht De Ruyte: screen readers can read this aloud as a structured mathematical equation, making it accessible to everyone.
• A loserboard for NZ Govt automated accessibility data
  Callum McMenamin: This site lets you see NZ Govt website accessibility compliance over time with pretty charts.
• Digital government services increase accessibility gap
  Clare McDonald: Many adults are unable to access digital government services in the UK, leading the digital divide to widen.
• The Monarch as My Silent Co-Presenter
  Darrell Hilliker: Braille Notes That Kept a Live Accessibility Demo on Track.
• Thirty-Six Years Later: The ADA at a Crossroads
  Dennis Deacon: That is worth celebrating. It is also, this year, worth defending.
• What If Accessibility Is Actually A Data Strategy?
  Dennis DuFour: accessibility is evolving from a technical obligation into a broader business, operational and reputational concern.
• What if your summer holiday become an accessibility adventure?
  Diana Khalipina: people experience the world in different ways and that the same thinking applies when we design websites, apps and digital content.
• 10 surprising facts about sign languages
  Diana Khalipina: and why they matter for web accessibility.
• The brain doesn’t care about WCAG, it cares about cognitive effort
  Diana Khalipina: Here are 5 accessibility tools that will help your brain to integrate web accessibility in your everyday life easily.
• Laws don’t guarantee web accessibility, people do
  Diana Khalipina: if legislation and training were enough, wouldn’t we expect most websites to be accessible by now?
• A11Y.md
  Felipe Arriaga Carriço (GitHub): A context system for building accessible software by default — for developers and AI, with enforceable rules aligned to WCAG.
• The Invention of Normal
  Fernando Estrada Franco (LinkedIn): Remembering how it was invented is not an exercise in archaeology. It is the precondition for arguing with it.
• Announcing: Skeleton, the culminating project of my PhD!
  Frank Elavsky: the barriers that sighted practitioners face when authoring non-visual data experiences.
• Design accessibility into every Figma file with DesignLint
  Gerry Neustatl: helps teams make accessibility intent visible in Figma, reduce handover guesswork, and catch issues earlier in the design workflow.
• The ADA at 36: A Promise in Peril
  Grace Dow: As the ADA celebrates its 36th anniversary, the stakes are incredibly high.
• Should native app screen titles be headings?
  Graeme Coleman: an example of the challenges involved in applying WCAG to native apps.
• Ten Years of Accessibility in the News
  Jack McElaney: Over the past decade, I have watched accessibility move from the margins of compliance into the center of public life.
• The Certainty Principles
  Kailani Knight (LinkedIn): there are universal truths and predictable elements to accessibility and inclusion that most organisations are missing.
• Appreciating Disabled Oracles
  Kelly Mack: How Disabled People Light the Way to a Better Future.
• Why Do We Take It for Granted That Digital Tools Are Bad?
  Kessler West: The most disorienting thing about bad software isn’t that it fails; it’s that it fails in ways that make us feel like the problem.
• AI Chatbots Are Inaccessible, and I Can Prove It
  Kessler West: A chatbot can pass every automated accessibility scan on the market and still be unusable for someone navigating it with a screen reader.
• The Content That Survives Google’s AI Overview Filter
  Kessler West: which content gets quoted, which gets buried, and what structural and editorial choices seem to move the needle either way.
• Free Accessibility Certifications to take this Summer
  Laura Wissiak: where you don’t know how legit or knowledgeable they truly are, try these first.
• If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe
  Marco Campos: A concrete example of why using native HTML as much as possible is better than slapping ARIA on top of things.
• Intersector
  Marco Salsiccia (Mastodon): an app built for #Blind and low-vision travelers who quickly want to know what intersections are around them.
• Earning Attendee Trust with Accessible Events
  Mark Miller: Here is what I learned from my fellow panelists.
• First details of TechShare Pro 2026 announced
  Mark Walker: AI and Accessibility: Risk and Reward The challenges of accessibility leadership in the age of AI.
• The Grand Challenge of Transforming Instructional Design’s Misguided Approach to Accessibility
  Matthew Schmidt and Noah Glaser: accessibility must no longer be treated as a peripheral concern, but embraced as a transformative principle that benefits all learners.
• A major Windows 11 upgrade drops July 14
  Mauro Huculak: here’s what’s new for every PC.
• Five lessons from 1776 that leaders and teams need now
  Meryl Evans: Strong communication, accessible processes, and inclusive decision-making help teams work better together
• Airline Website Accessibility
  Michael Taylor: Flight Search Fields That Fail Screen Reader Users.
• Return of CSS Outline
  Morgan Murrah: People who particularly rely on keyboard access and visual cues may not be able to see what is in focus without an outline.
• A11y 101 – 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions
  Nat Tarnoff: When content requires user input, you must provide labels or instructions.
• Accessibility Was Never a One-Time Purchase
  Natalie MacLees: What the European Accessibility Act’s first year taught me about the myth of “done”.
• Accessibility Bugs Are Often Architecture Bugs
  Niharika P Pujari: when the same accessibility problems keep appearing across different parts of a product, they are usually not just isolated bugs.
• Pride, WCAG 3, and another podcast episode
  Nicolas Steenhout: what happens when we accept something as normal without ever stopping to examine it?
• How Keyboard Shortcuts are my Superpower
  Robert Kingett: I often feel a deep, confusing pity for sighted computer users.
• Three stories about AI and accessibility that every CTO will recognise
  Robin Christopherson: Details have been changed, but the underlying challenges are genuine and increasingly common.
• AI could make financial services more inclusive
  Robin Christopherson: but only if accessibility is part of the infrastructure.
• Empowering Accessibility with AI
  Shek Habeebul Haq: AI and community have enabled independence and innovation for employees with visual impairments.
• Practical Steps for Disability-Inclusive Recruiting
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Hiring people with disabilities shouldn’t be complicated.
• Robin Berjon – Fireside
  Steve Faulkner: French computer scientist and political writer, editor of the W3C HTML5 specification.
• aViewer – Moderno
  Steve Faulkner: A free, open source, modern Windows accessibility API inspection tool inspired by the original aViewer.
• Video: Accessibility Widgets Are Not Enough for Screen-Reader Users
  Tanner Kohler: Website accessibility widgets add little value in making your site accessible to users with partial or no vision.
• To sit under the rain
  Teodor Mladenov: What the Independent Living Movement taught me about freedom.
• Making an Accessible Emotion Wheel: Why I Built Mine
  Tim Dixon: That has helped me become more in touch with my emotions and the physical signals that accompany them.
• Continual Engine Introduces SmartHTML for Accessible HTML Conversion
  Vijayshree Vethantham: a solution that converts PDFs into structured, accessible HTML while preserving document integrity.
• The Evolution of PDF Standards
  Vijayshree Vethantham: Accessibility, Security, and Compliance.
• Generate high-quality ACRs in VPAT format up to 90% faster
  Vipul Khandelwal: Software ships faster than ever, and accessibility documentation needs to evolve as quickly as products do.
• Labels for non-text content in mobile apps
  Abra: Labels for non-text content matter for a broader group of users than you might realise.
• How Be My Eyes Workplace Is Transforming Accessibility at Work
  Be My Eyes: Two recent testimonials show how AI-powered accessibility is helping blind employees at Envision Xpress work more independently.
• The Wild West of Accessible PDF Remediation
  BrailleWorks: Finding an accessible PDF remediation vendor can feel a lot like navigating the Wild West.
• Podcast: TOCs vs. Bookmarks: Which Serves Users Better?
  Chax Chat: Chad and Dax explore one of the most overlooked accessibility features in document design: the table of contents.
• New survey and report
  Deque: shows volume of AI-generated code is significantly increasing “accessibility debt” risk.
• Video: Kicking the Accessibility Can
  Disability Weekly: Jack McElaney, who is the Publisher of “Accessibility in the News,” about how we organizations can better prioritize digital accessibility, and why it matters now.
• 2026 Midyear Accessibility Lawsuits
  Equidox: The DOJ Delayed Enforcement so Plaintiffs Took Action.
• The C.A.R.E. framework
  Fable: how to communicate accessibility impact.
• Create QR Codes for Everyone
  Minnesota IT: Guidance on making QR code usage inclusive and accessible.
• Resize text and lessons on conformance and techniques
  Minnesota IT: Simple in theory: Why resizing text for accessibility is more complex than it looks.
• The next generation of the ACB Radio Tuner
  Quill Radio: Free. Built the way a screen reader user would build it.
• Accessibility Rant: Reader Mode
  Unattributed: There are multiple reasons that Reading Mode is a necessity for many people, myself included.
• Video: From “Inaccessible” to Inclusive
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: A Practical PDF Remediation Demo with Samantha Merrett.
• The Era of Personal Software
  Allen Hutchison: an application or a script built to solve a specific problem for a specific person.
• Disappointed Optimists
  Christina Wodke: But let me tell you a secret: all design is behavior change.
• How to talk about “AI” without adding to the anthropomorphization
  Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie: In general, we recommend avoiding using artificial intelligence or AI in reference to technologies.
• Does Your Form Really Need a Dropdown List?
  Huei-Hsin Wang: A well-configured text input … is faster, less error-prone, and more accessible than a dropdown.
• Why I built a semantic-HTML first library
  Karl Koch: Overcorrecting a bad decision is still a decision worth checking.
• AI is not a substitute for knowing how to run software projects
  Pavel Samsonov: Despite execs’ best hopes for automating their own jobs, technology will always remain downstream of decision-making.
• Visual Regression Testing: The Most Important Test You’re Not Running
  Rajasegar Chandran: It takes visual screenshots of your page or components, and compares them against a baseline image to check that nothing changed.
• A Concrete Definition of “Product Sense” (and How to Build It)
  Tanner Kohler: predicting which product decisions will succeed based on patterns learned through experimentation — and knowing when those patterns apply.

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• Accessibility Programs Are Not Linear
  Vispero: How Organizations Build Maturity Over Time
• How Virtual Accessibility Consulting Works
  Vispero: A Guide for Enterprise Teams.
• Accessibility Moments – Lists
  Vispero: Brian Elton, Practice Manager of Training at Vispero, breaks down the three types of HTML lists.
• Video: The World Cup and Digital Accessibility
  Vispero: State of Accessibility podcast with David Sloan and Dave Swallow.
• CSS animations, human rights, and big accessibility at the AB Web Meetup
  Hidde de Vries: Cynthia Shelly told us no less than five stories from her history in “Big Accessibility”.
• What to Look for in a Digital Accessibility Platform
  Abhay Kapur: A Buyer’s Guide.
• How to make your social media content more accessible
  Alan Sleat: Social media is designed to connect us. But for many people, it still creates barriers.
• Figma x Intopia
  Dan Thomas: Building Accessibility into AI-Generated Prototypes.
• Boundary-aware CSS, Time-based CSS, Full-bleed CSS, and More
  Daniel Schwarz: read all about boundary-aware CSS, making grid lanes accessible, and more.
• Building accessibility into a canvas-based product
  David Winslow and Elynn Lee: Building on a canvas … strips away any accessibility the browser gives you for free. Here’s how we built it back in.
• 10 facts about assistive technology
  Diana Khalipina: assistive technologies are some of the most impressive engineering achievements ever created.
• Looking for accessibility opportunities?
  Diana Khalipina: I started building the resource that I couldn’t find.
• One key can reveal hundreds of accessibility issues
  Diana Khalipina: one of the most effective tests starts by putting your mouse aside and pressing the Tab key.
• Boosting accessibility at Microsoft with help from neurodivergent employees
  Diana Mivelli: we’re turning insights from our neurodivergent employees into smarter, more inclusive products that benefit everyone.
• Theming atproto
  Donnie D’Amato: designed to be more inclusive and accessible than existing social media platforms.
• Accessibility in the age of AI
  Ela Gorla: what does the widespread adoption of AI mean for accessibility?
• Handling Alt Text in a Linked Image
  Geoff Graham: Is there another approach I’m simply missing? Am I over-thinking this?
• Accessibility Meets Reality
  Grace Dow: The challenge lies in striking a balance that preserves the civil rights of disabled people while giving small businesses a chance to comply.
• Every Curb Cut, Every Door, Every Day: What Disabled Students Carry
  Grace Dow: Making something accessible means listening to disabled people, providing funding for accessibility, and making inclusion a reality.
• My Accessibility Review Process
  Homer Gaines: The following high-level descriptions explain the process necessary to evaluate the conformance level of the products.
• Video: There’s No Such Thing as Fully Accessible
  Jenni Pettican: Because fully accessible for who?
• Image to text
  Jeremy Keith: I was one of those people with a website that doesn’t have alt text for images.
• The Second EAA Ruling Determines “71% Accessible” is Not a Defense
  Jessica Chambers: On 4 June 2026, the Tribunal judiciaire de Caen confirmed that the Auchan off-ramp was not available to everyone.
• With gratitude and appreciation
  Jonathan Mosen: remembering access technology great Jonathan Sharp.
• How to Create Disabled Freedom
  Kelly Mack: Envisioning a Path for the Future.
• The Coming Assault on Disability Rights
  Ken Nakata: This post goes way beyond digital accessibility. It should get the usual “red alert” treatment, but it’s much bigger than that.
• What the Forbes Accessibility 200 Measures, and What it Doesn’t
  Kessler West: The Forbes Accessibility 200 measures a plausible proxy for accessibility, not accessibility itself.
• A newbie’s guide to designing good web forms: the technical bits
  Kim Grey: The somewhat belated third (and probably final part) in my mini series about web form design.
• The 5 accessibility tests to run first
  Laura Wissiak: Non-Interference.
• Accessibility is resistance!
  Léonie Watson: if we’d let the web realise its accessibility potential, far fewer people would be turning to AI to compensate now.
• ADA Integration Protections Questioned by DOJ
  Mark Miller: especially the requirement that people with disabilities be served in the most integrated community setting rather than institutions.
• Hotel Website Accessibility
  Michael Taylor: Browsing Room Options.
• Hotel Website Accessibility
  Michael Taylor: Check-in, Messaging, and In-Stay Barriers for Blind Guests.
• Customer Confidence Starts with Accessibility
  Narelle Wright: The real measure of success isn’t whether a website passes a checklist.
• Three Months Later
  Nat Tarnoff: The Algorithm Won. My Wife Nearly Didn’t.
• Compliant but Unusable
  Nicole L’Etoile (LinkedIn): The checkbox mentality produces artifacts, not access.
• A new kind of clock
  Peter Torres Fremlin: Crip time, understanding hearing aids, and phantom models of disability.
• The Mindful Design Toolkit
  Scott Riley: the bulk of useful artefacts that I think have a place in a modern, ethical design practice.
• Assistive Access Isn’t ‘Buried’
  Steve Aquino: To say Assistive Access is buried is to imply it doesn’t matter.
• Use cases for aria-expanded
  Steve Frenzel: This article is intended to help you more easily determine whether aria-expanded has been used correctly or not.
• The Power Of Tags
  Vijayshree Vethantham: Adding tags to your PDF isn’t just a technical step; it’s a critical part of creating an inclusive document.
• Canvas Documents and Videos Dashboard
  Whitney Lewis: Pope Tech’s Canvas Accessibility Dashboards have a Documents and Video Dashboard, which lists all the documents and videos in the courses.
• Global regulation trends
  AbilityNet: the accessibility rules UK organisations can’t ignore.
• Video: Let’s Get Purple and Old Man PDF
  The Accessibility Breakdown Podcast: Mark Miller and Justin Stockton talk about online retail accessibility failing disabled customers.
• Video: One Page, Many Problems: Accessibility in SPAs
  Accessibility Craft Podcast: We discuss what it takes to build an accessible single page application (SPA).
• Video: The worldviews we build with: Why good design starts in the spirit
  Accessibility NYC Meetup: Elina Ashimbayeva, drawing on indigenous learnings from Aotearoa New Zealand, and examples from accessibility and AI design.
• Visually-dynamic information should have a text equivalent
  AccessibilityOz: Correct code and visual demo for a progress meter.
• Podcast: Neil Milliken
  ASXChat: Neil is a leading strategist and community builder with over two decades of experience within the Accessibility and Assistive Technology fields.
• Podcast: Paul Bepey – Digital Accessibility Manager @ PwC UK
  The Digital Accessibility Podcast: digital accessibility through the perspective of someone who has been blind since birth.
• Apple Readies Movie About Prominent Disability Rights Activist
  Disability Scoop: A feature film about an activist known as the “mother of the disability rights movement” is set to debut.
• The PDF Accessibility Audit
  Equidox: How to Evaluate Your Organization’s Document Library Before a Regulator Does.
• Video: M-Enabling Summit 2026
  IAAP: Organized by G3ict, this is the premier cross-sector gathering for digital accessibility and inclusive technology, held October 5–7 in Arlington, VA.
• Video: Ask the Professionals – Accessibility News
  OZeWAI: Amanda Mace moderates the panel: Ricky Onsman (Vispero), Jack McElaney (Microassist), and David A. Kennedy (Ad Hoc)
• Podcast: How Accessible is Learning Online?
  Remarkable World Commentary: Donna J. Jodhan returns to a long-standing pet peeve.
• Video: Bridging the AI Divide: Ensuring AI Works for Everyone
  Underrepresented in Tech Podcast: From personal experiences using AI in everyday work to conversations about global accessibility.
• Video: Getting Set Up to Build Your First Gutenberg Block
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Emilio Dominguez. Accessibility was mentioned throughout the session.
• Podcast: Amber Hinds on restoring faith in WordPress
  WP Builds: Hard work, accessibility, and long term plugin-success.
• Effective Patterns for Advanced MCP Usage
  Adam Jones: Connecting to multiple servers starts the unlock.
• Why I don’t use interruption pages
  Adam Silver: Interruption pages are designed to pause the user within a journey – usually to warn them about a possible mistake or give them important information before they continue.
• Podcast: There Is No Neutral Design
  Design Notes: Megan Kasselberg, Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, Material Design.
• Perception and positioning: How great design teams get wasted
  Dan Craddock (LinkedIn): Good designers know that design (the verb) is more important than the design (the noun).
• Folded between the pages.
  Ethan Marcotte: I firmly believe “generative artificial intelligence” is a failed technology.
• Make It Work vs. Make It Good
  Jim Nielsen: Is it fast? Is it accessible? Is it intuitive? Does it work across multiple devices?
• In defense of polyfills
  Lea Verou: polyfills are how authors deliver the benefits of native APIs — performance, accessibility, i18n.
• “Try quickly typing 1+2+3. I bet you won’t get 6.”
  Marcin Wichary: It is oddly enthralling to see a computer fail at basic math.
• Designing with web standards: The playbook for this AI moment
  Patrick Neeman: Accessibility came bundled with the economics, which is how it got adopted.
• Thoughtless features never add up to a thoughtful product
  Pavel Samsonov: Delightful user experiences require a higher level of thinking.
• Push Things That Roll
  Uri Bram: some projects are like pushing a big round rock across a hilly terrain. Others are like pushing a big cube across a hilly terrain.
• No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
  Vitaly Friedman: they (still) want features that are fast, accessible, reliable, predictable and useful.
• Video: Grid Lanes – The Future of Masonry Layout
  Winging It: Join us for a deep dive into the workings of Grid Lanes.

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• Vispero Appoints Sid Gaitonde as Chief Executive Officer to Lead Next Era of Customer-Driven Innovation
  Vispero: Sid joins Vispero as the company continues to build on its long-standing leadership in assistive technology and digital accessibility.
• Webinar: Accessibility Documentation as a Driver for Improved Inclusive User Experience
  Vispero: Presented by David Sloan, Tuesday, July 21, 2026, 12pm ET
• What Is a WCAG Consultant?
  Vispero: How to Choose the Right Digital Accessibility Partner
• Accessibility Overlay vs. Web Accessibility Consultant
  Vispero: What’s the Difference?
• In-House Team, Staff Augmentation, or Accessibility Partner
  Vispero: Choosing the Right Model for Digital Accessibility.
• Innovation Track: Where the Future of Accessibility Comes to Life
  CSUN: a dynamic new Conference experience designed to spotlight emerging technologies, groundbreaking research, prototypes, and new ideas.
• Link + Popover Navigation
  Adrian Roselli: This is a redress of my 2019 post. I’ve modified it to use native HTML popovers instead of ARIA or HTML disclosure widgets.
• Understanding WCAG 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence in WordPress
  Amber Hinds: requires that all users receive information in a logical order regardless of how they access the page (with or without assistive technology).
• Who Owns Accessibility?
  Aparna Pasi (LinkedIn): The Client Writing the HTML, or the Browser Rendering It?
• Does your screen reader content need an editor?
  Ayesha Semfel: the content screen reader users hear is still real content, and it deserves the same care as everything else on the page.
• Video: Read Articles Aloud Using Reading Mode on Chrome (Desktop)
  Carrie Morales: Here’s how to start it, how to use it, and how it compares to Edge’s Read Aloud.
• Video: Why an Accessible InDesign Template Isn’t Enough for PDF Accessibility
  Collen Gratzer: Learn why templates aren’t enough for creating accessible PDFs from InDesign.
• How to Make an Interactive Element Invisible but Accessible
  Daniel Schwarz: things that might be okay to hide initially because they’re highly contextual or because users will know that they’re there.
• Serious accessibility regressions in ChatGPT with VoiceOver and NVDA
  Darren12 on AppleVis: I can no longer reliably access features such as Deep Research or Agent Mode using NVDA.
• A Tale of Two Menus
  Dax Castro (LinkedIn): Why Structure Matters
• Digital Accessibility can get you sued
  Dennis Deacon: Accessibility overlays claim to resolve accessibility issues without touching your underlying code.
• Europe’s public services promise accessibility, but are they delivering?
  Diana Khalipina: How accessible are public services across Europe?
• “With today’s AI, can’t we just run a full accessibility audit automatically?”
  Diana Khalipina: When I explain that this isn’t currently possible, people are often surprised.
• Please stop making everything clickable
  Diana Khalipina: Just because something can be clicked doesn’t mean it should be.
• Your carousel isn’t showing more content – it’s hiding it
  Diana Khalipina: if your website includes a carousel, users should always have an ability to pause it.
• Accessibility in the age of AI
  Ela Gorla: what does the widespread adoption of AI mean for accessibility?
• Stop Guessing. Start Knowing
  Gerry Neustatl (LinkedIn): Automation Finds the Obvious. Manual Audits Find the Important.
• Writing for understanding
  Helena Ferry: how to explain complicated things in writing, and how to help people actually understand them.
• Inside the 2026 Midyear Numbers
  Jason Taylor: The ADA continues to be the ONLY true enforcement around.
• Designing For Distressed Users
  Kat Homan: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion.
• Declaring Disabled Freedom
  Kelly Mack: A Proclamation of Our Own
• Legal Update: June 2026
  Ken Nakata: After a couple of quiet months, June had plenty to talk about.
• The accessible contrast ratio colour grid thing
  Kim Grey: a side project that I started working on in 2024.
• Is your board getting accessibility governance right?
  Léonie Watson (LinkedIn): One reason accessibility does not get executive attention is that it’s often discussed in technical terms.
• Xbox layoffs hit accessibility leadership
  Lincoln Carpenter: calling into question Microsoft’s continued commitment to accessibility initiatives.
• Step by Step
  Marcel Ludwig: Creating Accessible PDF Forms with axesWord.
• Labrador adds New features to their Accessibility Auditing Platform
  Mark Miller: Labrador is an auditing tool that speeds up accessibility audits with a manual accessibility testing workflow.
• Real Estate Website Accessibility
  Michael Taylor: Property Listing Pages and Screen Readers
• AI and Assistive Technology
  Narelle Wright: AI isn’t replacing assistive technology. Instead, it’s becoming another valuable tool that works alongside it.
• A11y 101 – 3.3.1 Error Identification
  Nat Tarnoff: If an input error is automatically detected, the system must do two things.
• What Counts as Experience?
  Nat Tarnoff: When you see a job posting that says “5–7 years of experience,” what goes through your mind?
• Video: Do Accessibility Overlays Actually Work? We Install One and Test It Live
  Natalie MacLees: A floating button, a menu of toggles, and supposedly your site is accessible and lawsuit-proof.
• Accessibility is the first-class interface for AI agents
  Navya Agarwal: Accessibility solved discovery decades ago. AI agents are extending it from description toward execution.
• Oh, it’s happening to me
  Peter Torres Fremlin: Ageism, ableism and adaptation, with Ashton Applewhite.
• The critical European Accessibility Act just turned 1
  Preety Kumar: Why all U.S. companies should care.
• Forms don’t love you back
  Rachel Coldicutt: forms and digital technologies have made bespoke services cheaper and more accessible, but …
• The end of the interface?
  Robin Christopherson: What AI means for accessibility and inclusion
• Commodore Callback is not keeping up with support for people with disability
  Scott Hollier: there is very little in terms of accessibility features such as screen readers and other tools that come as default in modern devices.
• Functional Performance Criteria Under Section 508
  Shilpi Kapoor: What ICT Must Meet.
• Section 508 Program Management
  Shilpi Kapoor: Governance, Training, and Compliance.
• Video: a dose of Dennis by the Fire
  Steve Faulkner: You may know him from Deque, PayPal, eBay or GitHub. As WebAxe, or Easychirp or Dennis Lembree … get to know him a little better.
• I Spent Three Years Building the Accessibility Testing Platform I Always Wanted.
  Taylor Arndt: Start Testing Is Almost Here.
• Google Docs makes accessible links easier
  Thomas Logan: A small feature with big accessibility benefits.
• Why partnering EN 17161 with WCAG is a major step forward for digital accessibility
  Wilco Fiers: another challenge associated with WCAG adoption — its single-page, point-in-time, all-or-nothing conformance model.
• Financial Inclusion Tech4Good Award 2026 winner revealed
  AbilityNet: Dots for Africa became the first winner of AbilityNet’s new Financial Inclusion Award introduced this year.
• Podcast: Gavin Neate and Mike Clapper
  ASXChat: Neate is the Founder of WelcoMe and a leading voice in inclusive customer experience. Clapper is the Founder and CEO of Able2Global and creator of The Inclusioneer Framework
• Podcast: If You Are Not Listening, You Are Not Finished
  Chax Chat: Chad and Dax break down the real-world issues that only show up when you actually test your documents with assistive technology.
• Video: Modmath
  Easterseals Crossroads: helping students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and learning disabilities to write, solve, and learn math.
• Accessible PDFs in Healthcare
  Equidox: What the Section 504 Update Requires.
• Assistive Technology Survey Results
  Intopia: conducted from December 2025 to March 2026, the survey was aimed at anyone who uses assistive technology to access the internet, with a focus on people with disabilities.
• Accessibility Testing in CI/CD
  Level Access: educes remediation costs, prevents regressions, and makes accessibility a predictable part of how software gets built.
• Introducing Pope Tech: New digital accessibility platform
  Miami University: our institution will be migrating our primary web accessibility scanning tool from the Level Access AMP tool.
• Podcast: The Art of Accessible Editing
  Pushing Limits: Dominick Trevethan and Denny Daughters share how they edit audio, produce radio, and overcome barriers using assistive technology and adaptive techniques.
• SMART Technologies Advances Inclusive Learning with WCAG 2.2 Accessibility Updates to Lumio
  SMART: Enhanced accessibility features help ensure students using assistive technology can participate fully and independently in classroom learning.
• Interaction design vs content design vs service design
  Adam Silver: “What do you think your role is as a designer?”
• Designing for trust
  Anton Sten: the work in the end is making someone feel safe enough to stop hesitating and act.
• Taste cannot be delegated
  Aurélie Radom: The death of design by committee in the age of AI.
• What Happened to the Frontend?
  David Poblador i Garcia: Two decades, forty-four meters of build tools, and one very confused <button> later, here’s the whole story.
• 5 Things To Know About Your Client’s WordPress Website
  Eric Karkovack: all will give you a better understanding of what makes your client’s WordPress website tick.
• 98% isn’t very much
  Hugo Osvaldo Barrera: If a fancy new feature can’t degrade gracefully, then 98% isn’t “widely supported”.
• UX Benchmarks for AI-Based Chat Software (2026)
  Jim Lewis and Jeff Sauro: key UX findings from our 2026 investigation with some comparisons to those 2025 findings.
• What’s an Icon in 2026?
  Jim Nielsen: As icons continue to change across Apple’s platforms, I have thoughts.
• New in Edge for Developers
  Patrick Brosset: Style layout gaps, improve keyboard accessibility and migrate your PWA to a new origin.
• Empathy and delight mean nothing when the software is disrespectful
  Pavel Samsonov: Accessibility is one high-profile area where even noble intentions often fall short.
• How AI Is Changing UX Design and What That Means for Development Teams
  Toby Biddle: ML evaluates prototypes across mobile apps testing contexts, cross-device usability, responsiveness, and accessibility.

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• Why Accessibility Complaints Are Increasing
  Vispero: Learn what’s driving the increase and how organizations can build sustainable accessibility practices.
• 5 Signs Your Organization Is Managing Accessibility Reactively
  Vispero: Reactive accessibility may appear manageable in the short term, but long-term costs add up quickly.
• Join Us at the NFB Convention
  Vispero: live presentations for the latest on our products and services, product demonstrations in the exhibit hall. July 3-8 at the JW Marriott in Austin, TX.
• Join Us for Our July 2026 Training Events
  Vispero: live training sessions to advance your skills.
• Accessibility Regression
  Vispero: Why Accessibility Efforts Break Down Over Time.
• Pointer Events Level 3 is now a W3C Recommendation
  W3C: describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware-agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, or touchscreen.
• RED ALERT: SBA Advocacy Threatens Entire DOJ Title II Web Rule
  Ken Nakata: The SBA’s Weak Case for Killing the Title II Web Rule.
• focusgroup Tests
  Adrian Roselli: I’ve created a series of very basic demos using the properties outlined in the explainer.
• If I want more IRL, I must go AFK
  Blake Watson: Paradoxically, the wheelchair simultaneously makes you noticeable and invisible.
• React’s architectural accessibility gaps
  Chris Yoong: Unless you build it yourself there’s no auto lang sync, change announcements, or focus management.
• What Is Accessible Web Design and Why Does It Matter?
  David Gevorkian: From legal compliance and user experience to SEO performance and conversion optimization, accessibility influences nearly every aspect of a website’s success.
• Preparing for RGAA 5 starts today
  Diana Khalipina: RGAA 5 – a new version of french web accessibility standart – is officially on its way, with publication expected by the end of 2026.
• Disability Pride Month: from awareness to everyday inclusion
  Diana Khalipina: July is an opportunity to celebrate disability as part of human diversit.
• Why accessibility audit tools don’t show the same result
  Diana Khalipina: if I replaced my manual, specialist review with automated accessibility tools, would I actually get the same picture of a website?
• Declaring WCAG compliance in PDF
  Duff Johnson: Applying some of WCAG’s web-oriented rules to the fixed-layout world of PDF documents can be complex.
• How (not to) name things
  Erik Kroes: Imagine every sign stating “you are now in front of a sign”.
• Accessibility is not for a group of disabled people
  Erik Kroes: It’s often presented like that, right? We don’t make things accessible for ourselves.
• Sidewalk Knows More About Accessibility Than Your Website
  Falak Bhutani: Before curb cuts became common, sidewalks ended in raised concrete edges.
• Level up your accessibility game with a11y.quest
  Helena Ferry: a quiz site with lots of questions super relevant for those of you studying for the WAS exam.
• Why I Built Three New Accessibility Bookmarklets
  Jeff Singleton: They do not replace the other accessibility tools I use, and they are not intended to.
• This is how reading can feel
  Joshua Hori: An empathy and awareness tool that simulates how Dyslexia, Irlen Syndrome, Low Vision, and other reading disorders can make text feel.
• Why Is Reliable Accessibility Automation So Damn Hard?
  Keith Newton (LinkedIn): can a person actually use this with a keyboard? That was the pain I wanted to solve.
• A Story About Searching for Disabled Freedom
  Kelly Mack: The true illness is ableism, not disability. The true cure is respect and acceptance.
• WCAG 3.0’s Shiny New AI Grading Guidelines
  Kessler West: WCAG 3.0’s March 2026 working draft introduces Bronze-Silver-Gold scoring that compliance tools currently in use aren’t built to handle.
• Deaf Blindness, the Sequel: Still Not in the Dark
  Laura Wissiak: June 27 is Deaf Blind Awareness Day, coinciding with the birthday of Helen Keller. I wanted to take this as an occasion to revisit an old blog post on deaf blindness.
• Resize Text, Multiple Ways & Why Parsing is part of History
  Laura Wissiak: We went over how to test for resize text, multiple ways of navigating to one web page, and why “WCAG 4.1.1. Parsing” is now part of history.
• Progressively enhancing Grid Lanes
  Manuel Matuzović: An accessible progressive enhancement strategy.
• Who benefits from accessible documents?
  Marcel Ludwig: A clear document structure, correct semantics, and good readability make it easier for people with a wide variety of needs to access information.
• Testing out a Vibe-Coded Blog Updater
  Marco Salsiccia: I’ll be honest, I’ve never really liked WordPress.
• Clickable table rows are a bad idea
  Martin Underhill: Whatever they do, making the whole row clickable is a problem.
• Searching for Accessibility Jobs
  Mary Brunelle: I know how discouraging and confusing job searching is, especially in the age of AI.
• About disability pride
  Matt May: [July 1] Today is the beginning of Disability Pride Month, in honor of which I want to tell a brief story.
• Real Estate Website Accessibility
  Michael Taylor: Search Filters and Screen Readers.
• Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
  Mikhail Prosmitskiy: Accessibility as an operational capability rather than a compliance checklist or end-of-project audit, and what that looks like in practice.
• Accessible Isn’t Always Usable
  Narelle Wright: Accessibility opens the door. Usability lets people move through it independently.
• WP A11y Docs update June 2026
  Rian Rietveld: feedback we received on the accessibility-ready requirements and the knowledge base during Contributor day at WordCamp Europe.
• 10 Tips for Building iOS Apps That Handle Dynamic Type Well
  Rob Whitaker: Supporting dynamic type isn’t just about your text getting bigger.
• The trust gap
  Robin Chistopherson: why AI’s edge cases matter to customer loyalty.
• AI skills are becoming critical infrastructure – not optional learning
  Robin Chistopherson: a shift in how we think about AI capability – from specialist expertise to something closer to public digital infrastructure
• The Problem with Blanks for People Who Are Blind or Low Vision
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: White space is not neutral for people who are blind or have low vision. It is ambiguous.
• EAA Digital Accessibility Compliance
  Shilpi Kapoor: What the Carrefour Ruling Teaches Every Business.
• How Blind AI Pioneers Are Shaping Accessible Tech
  Tim Dixon: I have lost count of the number of times a mainstream feature turned up years after blind people had already built their own version of it.
• What is an accessible name, and why does it matter for accessibility?
  Whitney Lewis: the text that assistive technologies use to identify an element or to communicate it to a user.
• AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards 2026
  AbilityNet: Winners announced.
• Video: Digital Accessibility Ethics Part 2
  Accessibility Book Club: Multi-Author Q&A hosted by Lainey Feingold.
• Video: The Accessibility Giving Tree and Missing Pieces of the Big WCAG
  The Accessibility Breakdown Podcast: Mark Miller and Justin Stockton unlock the hidden disconnect between AI, accessibility, and your website’s future.
• Shift Left Accessibility
  AccessUX: How High Performing Teams Bake WCAG Into Their Delivery Pipeline.
• Learning with KaiBot: Accessible Coding Lesson
  APH: KaiBot is an interactive tool that combines tactile learning, introductory coding, and accessible innovation.
• AI Survival Guide for Gemini and Chat GPT for June 27, 2026
  Basics with BITS (Blind Information Technology Solutions): for anyone who is new to artificial intelligence, anyone who has heard of AI but not used it, or anyone who has tried ChatGPT or Google Gemini and wants a clearer starting point.
• Be My Eyes Expands to Apple macOS
  Be My Eyes: Bringing AI-Powered Visual Assistance to More Desktop Users Than Ever.
• Why Digital Accessibility Matters This Disability Pride Month
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: the importance of creating a society where people with disability can participate equally in every aspect of life.
• How to Build Accessibility Training That Sticks
  Level Access: Accessibility training only works when people apply what they learn.
• NVDA 2026.2beta5 available for testing
  NV Access: we welcome you to download the beta and provide feedback using our issue reporting process.
• Accessibility Hiring vs. Outsourcing
  Onward Accessibility: Which to Choose When.
• Screen Reader User Survey #11
  WebAIM: All screen reader users, even those who use screen readers only for evaluation and testing, are invited to participate.
• Word and PowerPoint Accessibility Evaluation Guide
  WebAIM: combines automated Accessibility Assistant checks with a series of manual checks to help you evaluate and repair common accessibility issues in Word and PowerPoint.
• Test for accessibility
  WP Accessibility Knowledge Base: In the pages of this section, you can find several ways to test accessibility for different topics and workflows.
• Good UX is holistic
  Adam Silver: Even though Circle’s Live Rooms UX is brilliant, the 30-person limit is enough to ruin the entire feature.
• 16 little UI design tips that make a big impact
  Adham Dannaway: a lot of what makes up an intuitive, accessible, and beautiful interface design can be learned.
• Wait, who made this?
  Allie Paschal: The rise of creative provenance.
• WordPress 7.1 Release Party Schedule
  Benjamin Zekavica: WordPress 7.1 is scheduled for release on August 19, 2026.
• Your AI Glossary
  CNET: 56 Terms Everyone Should Know.
• Understanding is the new bottleneck
  Geoffrey Litt: I think it’s still important to understand the code that our agents write.
• Write Music Not JavaScript
  Heydon Pickering: HYPERBLAM lets you make music with HTML. It’s a declarative implementation of the Web Audio API and is completely dependency free.
• The Goldilocks customizable select height
  Jake Archibald: there’s a sizing ‘pattern’ that’s almost always the-one-you-want, but it took me a long time to figure out how to do it in CSS.
• 2026 AI and UX Predictions: A Mid-Year Reality Check
  Jakob Nielsen: I graded my 18 predictions on autonomous agents, compute shortages, and interface design to separate the hype from reality.
• Less is more, more or less
  Jakub Krehel: more things being made doesn’t mean better things are being made.
• The Human Story of the Open Web
  Jeffrey Zeldman: own your content on the open web, and replace proprietary software with open source alternatives.
• On the semantic web
  Karl Koch: Semantic HTML is not an accessibility chore. It is interface infrastructure.
• ProMe, a TTRPG Companion App
  Kitty Giraudel: I put a lot of effort into accessibility, performance and SEO, just for the sake of a job well done.
• Design Systems Are No Longer Optional
  Mandy Michael: Now that AI is generating most of your UI your design system is no longer a consistency tool.
• If you’re a button, you have one job
  Marcin Wichary: this is why accessibility matters much more than many of us assume.
• Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you
  Marcin Wichary: On designing finger-friendly interactions.
• Dark mode with web standards
  Ollie Williams: how to implement a robust dark mode that respects OS-level preferences, but also provides a manual override.
• Designing services for people who’ve lost trust online
  Rachel Malic: how do you support users when it’s getting harder to tell what’s real online?
• Video: The Lost Discipline of the Alarm
  Saleh Kayyali: What Notification Design Forgot.
• Because I Want It to Exist
  Schalk Neethling: It’s been a while since I have listened to a talk and found a real connection with the speaker and what they were sharing. [ Includes link to the talk. ]
• Designed for a Dead Language
  Shrey Shah: Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin.
• 39 Principles for Designing Human–AI Interaction
  Taras Bakusevych: Make AI assistance accessible and inspectable.
• UX Design Principles: How to Enhance User Satisfaction
  Toby Biddle: Make sure your design works for everyone, including people with disabilities.
• Video: Modern UI Patterns
  Una Kravets: dives into some of the newest updates in the CSS and web UI space.
• Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
  Vitaly Friedman: of useful features to match already existing, established mental models.

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• Download the June Update of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026
  Vispero: new functionality and enhancements that increase efficiency and productivity.
• Podcast: Product Updates, Agentic AI, And the Corporate Side Of Accessibility
  Vispero Connect: the transition from FSCast; a corporate perspective on accessibility; accessible kiosks; AI agents.
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative receives renewed Ford Foundation support
  W3C: The $1,050,000 USD grant will provide funding over a three-year period.
• Why Accessibility Must Be in the Developer’s IDE
  Abhay Kapur: The Case for an VS Code Accessibility Extension.
• European Accessibility Act first year
  Bogdan Cerovac: a toddler still waiting for the first tooth.
• The “Why” Behind the “What”
  Caleigh Clements: Why True Alt-Text Excellence Requires a Human Touch.
• Google’s Agentic Browsing Lighthouse Scoring Factor
  Crystal Scott: The Well-Formed Accessibility Tree.
• Digital barriers make visitors of Dutch websites stumble
  Dante Göbbels: many commercial websites still fall short when it comes to meeting the WCAG accessibility standard
• ARIA, anti-patterns, and you
  David Bushell: Please take a minute to understand what ARIA is and is not.
• Screen Reader Users Statistics, Market Share and Survey Data
  David Gevorkian: device and browser preferences, navigation behavior, and the most common barriers screen reader users encounter online.
• Web accessibility is not something you understand by reading the criteria
  Diana Khalipina: The criteria are important, but accessibility is primarily about people and their experiences.
• Automated accessibility checks versus manual testing
  Diana Khalipina: Automated accessibility tools are good at spotting some code-level issues, but they are much less reliable at judging meaning, context, clarity and real usability.
• Accessibility isn’t just about disability, it’s about who gets included
  Diana Khalipina: they all come back to who is considered during design, development and testing.
• Accessible Document Sharing
  Duncan Edwards: How We Share Documents is Important For Accessibility.
• Belonging Is a Right, Not a Reward
  Grace Dow: Maybe we should stop asking disabled people to prove their worth.
• Designing for people with reading disabilities
  Grace Snow: Design can overlook reading disabilities, but many people struggle to process written text.
• AI and greener choices
  Hidde de Vries: industry and governments alike seem keen to leverage the latest tech. Can we make greener choices?
• Historical Ruptures of Disabled Decorum
  Kelly Mack: Sometimes Activist Actions Speak Louder Than Polite Words.
• A developer toolkit to make your website agent-ready
  Kasper Kulikowski, Michael Hablich: A well-formed accessibility tree is the primary way AI agents understand your page.
• Marketing Budgets Hit Record Highs While 61 Million Americans Can’t Use Company Websites
  Kessler West: Accessibility improvements are likely to directly translate to conversion rate gains, expanded market reach, and measurable ROI.
• Buried Menus, Broken Toggles: The 7-Point Accessibility Gap of Synchronized Media
  Laura Wissiak: A practical breakdown of Live vs. Pre-recorded standards and the specific UI requirements for media players
• Your Grid Lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3
  Manuel Matuzović: I liked the versatility of its use cases, but I was also concerned that it’s inaccessible by default.
• One year of the EAA
  Matthew Luken: What’s changed, what’s coming, and what to do next.
• How accessible is CX in 2026?
  Melanie Mingus: vulnerable customers are less satisfied with their service experiences. Is AI contributing to the situation?
• A11y 101 – 3.2.3 Consistent Navigation
  Nat Tarnoff: Identifying components that have the same functionality across multiple pages must be presented consistently.
• A11y 101 – 3.2.4 Consistent Identification
  Nat Tarnoff: Components that have the same functionality within a set of web pages must be identified consistently.
• How UX Design Shapes Modern Customer Trust
  Natasha Lane: Accessibility Communicates Customer-Centricity.
• WCAG 3.0 Will Create a Governance Problem Most Organizations Aren’t Ready For
  Nic Steenhout: organizations will need to understand two standards at the same time. The one they must legally follow and the one that shows where accessibility is heading.
• What’s missing from SVG
  Patrick Brosset: Developers need better, consistent support for semantic relationships, ARIA graphics roles, and assistive-technology behavior.
• Difference is the starting point
  Peter Torres Fremlin: Hot weather, inclusive education and curated news from 34 countries.
• Native Speakers: Why AI’s Most Powerful Users Are Blind
  Philip Lamb, Liad Yosef: Large language models don’t “see” interfaces, buttons, or navigate visually … one of the most consequential accessibility developments in the history of computing
• Using the R-word is so 2008
  Raleigh Nolan: Simply put: if you use the R-word, you’re projecting an image of hatred onto the world.
• AugmentAble
  Sarah Mayrhofer, Stefan Klikovits & Manuel Wimmer (PDF): Teaming Web Augmentation and LLMs for Instant Accessibility Improvements.
• How digital accessibility is empowering Malaysians with disabilities
  Sheela Chandran: As Malaysia advances its digital agenda, accessibility must be built into technology, services and policies.
• So, Your WordPress Theme Isn’t Accessible
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: How to Fix It Using a Phased Plan That Survives Updates.
• How Section 508 Relates to ADA and WCAG
  Shilpi Kapoor: Key Differences and Connections.
• The Accessibility Tree Is How AI Agents Read Your Site & It’s Breaking
  Slobodan Manic: The accessibility tree decides whether an AI agent can read and act on your page.
• Welcome to the Scott O’Hara show
  Steve Faulkner: Scott and I have been friends and collaborators on web standards work for years. We used to work together at TPG, before he moved on to Microsoft.
• The accessibility of this year’s World Cup
  Steven Aquino: the FIFA tournament app supports adjustable font sizes, captions, and customizable color contrast.
• Everybody Is Vibe Coding
  Taylor Arndt: Here Is What That Does to Accessibility, and What to Actually Do About It.
• When Color Is the Only Thing Telling You What’s Going On
  Taylor Arndt: Use color as much as you like, just never make it the only messenger.
• Navigating digital accessibility standards in product development
  Valerie Kenyon et al: key developments product teams should be keeping a close eye on, focusing particularly on the updated harmonised standard supporting the EAA.
• How a Hospital Tech Specialist Started 3D Printing Wheelchairs for Kids
  Venkat Rao: a low one-time equipment cost, cheap consumable materials, an open-source design, and no specialized expertise required.
• Video: A Blind Look at AI & More than WCAG to Me
  The Accessibility Breakdown Podcast: Understanding the Future of Accessibility and AI: Insights from Wilco Fiers and Jonathan Mosen
• Podcast: Web Accessibility 101
  Accessibility Craft Podcast: Small Things That Make a Big Difference with Maria Maldonado.
• Video: The Myth of the Difficult User
  Accessibility Talks: Angela Fowler on users labeled as “difficult” when they struggle with a product or process.
• Orla Pearson, Shani Dhanda, and Catherine Grinyer
  AXSChat: Three passionate inclusion and accessibility advocates.
• Podcast: The Hidden Cost of PDF Navigation
  Chax Chat: PDF navigation menus might seem helpful, but are they actually creating barriers for assistive technology users?
• When Scan Results Become a Legal Risk (Part 3)
  Converge: If the first two posts were about the work of accessibility, this one is about risk.
• Bringing the Automated Scanning Series Together (Part 4)
  Converge: the part where we set the pieces side by side and see how they fit.
• Recapping our multi-city European roadshow celebrating the EAA’s one-year anniversary
  Deque: We’ve taken our Axe-con Mini format on the road and hosted incredible events in The Hague, Barcelona, Munich, and Paris.
• How To Scale Digital Accessibility With Design Systems
  Equal Entry: based on a presentation at Accessibility New York City (A11yNYC ) by Jesse Gardner.
• How to Escape the PDF Accessibility Backlog
  Equidox: Moving From Reactive Workflows to Sustainable Processes.
• Beyond the Webpage
  GrackleDocs: Is Your Entire Digital Ecosystem Compliant?
• Level Access Now Available in the Microsoft Marketplace
  Level Access: with smooth integration and streamlined management across Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft products.
• When you need a PDF
  PDF Association: Big Tech adds support for accessible math according to PDF 2.0.
• Video: Accessibility Isn’t Built into AI, And That’s a Problem
  Underrepresented in Tech Podcast: AI, accessibility, and why creating technology that works for everyone isn’t just good design, it’s essential.
• Podcast: Designing for Real People
  United in Accessibility: Accessibility with Chandra Harrison.
• Real Estate Website Accessibility
  UsableNet: Browsing Search Results With a Screen Reader.
• How to Create Accessible Presentations and Handouts That Meet PDF/UA Standards
  Venngage: how organizations can move from fixing problems after publishing to preventing them during creation.
• Video: Getting Set Up to Build Your First Gutenberg Block
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Emilio Dominguez provides a practical overview of the tools, technologies, and workflows used in modern WP block development.
• Someone designed this
  Arun Bakirathan: Nobody cared about accessibility until ADA compliance became impossible to ignore.
• Technology and Power
  Christopher Butler: Every technological cycle is a cycle of power. The promise of empowerment is part of how the cycle works.
• The Web is for People
  Daniel Appelquist: I’m a big believer in driving everything by user need.
• Designing for the Wrong User
  Hal Ferello: There’s a moment in an emergency when the world narrows. Not metaphorically. Literally.
• “Doctor, it hurts when agents create unreviewable PRs.” “Don’t do that.”
  Jon Udell: I dislike the phrase “human in the loop” because it cedes authority to the machines. Let’s flip the narrative.
• Human Dignity
  Nikos Kitsakis: On the Perils of Indifference.
• Om Malik, 1966-2026
  Om’s Family: Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital.
• Even with a silver bullet, you still have to aim
  Pavel Samsonov: Ten years after design thinking’s heyday, there’s a new silver bullet that everyone has pinned their hopes on.
• React Testing Questions That Trip Up Engineers
  Rajasegar Chandran: The trick is to think less ‘drag and drop’ and more about other accessible ways to write tests.
• The ideal viewport doesn’t exist
  Set Studio: make sure you consider the vast fragmentation of screen sizes and browser viewports.
• Professional Resilience: Lessons from 25 Years in Tech
  Steven Woodson: a personal toolkit of advance planning, habits, and interpersonal rituals, all designed to help when times got tough.
• Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries
  Una Kravets: One line for accessible text. But black and white can feel harsh, which brings us to the last step.

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• Manual vs Automated Accessibility Testing
  Vispero: Why Automated Scans Are Not Enough.
• WCAG Compliance vs. Real Accessibility
  Vispero: What Organizations Get Wrong.
• Video: Screen Readers: Accessibility Moment
  Vispero: Brian Elton, Practice Manager of Training, walks you through the basics of screen reader testing.
• Webinar on Demand: Beyond the Ramp
  Vispero: Ryan Jones on Why Airport ADA Compliance Must Include Digital Accessibility.
• Webinar on Demand: Using AI Features With JAWS, Zoomtext and Fusion
  Vispero: Learn how the built-in AI features help you work more efficiently and independently.
• Employee Spotlight – Mark Statham’s Story
  Vispero: Vice President of International Software Sales.
• Diversity report – 2026
  W3C: we annually report on gender and geographic diversity at W3C.
• EN 301 549 Adoption Map
  ETSI: Global map of countries that have adopted or reference the EN 301 549 Standard.
• 2026 Membership Satisfaction Survey
  IAAP: Your feedback helps shape the future of IAAP. Deadline is July 31.
• LLM biased against accessible code (Claude Code issue #56079)
  Aaron Gustafson: Claude Code treats accessibility fixes as optional, even when the project’s requirements file explicitly specifies “WCAG 2.2 AA minimum.”
• ∪ of Target Audiences (Accessibility, SEO, AEO/GEO)
  Adrian Roselli: I see companies pitching accessible & “AI-ready” or “agent friendly” work, often still including SEO. I’m calling foul.
• The AI strategy trap
  Craig Abbott: There is a strong push right now to solve all problems, including accessibility, with AI.
• Are we creating accessibility barriers by increasing cognitive load via communication?
  Diana Khalipina: A technically accessible platform can still feel inaccessible if people are afraid to ask questions
• “We’re a small team. We don’t have the resources to think about accessibility.”
  Diana Khalipina: after auditing multiple large organizations, I’ve come to believe that small teams often have an advantage when it comes to accessibility.
• A heading is not bold text and bold text is not a heading
  Diana Khalipina: Visually, the result may look identical, but semantically, they mean very different things.
• As a web accessibility specialist, I still didn’t come across a truly accessible PDF document
  Diana Khalipina: are accessible PDFs still so rare because they’re almost impossible to create?
• The Most Common Accessibility Failures in SaaS Products
  Gerry Neustatl: and How to Fix Them Fast
• Improvements to Web for AI Should Benefit All Users
  Jason Grigsby: The proposal says WebMCP “is not designed for ingestion by accessibility technology”.
• Able Player v5.0.0 released
  Joe Dolson: a few additional bug fixes; I also updated the Able Player WordPress plugin to version 2.4.0.
• How to Know When to Break Decorum
  Kelly Mack: Strange, how the guilty party is appalled that I demand accessibility, equality, and inclusion.
• Video: Navigating Order, Sound, and Silence
  Laura Wissiak: CSS Positioning (also known as Content Order and Meaning) & Pre-Recorded Media.
• Text Simplification with Large Language ModelsText Simplification with Large Language Models
  Ludwig Wredendal (PDF): Evaluating Readability and Information Preservation for WCAG Compliance.
• Dyslexia, fonts and finding out what works
  Malin Hammarberg: instead of forcing a “magic dyslexia font” on people – give them the tools to adjust things themselves.
• Senate Democrats Urge the Trump Administration to Help Ensure Websites and Apps Are Accessible
  Mark Miller: Senators Tammy Duckworth and Kirsten Gillibrand led Senate Democrats in urging the Trump Administration not to delay federal online accessibility rules.
• The Siren Song of ariaNotify()
  Mat Marquis: This is a tool only to be used in situations where it is absolutely, one hundred percent necessary.
• A11y 101 – 3.2.2 On Input
  Nat Tarnoff: If a user makes an input change (typing into a field, selecting from a dropdown), the system shouldn’t act immediately.
• The Accessibility Pricing Gap
  Natalie MacLees: Why Mid-Market Teams Get Left Behind.
• Video: Building Accessible Tabs From Scratch
  Natalie MacLees: why do so many tab components trap keyboard users, confuse screen readers, or do nothing at all when you press an arrow key?
• WebMCP’s open question, answered from accessibility
  Neil Osman: an agent acting for a user is in effect assistive technology, and the site shouldn’t hand it a richer interface than it hands the human.
• Overcorrection, podcasting, and running on empty
  Nic Steenhout: One of the things I see regularly in accessibility training is people becoming afraid of their own decisions.
• Why are there so few accessibility complaints from users?
  Pär Lannerö: There isn’t just one reason for the lack of users reporting accessibility problems. There are many.
• A11y at WordCamp Europe ’26 in Krakow
  Rian Rietveld: At Contributor Day the accessibility team had 3 full tables.
• Generating image description alt text with Foundation Models on iOS 27
  Rob Whitaker: First, a health warning. AI generated image descriptions [are] not a genuine replacement for meaningful descriptions written by a human.
• The golden rule of Customizable Select
  Saron Yitbarek, Tim Nguyen: always provide text content or accessible text attributes for your option elements.
• Who really follows accessibility? A small test.
  Shelly Brisbin: as I suspected, most people who interacted with me claim some connection to accessibility.
• Partial Accessibility Is Sometimes Worse Than No Accessibility at All
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: To people who do not use assistive technology, partial accessibility sounds like a reasonable compromise.
• Gareth Goes Fireside
  Steve Faulkner: my view of him has matured, I now see him as a massive, but likeable a11y wanker.
• The State of Accessibility and AI in 2026
  Taylor Arndt: Accessibility is more important now than it has ever been. And the reason is simple: accessibility is not a strength of AI.
• The delicious irony at the heart of trusting AI
  AbilityNet: Imagine an AI assistant that can independently navigate inaccessible websites, complete forms, or advocate on your behalf .
• Digital Accessibility Ethics
  Accessibility Book Club: Editor Lainey Feingold and seven contributors discuss their book online.
• Video: Oxygen Builder Accessibility Reality Check
  Accessibility Craft Podcast: NFB’s lawsuit challenging the delay of federal web accessibility protections, and real-world accessibility remediation on a large WordPress site.
• AI-Ready Documents
  axes4: Why Document Structure Determines AI Quality.
• How to Move from Audit Reports to Continuous Accessibility
  BarrierBreak: A Complete Guide (2026).
• OpenACR
  BarrierBreak: A Modern Approach to Accessibility Conformance Reporting
• The Hidden Cost of Managing Accessibility Without a Platform
  BarrierBreak: Accessible digital services expand who can use government platforms. That directly grows engagement and revenue.
• PDF and Document Accessibility
  BarrierBreak: A Complete Guide to Section 508 Compliance.
• Video: How to build an accessible ARIA date picker control
  CANAXESS: the ARIA roles, states, properties, keyboard behaviour and focus management needed to make a custom date picker work properly for screen reader and keyboard users.
• What an accessibility assessment should give your team
  CANAXESS: A long report full of technical issues isn’t much help if your team cannot turn it into action.
• Crawling Your Site for the Content a Sample Misses (Part 2)
  Converge: The purpose here is different from the regular scan we set up in the first post.
• Building Confidence, Community, and Accessible Communication
  Disability Belongs: Eric began to see disability in a new way, not as something limiting, but as something shaped by identity, community, and perspective.
• Label Your Life With Speechlabel
  EasterSeals Crossroads: It’s basically an audio guide to objects at home, school or the workplace.
• Video: How Agencies Can Turn Their Accessibility Backlog Into Profit
  Equalize Digital: Chris Hinds shares a practical, agency-focused approach to website accessibility.
• Why Internal PDF Accessibility Matters
  Equidox: many organizations overlook another major accessibility challenge: internal documents.
• 2026 Fable Community Research Panel Report
  Fable: supports inclusive product development and accessibility insights across the research and testing lifecycle.
• Handling Missing Data Without Breaking Accessibility
  Intopia: Nathan Ortiz walks through what happens when data goes missing and developers don’t plan for it.
• The Access Archives
  jumping fridge: aggregate, archive, and make available usable and accessible software, websites, games, and more for the blind and vision impaired.
• Accessibility for Developers: The Essential Guide
  Level Access: If you’re ready to get ahead of a future backlog, this guide is your starting point.
• EAA Enforcement, One Year In
  Level Access: What’s Happened and What Comes Next.
• Eighth Annual State of Digital Accessibility Survey
  Level Access: aimed at better understanding how organizations are currently approaching digital accessibility. Deadline July 7.
• Prototype Testing for Inclusive and Accessible Web Design
  Loop11: there is one factor that often determines whether a design truly works for everyone: accessibility.
• Haptics design and implementation
  Microsoft Design: Haptics extend feedback beyond visual and auditory channels, helping make interactions more accessible.
• Making Maps Accessible with WCAG 2.1
  Minnesota IT: What We Learned, and Where to Go Next
• GAAD 2026 Recap
  Minnesota: IT: Navigating Maps with a Screen Reader: A Conversation.
• The Most Common and Impactful WCAG Violations
  Silktide: Teams that fix form accessibility errors first see measurably higher conversion improvements than those starting with alt text.
• Is Generative Engine Optimization Worth the Investment?
  Silktide: Companies with strong accessibility compliance and structured data implementation often achieve GEO benefits.
• Designing for people who are D/deaf
  TetraLogical: We don’t often think about design in relation to the needs and expectations of D/deaf people.
• The Low-Cost Moves That Strengthen an ADA Website Defense
  UsableNet: A conversation with Charles “Chuck” Marion, Partner at Blank Rome LLP, as part of the Notes from the Field series.
• Celebrating 25 Years of Section 508 Standards
  U.S. Access Board: June 21, 2026, marks the 25th anniversary of the original enforcement date of the U.S. Access Board’s Section 508 Standards.
• How to Create Accessible Forms and Charts Without PDF Remediation
  Venngage: Forms and charts are among the most persistent accessibility challenges.
• How to Create Accessible Flyers Without PDF Remediation
  Venngage: one of the most commonly overlooked document types when it comes to accessibility.
• Sponsor WordPress Accessibility Day
  WPAD: Support WordPress accessibility education while promoting your business.
• Do Websites Need to Function Exactly the Same on Every Platform?
  Bramus Van Damme: Spoiler – No, they do not.
• The death of Web UI? Bollocks!
  Brecht De Ruyte: It should be about speed as a gateway to tinker more and deliver finished and accessible products.
• All tomorrow’s parties
  Ethan Marcotte: a technology built upon theft; upon inaccessible code; upon a flagrant disregard for work and for workers.
• Consistency, But in Excellence Not Appearance
  Jim Nielsen: Consistency serves a purpose in visual design, but it seems to have become the purpose of a lot of visual design.
• Sinceerly: AI to Mess Up Your Writing
  Josh Clark: It adds typos, scrubs em-dashes, and plucks out “it’s not this, it’s that” AI tells.
• Please, use a link!
  Ibrahim Diallo: You don’t even have to worry about accessibility. It just works.
• Setting the width of selects to the width of the selected option
  Manuel Matuzović: The field-sizing property is coming to Firefox 152, making it available across all major engines.
• Video: Surprising Effects of CSS Shorthands
  Miriam Suzanne & Stacy Kvernmo: There’s a lot going on when we use a shorthand property, with hidden surprises.
• Feedback loops require real feedback. AI drives it underground
  Pavel Samsonov: The methods we take for granted have load-bearing requirements that have already gone extinct in many organizations.
• Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
  Pratik Joglekar: Evaluate the [design file or weblink] for usability, accessibility, and content relevance from the perspective of neurodivergent users.
• How do LLMs actually work?
  Russ Weakley (LinkedIn): So, what happens when you type into ChatGPT or Claude?
• How To Think About Unit Tests, With Vitest
  Schalk Neethling: like other quality concerns such as accessibility and tech debt, testing tends to fall by the wayside.

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• WCAG Compliance Levels Explained: A, AA, and AAA
  Vispero: WCAG has a conformance structure that allows organizations to report accessibility of a digital resource at one of three conformance levels.
• Webinar: Beyond the Ramp
  Vispero: Ryan Jones on why airport ADA compliance must include digital accessibility. Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 12:00 PM ET.
• headingoffset is Not the Document Outline Algorithm
  Adrian Roselli: heading off some bad advice I’m starting to see in developer venues.
• Your readers are training themselves to skip you
  Anne-Mieke Bovelett: That unexpected conversion killing accessibility issue with text content.
• How to build an AI alt text generator for Mac and iPhone
  Anne-Mieke Bovelett: Automate your accessibility workflow with a free, cross-platform Apple Shortcut.
• Can Your AI Pass the Accessibility Test?
  Carie Fisher, Aaron Gustafson, Jessie Lorenz: talk transcript from Microsoft Build June 3.
• From the Outside In to the Inside Out
  Darrell Hilliker: My First Global Accessibility Awareness Day at Khan Academy.
• Overview of Digital Accessibility Technologies
  Declan Chidlow: accessibility often necessitates varied usage and unique assembly of technologies.
• Digital Accessibility Jobs, June 2026
  Dennis Lembrée: Seven vacant positions.
• What research reveals about color blindness and web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: Many digital experiences still rely on color alone to communicate information.
• 5 free accessibility apps making impact in 2026
  Diana Khalipina: I follow apps that help people live more independently.
• How a content-rich webpage can present a blank space for many users
  Diana Khalipina: for users relying on assistive technologies, the experience can become fragmented, confusing or largely inaccessible.
• Why placeholders cannot replace labels
  Diana Khalipina: If users need to understand what information belongs in a field → use a visible label.
• Did you ever think that many of the people struggling with your website may have a disability you would never notice?
  Diana Khalipina: research suggests that a large proportion of disabilities are non-visible.
• The Duality of May: Why Global Accessibility Awareness Day Hits Differently
  Elizabeth Barker: moments to stop and reflect and moments to roll up our sleeves and get to work.
• The case for an accessibility designer vibe coding when all his coworkers are also vibe coding
  Eric Bailey: I have to separate my personal thoughts and feelings from my professional.
• Stop Vibecoding Screen Readers
  fireborn: Build it right or do not build it. The people who need it cannot afford your learning curve.
• Deep dive: understanding live regions, part 1
  James Jacobs: Live regions can be one of the more confusing areas of accessibility.
• Deep dive: understanding live regions, part 2
  James Jacobs: the technical side of creating and configuring live regions.
• Deep dive: understanding live regions, part 3
  James Jacobs: common mistakes and questions that often crop up.
• 5 Questions for Laura Carlson
  Jens Oliver Meiert: A rare interview with the goddess of digital accessibility information.
• SEO is not accessibility, and we have the data to prove it
  Karl Groves: like most such arguments, it contains just enough truth to survive scrutiny – as long as nobody actually scrutinizes it.
• The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
  Kate Kalcevich: the unique insights and practical UX recommendations shared by participants with cognitive disabilities.
• Q&A: How Netflix does Accessibility
  Laura Wissiak: Netflix & Chill? Only if the accessibility features are working!
• Be My Eyes was Named to the Forbes Accessibility 200
  Mark Miller: recognition highlights the growing role of technology and AI in creating a more accessible world.
• Title II Compliance & Student Retention in Higher Education
  Mark Miller: Investing in accessibility improves the student experience, supports persistence, and delivers value beyond compliance.
• Semantica11y – Semantic HTML for Everyone
  Mark Steadman: analyzes your application and highlights places where semantic HTML should be used instead of ARIA-heavy or non-semantic patterns.
• France’s major court decision supporting digital accessibility under the EAA
  Matthew Luken: “the e-commerce site in question cannot just be somewhat accessible, it must be totally accessible.”
• A11y 101 – 3.2.1 On Focus
  Nat Tarnoff: When any component receives focus, it must not initiate a change of context.
• Critical approaches to AI and accessibility capacity building
  Sarah Lewthwaite and Andy Coverdale: Insights from the second AI and Accessibility Skills Workshop
• WIIFM: The Motivational Question Behind Every Accessibility Conversation
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Every person sitting through your accessibility presentation is silently asking the same question: “What’s In It For Me?”
• Video: Brian Kardell visits the Fireside
  Steve Faulkner: Brian works at Igalia, he is a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG).
• GAAD Founders Talk Accessibility in new Interview
  Steven Aquino: I reconnected with [Joe] Devon, as well as his co-founder Jennison Asuncion, to further discuss the current state of digital accessibility.
• WWDC 2026: The Best One I Have Ever Had
  Taylor Arndt: when Apple talks about accessibility, I am paying full attention. This year they brought a lot.
• Quill: A Few Weeks Later, The Beta Is Here
  Taylor Arndt: what it really is, is the editor screen reader users deserve and never had.
• This has transformed my life…
  Tony Gebhard: most of what stresses us out isn’t the work, the change, or the circumstances. It’s our relationship to them.
• Design for all, part 3: All or nothing
  Wilco Fiers (LinkedIn): For many sites full conformance to WCAG is effectively impossible.
• Design for all, part 4: WCAG’s patient partner
  Wilco Fiers (LinkedIn): one that starts addressing disability needs that WCAG doesn’t.
• The next big leap in digital accessibility
  Wilco Fiers: Why the digital accessibility community should embrace EN 17161.
• Tech4Good Awards 2026 Finalists announced
  AbilityNet: 36 finalists from around the world who are using tech to make the world a better place.
• Video: Accessibility Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought
  Access Granted Podcast: host Mike Iannelli is joined by Jamie Caras and Mandy Dark from Catalyst Education.
• Video: Scaling Accessibility with Design Systems
  Accessibility NYC: Jesse Gardner leads the Design System and Accessibility teams for the State of New York.
• Accessible PDFs Explained Simply
  axes4: these documents can quickly become a barrier if they are not designed to be accessible.
• Create accessible PDF forms directly from Microsoft Word
  axes4: With axesWord 26, forms can be created directly in Microsoft Word.
• Video: Amazon Workplace Accessibility
  AXS Chat Podcast: Megan Smith leads the technology, experiences, and services supporting accommodations and accessibility for over 1.5 million employees worldwide.
• Understanding PDF Forms and the User Experience
  Chax Chat: Chad and Dax dive deep into one of the most frustrating areas of document accessibility: PDF forms.
• Where Automated Scanning Fits (Part 1)
  Converge: Why a scan is not the right first step.
• Is It Okay to Ask About Someone’s Disability?
  Disability Belongs: A Guide to Respectful Conversations and Language.
• Multi-level navigation
  Eleven Ways: the challenge of identifying parent sections for screen readers.
• Accessibility Statement Generator
  Eleven Ways: Drafting a statement is something many people still struggle with.
• Accessibility remediation
  Equal Entry: Turning barriers into inclusive user experiences
• Understanding WCAG 1.3.1 Info and Relationships (Level A) in WordPress
  Equalize Digital: ensuring that the structure and relationships within your content are properly communicated to all users.
• Why Inaccessible PDFs Hurt Customer Experience
  Equidox: accessibility isn’t just a legal concern; it causes friction across the entire customer experience.
• Apply for a 2026 Gaady Award
  GAAD Foundation: The Gaady Awards recognize organizations who demonstrate that they have designed and built their products with accessibility as a core requirement.
• IAAP Canada Chapter
  IAAP (LinkedIn): And just like that, the IAAP Canada Chapter has officially launched.
• NVDA 2026.2 Beta 2
  NV Access: includes a new built-in Magnifier feature, improvements to touch gestures and navigation, and expanded speech and braille capabilities.
• Automating PDF Accessibility at Scale
  PDF Association: When thousands – or even hundreds of thousands – of documents are involved, manual correction is simply not an option.
• Podcast: Who is Being Left Behind?
  Remarkable World Commentary: Donna Jodhan identifies three groups bearing the brunt of rapid technological change.
• The first EAA court ruling went to the defendant
  Silktide: Don’t read it as good news.
• PDF Accessibility’s Gold Standard Requires 136 Checks and Still Needs Human Eyes
  Silktide: you need to adhere to PDF accessibility standards. Easier said than done.
• Video: Compliance & Your Face
  The Accessibility Breakdown Podcast: Mark Miller and Justin Stockton explore the intersection of accessibility law, digital compliance, and facial recognition technology.
• Video: Accessible App Overview: COOKIE Voice Recipes
  The Blind Life: This AI-powered app delivers accessible recipes and allows you to interact entirely through your voice.
• Video: Accessible by Design: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and ARIA Techniques That Scale
  University of Minnesota: Jon Farrell from Perkins School for the Blind.
• Video: Supporting Accessibility Across Languages
  University of Minnesota: Elizabeth Pyatt from Penn State University.
• Chain Restaurant Online Ordering
  UsableNet: How Post-Order Tracking Fails Blind Customers
• Video: A Systematic Approach to PDF Accessibility
  US Access Board: Chad Chelius and Raquella Freeman discuss the most common and more irregular document accessibility issues.
• How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
  Alastair Davidson: We had to meet WCAG accessibility (the team settled on AA rather than AAA).
• Users own the present. You own the future
  Alex Dapunt: The synthesis, the pattern, the product that doesn’t exist yet. The leap.
• Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
  Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor: reject the narrative that once AI capabilities reach a certain threshold, it will cause mass layoffs.
• Discovery vs Delivery
  Buzz Usborne: Quality here is measurable through consistency, accessibility, robustness, performance and compliance.
• The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
  Carrie Webster: What happens when the boundary between humans and machines becomes almost impossible to distinguish?
• Beyond Brittle Selectors
  David Mello: Begin with exploratory tests — let the LLM navigate using the accessibility snapshot.
• State of CSS 2026
  Devographics: this year we made a conscious effort to reduce the number of features covered in the survey.
• Lawful Design
  Donnie D’Amato: Accessibility is the one area where the legal requirement and the design ideal often point the same direction.
• A Glossary of Design
  Emil Kowalski & Glenn Hitchcock: Words designers use and what they mean, organized by topics.
• Scroll-Driven, Scroll-Triggered, Scroll States, and View Transitions
  Geoff Graham: Please bear with me as I note the high-level similarities and differences.
• Do Statistics Really Require 30 Participants?
  Jim Lewis & Jeff Sauro: the [usability research] rule has real statistical roots, but they’re often misunderstood and misapplied.
• What is AX?
  John Maeda: AX, agent experience, asks a different question entirely.
• Someone Found an Accessibility Issue. Now What?
  Kyle Shachmut: Here’s what happens behind the scenes once you hit submit, and how a single report can lead to a lasting change.
• Does maintainable code matter anymore?
  Mandy Michael: the same applied to things like accessibility, this was done for people to make it easier for people.
• Creating Memorable Web Experiences
  Mariana Beldi: CSS is finally reclaiming control over visual interactions, taking charge of the styling, the animation, and the accessibility exactly as it should.
• Introducing the MDN MCP server
  Mozilla Developer Network: bring MDN’s documentation and browser compatibility data directly into your AI agent or IDE.
• Design’s alive and kicking. It just got some flashy new names
  Nicole Alexandra Michaelis: Here’s which design roles are emerging in the age of AI.
• Dark mode with web standards
  Ollie Williams: Respecting the user’s OS setting is straightforward: … users should also be able to customise their choice on a per-site basis.
• Design systems are over. Product context is the work
  Robin Cannon: Design systems aren’t obsolete – but their scope no longer matches the work.
• News from WWDC26: WebKit in Safari 27 beta
  Saron Yitbarek et al: 23 fixes affecting accessibility.
• UX Scotland 2026
  Stéphanie Krus: I enjoyed [Craig Abbott’s] talk: A.I-11y: should we use large language models for accessibility?
• Centering horizontally and vertically
  Temani Afif: 100 different [CSS] methods to center a single element inside a container.
• UI Skills
  Articles on Skills for Design Engineers, including accessibility.

List home and searchable archive

• 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-hidden class
  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: The headingoffset content 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 @property Adoption
  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.