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• Webinar: Inclusive by Design: Using WCAG to Improve Usability For Everyone
  Vispero: David Sloan and David Swallow explore how accessibility and usability work together to create better digital experiences for everyone.
• W3C leadership transition
  W3C: Seth Dobbs is stepping down as CEO. The Board has appointed Dominique Hazaël-Massieux as Interim CEO with immediate effect.
• A New Website, A Redesigned Archive: 2008 to 2026
  Aaron Di Blasi: 19 Years of Access Technology News Now At Your Fingertips.
• Why the accept attribute degrades file upload UX
  Adam Silver: Error hiding is not error prevention. Which is why the accept attribute is so bad.
• Maybe Don’t Rely on Google’s “Modern Web Guidance”
  Adrian Roselli: Unfortunately, MWG accessibility doesn’t satisfy.
• Should I design for humans or machines?
  Allie Paschal: Rethinking UX as we start designing for agents and automation.
• Your website is now an API for AI agents, and you’re NOT ready
  Anne-Mieke Bovelett: it actually has a LOT to do with accessibility.
• Things I enjoy about Dungeons & Dragons
  Blake Watson: As a disabled player and DM, I’ve found D&D to be an accessible game to play.
• Video: Why can’t all washers be accessible out of the box?
  Carrie Morales: Touch button panels are inaccessible for people who are blind or visually impaired.
• Accessibility question: is nesting interactive elements bad?
  Christian Heilmann: I am mixing two interaction modes here, navigation and selection, one being link based and the other form based. I am wondering if that creates any issues for screenreader users.
• How an impending digital accessibility compliance deadline impacts all levels of government
  Christina Adams: Digital accessibility is not a static achievement, but an ongoing commitment to the public that must evolve alongside technology.
• Americans with Disabilities Act Statistics and Trends
  David Gevorkian: website accessibility litigation has grown every year since 2017 and shows no signs of slowing down.
• 8 unexpected facts about web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: but here’s a twist: one of them isn’t entirely correct. Could you guess which one?
• Decorative HTML ≠ Accessible HTML
  Diana Khalipina: I still see many websites using HTML elements for visual styling instead of their actual semantic purpose.
• Visually-hidden content ≠ harmless
  Diana Khalipina: I often find “hidden” buttons, links, headings, labels and even entire navigation sections left in the DOM.
• World Multiple Sclerosis Day and web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: I think most people never think about what it means to use the internet while living with multiple sclerosis.
• A link is not a button and a button is not a link
  Diana Khalipina: Visually, links and buttons can look exactly the same. But for assistive technology users, they behave very differently.
• The (Printable) Page Still Matters
  Duff Johnson: Digital transformation has not eliminated the need for the “OG hard copy” document.
• Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With contrast-color()
  Durgesh Pawar: After years of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and JavaScript libraries, we needed better CSS. contrast-color() is that better CSS.
• Accessible (I Think) Split-Cell Table Headers
  Eric Meyer: does this solution fall down for you, or is it good enough? Please let me know!
• Accessibility and AI
  Erik Kroes: These are some thoughts on what goes wrong, and what could be improved.
• MBraille Desktop app for Windows
  Harri Pasanen: free app allows you to learn and practice Braille on your Windows PC using a regular keyboard.
• Seeing colors differently: discovering ColorADD the Color Alphabet
  Helena Ferry: I want to focus on something I discovered in a standard edition card game.
• Hamm v. Smith Explained
  Jackie Dilworth: Can IQ Scores Alone Determine Intellectual Disability in Death Penalty Cases?
• Not Every Form Field Needs to Be in a Fieldset
  Jeana Clark: Teams learn that they have to use fieldsets, but not when to use them
• Able Player: 1 year later
  Joe Dolson: I feel like it’s time for an update on where things stand.
• How to avoid bias and stay compliant with the new breed of laws and regulations on disability inclusion in AI
  Jonathan Hassell: Covers EU AI Act, European Accessibility Act and much more.
• A Practical Guide to Flutter Accessibility Part 2: Hiding Noise, Exposing Actions
  Karol Wrótniak: this guide covers two of the most impactful accessibility patterns in Flutter.
• Neurodiversity and Web Accessibility
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: I’d like to briefly summarize what neurodiversity is and then consider its relationship to web accessibility.
• Searching for Respect with Lucy Webster
  Kelly Mack: Fighting Persistent Dehumanization.
• Inclusion & Accessibility Events in June 2026
  Laura Wissiak: a curated look at accessibility and disability‑inclusion events in June 2026.
• Do it properly now
  Martin Underhill: accessibility can’t be treated as something we’ll tidy up later.
• Apple’s New AI-Powered Accessibility Features
  Mark Miller: AI-powered accessibility features across VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, Reader, and other tools using on-device AI.
• AI-generated accessibility, an update
  Michael Fairchild: frontier models still fail, but skills change the game.
• Why SaaS companies are facing growing accessibility legal risk
  Mike Paciello: There’s a common assumption in SaaS that accessibility lawsuits are someone else’s problem.
• Five Risks That Quietly Kill Accessibility Programs
  Neil Osman: The honest version of what can go wrong, and what taking it seriously actually requires.
• Accessibility-Supported: Does Your Audit Actually Check It?
  Neil Osman: In practice, what it requires is unspecified: which combinations to test, what threshold counts as “supported,” who decides.
• “An industry we cannot escape”
  Peter Torres Fremlin: On the red carpet, education incentives, and a disability lens on news from 30+ countries.
• WP A11y Docs update May 2026
  Rian Rietveld: updated accessibility-ready requirements for themes, work on documentation, WordCamp Europe.
• Where can aria-label and aria-labelledby be used for naming elements?
  Russ Weakley: ARIA attributes that allow authors to provide an accessible name to elements.
• Framework-agnostic design systems: a practical approach to web components
  Scott Riley: we get an inherently more progressive, accessible (or, at least, easier-to-make-accessible) and web-native component library.
• AI-Generated Code is Inaccessible by Default
  Simon Miner: AI coding tools can turn a prompt into a polished interface with unnerving speed. That’s exciting and useful. It’s also risky.
• Disabled People Held a Federal Building for 25 Days So I Could Have a Life. Seven States Are Trying to Take It Back.
  Steve Way (LinkedIn): To this day, it’s the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in United States history.
• Navigating the age-old problem of checkmarks in UI with progressive enhancement
  Sunkanmi Fafowora: What about accessibility and users who want to navigate via keyboard?
• The Piano-Playing Robot Changing the Future of Assistive Technology
  Venkat Rao: machines can learn from brief, real-world experiences and adapt to unpredictable environments—opening the door to highly personalized assistive tech.
• Design for all, part 1: WCAG isn’t enough
  Wilco Fiers (LinkedIn): I think we’re reaching the end of what can be achieved with a standard like WCAG.
• Design for all, part 2: Mind the gaps
  Wilco Fiers (LinkedIn): But to understand why these gaps persist we need to understand WCAG a little better.
• Making the Web More Accessible for People with Disabilities
  Ability Central: new ADA web accessibility regulations are shaping the future of digital access for people with disabilities.
• Video: How Sam Seavey Built ‘The Blind Life’ and Changed Accessibility Online
  Ablr: Sam, the creator of the influential YouTube channel “The Blind Life,” discusses his 30-year journey to becoming a leading voice in assistive technology.
• Video: The Clarity of Social Accessibility
  Accessibility NYC: Peter Slatin on the ongoing resistance to the comprehensive adoption of accessibility in all forms, where it comes from and why it endures.
• Video: Solving for the Edges
  Accessibility Talks: Gerard K. Cohen challenges conventional thinking by exploring what happens when we move beyond the middle and include those often left out of research and decision-making.
• Sharon Newhardt
  ASXChat: Inclusion strategist at Morgan’s Wonderland, where “accessible” is not a single modified option, it is the whole experience.
• Accessible PDFs Explained Simply
  axes4: Accessible documents promote digital inclusion and enable equal access to digital content.
• Video:Google I/O’s AI push had an accessibility lesson
  CANAXESS: with the agentic theme came plenty of details about accessibility across Google’s ecosystem with updates for Angular, the web, and of course agents.
• Accessible Canva: Progress over Perfection
  Chax Chat: From real-time color contrast feedback to improved tagging and built-in accessibility checks, there are some genuinely meaningful steps forward. But it’s not perfect.
• Multi-level navigation
  Eleven Ways: How do we translate an “active parent” visual highlight into something a screen reader user actually understands?
• Best WordPress Accessibility Plugins in 2026
  Equalize Digital: Building an accessible WordPress site in 2026 is more achievable than ever, thanks to a growing ecosystem of accessibility-focused plugins.
• What’s New in Digital Equity: Global Accessibility Awareness
  GovTech: state and local governments commemorated GAAD by raising awareness for accessibility.
• Reflections from GAAD
  GrackleDocs: What Happens When We Go Beyond Checking Boxes?
• Video: Making Digital Content Accessible
  GrackleDocs: Transforming Nebraska Schools with Grackle Workspace.
• How Government Agencies Can Simplify PDF/UA Compliance Without Complicating Their Tech Stack
  GrackleDocs: many agencies struggle with fragmented remediation processes and growing software stacks.
• How I Limit Overwhelm When Auditing
  Intopia: Serene Mishteler, a junior accessibility consultant at Intopia, takes you inside her auditing process.
• Keyboard Accessibility and Custom Components
  Level Access: Why ARIA Widgets Aren’t Enough.
• Web Accessibility Lawsuits
  Level Access: Trends, Risks, and How to Protect your Business.
• New Office of Accessibility Resource: WCAG 2.1 Role-based Materials
  Minnesota IT: These resources are useful to everyone, even to those who may be new to digital accessibility.
• Pope Tech partners with Grackle to introduce PDF scanning
  Pope Tech: This partnership means a more comprehensive solution for your digital accessibility efforts.
• Podcast: Interview with Dr. Alan Chase
  Remarkable World Commentary: Donna Jodhan interviews the founder of the EYE Retreat, a one-week intensive summer program now in its 19th year.
• What Is Talking Signage? A Complete Guide
  RightHear: a form of audio wayfinding technology that uses smartphones to deliver accessible information about a person’s surroundings.
• Screen Reader Users Can Tell When You Use AI for Alt Text
  Silktide: Screen reader users can reliably identify AI-generated alt text, and they abandon navigation tasks more frequently compared to when human-written alt text is used.
• What Meta and YouTube’s Addiction Verdict Could Mean for Social Media
  Silktide: Depending on the final results after appeals, it’s possible our current understanding of how social media looks and feels will be outdated before too long.
• Chain Restaurant Online Ordering
  UsableNet: How Item Customization Fails Blind Customers.
• An Extension is Not an Excuse
  WebAIM: The extension should be treated not as a reprieve from accessibility, but as a reprieve from panic.
• Video: Training Support Staff on Accessibility with Donata Stroink-Skillrud
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: President of Termageddon discusses drafting an internal Accessibility Support Policy
• The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet
  Jonas Dolezal et al: Notably, our findings diverge from public perception of AI’s impact on the internet.
• CSS vs. JavaScript
  Josh Comeau: Exploring the performance implications of different animation strategies.
• How to write accessible dates
  Josh Crawford: common date formats like numeric dates and abbreviations can create barriers for screen reader users.
• What a Turkish Barber can teach you about great UX
  Karl Koch: The skill isn’t doing more. It’s doing the right thing at the right moment.
• The Human Skills AI Can’t Replace
  Kelsey Hall (LinkedIn): The skills that AI cannot replace […] are the foundational cognitive and communicative capacities that sit underneath all complex human performance.
• Writing about fonts
  Marcin Wichary: This will extend to a lot of other writing about design, not even necessary even just about typography.
• Jira is Turing-Complete
  Nicolas Seriot: Engineering folklore holds that Jira (Atlassian’s project-tracking tool) is Turing-complete. This article supplies a proof.
• Designing for AI means designing like it’s 1999
  Patrick Neeman: That means looking back at the unfinished, handmade web to reinvent how we design.
• More than 340 newspapers block the Wayback Machine
  Straight Arrow News: What that means for the future of the internet.

• Vispero and Matt Ater Recognized for Accessibility Leadership by Forbes
  Vispero: for advancing accessibility, independence, and inclusive digital experiences.
• Section 508 vs. WCAG: What’s the Difference?
  Vispero: despite how often they appear together in compliance discussions, they serve fundamentally different roles.
• Podcast: State of Accessibility – Episode 19
  Vispero: David Sloan is joined by Isabel Holdsworth, Assistive Technology Engineer, and Dane Geer, Technical Support Specialist.
• Video: Accessibility Moment – Headings
  Vispero: Brian Elton explains why headings are one of the most important structural elements for accessible web design.
• Videos: Web Accessibility Perspectives
  W3C: Explore the Impact and Benefits for Everyone.
• 2026 Accessibility 200
  Forbes: highlights the biggest innovators and impact-makers in accessibility (including Vispero).
• Meet The Accessibility 200—And Their AI Tools
  Forbes: Many use artificial intelligence to create ultra-personalized experiences.
• W3C recognized on the 2026 Forbes Accessibility 200 list
  W3C: Our thanks again to Forbes and the experts on the Forbes advisory panel.
• National Federation of the Blind Sues Trump-Vance Administration
  Democracy Forward: Over Delays to Critical Website Accessibility Protections.
• Europe’s First EAA Court Ruling Went to Auchan
  Auditsu: Auchan E-Commerce had been sued for running an inaccessible online shopping site. The court dismissed the case on the basis of income thresholds.
• Understanding French Website Accessibility Laws
  BCLP: A Complex Regulatory Overview.
• New Missouri law protects against ‘abusive’ web-accessibility lawsuits
  StateScoop: protecting governments and businesses from mass-filed ADA website lawsuits seeking quick settlements.
• As Litigation Risk Looms, NASCIO Examines Digital Accessibility
  GovTech: the National Association of State CIOs explores vendor accountability and “good faith compliance”.
• 15 Years of GAAD
  Alicia Jarvis: built by community, driven by inclusion.
• Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough
  Craig Abbott: trained several generations of developers to build things that look correct, yet communicate no semantics.
• Manifesto for Accessible User Experience
  David Sloan and Sarah Horton: a rallying call and statement of intent for connecting accessibility with user experience .
• Tag: GAAD2026
  Dennis Deacon: New posts every hour, on the hour, during Global Accessibility Awareness Day, 2026.
• Did you know about web navigation that …
  Diana Khalipina: … people can get lost on a website in just a few seconds, even when the design looks beautiful?
• Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day
  Diana Khalipina: A day that reminds us of something important: accessibility is not a one-day effort.
• Let’s talk about disabled buttons
  Diana Khalipina: The more I read usability and accessibility research, the more I realize how often modern interfaces confuse “preventing errors” with “preventing interaction”.
• “We’re already web accessible”
  Diana Khalipina: a phrase that always makes me pause.
• Building GitHub’s next chapter in accessibility
  Ed Summers: update on GitHub’s accessibility strategy, and learn how you can join us in building a culture of accessibility.
• A Slight Nuance With WordPress Alt Text
  Geoff Graham: Where the heck did your carefully crafted alt text go?
• Accessibility Improvements in WordPress 7.0
  Joe Dolson: improving media management, usability for voice control, and improvements to color contrast with the new admin color scheme.
• The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People
  Jonathan Zong, Frank Erlavsky: real accessibility mandates may weaken if the public comes to believe AI is solving the problem.
• Cool new stuff coming in ARIA 1.3
  Karl Groves: useful for rich document editors, annotation systems, complex forms, and interfaces.
• How to Support Disabled Dignity
  Kelly Mack: Actions for Honoring the Humanity of Disabled People.
• GAAD Special: User Research & Disability Dongles
  Laura Wissiak: The trap of “Disability Dongles” and how to integrate an inclusive mindset into every step of your workflow.
• Don’t put aria-label on generic elements like divs
  Manuel Matuzovi?: in theory, it’s not allowed, but there is also a practical reason to avoid it.
• I tried Google’s AI glasses
  Mark Hachman: They’re what Google Glass always wanted to be.
• Apple Previewed Accessibility Updates
  Mark Miller: powered by Apple Intelligence for VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, and Accessibility Reader, coming later this year.
• What Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Means to Me
  Mark Miller: but I’m going to flip the script a bit.
• Video: Why Accessibility Helps Everyone
  Natalie MacLees: Accessibility helps every user, often in ways most teams never think to design for.
• AI Isn’t the Accessibility Problem
  Natalie MacLees: But How We Use It Might Be.
• A Story of Two Documents
  Neil Osman: WCAG is really two documents.
• Where Accessibility Lives in the Agent Pipeline
  Neil Osman: making AI-generated code accessible is not primarily a model problem. It is a pipeline problem.
• New podcast, GAAD, and purposeful anger
  Nic Steenhout: mainly inspired by a couple comments I got on LinkedIn when I was saying accessibility advocates need to do better with adding alt text.
• AT for iPhone: Voice Control speech input
  Rachele DiTullio: Your iPhone comes with powerful assistive technology (AT) built in—useful for checking how well your mobile app is supporting accessibility.
• AAT for iPhone: Full Keyboard Access
  Rachele DiTullio: FKA allows a person to navigate the UI with a keyboard only if the app has been configured properly with interactive elements.
• The Impact of AI on Digital Accessibility, Part I
  Ricky Onsman: This article, in two parts, explores both the opportunities and risks AI present to digital accessibility.
• The Impact of AI on Digital Accessibility, Part II
  Ricky Onsman: Let’s continue by exploring some more pros and cons of using AI in digital accessibility.
• NVAccess and the slow Erosion of trust
  Samuel Proulx: a collection of decisions that NVAccess has made that have made me go “Huh. What?”
• The Agent Solution I Actually Settled On
  Samuel Proulx: Every single blind person has been burned by services locking down API’s, making inaccessible updates, or just getting rid of functionality.
• Nobody Should Be Denied Digital Access
  Sharron Rush: The law requires equal online access for people with disabilities. Trump’s DOJ won’t enforce it.
• GAAD 2026: Not Much to Celebrate, Yet
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: If you are expecting a post full of colored banners, virtual events, and “let’s raise awareness!” energy, keep looking, this is not that post.
• Cvent Accessibility Boss: ‘Inclusivity shouldn’t be a differentiator. It Should be the baseline’
  Steven Aquino: For Stephen Cutchins, the director of accessibility at event logistics company Cvent, disability is part and parcel of his being.
• In Praise of text on tvOS
  Steven Aquino: one of my favorite new accessibility features Apple announced ahead of GAAD is tvOS is gaining support for larger text sizes.
• Access Given, a one-day accessibility conference
  Stéphanie Krus: I’m not new to accessibility and inclusion, but I still learned a few things.
• Open Letter to Tim Cook for Global Accessibility Awareness Day
  Taylor Arndt: Your commitment to accessibility changed my life.
• How I Built a Free Image Colour Contrast Checker That Runs Entirely in Your Browser
  Tim Dixon: The tool is free, runs entirely in your browser, and you can try it right now.
• You are not an imposter, my thoughts and gratitude….
  Tony Gebhard: Why Imposter Syndrome Lies to You (and the Science of Why).
• AbilityNet named in Forbes Accessibility 200
  AbilityNet: a global list recognising organisations driving change for disabled people through technology.
• What’s New in Google TalkBack 17
  Accessible Android: introduces several improvements related to dynamic web content, braille displays, and physical keyboard usage.
• Video: A GAAD Conversation
  Allyant: Real Stories for Real Change.
• Why Accessibility Is the Infrastructure for AI Readiness
  Applause: AI tools encounter the same barriers that assistive technologies have faced for years.
• The State of Digital Quality in Accessibility 2026
  Applause: the latest trends in digital accessibility and inclusive design.
• Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates powered by Apple Intelligence
  Apple: detailed descriptions and natural language navigation are coming.
• Podcast: Michael Bishop
  ASXChat: Chief Executive of RDA, a UK-wide charity supporting over 39,000 disabled people each year through the unique bond between people and horses.
• Video: Speeding Up Accessibility Remediation with AI
  Accessibility Craft Podcast: Amber and Steve talk with Skyler Young and David Botos from Connect 211.
• Accessible Tech for All
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: a national initiative connecting organisations, individuals, and people with disability to help provide laptops.
• Fido
  Daisy: if you make, remediate or convert accessible publications you might also find Fido useful.
• Deque on the Forbes Accessibility 200 list
  Deque: We are the only digital accessibility solution provider to be consecutively named for a second year.
• The deadline for Accessible Canada Act progress reports is almost here
  Deque: annual progress report is due June 1, 2026.
• Global Accessibility Awareness Day
  Deque: Recapping our three free training sessions.
• Podcast: Ted Drake
  The Digital Accessibility Podcast: Head of Accessibility and Inclusive Design at Intuit.
• Accessibility Fuels Search, UX, and Credibility
  Equidox: PDF accessibility is more than just a compliance requirement.
• Help us make the internet accessible for everyone
  Eye-Able: Partner with Eye-Able to help your clients meet accessibility standards.
• Video: Attitude – approach – accessibility
  Funka: Susanna Laurin talks about support services in the EAA.
• Digital Accessibility for people with dyscalculia
  Funka: many of those who design and develop digital services lack knowledge of how numerical information is actually perceived.
• Cognitive Accessibility – Insights from an important project
  Funka: We have gathered experiences from users through focus groups and workshops.
• Running Guide agent: A step towards running unbounded
  Google: a running assistant that helps blind and low-vision athletes run independently without physical lines or human guides.
• How developers can utilize AI for Web Accessibility
  HackerNoon: Developers can and should utilize artificial intelligence to bridge the gap between inaccessible code and the diverse needs of human users.
• Privacy for everyone
  IAPP: Why accessibility belongs at the center of modern privacy programs.
• The Global Accessibility Pulse 2026
  Intopia: Responses to “Is the internet more accessible than it was ten years ago?”
• 10 Common Accessibility Errors in Web Design and Development
  Level Access: covers ten widespread issues, with practical solutions for fixing or avoiding each one.
• AODA Reporting Checklist
  Level Access: A Practical Compliance Guide.
• Windows 11 tests new accessibility upgrades
  Microsoft: for testing, including screen tint, improved Braille display support, and updates to Voice Access.
• Why better AI starts with the people it often misses
  Microsoft: Susanna Ray on what MS is doing to improve the way AI takes people with disabilities into account.
• Our Latest Steps to Make Content More Accessible
  Netflix: On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, here’s a look at how we’re making that experience better and where we’re headed next.
• Why Making Your Mobile Application Accessible To Everyone Is Significant
  PC Tech: it has become essential for every app developer to ensure their digital products are accessible to everyone.
• GAAD 2026: Advancing Accessible PDF
  PDF Association: We asked our Working Group chairs to offer their thoughts.
• From dial?up to digital rights
  Shaw Trust: why internet access should be a human right.
• Carousels Belong in Fairs, Not on Websites
  Silktide: Here’s the research behind that, and a better alternative.
• 8 Things You Can Fix for Global Accessibility Awareness Day
  Silktide: every year the same question follows: Okay, but what do I actually do?
• Introducing the PlayStation Studios Accessibility Community Council
  Sony: Powering Accessibility Through Community.
• Perspective Intelligence and Perspective Transcribe
  Techopolis: previews upcoming on-device AI accessibility features.
• Accessible Games Initiative Tags
  Ubisoft: The accessibility tags will be available on each game’s product page, with additional games to be added on a rolling basis.
• Third-Party Ecommerce Tools & Accessibility
  UsableNet: What Retailers Are Responsible For.
• Chain Restaurant Online Ordering
  UsableNet: How the Menu Fails Blind Customers.
• Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
  Visability: Why Digital Inclusion Matters.
• Video: Elevating the Web: An Adventure in Web Accessibility
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Nora Guy on empathy-driven storytelling that helps stakeholders understand the very human need for accessibility.
• The Orchestration Tax is You
  Addy Osmani: running multiple agents does not mean there is more of you.
• Context rot is slowing down your AI agent: How to fix it
  David Omotayo: Context rot is the gradual decline in an LLM or AI agent’s output quality.
• Eigengrau
  Donnie D’Amato: “the color you see when you close your eyes”.
• Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With sibling-index() And sibling-count()
  Durgesh Pawar: They change how things look. They don’t change what things mean.
• Front-end doesn’t exist
  Egor Kloos: If you’re lucky, a front-end developer has snuck past HR because they put “React” in their CV.
• A selfish manifesto towards rejection of generative AI
  Frank Erlavsky: It is completely acceptable to reject modern AI entirely on selfish grounds.
• What’s missing in CSS layout
  Patrick Brosset: pain points which developers face with layout in CSS (including accessibility).
• State of Web Dev AI
  Sacha Greif: Summary of data from 7,258 developers on how they use AI.

• Not All Hidden Content Is Equal
  Vispero: Akash Shukla explores how different hiding methods impact accessibility.
• The ADA Title II vs EAA
  Vispero: What US and Global Businesses Need to Know.
• Download the May Update of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026
  Vispero: new functionality and enhancements that increase efficiency and productivity.
• What’s New in ZoomText 2026 Magnifier/Reader
  Freedom Scientific: new features and improvements introduced in ZoomText 2026.
• What’s New in JAWS 2026 Screen Reading Software
  Freedom Scientific: new features and improvements available in JAWS 2026.
• HHS Delays the Section 504 Web Accessibility Deadline
  Converge Acessibility: Recipients with 15 or more employees now have until May 11, 2027, while smaller recipients have until May 10, 2028.
• AAPD Opposes Federal Extension of Section 504 Compliance for Digital Accessibility
  American Association of People with Disabilities: Delaying accessibility is denying care.
• #a11yTO Conf 2026 Call For Presenters is Open
  A curated playlist of talks, focused on digital accessibility, in Toronto, October 22nd and 23rd, 2026. Deadline is June 5, 2026
• Video: Unboxing the Agiga EchoVision Pioneer Edition Smart Glasses
  Carrie Morales: first impressions, and a look around.
• Introducing TongueType
  Cory LaViska: Voice dictation isn’t only a convenience. For some people it’s the difference between using a computer comfortably or not.
• Tap, Tap, Tap — The One-Finger Triple Tap You Should Be Using Every Day
  Darrell Hilliker: and why it may be one of the most underappreciated gestures in your entire toolkit.
• International Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
  Diana Khalipina: many people with fibromyalgia experience the web differently and suddenly “bad UX” becomes a health issue.
• What Science Says About Black & White Combinations in UI Design
  Diana Khalipina: pure black and pure white are often NOT the most comfortable combinations for users.
• Today I’m celebrating my birthday
  Diana Khalipina: and this year, I’d love to share it into something meaningful.
• Navigation confusion is a big accessibility problem
  Diana Khalipina: Unclear navigation can be trully exhausting and it is both a UX issue and an inclusion issue.
• Building a general-purpose accessibility agent — and what we learned in the process
  Eric Bailey: the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting.
• The Invisible Disability
  Fiona W. Ong: An Employer’s Guide to Mental Health and the ADA.
• Digital Accessibility: The Invisible Core Of Scalable, Sustainable AI
  Frances West: The next phase of AI is not technical—it’s human.
• Design Debt vs Accessibility Debt
  Gerry Neustatl: Why Fixing It Early Saves Millions.
• A Delay in Name Only, Part II
  Judith Risch: HHS’s Section 504 Extension and Your Unchanged Obligations.
• What Is Dignity?
  Kelly Mack: Searching for the True Meaning of Dignity.
• Watch your Language (Attributes)
  Laura Wissiak: Say my name, say my name, or at least give your frames and pages names.
• Who Am I Writing For?
  Mark Steadman: I still believe, stubbornly, that accessible development isn’t something you can fully automate.
• Do You Need to Know JavaScript in Order to Be an Auditor?
  Mary Brunelle: Stick to HTML, CSS, and ARIA, which are the foundational skills in a11y work.
• Weathering the storm
  Peter Torres Fremlin: Help Disability Debrief sail against strong winds.
• Course: Practical Accessibility
  Sara Soueidan: 25% off usual price to celebrate GAAD. Offer runs from May 15-May 31.
• YubiKey And Screen Readers
  Samuel Proulx: a Yubikey is a security device that can keep your accounts secure similar to how two factor does.
• Beyond the Export
  Scott Vinkle: Solving PDF Accessibility on a Chromebook
• Color accessibility
  Stéphanie Walter: tools and resources to help you design inclusive products (updated May 2026).
• Yes, your Braille Computer can do that now! April 2026
  Stephen Blazie: this update to BT Speak and across the BT Barille family brings AI directly into the Braille-first Editor.
• AT Companies to check out in 2026, Summer lookout
  Tony Gebhard: Six emerging innovations in assistive technology for blind and low vision users.
• Samsung Replaces Its TalkBack Version with Google’s in One UI 9 Beta
  Accessible Android: with this new beta, a major accessibility-related shift has been observed.
• Podcast: The HHS Extension and the Markdown Breakdown
  The Accessibility Breakdown: Mark and Justin discuss these topics + AI and accessibility.
• Lovable’s AI built a 100% accessible site – or did it?
  Axess Lab: an indication of how accessible AI-built sites are at the moment.
• Video: Building dynamic pages with Gravity Forms for Global Accessibility Awareness Day
  Breakdown Podcast: Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital, discusses the importance of web accessibility.
• Podcast: When Do You Actually Need Table Cell IDs?
  Chax Chat: Chad and Dax tackle one of the most complex and misunderstood topics in document accessibility.
• Deque and Eficode partner
  Deque: to embed automated accessibility into AI-powered development pipelines across Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
• Introducing the DigitalA11Y Accessibility Checker
  DigitA11y: free online accessibility testing tool.
• Emerging Survey Findings Suggest Overwhelming Support for a New UK Accessibility Act
  Disability Rights UK: 97% would support a proposal for new comprehensive accessibility law.
• Video: Kicking the Accessibility Can
  Disability Weekly: With Jack McElaney (Accessibility in the News) on how organizations can better prioritize digital accessibility.
• Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2026
  Equalize Digital: Join 55 people pledging 204.5 hours to improve accessibility in WordPress. Thursday, May 21, 2026
• Understanding WCAG 1.2.9 Audio-only (Live) (Level AAA) for WordPress
  Equalize Digital: Live audio experiences can present major accessibility barriers when no equivalent text alternative is provided.
• Why PDF Accessibility Fails
  Equidox: and How to Fix Your Remediation Process.
• Video: Accessible name – make it or break it
  Funka: Malin Hammerberg on the importance of accessible names and what they mean for users.
• Accessibility in government
  GOV.UK: Get involved with Digital Accessibility Week 2026.
• Survey: Software Pricing Preferences for Low Vision Technology
  HumanWare: gathering feedback about how people feel about software pricing for low vision technology.
• Five Signs Your Organization Has an Accessibility Resolution Gap
  Level Access: and How to Break the Cycle.
• Level Access Unlocks Training and Resources
  Level Access: to Turn Awareness into Action for Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
• The Section 504 Deadline Moved
  Silktide: but Your Obligation Didn’t.
• Introduction to creating accessible documents
  TetraLogical: barriers, laws, standards, and formats relating to accessible documents.
• Screen Reader HTML Support – Lookup
  TetraLogical: A Work in progress: Last updated 7 May 2026.
• Better fluid sizing with round()
  Ahmad Shadeed: The CSS round() function lets you snap those values to a predictable step.
• The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
  Baldur Bjarnason: The tech industry is shaping up to be one of the most hated industries in our modern era.
• Microsoft finally lets you resize and reposition the Taskbar in Windows 11
  Beta News: If accessibility or ergonomics make the top of the screen easier to reach, you can place the taskbar there.
• Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
  Carrie Webster: facts that link user experience directly to revenue, retention, and long-term growth.
• Web whetstones
  David Bushell: How do you stay sharp as a web developer and/or designer?
• Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
  Den Odell: Some browsers ship code that checks which domain you’re visiting and changes how the page renders based on it.
• You don’t know HTML Lists
  Frank M Taylor: Now we care about accessibility and screen readers and search engine optimization.
• Meet Your Users Where They Are with Obs.js
  Harry Roberts: It’s not our fault that someone is on a struggling connection, a weaker device, or a battery that is nearly dead, but …
• WebKit Features for Safari 26.5
  Jen Simmons: Fixed an issue where the accessibility tree could permanently be empty if built during early page load.
• There are only four sensible ways to build a website
  Jono Alderson: Not dozens. Not even ten. Four.
• SerpApi vs Google and the Future of SEO
  Kessler West: Google’s December 2025 lawsuit against SerpApi demands $2.8 million in damages and a permanent injunction.
• Soon We Can Finally Banish JavaScript to the ShadowRealm
  Mat Marquis: The proposed ShadowRealm API introduces a new kind of realm specifically designed for isolation, and only that.
• Install web apps with the new HTML install element
  Patrick Brosset: drop a single HTML element into your page and the browser renders a trusted install button for you, with no JavaScript required.
• The day CSS made me learn algebra again, and I liked it
  Schalk Neethling: A carousel overlay bug led me to a deep dive into fluid typography, container queries, and understanding clamp().
• The Boring Internet
  Terry Godier: The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.

• Upcoming Changes to AI Features in JAWS and Fusion
  Vispero: Age Verification and Account Requirements changes will begin rolling out with the May 13 update, starting with users in the U.S. only.
• Webinar: Inclusive by Design: Using WCAG to Improve Usability For Everyone
  Vispero: In recognition of GAAD, with David Sloan and David Swallow, May 19, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET.
• Webinar: The European Accessibility Act: What It Means for Your Organisation Today
  Vispero: In partnership with Sight and Sound Technology, May 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC, presented by David Swallow.
• Webinar: How to Create and Deliver Accessible Virtual Presentations
  Vispero (On Demand): Brian Elton shares practical strategies for designing and delivering accessible presentations.
• Structural Workbook for AI + Accessible Design Systems
  Anna E. Cook: This workbook names six structural prerequisites your system needs to address before AI can scale on top of it without amplifying problems.
• AI Doesn’t Fix Accessible Systems. It Depends on Them.
  Anna E. Cook: AI cannot repair a broken structure. Instead, AI inherits it and reproduces it at scale.
• Governing Accessible Design Systems in the AI Era
  Anna E. Cook: six questions that determine whether your system can host AI without amplifying its problems.
• Luma11y (beta 1)
  Cédric Trévisan (GitHub): the spiritual successor to Colour Contrast Analyser (CCA).
• You’ve Made a Start. Then What?
  Chris Gibbons: Audits don’t sustain accessibility. Roles do. Notes from inside the work.
• Don’t forget to translate your alt text
  Craig Abbott: This is a common WCAG failure that can easily fly under the radar.
• Top Tip Thursday
  Darrell Hilliker: Inspecting Web Elements with Your Screen Reader.
• 10 myths and facts about digital accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: the biggest risks don’t come from lack of awareness, but from false assumptions that feel good enough.
• From vibrant to muted
  Diana Khalipina: how modern visuals are changing and why it matters.
• What big companies are doing right about mental health
  Diana Khalipina: some of the most meaningful work is happening inside everyday products and services.
• Unexpected research-based facts connecting mental health and web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: some of the best accessibility improvements are surprisingly simple.
• CAPTCHA vs Accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: CAPTCHA systems are now harder for humans than for bots and users with disabilities are often the most impacted.
• Be careful using red color
  Diana Khalipina: The meaning of red changes depending on culture, context, surrounding colours, and individual perception.
• Colour is not as universal as we think
  Diana Khalipina: research on perception and accessibility shows something much more interesting: colour is highly contextual.
• Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture
  Eric Bailey: Inaccessible output by default is a case of implicit and unwitting control.
• Accessibility fundamentals
  Erik Kroes: Why and how you remove barriers for people with disabilities.
• Two Mothers, One Beautiful Journey of Love
  Grace Dow: Being a mom to a child with a disability can be difficult.
• Roving tabindex
  Jake Lazaroff (GitHub): A simple HTML web component that implements the roving tabindex pattern for building accessible menus and grids.
• Video: 7 Everyday Hacks You Wouldn’t Have Without Disabled People
  Jenni Pettican: Disability drives innovation. Accessibility helps everyone.
• Accessibility-Ready Requirements Updated
  Joe Dolson: Effective today, the WordPress theme accessibility-ready guidelines have been updated.
• What are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and are they being followed?
  John Loeppky: More must be done to meet accessibility needs in corporate design.
• A Short Video for Two of My Apps
  Kelly Ford: I’m going to show a little bit about how a screen reader works along with some experiences I’ve built.
• A Story About Disabled Dignity
  Kelly Mack: A Case of “I Do Not Think That Means What You Think It Means”
• Video: Busting the PDF Myth
  Khaled Musa: We think of a PDF as a digital vault.
• Styling Isn’t Structure
  Laura Wissiak: How to spot “Fake” Headings and Lists that aren’t Lists.
• The History of Sign Language at the Eurovision Song Contest
  Laura Wissiak: From the 2015 Vienna Premiere to the Artistic Sign Performances of 2026: How ORF Redefined Accessibility for Eurovision.
• Beyond Furious: Apple’s Pathetic Excuses for Accessibility Failures
  Lucy Greco: Who gives Apple the right to break the rules?
• How to Take Advantage of the Title II Extension
  Mark Miller: The extension can be a huge advantage for state and local entities if they handle it right.
• Venn Diagram Lives
  Megan Anna Neff: Living at the Intersection of AuDHD and OCD.
• Why Communication Breaks When Your Systems Don’t Work
  Meryl Evans: Communication problems rarely start big. They begin as small workflow gaps, design choices, and access barriers that pile up until people stop trusting.
• ACCESSIBILITY.md
  Mike Gifford (GitHub): A simple, open format for documenting a project’s accessibility posture, automation, and contributor expectations.
• Here we go again, again, again
  Nat Tarnoff: As expected following the shift for ADA Title II, HHS just delayed the rule.
• A11y 101: 3.1.2 Language of Parts
  Nat Tarnoff: Wrap the foreign text in a tag with the correct lang attribute.
• 4 iOS display settings to check your app with
  Rachele DiTullio: iOS display settings that people expect native mobile apps to adapt to and support their individual needs.
• AT for iPhone: VoiceOver screen reader
  Rachele DiTullio: When mobile apps don’t work well with one AT, they often don’t work with others.
• WordPress Accessibility Team Overhauls Theme Guidelines for the First Time in 14 Years
  Rae Morey: Theme authors have until June 30 to comply.
• ChatGPT and Claude reflect on their accessibility limitations
  Russ Weakley (LinkedIn): Want to hear how ChatGPT and Claude define their own areas of weakness when dealing with complex accessibility issues?
• The EAA is Here: 4 Essential Accessibility Wins for Shopify Merchants
  Scott Vinkle: Let’s break down what you need to know and how you can get ahead of the curve.
• Know Your Accessibility Testers Before You Need To
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Most accessibility managers have a vague sense of who their strongest team members are.
• Video: Wendy Fireside
  Steve Faulkner: each time I have encountered her (including now by the fire), she has struck me as brainiac.
• Amy Warms to the Fireside
  Steve Faulkner: This is the first real conversation I have had with Amy Hupe, and it was a cracker!
• Quality assurance, accessibility and Astro: Part 2
  Steve Frenzel: it’s something that’s interested me for a while and is an aspect of my work as a frontend developer that I’d like to understand better.
• On the marvelousness of markdown
  Steven Aquino: Markdown makes writing a more accessible endeavor for me.
• Apple’s Swift Student Challenge Winners Build apps Amplifying Accessibility
  Steven Aquino: Apple highlighted four winners of its annual Swift Student Challenge for their work in building apps with accessibility in mind.
• Waymo is ‘The best thing Since sliced bread’
  Steven Aquino: unequivocally a revolutionary technology for accessibility.
• Find blog posts with missing featured images – and missing alt text – without a plugin
  Terence Eden: I use WP CLI – it allows you to run complex WordPress actions and queries using the command line.
• Describee
  Tony Gebhard: a free Mac app that gives blind and low-vision users AI-powered descriptions of images, screenshots, and on-screen content.
• Podcast: Totally Listening & Forgetful AI
  The Accessibility Breakdown: Mark Miller & Justin Stockton discuss some recent interesting articles.
• Podcast: WordPress Needs Your Help: What the 2026 WebAIM Million Report Reveals
  Accessibility Craft: the team dives into the newly released WebAIM Million 2026 Report and what it reveals about the current state of web accessibility.
• Turning a Website Accessibility ADA Demand Letter into a Competitive Advantage
  Allyant: Like many organizations, the marketing team relied on external support to oversee the accessibility of its websites.
• Embedded Accessibility
  Allyant: How Global Excel Reduced Audit Findings by 97%.
• Building Accessibility into Every Definition of Done
  Allyant: a unified approach where accessibility is no longer a checkpoint, but a core part of how products are built and delivered.
• Podcast: CatchU with Jeannette Mahoney
  Assistive Technology Update: latest developments in the field of technology designed to assist people with disabilities.
• How Alt Text Accessibility Supports Low-Vision Users
  Be Accessible: For people with low vision using screen magnification, accessibility alt text provides context when image details cannot be resolved clearly at high zoom levels.
• Did You Know?
  Be My Eyes: Be My Eyes has a group feature.
• Legal Update: April 2026
  Converge: April was a quiet month in the courts. Fernandez v. Seb Management Group LLC is the only interesting case.
• HHS Section 504 deadline extended
  Deque: What did and didn’t change, and what your organization needs to do.
• WCAG Audits
  DigitA11y: 10 Questions Clients Ask About Accessibility Services
• Mothers with Disabilities Deserve Better
  Disability Belongs: Disabled mothers face structural challenges across healthcare, employment, and economic systems.
• Which PDFs Actually Need to Be Accessible?
  Equidox: A Practical Prioritization Framework.
• Accessibility training for everyone
  Evinced: in partnership with our good friends at Knowbility, we’ve launched Evinced Learn.
• Global Accessibility Awareness Day
  GAAD: Thursday, May 21, 2026.
• Are animal charities leaving their donors behind online?
  Intopia: Older Australians give more than any other group, yet the websites built to move them are often the hardest for them to use.
• ARIA Guidance
  Level Access: A Beginner’s Guide to WAI-ARIA and Best Practices.
• How to export a Google Doc to a PDF
  Pope Tech: A PDF that looks good isn’t always a PDF that works.
• The ACCESS Act Isn’t New
  Silktide: It’s Just Back Again.
• Podcast: Temitope Somuwa on Driving Accessibility Change in Africa and Beyond
  United Accessibility: a digital accessibility advocate and inclusion strategist.
• The Economics of ADA Website Claims
  UsableNet: A Defense Attorney’s Perspective.
• What Patient Portals Still Get Wrong for Screen Reader Users
  UsableNet: where patient portal accessibility breaks down for me as a screen reader user.
• Everything you need to know about NVDA version 2026.1
  Vision Ireland: if you have a much older machine that isn’t running either Windows 10 or 11, then you’re going to need to stick with the older release.
• Websites shouldn’t need maintenance. They need momentum.
  Andy Clarke: Websites don’t need oiling. They do need attention, though.
• Design Systems Are the Accountability Layer for AI-Generated Software
  Brian McCarthy: How do we become accountable for code we never wrote?
• All aboard the voice to text train
  Bryan Maniotakis: One of the great things about LLMs is how prevalent voice-to-text apps have now become.
• Using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts
  Polypane: The “safe area” is the portion of the screen that is guaranteed to be free from being obscured by system UI.
• Announcing the CSS Property Type Validator Extension for VSCode
  Schalk Neethling: A new editor extension that validates your CSS @property registrations and catches incompatible var() usage as you type.
• May the Focus Be With You!
  Tantek Çelik: May the Force of your will be with you, free of distractions and dopamine conditioned impulses.
• 10 UI patterns that won’t survive the AI shift
  Taras Bakusevych: patterns that still function but no longer justify their existence.

• Important ZoomText and Fusion Update for Windows 11 Users
  Vispero: We recently released an April update to prevent an issue where ZoomText and Fusion could start with a black screen or become unresponsive.
• Employee Spotlight – Roxana Fischer’s Story
  Vispero: find out how her accessibility journey started, what major turning point has shaped her career, and why everyone should know about screen-reading technology.
• Podcast: On guide dogs, education, and the value of relationships
  Vispero: FSCast #269 marks International Guide Dog Day.
• Webinar: Conduct In-depth Research and Solve Complex Problems Using AI
  Vispero: how AI can help you research topics, compare options, and solve everyday problems with JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion. Thursday, May 7 at Noon Eastern Time.
• Join Us for Our May 2026 Training Events
  Vispero: AI Training Webinar; Software Webinar; Insert J Club Recorded Training; JAWS 30th Anniversary Recorded Training.
• W3C Advisory Committee Elects Advisory Board
  W3C: Daniel Appelquist, Wei Ding, Elena Lape, and Andrew Wafaa join Theresa O’Connor, Hiroshi Ota, Avneesh Singh, Hidde de Vries, Song Xu, and Brent Zundel.
• The power of peer support during Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month
  Alicia Jarvis: I find myself reflecting on the power of community and peer support.
• One design that can fit all
  Bianca Prins (LinkedIn): aim for one design that fits all users – with only additional features when the design cannot be made equitable for all.
• Not Every Supplier Who Says “Accessibility and Inclusion” Actually Means It
  Christiane Link: How to choose a training provider or any other agencies that will make a real difference – and spot the ones that won’t.
• Mission impossible – a follow up!
  Craig Abbott: The role was turned into a permanent position, and the salary got a significant bump.
• The Design-Minded Engineer
  Den Odell: Accessibility isn’t a compliance checkbox but a signal of engineering quality.
• How to set better accessibility defaults for current AI tools?
  Diana Khalipina: AI is trained on the web as it is, not as it should be and that matters more than we think.
• May is Mental Health Awareness Month
  Diana Khalipina: what it has to do with web accessibility.
• I’m an engineering leader. How do I get started with accessibility?
  Dylan Barrell: You’re going to need a plan, and a lot of information.
• What My Mother’s Stroke Taught Me About Digital Accessibility
  Ericca Rowe: When Accessibility Became Personal.
• The Rules Were Written Down
  Helen Burgess: AuDHD, Structure, Service, and What Came After.
• Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
  Joas Pambou: ensure that user preferences are respected for things like reduced motion, keyboard navigation, and screen reader accessibility.
• Care Is Not a Feature Flag
  Julia Solórzano: Accessibility is a refusal to make the user adapt to the interface.
• Measuring What Matters
  Karl Groves: How to Turn Accessibility Work Into Evidence-Based Progress.
• “Notice and Cure” Violates Civil Rights
  Karl Groves: while the stated motivation is to curb abusive litigation, the mechanism it uses is fundamentally hostile to the purpose of civil rights law.
• Next.js Link as a Button
  Kitty Giraudel: This is not actually a button, it’s a link to another page, and as such should render an <a> element.
• Do graphs and charts need to be accessible?
  Martin Underhill: a great example of where you can make something accessible, but maybe you shouldn’t.
• What Ableism Looks Like
  Megan Anna Neff: Examples Across Systems, Culture, And Self
• Why Accessibility Overlays Don’t Work
  Natalie MacLees: And What to Do Instead.
• Reducing Cognitive Load
  Natasha Lane: How Simpler UX Drives Better Outcomes.
• Chrome’s AI Features Are Changing How We Make Things for the Web
  Neil Osman: Accessibility has always been something most of us intend to get right, but struggle to verify in practice.
• Programmatically Undetermined
  Neil Osman: what “programmatically determined” should actually mean.
• “We used to live like kings”
  Peter Torres Fremlin: Conflicts, cuts, and some good news as well, from 36 countries.
• A coding color theme for burned-out eyes
  Rob Beschizza: In the dark variant, every token meets the WCAG AAA contrast ratio requirement of 7:1.
• If we “can’t afford” the NDIS, what can we afford?
  Rosie Putland: Last week’s announcement of cuts to the NDIS came as no surprise.
• Restricting Vendor Use of AI in Client Engagements
  Sheri Byrne-Haber (LinkedIn): these are issues that every person who engages with vendors should be discussing with their legal counsel.
• keyboard testing with the POWER OF AI!
  Steve Faulkner: I noted with interest the recent announcement by an accessibility tool vendor.
• Quality assurance, accessibility and Astro: Part 1
  Steve Frenzel: The topic of quality assurance in web development has become much more interesting to me lately.
• Three stoic principles for better web accessibility
  Steve Frenzel: how they can help you in your everyday life doing web accessibility work.
• Joanna Stern’s ‘New Things’
  Steven Aquino: WSJ personal technology columnist Stern, an advocate of accessibility in tech.
• Taylor’s Teardowns: Codex Edition
  Taylor Arndt: Codex is powerful. I just need to be able to read it.
• Perspective Transcribe Is Out
  Taylor Arndt: a transcription app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
• AI replacing accessibility
  Thomas Günther: Accessibility isn’t a buzzword or a trend. I’d argue it’s even a pretty good indicator of quality in an era of vibe-coded slop.
• The Voice-First Revolution
  Venkat Rao: India’s Bold Roadmap for Digital Inclusion.
• AI Dubbing vs. Traditional Dubbing
  3Play Media: How Media Leaders Should Choose in 2026
• Video: Enhancing Digital Accessibility of Mathematics
  American Mathematical Society: interactive discussion with members of the AMS Advisory Group on Accessibility.
• axes4 Day 2026
  Axes4: Trends, Highlights & a Look Behind the Scenes.
• Report on the accessibility of PDF documents
  Axes4: on public sector websites in Germany 2026
• Video: The WebAIM report says accessibility is getting worse
  CANAXESS: The same six failures are still there, but the numbers are larger.
• Podcast: Bullet Structure Revealed
  Chax Chat: Chad and Dax dig into a deceptively simple topic that has a big impact on accessibility: lists.
• Video: How Accessibility Failures Drive Down Your Core Web Vitals
  Cloudways: Amber Hinds (Equalize Digital) explains how accessibility failures directly impact overall website performance.
• Video: Natalie MacLees
  Community + Code Podcast: a conversation about accessibility work in the WordPress community.
• Podcast: Becks Brindley
  The Digital Accessibility Podcast: Joe is joined by the Digital Accessibility Lead at NatWest, who leads accessibility strategy across one of the UK’s largest banking organisations.
• The Business Case for Inclusion: Benefits for Businesses
  Disability Belongs: the returns on profits, productivity, and innovation are measurable.
• PDF to Accessible Markdown: Introducing an Open Source AI Tool
  Equal Entry: how AI-powered semantic translation can turn PDFs into accessible Markdown.
• Extended Deadlines, Zero Excuses
  Equidox: Why PDF Remediation Can’t Wait
• The Accessibility 200: How We Make The List
  Forbes: The Forbes Accessibility 200 is scheduled to be published on May 19, 2026.
• Building a Sustainable ADA Compliance Program
  GrackleDocs: For many leaders, the challenge is not understanding why accessibility matters, it is knowing where to begin.
• Grackle Check
  GrackleDocs: free Chrome extension that scans any webpage for WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility issues.
• Podcast: Leadership, Practice, and Global Impact
  IAAP: with Sam Evans and Christopher Michael Lee, PhD
• ARIA Roles and Web Accessibility
  Level Access: A Quick Guide.
• WP A11y Docs update April 2026
  Make WordPress Accessible: New and updated documentation, Work in progress.
• Cognitive Accessibility (Digital) in 2026
  Minnesota IT: Helping Users Stay Oriented, Focused, and Successful.
• PDF/UA vs WCAG: Definitions and Key Differences
  PDF Association: using them together is key to delivering a fully inclusive digital experience.
• Video: What Publishers Need to Know About Web Accessibility
  PublishPress: Steve Burge interviews Amber Hinds from Equalize Digital.
• What a Public Library Teaches Us About Equitable Access, and How to Design for It
  RightHear: Public libraries are built around a simple promise: information belongs to everyone.
• Justice Department Delays Web Accessibility Requirements; Federation Calls for Immediate Reversal
  NFB: We’ve been waiting for two years since this rule was announced. Two years. So we’ve been waiting—already. Outrageous that we should have to wait longer.
• Make Yourself a Bad Target
  Silktide: Two ADA Cases, One Lesson.
• Built without you
  Silktide: A parallel history of web accessibility.
• Highlights from the Fiscal Year 2025 Governmentwide Section 508 Assessment
  US Access Board: how well federal agencies provide accessible and usable information and communication technology (ICT) consistent with Section 508 requirements.
• Video: Connecting Corners
  US Access Board: Curb Ramps, Blended Transitions, Accessibility and PROWAG Basics
• What It’s Like To Pay A Healthcare Bill When You’re Blind
  UsableNet: The trouble usually starts well before I reach the payment screen.
• When One ADA Claim Becomes Three
  UsableNet: A conversation with Ted Hollis, Partner at Quarles & Brady, as part of the Notes from the Field series.
• Inclusive Design Examples in Marketing: What Brands Miss
  Venngage: many of us are missing out on one crucial aspect: making a large part of that audience feel included.
• About Audio Description
  Vivid Language: a monthly round-up thing about interesting audio description things.
• Tolerating Inaccessibility
  WebAIM: Why is widespread inaccessibility still acceptable for disabled users?
• Video: Training Support Staff on Accessibility
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Donata Stroink-Skillrud, President of Termageddon.
• What a UX strategy is
  Anton Sten: and why most teams should write one.
• Craft is Untouchable
  Christopher Butler: AI doesn’t threaten craft—the temptation to skip iteration does.
• Mouse pointer as a mere mortal
  Marcin Wichary: Lightroom moved the mouse pointer for me. This feels wrong.
• Alternative thoughts
  David Bushell: brief look at the sorry state of the web and tech industry. It’s grim.
• GitHub is sinking
  David Bushell: GitHub used to be cool and now it’s a lame slop graveyard.
• Canvas-ing the Web
  Eric Meyer: There will be an initial period of excess, and then it will all settle down.
• Joyful web design
  James G: should we crystallise a definition for joyful web design?
• Do I belong in tech anymore?
  Ky Decker: On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
• On Taste
  Matthias Endler: Having preferences isn’t the same as having good taste.
• The death of design
  Nathan Beck: The UX design community has spent the past thirty years fighting for more universally inclusive and accessible human-software interfaces.
• On being a designer in the most interesting, exhausting moment of our careers.
  Pawel Klasa: This is the feeling of designing in today’s world.
• China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal
  The Next Web: No Western country has done the same.

• ADA Title II Digital Accessibility Deadlines Extended by One Year
  Vispero: This update extends by one year the deadlines for compliance with Title II’s digital accessibility rules.
• Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 18
  Vispero: David Sloan and Ricky Onsman explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping digital accessibility.
• Upcoming: W3C Workshop on the Future of ODRL
  W3C: The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) is a policy expression language that provides a flexible and interoperable information model.
• Public Comment Open through June 22nd
  Disability Belongs: DOJ Delays Accessibility for Government Websites and Apps
• RED ALERT: The HHS Section 504 Rule Is in Danger
  Converge: this rule “could disappear with a simple notice in the Federal Register.” That moment appears to have arrived.
• CSUN 2026 Wrapup, Dates for 2027
  Center on Disabilities at CSUN: Keynotes and Featured Presentations on CSUNATC TV, 2027 Call For Submissions details.
• Visual Validation Feedback for Form Fields
  Aaron Gustafson: The form-validation-list component is built with accessibility in mind.
• Which VoiceOver? (updated)
  Adrian Roselli: It’s important we let VoiceOver users know they’ve been dropped into a modal dialog.
• Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog (updated)
  Adrian Roselli: I was curious how the dialog role was exposed based on some unexpected expectedness.
• Good designers, bad websites: a proposal
  Alan Dalton: I want to discuss accessibility because it is the most important thing for making websites.
• New hope for better accessibility of 3D experiences on the web
  Bogdan Cerovac: Canvas element in HTML enables tremendous possibilities.
• Scaling agentic A11y with browser-side scans
  Cameron Cundiff: Browser does the finding. Agent does the fix.
• The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
  Carrie Webster: why designers need to remain the guardians of the user experience.
• Disability Statistics and Its Impact on Digital Accessibility
  David Gervorkian: Understanding disability statistics starts with knowing who lives with a disability.
• Global Accessibility Awareness Day, One Month Out
  Dennis Deacon: with one month to go, now is the time to start preparing.
• Why web accessibility is still a women’s rights issue
  Diana Khalipina: Web accessibility isn’t a niche issue, mostly it is a women’s rights issue.
• 5 women who shaped how I see web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: shaped how I think about accessibility today through their work and their ideas. (Spot the problem)
• How to design accessible contact forms
  Diana Khalipina: Research consistently shows that forms are one of the most problematic areas in accessibility.
• Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
  Eleanor Hecks: They can become serious accessibility barriers that interrupt essential online tasks, especially for people with disabilities.
• Making emojis and icons screen reader accessible
  Elle Smith: specific strategies and considerations for making emojis and icons accessible to assistive technology users.
• Disabled Students Face Digital Roadblocks as Federal Standards Stall
  Grace Dow: the promise of a fully accessible digital campus remains just out of reach.
• Life as an Accessibility Specialist:
  Grant Broome: What You Need to Know
• Measuring web accessibility across Sweden
  Helena Ferry: Key insights from the PTS report.
• Open web vs AI: what can W3C do?
  Hidde de Vries: At this week’s W3C Advisory Committee meeting, I ran a breakout session on what to do about threats to the open web.
• Design and engineering solve different problems; AI initiatives are forgetting that
  Jeana Clark: You can see this most clearly in accessibility work.
• Microsoft, Where Are The Descriptions?
  Kelly Ford: I really wish when the CEO of Microsoft posted videos like this, meaningful descriptions and or audio described options were included.
• Celebrating the Disabled Vigilance of Reporter Julia Métraux
  Kelly Mack: The Importance of Disabled Muckrakers.
• “Use links, don’t talk about them.”
  Marcin Wichary: The classic – but still important – rule of web design says to avoid labeling links “click here.”
• Video: 6 Ways Autism Hides ADHD
  Megan Anna Neff: While it’s more common for ADHD to hide the autism, it can also go the other way.
• Semantics, worst enemies, and more
  Nic Steenhout: Semantics do matter. And more.
• We deserve more than the bare minimum. Some of us don’t even get that.
  Olivia Shivas: Disabled people are dying because of the inaccessible systems we have no other choice but to live in.
• 3 Common HTML Beginner Mistakes
  Øystein Håberg: During my observations, here are 3 issues I see time and time again.
• HTML Video Poster Image
  Scott Jehl (GitHub): Enable Responsive Images and ALT Text for Poster.
• You can’t audit your way into accessibility culture change
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: When teams rely on audits as their primary accessibility strategy, they place themselves in a reactive position.
• 9 Accessibility Myths and Pushbacks (And How to Answer Them)
  Stéphanie Walter: Reframes, evidence, and practical strategies to help designers convince teams to invest in accessibility.
• AI effluent never stops
  Steve Faulkner: regretfully the results were as expected…
• Mike Paciello – talks accessibility – fireside
  Steve Faulkner: This does not mean Mike and I agree on everything, but we are mature and trust each other enough to keep an open dialog on matters of disagreement.
• On Apple, Ascension, and Accessibility
  Steven Aquino: One aspect about the Cook-to-Ternus transition is accessibility.
• Disney to Launch ‘ASL Re-Animated’ Songs
  Steven Aquino: It takes songs from films such as Encanto, Frozen 2, and Moana 2 and shows them in ASL.
• Google Releases Gemini App for macOS
  Steven Aquino: I reached out to Google PR with a question about whether Gemini for Mac supports accessibility features.
• My thoughts on the “focusgroup” attribute proposal
  Steven Frenzel: In general, I’m super stoked about this proposal!
• Important Update for My Custom GPTs: Version 2 Is Out
  Taylor Arndt: WCAG 2.2 Reference, Assistive Technology Trainer, Section 508 Reference, EN 301 549 Reference, NVDA Add-on Assistant, Accessibility Interview Coach.
• Digital independence
  Thomas Günther: When I heard about their need for an accessibility-focused relaunch, I immediately reached out.
• Voice-First AI Done Right
  Tony Gebhard: My Conversation with Mitchell Wooters of Wizzenatr.
• ADA Title II Deadline Extended
  3Play Media: What This Means for Public Entities
• AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards is back for 2026
  AbilityNet: the AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards celebrate people and organisations using tech to make the world a better place.
• More than 160,000 people to be kicked off National Disability Insurance Scheme
  ABC News: Australian government overhauls eligibility test.
• Video: Your Secret Accessibility Weapon
  Accessibility Craft Podcast: unpack a surprising legal development in accessibility lawsuits.
• Introducing the PDF/UA Accessibility Post-Processor for Adobe InDesign exported PDFs
  AChecks: We’ve built a tool that automates those cleanup steps.
• Embedded Accessibility
  Allyant: How Global Excel Reduced Audit Findings by 97% with Allyant
• Podcast: Julie Eshleman
  ASX Chat: Her current research focuses on the intersection of AI and disability, including scoping reviews of AI-powered assistive technologies.
• Podcast: Wildcard Questions
  Assistive Technology FAQ: Five questions from the public on AT, answered by an expert panel.
• Respect, Trust, and Scale
  Be My Eyes: A Note to Our Community
• Microsoft is testing a new Screen Tint feature in Windows 11
  BetaNews: It is pitched as an accessibility feature, and it provides a simple way to adjust the color tone of the screen to be gentler on the eye.
• Accessibility Awards: six winners lead the way
  Digital Accessibility Portal: On 23 April, the first Digital Accessibility Awards ceremony took place at the GovTech Lab in Luxembourg.
• How to do an accessibility review?
  Drupal: we have listed necessary considerations into a logical, step by step process.
• Understanding WCAG 1.2.8 Media Alternative (Prerecorded) for WordPress
  Equalize Digital: guarantees that users who cannot access the audiovisual media directly still receive all the information in an equivalent format.
• How to Jumpstart Accessibility with Actionable Requests
  Equidox: A Tactical Guide to PDF Accessibility
• Digital Networks Act
  European Disability Forum: ensure access to affordable, available and accessible electronic communication services, especially internet access and telephone calls.
• Video: Signed, Sealed, Accessible: accessibility in public procurement
  Funka: Peter Kemeny on the recently published guidance on how to buy accessible: from preparation to the delivery of the contract.
• Video: Title II Extension & James Edwards
  Inclusion Impact: Episode 5 of The Accessibility Breakdown podcast focuses on the Title II extension, EN 301 549, and a valued colleague and accessibility expert.
• Giving pages a clear shape by using headings
  Intopia: High quality headings can make things better for everyone.
• Be a Digital Ally
  Knowbility: AccessU Preview 2026
• The ADA Title II Extension
  Level Access: What it Doesn’t Change.
• GAAD Event: Navigating maps with a screen reader: a conversation
  Minnesota IT: A dive into interactive web maps and a screen reader user’s experience.
• Cognitive Accessibility (Digital) in 2026
  Minnesota IT: Helping Users Stay Oriented, Focused, and Successful.
• NVDA 20 Years
  NV Access: 2026 marks the 20th anniversary of NVDA.
• The future is accessible
  Shaw Trust: how AI and emerging tech can drive inclusion.
• The ADA Deadline Doesn’t Matter
  Silktide: Here’s What Does.
• We Found Out How to Write Content so LLMs Like It
  Silktide: If you want to appear in LLMs and AI Overviews, create well-structured, conversational content.
• Why Settling One ADA Claim Doesn’t Prevent the Next
  UsableNet: Repeat Defendants Are a Pattern, Not an Outlier.
• ADA Title II Compliance
  UsableNet: Frequently Asked Questions.
• Healthcare Accessibility
  UsableNet: New Patient Intake Forms and Screen Readers.
• Video: European Accessibility Act Compliance Requirements Explained
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Bet Hannon breaks down who needs to comply, which standards apply today, and what’s coming next.
• The Web Is Fun Again: First Experiments with HTML in Canvas
  Amit Sheen: you can keep real semantic elements in your markup while treating their rendered output as pixels.
• Introducing Claude Design
  Anthropic: collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.
• font-family Doesn’t Fall Back the Way You Think
  Harry Roberts: There is a small but surprisingly important nuance in the way font-family works that seems to catch a lot of people out.
• A Decent Person
  Jens Oliver Meiert: do not get swayed by self-serving logic and language games. We need decent people, and we cannot have enough decent people.
• Collective Speed Is Not the Summation of Individual Speed
  Jim Nielsen: Like a relay race, it might be worth giving some thought to the relationships and interfaces between people.
• The end of responsive images
  Mat Marquis: just a handful of characters will mean improvements to the fundamental ergonomics of working with images.
• Can AI Detect Usability Problems?
  MeasuringU: Now it’s not if but how well AI can watch videos like a researcher or research assistant.
• Your Windows update experience just got updated
  Microsoft: giving Windows users more control over their PC experience [ less disruptive updates ], while keeping devices secure by design and by default.
• The importance of people who care
  Rachel Andrew: Design systems and editorial style guides need people who care.
• The Internet’s Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
  Wired: As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

• How to Prioritize ADA Title II Accessibility Efforts
  Vispero: effectively helps organizations move from audit findings to meaningful action.
• Webinar: Learn How to Use Track Changes and Comments to Revise Word Documents with JAWS
  Vispero: Thursday, April 16 at noon ET.
• I Tested Airport Kiosks Across America.
  Ryan Jones: What I Found Was Not Great.
• 2026 Breakouts Day recap
  W3C: Topics included “Improving the conformance model” and “Cognitive accessibility research modules”.
• DOJ Delays the Title II Web Accessibility Deadline — Don’t Sit Back
  Converge: State and local government entities with a total population of 50,000 or more — which faced a deadline of April 24, 2026 — now have until April 26, 2027. Smaller public entities and special district governments, which had until April 26, 2027, now have until April 26, 2028.
• Reintroduction of the Communications, Video, and Technology Accessibility Act
  American Council of the Blind: one of ACB’s legislative imperatives was reintroduced in Congress yesterday.
• The perfect file upload pattern
  Adam Silver: Even if you have the clearest content and an accessible interface, uploading a file is the most labour intensive form interaction.
• The invisible layer of UX most designers ignore
  Allie Paschal: How your design decisions translate to screen reader output.
• Accessibility Is Not a Feature, It’s Infrastructure
  Ashok Kumar Yadav: To define accessibility as a feature is to misunderstand its role within digital systems.
• The community has spoken, now we need browsers vendors to help: a <rangegroup> update
  Brecht De Ruyte: Accessibility was the most mentioned concern, rightfully so.
• EN 301 549: the accessibility standard that isn’t accessible
  Callum McMenamin: EN 301 549 is not published by ETSI in the most accessible document format, HTML. It’s PDF only.
• Introducing @accesslint/jest
  Cameron Cundiff: progressive accessibility testing for Jest.
• Video: Can You Create Accessible PDFs in Affinity?
  Colleen Gratzer: find out what’s possible, what’s not and how Affinity compares to Adobe InDesign for PDF accessibility.
• The Digital Accessibility Deadline Is Here. Schools Aren’t Ready.
  Daniel Mollenkamp: A big civil rights deadline that impacts schools and vendors will hit this month.
• The Simple PTT Lucid
  Darrell Hilliker: A Push-to-Talk Radio Built with the Blind Community in Mind
• Playwright Accessibility Testing: What axe and Lighthouse Miss
  David Mello: Learn the limitations of automated accessibility testing and how to write smarter Playwright tests.
• Don’t Waste Money on an Accessibility Audit
  Dennis Deacon: How to Get Full ROI from an Accessibility Audit.
• 10 invisible ways you already improve web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: accessibility is also about all the small things we already do right, often without even realizing it.
• Research-backed accessible text checklist (beyond color & fonts)
  Diana Khalipina: Small changes in spacing and structure can significantly improve comprehension, speed, and user comfort.
• Parkinson’s Awareness Month
  Diana Khalipina: Many of the patterns that we still see in interfaces today make interaction harder
• Green components
  Hidde de Vries: How your design system can aid sustainability goals.
• How Uber Built an Agentic System to Automate Design Specs in Minutes
  Ian Guisard: 7 implementation stacks, density variants across each, and strict accessibility requirements.
• How to Soften Disability Vigilance
  Kelly Mack: Lifting the Armor in Safe Places.
• Unpacking the WebAIM Million report
  Laura Wissiak: The Unfinished Homepage Pandemic
• Why the “Easy” Web Accessibility Fixes Are Still Failing Half the Web
  Laura Wissiak: apparently, most people still don’t know how to fix them.
• box-shadow is no alternative to outline
  Manuel Matuzovi?: People like to use the box-shadow property for styling focus outlines.
• Design and Engineering, As One
  Matthias Ott: Fewer bugs. Better performance. Stronger accessibility.
• AuDHD Diagnostic Overshadowing
  Megan Anna Neff: 6 Ways ADHD Hides Autism.
• Still, Don’t Stop!
  Nat Tarnoff: The DOJ has released a note that an interim final rule will delay the Title II Web Accessibility deadline by a year.
• A11y 101: 3.1.1 Language of Page
  Nat Tarnoff: The default human language of each web page must be programmatically determinable.
• Captcha Blocks, Accessibility Knocks: Will CGPDTM Open the Door?
  Rakesh Krishnan: the Court of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities held that barriers in the Trade Marks portal raised a serious issue of digital accessibility.
• Think About What You Feed Into Generative AI BEFORE The Demand Letter Arrives
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: In retrospect, you may view the wisdom of using an AI tool differently.
• Last Week in WAI #4
  Steve Faulkner: Need a clarification of color requirements for images with text.
• Gerard does Fireside
  Steve Faulkner: I had the absolute pleasure of talking with my friend Gerard Cohen by the Fireside a few weeks ago.
• How I got rejected as accessibility specialist at Deloitte
  Steve Frenzel: Perhaps it will help you if you’re currently in a similar situation and receiving one rejection after another.
• Designing for Everyone: Why Accessibility Is Not Optional in Modern Software
  Thiago Feitosa: We Are Still Building for a User That Doesn’t Exist.
• Everyone hates the term, DEI, let’s use this instead…
  Tony Gebhard: let’s strip the jargon, forget the culture war noise, and talk about what universal design actually means.
• What Is AI Dubbing? The Complete Guide for 2026
  3Play Media: process of replacing a video’s original audio track with a translated, AI-generated voice in a new language.
• Video: Accessible Communications
  Accessibility Book Club: Ricky Onsman hosts book authors Lisa Riemers and Matisse Hamel-Nelis.
• Turning a Website Accessibility ADA Demand Letter into a Competitive Advantage
  Allyant: the leadership team initially saw it as a nuisance legal issue.
• Podcast: with Debra Ruh
  AXSChat: Who audits the auditors when disability groups miss accessibility?
• Podcast: The Upcoming ADA Deadline
  Chax Chat: with Legal Expert Judith Risch.
• Podcast: What the ADA Title II Extension Really Means
  Chax Chat: In this special episode, legal expert Judith Risch returns for her second appearance this week
• What is Section 504, and How Did it Change Disability Rights?
  Disability Belongs: More than 50 years after its passage, it remains a vital protection against discrimination.
• ADA Title II update
  Deque: The key takeaway from the April 20 compliance date extension from the DOJ is to keep going.
• A Hands-On Look at How AT Helps Everyone Everywhere
  EasterSeals Crossroads: “Assistive Technology. Everywhere. Everyone.” That’s the theme of this year’s National AT Awareness Day.
• Video: How to Audit a Web Page
  Equalize Digital: Behind the Scenes on Equalize Digital’s Process with Amber Hinds.
• From PDF Compliance to Competitive Edge
  Equidox: PDF accessibility is no longer just a compliance checkbox. It’s a business differentiator.
• Give feedback about digital features of European Disability Card
  European Disability Forum: participate in a public consultation until 30 April 2026
• AI Insights
  Fable: AI-powered features help uncover accessibility insights faster.
• AIMAC: The AI Model Accessibility Checker
  GAAD Foundation: AI is writing more code than ever. But is it accessible to People with Disabilities?
• Colour, Contrast, and Creativity
  Intopia: Bobby Ly contemplates whether accessible colour combinations have to feel limiting, or whether they can be a creative spark.
• How to Improve Mobile Accessibility Testing Without Slowing Delivery
  Level Access: for many teams, delivering accessible mobile apps remains a significant challenge.
• A Complete Guide to U.K. Digital Accessibility Requirements
  Level Access: prioritising digital accessibility isn’t just the right thing to do—it’s a legal requirement.
• EU Accessibility Requirements
  Level Access: Essential Facts for Businesses in 2026
• A Review of Experiments with Synthetic Users
  MeasuringU: imagine being able to conduct UX research without the hassle of recruiting the “U.”
• PDF Accessibility: Why It’s Also Crucial for AI and SEO
  PDF Association: Many PDFs appear complete at first glance, yet lack usable semantic structure.
• Tiera
  Touchpulse: a free navigation app for visually impaired people.
• ADA Title II Compliance Is Here
  UsableNet: What Public Agencies Must Do Now.
• The Future of UI Design is Agentic Design
  UX Planet: Building accessibility requirements into AI design tools.
• Oh, Oh, Oh, Orthoptist?
  VisAbility: orthoptists now work across many areas of eye care, including low vision rehabilitation.
• Video: How AI Impacts UI, UX & Accessibility
  WallyAX: Sai Ram hosts a roundtable with Donna Bungard (Indeed), Ricky Onsman (Vispero), Seema Shariat (BetterUp) and Baylee Swenson (BetterUp).
• WeASSIST
  WeWalk: Professional Visual Assistance Service for the Visually Impaired.
• Speaking at WP Accessibility Day
  WordPress Accessibility Day: Join us on October 7 to share your knowledge and experiences. Don’t hesitate to submit your first talk today.
• Amazon launches its slimmest ever streaming device, the Fire TV Stick HD
  Amazon: Adaptive Display, an accessibility feature that makes text, menus, and content easier to see and navigate on screen.
• Building a UI Without Breakpoints
  Amit Sheen: We should still use media queries, but mostly for real device capabilities and user preferences.
• How AI Could Change Collaboration for Web Designers & Developers
  Eric Karkovack: Like everything else in our industry, artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to impact these professional bonds.
• Introducing a new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
  Google: a deceptive practice which will become an explicit violation of the “malicious practices” of spam policies.
• The Courage to Stop
  Jeffrey Zeldman: The hardest thing to write is less. Learn to be quiet on purpose.
• On oklch
  Karl Koch: define colours perceptually, derive everything else.
• Everyone’s An Expert Now
  Leah Reich: As a user researcher, you have a lot of responsibility to influence others, but almost no authority.
• Should Designers “Code”?
  Luke Wroblewski: My answer has always been yes.
• Video: Quick & Easy UI Wins (for real)
  Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo, James Stuckey Webber: Hidden gems of UI development.
• How designers survive (2026)
  Scott Berkun: Designers are prone to thinking of themselves as virtuoso violin players, but that’s an increasingly hard role to justify.
• Microsoft Copilot had access to organizations’ confidential emails – without permission
  Tuta: AI assistants like Copilot cannot and must not be trusted to have access to an organization’s mailbox or sensitive data.

• Last Call for Review of Proposed Corrections and Additions to ARIA in HTML
  W3C: Comments, including implementation experience, are welcome via GitHub through 8 June 2026.
• First Public Working Draft: CSS Image Animation Module Level 1
  W3C: This CSS module proposes facilities to control the rendering of animated images.
• Trump Budget Calls For Eliminating Key Disability Programs
  Disability Scoop: President Donald Trump wants to stop directing federal funds to the nation’s university centers on developmental disabilities, multiple Individuals with Disabilities Education Act programs and much more.
• Update on Title II Accessibility Regulations Changes
  Lainey Feingold: On April 7, meetings with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs to protect the web and mobile accessibility rule scheduled to go into effect on April 24 were cancelled.
• USVI Will Miss April 26 Federal Website Accessibility Deadline
  The Virgin Islands Consortium: Bureau of Information Technology Warns of Legal Risks.
• The Dismantling of Supports: Issues Threatening People with Disabilities
  IDEAL Group: A Reference Guide to Financial & Political Threats — 2025–2026
• WCAG3 Contrast as of April 2026
  Adrian Roselli: I have no idea if APCA, whatever version, will come back to WCAG3.
• AI Prototyping: Harder. Worser. Faster. Wronger.
  Anna E. Cook: We’ve gotten very good at producing things faster. But that doesn’t mean we’re producing the right things.
• Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion
  Carie Fisher: AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers.
• What Good Actually Looks Like
  Chris Gibbons: The organisations that get accessibility right don’t tend to have a single thing in common.
• <dialog> and popover: Baseline layered UI patterns
  David A. Herron: Reaching for the web platform’s tools can make it easier to implement layered UI patterns accessibly.
• Fixing a Disappearing Interface in FastSM for Windows
  David Hilliker: popular accessible client for Bluesky and Mastodon, and for the most part it works beautifully with screen readers like JAWS and NVDA.
• How Cognitive Accessibility Helps Create Better User Paths
  David Gevorkian: When implemented correctly, everyone benefits.
• Practical PDF accessibility checklist
  Diana Khalipina: there is something we rarely say out loud: most PDFs are not accessible.
• 10 real UX patterns grounded in how people actually think and behave
  Diana Khalipina: Most digital stress doesn’t come from complexity, it comes from tiny, avoidable design decisions.
• A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
  Eric Bailey: A bold first sentence that draws you in.
• AI-Generated UI Is Inaccessible by Default
  Durgesh Rajubhai Pawar: A five-layer enforcement system for semantic correctness in LLM-generated React components.
• Decidos: Accessible, Usable and Secure Voting in Low-stakes Elections Using Identity Wallets
  Floris Jansen: I’ll be at CHI2026 presenting on this topic. You can download the accompanying paper in PDF.
• Behind the Numbers Are Lives
  Grace Dow: How Faulty Narratives Endanger Disability Care.
• VPAT Quality
  Karl Groves: How to Spot a VPAT That Wasn’t Properly Tested.
• The major technical reasons why accessibility overlays don’t work
  Karl Groves: the difficulty remediating accessibility problems in React, Angular, Vue, etc.
• An Interactive Cover Component
  Kitty Giraudel: I actually don’t know if using tabindex="0" is appropriate here, let me know.
• Placeholders Are Gross
  Mary Brunelle: Ah, placeholders in form controls. You cause so many accessibility and usability issues.
• This, Still Not for Everyone
  Matthias Ott: And after eight years of [WebAIM Million] data, the picture is as sobering as ever.
• What’s new in DevTools (Chrome 147)
  Matthias Rohmer: This release brings several accessibility refinements: Performance, Sources, Settings, Lighthouse.
• Bearnie
  Michael Andreuzza: Accessible components for Astro and Tailwind CSS.
• HTML Tags Memory Quiz Game
  Moritz Glantz: type as many HTML elements as you can remember.
• A11y 101: 2.5.8 Target Size
  Nat Tarnoff: You can have smaller visual elements as long as the touch target area around them has enough separation from other targets.
• When Algorithms Forget You’re Human
  Nat Tarnoff: Design, Empathy, and the Cost of Ignoring Choice.
• Cognitive overload, diversity, people
  Nic Steenhout: Accessibility work centers people, not checkboxes. Not standards. Not compliance. People.
• Checking accessibility with SwiftUI Previews
  Rob Whitaker: did you know you can also use them to check that your accessibility experience looks as it should?
• 5 principles for designing context-aware multimodal UX
  Shalitha Suranga: design accessible, productive multimodal products by designing for context
• Two SDNY Decisions in One Week
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Show Courts Are Done Messing around with Questionable Accessibility Litigation.
• Email address obfuscation: What works in 2026?
  Spencer Mortensen: Includes very usefuil accessibility guidance.
• Workshop: Accessibility User Journey Mapping
  Stéphanie Walter: Whether you are a conference organizer looking for a practical session, or a company that wants to build this skill into your team, get in touch.
• Neil Barnett Succeeds Jenny Lay-Flurrie as Microsoft’s chief accessibility officer
  Steve Aquino: The company has a new chief accessibility officer.
• Overcast Maker Marco Arment Talks Supporting Transcripts, Accessibility, More
  Steve Aquino: At their core, transcripts are about accessibility and making podcasts more inclusive.
• old advice – Hiding Content Has No Effect on Accessible Name or Description Calculation
  Steve Faulkner: I am re-upping and updating it here as the Using ARIA has now been updated and the content removed.
• Getting Hidde Fireside
  Steve Faulkner: I had the pleasure of talking with Hidde a few weeks ago. We have met more times than I can recall.
• So much is coming for NVDA Coach
  Tony Gebhard: free add-on for the NVDA screen reader that teaches you commands through short, guided practice sessions.
• Adidas Unveils Supernova Rise 3 Adaptive
  Venkat Rao: A Breakthrough in Inclusive Running.
• The Complete Guide to YouTube Dubbing: The Key to Global Growth
  3Play Media: the process of replacing the original spoken audio in a YouTube video with a new voice track recorded or synthesized in a different language.
• 5 reasons why the EU AI Act affects financial institutions’ digital accessibility
  AbilityNet: why you need to consider the EU AI Act in the context of digital accessibility developments in your organisation.
• Making Mathematics Accessible for Autistic Students
  Autism Spectrum News: Why Math Instruction Matters for Students with Autism.
• Online Banking Accessibility & EAA Compliance
  Axess Lab: understand where you stand today, what to prioritise right now and how to move forward.
• How Developers Can Locate Accessibility Issues Faster
  BarrierBreak: with A11yInspect.
• Visual Interpretation Without Borders
  Be My Eyes: Why Accessible Technology Matters More Than Ever in Emerging Economies
• Alternatives to the !important Keyword
  CSS Tricks: From an accessibility point of view, !important is irreplaceable for user stylesheets.
• Legal Update: March 2026
  Converge: a concentrated run of decisions touching nearly every phase of ADA web accessibility litigation.
• The Pitch Perfect Challenge
  Disability:IN: connects disability-owned businesses with global companies to unlock innovation, partnerships, and economic opportunity.
• Can Alternative Formats Replace Accessible PDFs Under WCAG and Section 508?
  Equidox: It may seem like a quick fix, especially for teams with large backlogs or limited resources.
• Accessibility in banking
  Eye-Able: Where banks are failing—and what must change.
• HTML-in-Canvas
  GitHub: How does the feature interact with accessibility features? How can accessibility support be improved?
• Ahead of ADA Compliance Deadline, Procurement Is Changing
  GovTech: Vendors may be in differing states of readiness, but they’re also subject to the deadline.
• Inclusive user research: vulnerable people
  TetraLogical: it’s essential to create an environment where participants feel safe.
• How to Reduce Cart Abandonment with Accessible Ecommerce Checkout
  UsableNet: While teams often focus on pricing, shipping, and checkout complexity, an overlooked issue is checkout inaccessibility.
• Online Banking Accessibility
  UsableNet: Opening an Account
• A simple way to make instructions more accessible
  Vision Australia: This article explores a simple way to make instructions more accessible.
• Speaking at WP Accessibility Day
  WordPress Accessibility Day: All accepted applicants will get a modest honorarium. Speaker submissions remain open until June 9th, 2026.
• 5 Inclusive Products That Prove Braille Design Is the Future of Every Device
  Yanko Design: Designers and manufacturers are embracing a “Braille-first” philosophy.
• The DX shift no one noticed: Web interoperability
  Anna Monus: Do you always have to trade UX for DX? And are frameworks really the only path to a good developer experience?
• No-stack web development
  David Bushell: I’m not saying you should code artisanal organic free-range websites.
• The Daily Vibe
  Donnie D’Amato: Design systems are for people.
• Democratizing UX with AI
  Paul Boag: Most UX teams are too small to shape the whole experience. An organizational AI skills library might be the answer.
• Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
  Victor Yocco: Designing for agentic AI requires attention to both the system’s behavior and the transparency of its actions.
• How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
  Vitaly Friedman: Practical guidelines for driving UX impact in organizations with legacy systems and broken processes.

• April 2026 Training Events
  Vispero: AI Training, Software, Insert J Club, JAWS 30th Anniversary.
• Advisory Board publishes Position Statement on AI in Standards Work
  W3C: the AB’s current thinking on using Large Language Models (LLMs) in the standards process.
• First Public Working Draft: Linked Web Storage Protocol 1.0
  W3C: provide applications with secure and permissioned access to externally stored data in an interoperable way.
• W3C Workshop Report: Smart Voice Agents
  W3C: advance interoperability and user empowerment in voice-enabled systems.
• The W3C TAG Meeting in London, March 2026
  W3C: the group reviews emerging technologies, produces design principles and findings, and helps ensure that new work aligns with the long-term health of the platform.
• The WebAIM Million
  WebAIM: The 2026 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages.
• The Unfinished Legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act
  Aubrey Nelsen: current executive choices introduced by the Trump administration put disabled people’s autonomy and ability for a relatively ‘normal’ life at risk.
• Inside the government website accessibility lobbying push
  Route Fifty: The proposed rule is under review and could be delayed or scrapped.
• In the Wake of the 2025 Font Wars, Accessibility Is Still an Afterthought
  Rochelle Ratkaj Moser: People need to read what the government sends. Plain and simple.
• The invisible layer of UX most designers ignore
  Allie Paschal: how the interface is announced by a screen reader.
• Digital Accessibility Series. Ep1: Understanding What Users Face
  Andrew Nevins: This talk was delivered on 7 April 2026 as an introduction to digital accessibility.
• The AI Design Gap
  Darrell Hilliker: A Student’s Journey in Accessifying Visual Layouts.
• What the new WebAIM Million report tells us?
  Diana Khalipina: several underlying trends are worth paying attention to.
• Who is responsible for web accessibility in a company?
  Diana Khalipina: If you want accessibility to actually work, it needs to be organized across the whole company.
• How to organize a testing with users
  Diana Khalipina: If you want to run meaningful accessibility tests with users, here is a practical approach.
• If you care about accessibility, your links matter more than you think
  Diana Khalipina: links must make sense out of context.
• Did you ever think about how the stereotypes you grew up with shaped your mindset?
  Diana Khalipina: Web accessibility taught me something different: many “personal limitations” are actually design problems
• How California’s Court System Automated PDF Accessibility
  Diana Kosovac: When California’s judicial department faced a tidal wave of inaccessible PDFs, manual remediation wasn’t just slow — it was impossible.
• Presence vs Participation
  Elin Williams: why there’s such a stark difference between the two.
• Screen readers are not testing tools
  Eric Eggert: they should not be the primary tools to use for testing. Here’s why.
• Visually label your colours
  Floris Jansen: On a webshop, use a list of links with visual labels to link to the other colours of the same product.
• Notes from “AI & the Future of Sustainability Reporting”
  Hidde de Vries: I don’t know a lot about sustainability reporting, so was keen to learn.
• Designing beyond the checklist
  Jeff Guerrero: It’s a mindset. And that mindset deepened for me on the Firefox UX team.
• The Easiest Web Accessibility Textbook
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: While the title suggests it’s an introductory guide to web accessibility, it goes far beyond basic knowledge.
• A newbie’s guide to designing good web forms: the design part
  Kim Grey: The second in my mini series about web form design.
• Have you ever been personally victimized by an inaccessible form?
  Laura Wissiak: Forms are where users give us their data, and where failures can block entire user journeys.
• A bugbear about aria-label
  Martin Underhill: allow me to dig into why the ‘label’ bit of aria-label gets on my nerves.
• No, SwiftUI is not “Accessible by default”
  Rob Whitaker: things are more nuanced than saying that everything is now fixed.
• Semantic HTML Just Might Make Your CSS Less Fragile
  Schalk Neethling: a solution that is semantic, accessible, and robust against CMS editor whoopsies.
• Aligning Variable Content Across Columns. It Seems Impossible Until You Discover Subgrid
  Schalk Neethling: This layout approach has a meaningful accessibility advantage over hack-based alternatives.
• Locked Out: Why OTP and 2FA Often Fail Users with Disabilities
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Two-factor authentication (2FA) and one-time passwords (OTPs).
• Amazon Adds Sign Language to Prime Video
  Steven Aquino: Prime Video now offers sign language interpretation in American Sign Language (ASL) and British Sign Language (BSL).
• Apple At 50: Accessibility is innovation too
  Steven Aquino: the company’s history is inextricably tied with the disability community and accessibility.
• Video: Dreaming of Accessible Development
  A11yTalks: Annotated Wishes for Designers & Devs with Hector Osborne Rodriguez.
• Accessibility Testing for iOS Apps Is No Longer Optional, and AI Is Making It Easier
  Apple Magazine: Let’s look at how AI is changing accessibility testing for iOS apps.
• Video: The WebAIM report says accessibility is getting worse
  CANAXESS: it’s the same 6 failures driving most of the problem. Only this time the numbers are increasing.
• Podcast: The Hidden Trouble with Tables
  Chax Chat: While they may seem simple to build, the real challenge is designing them in a way that works for assistive technology.
• Axe Platform now supports France’s RGAA accessibility standard
  Deque: the Référentiel Général d’Amélioration de l’Accessibilité (RGAA), France’s official accessibility framework.
• Totally Listening: Using a Total Communication Approach
  Equal Entry: how to support people who communicate in diverse ways.
• Design leaders unpack how accessibility unlocks business value
  Fable: original research, insider frameworks, and practical advice from seven senior design executives.
• Video: InDesign styles, unlock the accessibility potential
  Funka: Malin Hammarberg, Senior UX Designer and Accessibility Specialist.
• April 24th Is Closer Than You Think
  GrackleDocs: What State and Local Governments Need to Know About ADA Web Accessibility
• Podcast: Leadership, Practice, and Global Impact
  IAAP: Christopher Michael Lee, CEO and President of G3ict and IAAP.
• Dev-First Accessibility
  Level Access: How to Fix Issues In-Flow.
• Contribute to Accessibility at WordCamp Asia 2026 Contributor Day
  Make WordPress Accessible: WCAsia will take place in Mumbai, India, from April 9 to 11, 2026.
• Video: Focus indicators 101
  Pope Tech: A simple guide for developers.
• Making emojis and icons screen reader accessible
  Pope Tech: there are specific strategies and considerations for making emojis and icons accessible.
• Thinking differently
  Shaw Trust: Why neurodiversity should shape digital accessibility.
• Perspective Transcribe Does What Other Transcription Apps Won’t
  Techopolis: audio recording and transcription app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch that processes everything on the device.
• Designing for people who are blind
  TetraLogical: some people use digital content without being able to see it.
• Ask AIMee: An accessible accessibility-focused AI chatbot
  WebAIM: AI-powered conversational chatbot focused on accessibility, designed to be highly accessible to users with disabilities.
• Video: Scaling Accessibility
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Frontend Accessibility Architecture & Leadership with Niharika Pujari.
• The Web Is An Antitrust Wedge
  Alex Russell: antitrust bodies around the world are struggling to find their footing, and an incurious tech press is letting it pass with nary a nod.
• What To Know in JavaScript (2026 Edition)
  Chris Coyier: We’ve done posts like this for CSS, but JavaScript deserves the same dangnabit!
• You’re Looking at the Wrong Pretext Demo
  Den Odell: The important thing Pretext does is predict the height of a block of text without ever reading from the DOM.
• Pretext review
  Donnie D’Amato: This weekend a project called pretext started making waves by Cheng Lou.
• Form Automation Tips for Happier User and Clients
  Iqra Naaem: That gap between “the form works” and “the business works” is something we don’t really tend to discuss much
• Bayes’ Law in UX Research: The Power and Perils of Priors
  Jeff Sauro: we explore the consequences of manipulating prior probabilities in different ways.
• Front-End Fools
  Lee Meyer: Top 10 April Fools’ UI Pranks of All Time.
• A Practical Guide To Design Principles
  Vitaly Friedman: Design principles with references, examples, and methods for quick look-up.

• Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 17
  Vispero: David Sloan is joined by Jan Williams and Meagan Griffith to review the 2026 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference.
• Download the March Update of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026
  Vispero: new functionality and enhancements that increase efficiency and productivity. Here’s a look at three enhancements.
• Webinar: Learn Six Tips for Managing the New Outlook Calendar with JAWS
  Vispero: Thursday, March 26 at noon ET.
• Case Study: Guide Dogs for the Blind
  Vispero: Building Accessible Workplaces That Empower Every Employee.
• Webinar: How to prepare for the May HHS accessibility deadline
  Vispero: On March 25, David Sloan reviewed what healthcare organizations and vendors need to do now. Register to access the video.
• Podcast: FSCast #268
  Vispero: CSUN Recap, And a Glimpse Of What’s Coming.
• Updated W3C Recommendation: Geolocation
  W3C: Geolocation provides access to geographical location information associated with the hosting device.
• W3C Invites Implementations of Geolocation
  W3C: The Working Groups welcome comments via the GitHub repository issues by 1 May 2026.
• Group Note: Use of Large Language Models in Standards Work
  W3C: the Advisory Board wants to highlight considerations around different ways in which LLMs can be useful or problematic.
• Getting Past the FUD
  Converge: A Day-One Compliance Strategy for the New ADA Title II Web Accessibility Rule.
• How the SAVE America Act Hurts Disabled Voters
  TIME: The provisions of the SAVE America Act that add extra barriers to voting could further depress the turnout of disabled voters.
• All the small things
  Adam Silver: What makes great design is often all the small things, done right, at scale.
• Accessibility Law of Headlines
  Adrian Roselli: Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong.
• Enhance Dialogs with the closedby Attribute
  Alexander Lehner: The new closedby attribute allows you to define which user actions will close the dialog.
• What building safer conversational AI for youth mental health taught me
  Alicia Jarvis: How might we make an AI agent genuinely safe for a young person who might already be having a really hard time?
• Progressive Web Components
  Ariel Salminen: Elena is a simple, tiny library helping build Progressive Web Components – Accessible by default.
• Shifting and shuffling
  Beth DeConinck: Let’s try visualizing the software development life cycle a slightly different way. Instead of a timeline, let’s imagine a deck of cards.
• 100 webmaster questions
  Blake Watson: here is my stab at answering 100 webmaster questions.
• WebMCP and the future of the agentic web
  Bogdan Cerovac: do not leave accessibility behind.
• Big and small
  Chris Ferdinandi: It’s hard to find people that like you just for you, just the way you are.
• The Accessibility Problem Isn’t Design. It’s Engineering.
  Chris Gibbons: Nine months after the EAA deadline, it’s worth asking what actually changed.
• The Design Brief That Never Mentioned Disabled People
  Chris Gibbons: Accessibility gets engineered out. But before that, it gets designed out.
• The Organisation That Never Prioritised It
  Chris Gibbons: Engineering fails. Design fails. But both of those failures have a common source: organisations that never valued accessibility in the first place.
• Not a Panacea
  Darrell Hilliker: Why AI Browser Agents Haven’t Solved the Inaccessible Web—and What Comes Next.
• Keyboard operability – why is it important?
  Detlev Fischer: Mobile Testing Part 3 explores what role the keyboard plays in accessibility and app testing.
• Our accessibility leaders
  Diana Khalipina: 5 accessibility leaders who are actively reshaping our world.
• 7 questions to check that your design doesn’t harm people
  Diana Khalipina: it’s not just what people consume, it’s how easy it is to keep consuming.
• Neurodiversity is more common than we assume
  Diana Khalipina: not all brains process information, attention, or stimuli in the same way. And that’s not rare.
• How to integrate web accessibility from the start
  Diana Khalipina: teams start thinking about it too late, often when the product is already built and complex.
• Test IDs are an a11y smell
  Dominik Dorfmeister: I haven’t used a data-testid attribute in over a decade, so I’m surprised these takes are still around.
• Lives in the Balance: Inside the Worldwide Push to Redefine Disability Support
  Grace Dow: hundreds of thousands of [UK] disabled people could see their benefits change under new rules expected to start in April 2026.
• How I earned 55 Education Credits for my IAAP CPWA certification in 19 months
  Helena Ferry: I have just celebrated a milestones of sorts in my accessibility career.
• New bookmarklet – Structure Revealer
  Ian Lloyd: not only can you deselect specific elements, you can also add your own.
• 3 reasons why you should care about document accessibility
  Jonathan Hassell: With an estimated 2.5tn PDFs in existence, accessibility in PDFs should come as standard.
• Testing the Foundation: What ‘Working’ Actually Means
  Julia Solórzano: I built this site to be accessible, bilingual, and thoughtfully designed. Now I have a way to make sure it stays that way.
• Beware of “AI” accessibility audits
  Karl Groves: And, even more so: beware of companies who sell them.
• Fidelity and Elan Show Zero Accountability for Accessibility
  Kelly Ford: a textbook example of a complete lack of accountability from both Fidelity Investments and Elan Financial Services for a fundamental accessibility failure.
• Highlighting Footnotes
  Kitty Giraudel: if you like footnotes as much as I do, there are no excuses for not making them accessible.
• Accessibility & Inclusion Events in April 2026
  Laura Wissiak: a curated look at the most impactful accessibility and disability?inclusion events.
• Stuff Everybody Knows: Accessibility
  Laurie Voss: A guide to the rest of your web development career.
• Accessibility Snapshot Testing in iOS
  Mark Steadman: developers can catch issues early and maintain a consistent, inclusive experience for all users.
• There’s no need to include ‘navigation’ in your navigation labels
  Martin Underhill: If we did, we’d hear something like “Navigation, Primary navigation”.
• Video: Roadmap checkups: Ensure resiliency
  Matthew Luken: SVP & Chief Architect, Deque’s keynote at IAAP Dublin.
• Constraints Are Always Present
  Michael Harshbarger: accessibility and security belong in the team’s definition of done from day one.
• A11y 101: 2.5.7 Dragging Movements
  Nat Tarnoff: If you can do it by dragging, you should also be able to do it by clicking, tapping, or using buttons.
• The Accessibility Conversation You’re Avoiding With Your Clients
  Natalie MacLees: How to bring up accessibility, frame the value, and handle the pushback.
• WCAG A vs AA, outdated accessibility statements, and more
  Nic Steenhout: another compilation of a few of my thoughts. New and old content.
• EAA Enforcement: What We Learned at IAAP Dublin
  Patrick Cullen: Day 1: Diving into EN 301 549; Day 2: Putting regulation into practice.
• Bad example: Timesheet submit button
  Rachele DiTullio: Please, just use a <button> for submitting forms.
• WP A11y Docs update March 2026
  Rian Rietveld: new and updated documentation on wpaccessibility.org and work in progress.
• Shadow DOM Focus Delegation: Getting delegatesFocus Right
  Rob Levin: It ensures accessibility by eliminating “dead focus” zones.
• The ‘Paperwork Flood’: How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner
  Robert Kingett: This week, I received The Letter. It demanded “updated medical evidence” to prove that I—a man who has been blind since birth—am, in fact, still blind.
• Understanding F*****g WCAG
  Robert McCaffery: A sweary summary of Success Criteria.
• Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
  Ruben Ferreira Duarte: Accessibility works best when it blends into everyday design workflows.
• Why you shouldn’t trust the people who built your inaccessible site to fix it
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: why didn’t they tell you those barriers were there or that the law requires equal access?
• Mike [TM] Smith AKA Sideshowbarker – fireside
  Steve Faulkner: Mike works at the W3C and has done as long as I have known him.
• I can’t help myself
  Steve Frenzel: I don’t want to come across as one of those accessibility guys who consistently reject AI.
• Applying accessibility fixes with stealth for the greater good
  Steve Frenzel: This article shouldn’t exist. Accessibility should be as normal in conversation as performance, security, SEO, and “AI”.
• Using AI to automate more Accessible Alt-Text
  Steven Aquino: providing image descriptions, or alt-text, is one task where leaning on artificial intelligence is savvy.
• Mobile app accessibility under EN 301 549 v4.1.0
  Abra: A new version of the standard, EN 301 549 v4.1.0, is currently in the approval process.
• Podcast: ChatGPT Wrote My Accessibility Lawsuit
  Accessibility Craft: legal filings against businesses for ADA Title III violations, often with hallucinated case citations and “legal slop”.
• The Call for Proposals for AHG 2026 is Now Open
  Accessing Higher Ground: Use the online proposal form to submit your proposal. The deadline to submit proposals is April 29, 2026.
• What to Watch for at DrupalCon Chicago 2026
  Acquia: CMS Rebrand, Canvas AI, 22 AI Agents + 48 AI Providers + MCP, Structured Content.
• Unexpected Positive Outcome Of The 2026 ADA Countdown
  Assistive Technology Blog: A Universal Blueprint for Digital Equity.
• Podcast: Jeff Szmanda
  AXSChat: Jeff is an inventor, or co-inventor, on seven issued patents that utilize ergonomic design and universal design.
• Why the ACT Government accessibility policy starts behind
  CANAXESS: An accessibility policy is not just about intent. It’s also where the minimum bar is set.
• Video: Understanding Australia’s Digital Inclusion Standard
  CANAXESS: one of the key requirements agencies need to follow when building and delivering digital services for the Australian Government.
• ADA Title II update
  Deque: What we know, what we don’t, and what to do now.
• Combatting Misinformation: Understanding the Facts About Tourette Syndrome
  Disability Belongs: It is a disability that is often misunderstood and misrepresented, especially in the media and popular culture.
• What We All Pay When Access Is an Afterthought
  Disability Belongs: Treating accessibility as a low-priority issue to fix later is a costly and preventable mistake.
• Songs in Sign Language
  Disney: On Monday, April 27, Disney+ will debut three animated musical sequences in American Sign Language (ASL).
• Busting Myths About Down Syndrome
  Easterseals Crossroads: a few of the major misconceptions still floating around about Down syndrome.
• Video: Steadi-3 Anti-Tremor Glove
  Easterseals Crossroads: 2026 ATIA Conference demo of a hand-stabilizing device.
• What Is a Digital Accessibility Audit?
  Equal Entry: how well your product works for people with disabilities and anyone using accessibility tools.
• Understanding WCAG 1.2.7 Extended Audio Description (Prerecorded) for WordPress
  Equalize Digital: how extended audio description for prerecorded media helps ensure that even the most visually complex content is fully understood by everyone.
• ‘We’re Not Done Yet’
  Forbes: Apple’s Head Of Accessibility On 50 Years Of Making Technology For Everyone.
• Assessment of newly designed fonts for visual accessibility
  Gordon E. Legge et al: we compare behavioral and automated methods for evaluating the accessibility of a font for both normal and simulated low vision.
• The Illusion of Automation
  GrackleDocs: Why “Good Enough” is the Greatest Risk in Digital Accessibility
• The Line in the Sand
  GrackleDocs: Why the April 24th WCAG Deadline Must Hold.
• Slouching Towards WCAG 2.1
  Minnesota IT: The updated rule to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act becomes effective April 24. What then?
• Editing for clarity
  Minnesota IT: How plain language principles support editing practices as well as the use of AI.
• More than one million people get online through the Digital Inclusion Action Plan
  Open Access Government: Across the UK over one million people have been helped to get online over the past year.
• Call For Presentations Open
  Inclusive Design 24: Free global online event #ID24 returns 24 September 2026. The CFP closes on 31 May 2026.
• Designing for people with low vision
  TetraLogical: Low vision affects millions of people worldwide, yet it’s often overlooked in the design process.
• What Happens After You Buy
  UsableNet: Post-Order Accessibility Barriers.
• Design Systems Report
  Zeroheight: 5th annual report – specialized roles like DesignOps, accessibility, and content design are increasingly represented.
• OpenAI Sora is gone. The artists are still working.
  Ana-Maria Stanciuc: What it could not do was make people want to come back.
• Apple confirms WWDC26 June 8–12 with major AI announcements expected
  Beta News: with a weeklong online format alongside a limited in-person gathering at Apple Park.
• Meta and Google found liable in historic social media addiction trial
  Beta News: Jurors found that both companies acted negligently and failed to warn users about potential harms linked to prolonged use of their platforms.
• Books and Screens
  Carlo Iacono: Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time
• Don’t Design for Average Users
  Jakob Nielsen: The average user is a terrible design target for digital products.
• Dine ‘n em-dash
  Jeffrey Zeldman: The best defense is to write humanly.
• The Web Development Glossary 4K
  Jens Oliver Meiert: new edition – more than 4,000 terms and explanations to extend your web development and web platform knowledge.
• Code as a Tool of Process
  Jim Neilsen: Writing code is a process that confronts you with questions about the details.
• JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring
  Mat Marquis: sharpens all of our skills, from layout to accessibility to front-end performance to typography.
• Do you need AI for that?
  Rachel Andrew: I don’t think we can or should ignore AI, but overuse of this technology is incredibly wasteful.
• A collection of small details that make big difference
  Rene Wang: A curated, visual collection of user experience niceties (across design, type, motion, accessibility, interactivity, etc).
• The Old Internet is Still Here
  Tyler Gaw: Those things we’re missing aren’t gone. They’re still right here.
• Your Browser Becomes Your WordPress
  
  WordPress: With my.WordPress.net, WordPress runs entirely and persistently in your browser.

• Employee Spotlight – Matt Ater’s Story
  Vispero: whose work has helped expand how accessible technology shows up in the real world.
• RED ALERT: The DOJ Title II Web Accessibility Rule is in Danger!
  Converge: Ken Nakata writes, “There are credible rumors that the Title II web accessibility rule may not just get pushed back — it may get pulled entirely. “
• Letter to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
  National Federation of the Blind: Regarding a Proposed Interim Final Rule for the ADA Title II Website Accessibility Rule
• Access to Video Conferencing
  FCC: Downloadable Compliance Guide to implementation of Sections 716 and 717 of the Communications Act of 1934, as enacted by the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010.
• The Fox, PDFs and Screen Readers
  Andrew Downie: In nursery rhymes and fables the fox is usually the villain. In this case, though, the fox is the hero.
• A newbie’s guide to designing good web forms
  Beeps: some of the wisdom I’ve gained in designing forms across my career.
• Can I use AI to create a logic-check for systemic ableism in writing?
  Chris Yoong: Turns out, partially – this is helpful
• Fifty Years of Hard-Won Rights Are on the Line: The Fight to Save Section 504
  Darrell Hilliker: There is a lawsuit moving quietly through the American legal system right now that could undo five decades of civil rights progress for tens of millions of disabled Americans.
• 2 checklists that can help to make web accessibility a part of everyday work
  Diana Khalipina: I created two daily checklists: one for content creators and one for marketing specialists.
• What’s the most accessible font for the web?
  Diana Khalipina: accessibility in typography is less about one perfect font, and more about how the font is designed and used.
• Case study: how Duolingo approaches accessibility through simplicity
  Diana Khalipina: behind its simplicity, there is a design approach that strongly aligns with accessibility.
• Video: Feel Dizzy or Sick Playing Video Games?
  Ella Lowgren: you are not alone. This is a sensory conflict,
• Dropdowns Inside Scrollable Containers: Why They Break And How To Fix Them Properly
  Godstime Aburu: This is also an accessibility problem, not just a visual one.
• Life as an Accessibility Specialist: What You Need to Know
  Grant Broome: Here’s what nobody really tells you when you’re starting out.
• Adding Text-to-Speech (TTS) to my writings
  Julia Solórzano: Text-to-speech is, first and foremost, an accessibility feature.
• Accessibility is the Foundation
  Julia Solórzano: Accessibility is not a feature you bolt on at the end.
• Introducing AFixt Accessibility Program Management
  Karl Groves: A Complete Solution Built on the W3C Accessibility Maturity Model.
• How to Create Emotional Safety
  Kelly Mack: Setting the Stage for Fully Sharing Our True Selves.
• Video: Breaking Barriers Through Dance: An Interview with Dan Watt
  Laura Wissiak: How one studio became a safe space for families navigating disability diagnoses and resource gaps.
• Video: Keyboard Access and Focus
  Laura Wissiak: DHS Trusted Tester Study Group Session 3
• The ADA Title II Countdown
  Mark Miller: Is Your Agency Ready for the 2026 Compliance Deadline?
• AI Ambivalence
  Mary Brunelle: to refuse to use it as a tool in your work, in 2026, seems self-defeating.
• A11y 101: 2.5.3 Label in Name
  Nat Tarnoff: The rule is simple, but the impact is profound.
• Quick Tip: Don’t Use <abbr>
  Nat Tarnoff: The problem with this is that the <abbr> is not an interactive element.
• A11y 101: 2.5.4 Motion Actuation
  Nat Tarnoff: The Core Concept: Don’t Rely on the Shake.
• Spotlight or Substance?
  Peter Torres Fremlin: The Zero Project 2026 and what’s missing from disability lists.
• Why a Manual Accessibility Testing Tool?
  Sam Donnelly: why we’ve created a guided web app for manual accessibility testing.
• Auto-Improving an Agent Skill
  Schalk Neethling: Applying Karpathy’s Autoresearch Pattern to Semantic HTML.
• Getting Developers to Care about Accessibility: Carrots and Sticks
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Most developers aren’t intentionally hostile to accessibility. They just weren’t taught about its importance.
• Beyond Compliance
  Ted Drake: Sessions at CSUN 2026 That Embraced the Broader Spectrum of Disability and Inclusive Design
• Designing for Cognitive Accessibility
  Ted Drake: CSUN highlighted cognitive accessibility as a key part of inclusive design.
• Video: How to Build an Audio Description Strategy That Actually Works
  3Play Media: You’ve captioned your videos. But do they need audio description (AD)?
• AbilityNet responds to report revealing the UK’s growing digital participation divide
  AbilityNet: While the UK has strong digital infrastructure, participation has not kept pace.
• Apple Vision Accessibility: The 2025 AppleVis Report Card
  AppleVis: valuable insights into the lived experiences and opinions of people who rely on VoiceOver, braille, and/or low vision accessibility features on Apple products.
• Innovation and Community: Highlights from CSUN 2026
  Be My Eyes: accessibility matters most in the moments where people are trying to get things done.
• Podcast: The One Remediation Tool You Should Have…
  Chax Chat: What’s the best tool for making PDFs accessible?
• How accessibility programs benefit from both manual and automated testing
  Deque: examine the complementary benefits of automated and manual testing.
• Video: Accessible research from design to dissemination
  Funka: Learn how reaching diverse audiences at all stages can strengthen participation, boost relevance and increase real-life impact.
• Video: Digital Accessibility Policies and Statements – What, How and Why
  Knowbility: Kevin White outlines how to build and maintain effective digital accessibility policies and statements.
• The ROI of Digital Accessibility
  Level Access: What Every Business Leader Needs to Know.
• AI, plain language, and responsibility
  Minnesota IT: potential weaknesses in AI-generated text and how to use it responsibly.
• Slouching Towards WCAG 2.1
  Minnesota IT: The updated rule to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act becomes effective April 24. What then?
• Editing for clarity: How to strengthen articles — with (and without) AI
  Minnesota IT: How plain language principles support editing practices as well as the use of AI.
• Podcast: The Real Cost of Ignoring Web Accessibility for Non-Profits
  Non-Profit Digital Success: David Pisarek sits down with Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital.
• How ADA Title II Will Affect PDFs and Digital Documents
  PDF Association: state and local governments must ensure that their digital content — including PDFs and electronic documents — complies with WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards.
• Meet the team: Niamh Madden
  TetraLogical: a background in development, a love of language, and a strong focus on usability.
• Ecommerce Accessibility Checklist
  UsableNet: How to Make Your Online Store ADA & WCAG Compliant.
• Building dynamic toggletips using anchored container queries
  Daniel Schwarz: a great opportunity to look at how we might build toggletips in the (hopefully) near future.
• Thinking Full Stack
  Donnie D’Amato: explain something to full-stack engineers that is often confusing: why can’t I just declare that the button is blue?
• There Is No “Wrong” in CSS
  Jens Oliver Meiert: The platform should make it hard to create barriers, and easy to remove them.
• How many AIs does it take to read a PDF?
  Josh Dzieza: One of the humblest and most ubiquitous file formats is stumping the world’s most advanced models.
• Markdown Ate The World
  Mat Duggan: it lets you very quickly generate webpages that work on every browser on the planet with almost no memorization.
• JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring
  Mat Marquis: broadening our understanding of the medium we work with every day sharpens all of our skills, from layout to accessibility.
• Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
  Vitaly Friedman: How do we choose between showing a modal to users, and when do we navigate them to a separate, new page?

• Past, present and future
  W3C: An update on W3C’s Strategic Objectives on the 37th anniversary of the Web proposal.
• Video: Accessibility is a Civil Right
  axe-con: Lainey Feingold delivers the US Digital Accessibility Legal Update
• Three great reasons to create the European Agency for Accessibility
  European Disability Forum: accessibility is not applied consistently across the EU.
• Accessibility Act
  Disability Rights UK: a new law on accessibility to sit alongside our current Equality Act 2010. Have your say by taking part in the survey.
• Three major accessibility updates in Australia, and what they mean for your organization in 2026
  Deque: for organizations doing business in Australia, as well as for the rest of the world.
• The Enforced Accessibility of the Geolocation Element
  Chris Coyier: Here’s what I think you should know.
• I tried to educate an Accessibility overlay company from the inside
  Chris Yoong: This is what happened.
• Oh… accessibility is causing trauma.
  Chris Yoong: My favourite accessibility talk from 2025, and some notes.
• Do Accessibility Overlays Actually Help?
  Claire Brotherton: Weighing the Pros and Cons.
• Video: Adobe InDesign’s AI Alt-Text Generator
  Colleen Gratzer: What Designers Need to Know.
• Accessibility and AI Agents
  Connor Luddy: Accessibility was designed for humans, but the surface it exposes in your apps can benefit your agents and save you money — if you populate it.
• Skill: Swift Accessibility Agent
  Connor Luddy: A drop-in Claude Code skill that audits and fixes SwiftUI accessibility modifiers — for humans and AI agents alike.
• Beyond the Screen Reader
  Darrell Hilliker: Can Gemini’s AI Agent “Accessify” the Web?
• The Digital Door Is Closing on Disabled Americans
  Darrell Hilliker: Please Help Us Keep It Open.
• When an important newsletter becomes inaccessible
  Diana Khalipina: Here are several steps that I often recommend in order to prepare an accessible newsletter
• Want to check if your web solution is accessible?
  Diana Khalipina: accessibility doesn’t begin with perfection, it begins with curiosity and small checks.
• Are newsletters becoming harder to use for you too?
  Diana Khalipina: 10 research-supported ways to make newsletters more accessible.
• A conversation with my younger self
  Elin Williams: my words might also speak to fellow vision impaired people and help them feel a little less alone.
• You probably shouldn’t be annotating focus order
  Eric Bailey: Accessibility-oriented annotations are still a relatively rare thing in our industry.
• Waiting in a Hospital Bed for a Life That Should Be Theirs
  Grace Dow: The story of a disabled woman forced into a nursing home against her will has resonated with many who advocate for disability rights.
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Accessible PDFs
  James Graham: how I learned that accessibility isn’t a headache, it’s good design.
• The Accessibility D.E.N.N.I.S. System
  Jared Cunha: Until the NDS is able to put words into action, and I hope they do, they are simply words.
• Testing browser support for focusgroup
  Jeremy Keith: The focusgroup HTML attribute is a proposed declarative way to add keyboard arrow-key navigation to composite widgets.
• Comparing Introverted and Extroverted Personality Types
  Kelly Mack: Examining the Research on Personality Development and Disability.
• Taming the Moving Parts
  Laura Wissiak: Auto-Playing, Blinking, and Flashing Content according to Section 508.
• The geolocation element is odd
  Manuel Matuzovi?: Let’s talk about some things that I find odd about the geolocation element.
• What’s new in DevTools (Chrome 146)
  Matthias Rohmer: accessibility improvements: Recorder, Application, Settings, General.
• Quick Tip: Dialog Focus
  Nat Tarnoff: We should be providing the user with information they need in a way that encourages them to explore.
• Burden of self-advocacy, serial lawsuits, and moawr
  Nic Steenhout: We’ve structured our world to place accessibility burden on people who already carry disability burden.
• Abusing Customizable Selects
  Patrick Brosset: we can just thank the browser for maintaining the accessibility of the input while we’re having fun with CSS.
• Accessible Text Colour with the CSS contrast-color() Function
  Schalk Neethling: what it does, how it works, and why it matters for accessibility and the web.
• The Other Half of Accessibility
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Why Soft Skills Determine Whether Programs Succeed.
• Video: heydon fireside 2 – can’t shut [ him ] up
  Steve Faulkner: Heydon takes a second bite of the fireside.
• Video.js v10 Beta: Hello, World (again)
  Steve Heffernan: It’s accessible and supports captions … but things like settings menus are still on their way.
• There Was No List. So I Made One
  Taylor Arndt: AI coding tools … write SwiftUI views with no accessibility modifiers.
• Automated accessible text with contrast-color())
  Una Kravets: contrast-color() will be landing in Chrome 147, stable by the end of March, making it newly available in all modern browsers.
• contrast-color()) beyond black & white
  Una Kravets: This feature takes any color and returns either black or white. However, there are ways you can work around this limitation.
• What Is Pulse by 3Play Media? A Complete Breakdown
  3Play Media: Pulse is an automated auditing and monitoring tool that provides a comprehensive view of a university’s video accessibility health.
• Podcast: The Great WordPress Plugin Color Contrast Debate
  Accessibility Craft: the team debates how to balance accessibility, brand identity, and platform consistency.
• ScribeMe Review: An Ambitious AI App for the Visually Impaired
  Accessible Android: What sets ScribeMe apart is its focus on smart recognition of PDF content, along with its Live Assist feature.
• The State of PDF Accessibility—Why Measurement Matters
  Allyant: What is the real, measurable state of PDF accessibility in the public digital ecosystem today?
• Podcast: Rylin Rodgers
  AXSChat: serves on Microsoft’s Accessibility Team as a Disability Policy Director.
• How Proper Structure Improves Forms Accessibility for Screen Readers
  Be Accessible: that’s how assistive technology interprets and communicates form elements to users who can’t see them.
• The 2026 Web Accessibility Statistics Report
  Be Accessible: these web accessibility statistics offer a clear picture of where accessibility stands today .
• Be My Eyes Foundation Launches
  Be My Eyes: o Ensure Free Access to Accessibility Technology for Blind People Worldwide.
• How accessible experience design unlocks business value and innovation
  Fable: Sign up for report, coming soon.
• Level Access Supercharges Partner Program to Accelerate Digital Accessibility
  Level Access: BM, Slalom, Merkle, and more will harness the power of Level Access’s platform to deliver inclusive customer experiences.
• A Guide to aria-label and Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)
  
  Level Access: explains how to use ARIA effectively alongside native HTML to clearly label UI elements.
• How Inaccessibility Costs EU Retailers—and What to Do About It
  Level Access: how accessibility gaps drive both visible and hidden costs, and how retailers can reduce risk.
• EAA and Mass Documents: Why Accessible PDFs Become a System-Level Issue
  PDF Association: Manual PDF remediation no longer scales: Organizations need system-integrated, reproducible processes.
• Designing for people with anxiety
  TetraLogical: we can ensure our designs at the most reduce stress, and the very least, do not contribute to or amplify it further.
• UM researchers launch open-source brain-controlled web browser
  Times of Malta: Boggle is based on a well-established BCI technique known as steady-state visually evoked potentials (SSVEP).
• A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting a Web Accessibility Audit
  UsableNet: A well-structured accessibility audit delivers a clear, high-level view of the digital property’s status for stakeholders.
• Quick wins to improve the accessibility of your website
  WP Accessibility Knowledge Base: What to do first when you want to make your site more accessible
• Comprehension Debt — the hidden cost of AI generated code.
  Addy Osmani: the hidden cost to human intelligence and memory resulting from excessive reliance on AI and automation.
• The Value of z-index
  Amit Sheen: common elements rely on it to ensure they appear above other content.
• Designing AI Experiences People Actually Use
  Buzz Usborne: naïve AI feature design has begun to fracture the user experience.
• Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it
  Casey Newton: On Friday I learned to my surprise that I had become an editor for Grammarly.
• Avoiding z-index
  Donnie D’Amato: trying to manage z-index is a political battlefield.
• 5 quick tips for giving better presentations
  Phil Nash: a few things you should remember when giving a talk.
• What is agentic engineering?
  Simon Willison: the practice of developing software with the assistance of coding agents.
• Video The Biggest CSS Web Dev Battle Tournament Ever | Round 1
  Syntax.fm: We brought 16 of the worlds best CSS developers to compete head to head.
• Why AI-Generated UX Still Feels Off
  Vandelay: There’s a particular uncanny valley in AI-generated interfaces.
• You Could Be Next
  The Verge: Laid-off lawyers, history PhDs, and scientists are now part of a miserable gig economy in which they’re teaching AI how to do their old jobs.
• Eleventy is now Build Awesome
  Zach Leatherman: bringing it in line with the same naming convention of both Font Awesome and Web Awesome.

• Webinar: Learn How to Access Copilot in Office 365 with JAWS
  Freedom Scientific: Thursday, March 5 at noon ET.
• W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0
  W3C: WAI invites comment on the updated draft.
• First Public Working Draft: YAML-LD 1.0
  W3C: a JSON-based format to serialize Linked Data.
• W3C Invites Implementations of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.1
  W3C: This document specifies the DID syntax, a common data model.
• Tell the Federal Government Not to Change the Title II Accessibility Regulations
  Lainey Feingold: And remember: the rule is the rule until it isn’t.
• FY 2025 Governmentwide Section 508 Assessment
  Section508: The General Services Administration (GSA) is submitting the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Governmentwide Section 508 Assessment
• 2026 Crystal Ball: What to Expect in the ADA Title III Universe This Year
  Seyfarth: ADA Title III controversies continue unabated but there will be no new regulations.
• HHS Section 504 Final Rule
  Healthcare Law Insights: Digital Accessibility Deadlines Approaching in May 2026
• Different contexts, different tools, same person
  Aaron Gustafson: the UIs we create must be able to adapt to us — not the other way around.
• Finding an accessibility-first culture in npmx
  Abbey Perini: Today is the alpha release of npmx, and I’m happy to share how they’ve already exemplified an accessibility-first community.
• Nice Select
  Adam Argyle: This post pushes customizable <select> to an extreme.
• Why designing in code makes you a better designer
  Adam Silver: that’s not what bears are supposed to do. And that bear will never actually be good at riding a bicycle.
• Your Browser Can Already Speak a Page
  Adrian Roselli: If they don’t appear for your content, that’s a signal that you may have work to do on the underlying HTML.
• When Inclusion Arrives: A Product Launch with a Specific Objective
  Alicia Jarvis: As product managers, we talk a lot about inclusion. But from time to time, we have the opportunity to put it into practice.
• On matters of accessibility
  Beth DeConinck: I was thinking about the many ways people find their passion for accessibility.
• I am hiring you (for five minutes)
  Christiane Link: What are the burning accessibility issues in your sector that I haven’t covered yet?
• 10 ways to make your content more inclusive for deaf and hard?of?hearing people
  Diana Khalipina: Accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing people benefits far more people than we often realize.
• RGAA 5 is coming: what does it mean compared to RGAA 4 and WCAG 3?
  Diana Khalipina: RGAA 5 (France) is expected by the end of 2026 and it brings real improvements.
• Common misconceptions about web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: in reality behind each accessibility rule there is a much deeper question.
• What shapes an accessibility mindset?
  Diana Khalipina: many different experiences shaped the way I understand accessibility today.
• Video: Let’s break some WCAG rules
  Elise Kristiansen: Presentation at NDC London 2026.
• You Don’t Know HTML Tables
  Frank M Taylor: we like to make good God-fearing accessible tables with column headings.
• ‘Harmless’ Website Updates Can Create Serious Problems for Your Users — Here’s How It Happens
  Goran Paun: Website accessibility is an ongoing operational responsibility.
• Accessibility people are a superpower
  Jared Cunha: Let’s accept, as a given, that accessibility is everybody’s job.
• What I Like About WCAG 3.0
  Karl Groves: the direction is right, and in several places, it’s better than right.
• A Story of Dueling Personality Traits
  Kelly Mack: Or: How Access and Ableism Influences Personality.
• Ethics Book at CSUN 2026
  Lainey Feingold: learn about the digital accessibility ethics book at the 2026 CSUN conference.
• LFLegal 2026 Resources for Digital Accessibility Legal Update Talks
  Lainey Feingold: URLs that let participants dive deeper than slides allow.
• Your skip link targets may not need tabindex=-1 to work properly
  Manuel Matuzovi?: I would say it’s safe to remove tabindex="-1" from your skip link targets.
• A11y 101: 2.5.2 Pointer Cancellation
  Nat Tarnoff: We need to make sure that if a user creates a down event on a control, we allow them to cancel.
• Disability levels, language and identity, Quality
  Nic Steenhout: Once more, I’m covering a range of topics this week.
• Making keyboard navigation effortless
  Patrick Brosset: Together, with focusgroup, let’s create a more accessible web.
• WCAG 3 March Update
  Rachael Bradley Montgomery: It now includes initial Developing content for most of the requirements.
• The Screen Reader Stutter: Why Your Content Repeats Itself and How to Fix It
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Screen reader users hate it when things announce twice. Some people call this “WCAG Stuttering.”
• True Disability Inclusion Requires Planning for the Unexpected
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: That’s where disability inclusion either succeeds or spectacularly fails.
• Video: By the fire with Natalie Patrice Tucker
  Steve Faulkner: Natalie has been a prominent Accessibility advocate for much of the 2000’s.
• Video: Karl stokes the Fireside
  Steve Faulkner: Although we don’t always agree I have immense respect for Karl and his contributions to accessibility.
• Establishing a spoon theory policy at Intuit
  Ted Drake: At Intuit, we’ve been hosting Accessibility/Inclusive Design Lunch and Learns for several years.
• Don’t make me think… like a designer
  Ted Drake: When products do not behave the way people expect, they do more than create confusion.
• Popover API or Dialog API: Which to Choose?
  Zell Liew: the Popover API and Dialog API are wildly different in terms of accessibility.
• Gavin and Stacey TV star to help older people build digital confidence
  AbilityNet: new research reveals one in five are “too intimidated” to attend traditional tech classes.
• Podcast: The Pressure to be Perfect: How Usable is Usable Enough?
  Accessibility Craft: Amber Hinds, Chris Hinds, and Steve Jones explore the internal and external pressures of maintaining a perfect accessibility record.
• Video: ADA Title II: Panel Discussion
  axe-con 2026: Glenda Sims hosts Emilie Berglund, Roger Njunge, Alisa Shtromberg, and Kyle Schachmut.
• Podcast: Mike Hazlewood – CEO of SensePilot
  AXSChat: redefining how individuals with mobility and dexterity impairments interact with the digital world.
• How to Get the Most Out of Be My AI
  Be My Eyes: Tips and Tricks for a Better Experience
• Web Accessibility Is Less Rigid Than You Think
  BOIA: while WCAG is extensive, it’s not what you’d call hardcore.
• Why Is WCAG Level AA the Standard for Digital Accessibility?
  BOIA: Level AA is the effective standard for a reason.
• Podcast: Microsoft’s MathML Win and Adobe’s AI Alt Text Experiment
  Chax Chat: Dax Castro and Chad Chelius unpack two very different approaches to accessibility innovation.
• Legal Update: February 2026
  Converge: This month, there wasn’t much activity in the courts but there was a ton of legislative activity. Plus, there is movement at DOJ and OMB, which [ is ] not a good thing.
• Request for developer feedback: focusgroup
  Chrome Developer Blog: ensure that users who rely on accessibility tools are able to navigate content and use custom controls.
• The Accessible Canada Act: Deadlines are closer than you think
  Deque: we examine key digital accessibility compliance deadlines.
• Optimizing your 2026 accessibility roadmap
  Deque: how to ensure that you’re optimizing your accessibility roadmaps.
• Axe DevTools for Web now includes Axe MCP Server for earlier fixes and faster delivery
  Deque: giving our customers immediate access to AI-powered remediation capabilities.
• Axe Awards at Axe-con 2026
  Deque: to honor and celebrate the people and organizations doing notably impactful work in accessibility.
• Day two at Axe-con 2026
  Deque: You came, you shared, you taught, and you learned.
• Video: How to Create Titles & Heading in Word using JAWS Screen Reader
  Easterseals Crossroads: Jim Rinehart, Assistive Technology Specialist.
• Every Jira Ticket Is Your Accessibility Policy
  Equal Entry: Charlie Triplett explains how accessibility becomes sustainable when it is built into the everyday tools teams already use.
• Accessibility and usability belong at the center of design
  Fast Company: When designed together, accessibility and usability move beyond standards.
• Deadline Approaches to Address the Digital Services Gap
  GovTech: Larger jurisdictions have until April 24 to comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• Video: IAAP EU Event – Dublin | Recordings Available
  IAAP: All sessions from 5 February 2026.
• Can AI Agent Skills Help Developers Ship Accessible Code?
  Intopia: This is part one of a multi-part series on using AI agent skills to improve accessibility in code.
• International Women’s Day
  Level Access: An Interview with Chief Technology Officer Jen Kurtz
• Video: AI and Accessibility
  OZeWAI: Jaunita Flessas moderates Ask The Professionals with Andrew Downie (UTS), Ricky Onsman (Vispero), and Wilco Fiers (Deque).
• Accessible math in PDF – finally!
  PDF Association:
• Fully accessible design does not exist. We can do better
  People With Disability Australia: it’s simply not possible to create true universal accessibility.
• A guide to accessible focus indicators
  Pope Tech: focus indicators aren’t just a “feature” but a necessity for those who navigate the internet with keyboards.
• Accessible UX Research
  Smashing: A New Book By Michele Williams.
• Designing for people with disabilities
  TetraLogical: At the heart of inclusive design are people. Not technology, and not standards.
• Podcast: with Anette Cmela
  United in Accessibility: How the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Builds Safety and Belonging.
• Notes from the Field
  UsableNet: What Defense Counsel Are Seeing in ADA Website Litigation.
• Notes from the Field
  UsableNet: What Defense Counsel Focus on After an ADA Website Claim.
• Building Accessibility Training Programs that Work
  WebAIM: Training is a key component of a sustainable web accessibility program and must be carefully planned and managed.
• LLMs Are Antithetical to Writing and Humanity
  Brian Leli: make the case for your use of assistive technologies or alternatives to writing.
• Video: The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it.
  Jenny Wen: head of design at Claude at Anthropic. Prior to this, she was Director of Design at Figma.
• Interactive playing cards for critical thinking
  Per Axbom: it’s exactly five years ago since I first published The Elements of Digital Ethics.
• AI Gave Me Working Code. Questioning It Gave Me Better Code.
  Schalk Neethling: Working code isn’t understood code.
• Your menu doesn’t need Miller’s 7±2 rule
  Stéphanie Walter: Be careful with anyone selling “magical” UX rules as universal answers.

• Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 16
  Vispero: David Sloan and Alicia Evans talk about effective strategies digital accessibility professionals can adopt for dealing with stress and avoiding burnout.
• Partner Tech Partners with Vispero to Expand Self-Service Accessibility for Customers with Disabilities
  Vispero: Partner Tech USA Inc., a global manufacturer of intelligent POS and self-service solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Vispero.
• Podcast: FSCast #267
  Freedom Scientific: Title II readiness, CSUN plans, and Focusing On What Really Matters
• Webinar: The Power of Productivity: Accessing Copilot in Office 365 with JAWS
  Freedom Scientific: Thursday, March 5, 2026, 12:00 pm Eastern time (U.S. and Canada).
• Meet Every Shopper Where They Are
  Retail Touchpoints: Matt Ater writes about the retail imperative for multimodal, accessible self-service.
• First Public Working Draft and supporting notes: EPUB Annotations 1.0
  W3C: a specification that will define how to create, manage, export, and import annotations in EPUB publications.
• CSS Snapshot 2026 published as a Group Note
  W3C: collects together into one definition all the specs that together form the current state of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as of 2026.
• The best shift-left is to shift accessibility into AI model training and not bolting it on later
  Bogdan Cerovac: Seems that shift left needs us once again.
• Why did Apple Music skip accessibility for the Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance?
  Chris Yoong: no options, no subtitles, no translated subtitles, no sign language, nothing.
• Learning to develop more accessible iOS games
  Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats: we are actually not in need of experts, but in need of basic knowledge.
• When is a Link not a Link?
  Dennis Deacon: An anchor element without an href is not a link.
• Why order matters in accessible web structure
  Diana Khalipina: we do not talk enough about the order in which people encounter content and how that order impacts usability for diverse users.
• Why accessibility is not one fix
  Diana Khalipina: Web accessibility often starts with one improvement, but real users rarely have just one need.
• Accessibility has real faces, real struggles and real consequences
  Diana Khalipina: accessibility is a commitment to dignity, respect, inclusion and it affects people’s lives in deeply human ways every day.
• Chip Away
  Donnie D’Amato: The challenge with this pattern is accessibility.
• Getting Started With The Popover API
  Godstime Aburu: I didn’t expect it to remove entire categories of accessibility bugs I had been chasing for years.
• Chat about Able Player at CSUN 2026?
  Joe Dolson: I’m hoping to gather information to help steer the future development of Able Player.
• News Comment: Disabled Rule Breakers
  Kelly Mack: Or: The Disabled Rebels Who Break Molds
• DHS Trusted Tester Study Group Session 1 Recap: What is Section 508?
  Laura Wissiak: I am hosting a study group for the Trusted Tester certification.
• Video: Episode 15 of the things we love and hate
  Lucy Greco: In this interview I speak with Ronit Mazzoni and we learn about many things she has in her home.
• aria-haspopup might not do what you think it does
  Manuel Matuzovi?: a bad practice I often see in main navigations during accessibility audits.
• role=presentation is no alternative for aria-hidden=true
  Manuel Matuzovi?: Before I show you where it fails, let’s first try to understand the difference.
• Figcaptions versus alt text
  Martin Underhill: how a <figure> element’s caption should be used, and how that differs from an image’s alt text.
• Breakpoints
  Matthias Zöchling: we only take the phone’s default accessibility settings into account.
• A11y 101: 2.5.1 Pointer Gestures
  Nat Tarnoff: The problem arises when users don’t have the ability to touch the screen.
• Nano Banana Pro for Accessibility Testing
  Nick Babich: you can hire AI to do accessibility testing. (requires paid Medium membership)
• Three Reasons Your scroll-snap Container May Be Overflowing on Mobile
  Schalk Neethling: worth knowing that display: contents has had a patchy accessibility history.
• Before, During, and After
  Sharyn Morrow: Accessibility Does Not Stop at the Screen.
• Accessibility Considerations for Off-Site Navigation and Downloads
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: When a website links to content it does not own or control, it is easy for assistive technology users to miss that they’ve ended up on a different domain.
• Locking In Accessibility: How Smart Procurement Language Protects Your Organization
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Inaccessible third-party tools are one of the most common and preventable accessibility risks organizations face.
• New iOS, tvOS 26.4 Betas Add Accessibility Options
  Steven Aquino: Apple has added a couple noteworthy accessibility-minded features.
• Impressions from the Zero Project 2026 Conference in Vienna
  Ted Drake: The biggest lesson was that better results happen when disabled people are involved as leaders from the start.
• Part Two: Why PDFs are not a suitable solution
  AccessibilityOz: If you are providing content via PDF, you should seriously consider the following issues.
• Collaboration with Meta to Help Train Inclusive AI Models
  Be My Eyes: company that connects people who are blind or have low vision with sighted volunteers and companies is working with Meta.
• Image Compare
  Cloud Four: Built with a focus on accessibility, performance, and progressive enhancement.
• A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets
  CSS Tricks: Ian Lloyd has a selection of bookmarklets for performing accessibility audits.
• Podcast: Jane Abbott
  Digital Accessibility Podcast: Founder of Welldone Consulting, a new consultancy dedicated to Mobile App Accessibility.
• Deaf or hard of hearing in a multilingual country: welcome to Luxembourg
  Digital accessibility portal: sheds light on the daily lives of deaf and hard-of-hearing people in the Grand Duchy.
• The Business Case for Inclusion
  Disability Belongs: Why Disability Inclusion Matters in Business Today.
• How to operationalize your Accessible Canada Act commitments
  Fable: publishing a plan isn’t the same as operationalizing it.
• A straightforward reference for inclusive game design
  Game Accessibility Guidelines: A collaborative effort between a group of studios, specialists and academics.
• Evolving Lookout
  Google Design: A progressive approach to designing accessibility apps.
• Executive leadership change as co-founder Sharron Rush retires
  Knowbility: Jillian Fortin Burtnett steps in as incoming executive director.
• Understanding Keyboard Navigation and Web Accessibility
  Level Access: a deep dive into keyboard accessibility: why it matters, and what it means in practice.
• Automated Accessibility Testing: A Practical Guide
  Level Access: Automated accessibility testing helps teams quickly identify common issues that may create barriers or challenges for users with disabilities.
• Accessibility Redefined
  The Next Web: Gay Cordova on the Importance of Coherent Human Captioning in an AI-Driven World.
• A New Path for Digital Accessibility?
  WebAIM: how an adaptive, intelligent system could empower users with disabilities to optimize their experience in digital environments.
• Designing for Transparent Screens
  Google Design: Behind the scenes of Jetpack Compose Glimmer, our new design system for display AI glasses.
• Designing in English
  Mark Anthony Cianfrani: Components are dead. Use your words.

• Maturing Document Accessibility Strategy – Knowledge, Tools, Processes
  Vispero: explore how organizations move from reactive document remediation to proactive, scalable document accessibility strategies. February 26, 1.00pm ET.
• First Public Working Draft: Selectors Level 5
  W3C: Selectors are patterns that match against elements in a tree, one of several technologies that can be used to select nodes in a document.
• ACT Rules Implementation in Test Tools and Methodologies
  W3C WAI: The tables on these pages show how many ACT Rules different accessibility test tools and methodologies have “consistently implemented”.
• Call for Speakers
  M-Enabling Summit: Submissions Accepted: 4 February – 30 March 2026.
• Accessibility Assistant for Figma v52
  Aaron Gustafson: I wanted to share some details on why this is a monumental release for us.
• Native HTML components don’t guarantee good UX
  Adam Silver: I want to point out that many native HTML elements are terrible UX.
• I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I’ve always wanted
  Blake Watson: There is an industry built up around assistive tech, but it often is either too expensive or doesn’t do what the person needs.
• Video: Are Graphic and Web Designers Liable When WCAG Standards Change?
  Colleen Gratzer: Could past work be noncompliant? Learn how to protect yourself.
• Potentially Coming to a Browser :near() You
  Daniel Schwarz: :near() isn’t supported in any web browser.
• One Week with NVDA: A JAWS User’s Immersion Journey
  Darrell Shandrow Hilliker: What started as a seven-day experiment ended with a new primary screen reader.
• Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden
  David Bushell: I present to you my definitive “it depends” tome on visually-hidden web content.
• LinkedIn with JAWS Commands for total Access
  Denise Robinson: Navigating LinkedIn with JAWS commands or any screen reader doesn’t have to be overwhelming.
• Google Drive Keyboard Shortcuts for Screen Reader Users
  Denise Robinson: how JAWS and NVDA users can move through folders, open files, switch views, and manage Drive content without ever touching a mouse.
• When Accessibility Demand Letters Land on Your Desk
  Dennis Deacon: A Framework for Strategic Response.
• Accessibility opportunities you can still apply to in February 2026
  Diana Khalipina: accessibility-focused events and opportunities you can still apply to or participate in.
• 8 ways we can reduce isolation for people with disabilities and their families
  Diana Khalipina: Many families caring for people with disabilities feel lonely, exhausted, and unsupported.
• What research actually shows about accessible writing
  Diana Khalipina: some research-backed ways to make your writing more accessible.
• Here’s how to instruct a LLM to reference the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide
  Eric Bailey: Pessimism of the intelligence, optimism of the will.
• Thoughts on people-first language
  Erik Kroes: How a person like to be described varies and can be a matter of personal preference.
• 5 reasons why I didn’t choose an R1
  Frank Elavsky: TT research faculty roles at an R1 aren’t ideal for me, personally.
• Remote Work Is a Lifeline for Disabled Workers — And It’s Disappearing
  Grace Dow: Remote work opportunities are declining. Sadly, this has disproportionately affected disabled people.
• Why it’s important to manually test for Accessibility
  Ilknur Eren: it’s still extremely important to also run a manual accessibility test and check for issues.
• You’re getting sued. What happens now?
  Karl Groves: find a good lawyer with experience in defending ADA cases.
• How to Avoid Restrictive Roles
  Kelly Mack: Or: Imagining and Creating Our Own Lives.
• ZeroCon26 – Innovation & Inclusion in Action
  Laura Wissiak: EU accessibility law, AI-assistive tools, inclusive nightlife, election tech & neurodiversity.
• TechnoAbleism in India’s AI Moment
  Nilesh Singit: Why Accessibility Is Not Enough.
• Video: Why AI personalisation breaks accessibility
  Ross Mullen: could interfaces be generated to better match individual requirements?
• Mocking Browser Image Loading in Vitest: Property Descriptors, Prototypes, and WeakMap
  Schalk Neethling: If you have ever needed to test code that loads images in a non-browser environment, you have probably run into a wall.
• CSS Anchor Positioning: Scoping, Implicit Anchors, and Conditional Hiding
  Schalk Neethling: What happens when dozens of elements share the same anchor name?
• Why You Need to Close Open Objects When Users Navigate Away
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: stale objects become digital clutter, confusing users about what’s active and what isn’t.
• Why Separate Guest and Logged In States Create Accessibility Barriers
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: If a person starts a task while logged out and that work disappears after logging in, or if the user is moved somewhere unexpected without a clear indication of what happened, your software has an accessibility barrier.
• Sometimes the Best Accessibility Fix is a Usability Fix
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: accessibility gains often come from fixing ordinary UX friction points.
• Video: Build more accessible UIs with Jetpack Compose
  Simona Milanovic & Melba Nuzen: Google I/O on how to focus on accessibility as you classify composables, from Material components to custom UIs.
• ARIA Live Regions
  Sonja Weckenmann: If a screen reader’s focus is on a button, it cannot simultaneously be on a message displayed elsewhere.
• Notes on relying on the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide
  Stefan Judis: Lately, I’ve seen many accessibility folks raise concerns about APG.
• Video: Matt May speaks
  Steve Faulkner: Fireside Chat with someone who “has been a part of the accessibility/web standards industrial complex for too long”.
• I Got Fed Up With AI Forgetting Accessibility, So I Built a Team That Will Not
  Taylor Arndt: AI tools do not care about accessibility. And I finally did something about it.
• I Built a Team of AI Agents That Actually Know Swift
  Taylor Arndt: I ask for accessibility and get views with no labels, no traits, no VoiceOver support at all.
• Victory for Internet Access and Connectivity at the Supreme Court
  AAPD: Why Does the Universal Service Fund (USF) Matter to People with Disabilities?
• Video: Live Website Remediation Part One with Brian Coords
  Accessibility Craft: Brian Coords joined Amber Hinds to walk through real-world accessibility remediation on an active website.
• Accessibility of PDFs and other downloadable documents
  AccessibilityOz: Part One – The history of the accessibility of PDF (in Australia).
• Paper2Audio – Text to Speech
  Accessible Android: reads your research papers, ebooks, web articles, and other text to you.
• Be My Eyes and Amtrak Expand Live Visual Support
  Be My Eyes: Expansion includes some of the largest and busiest train stations in the U.S., marking a major step forward for accessible rail travel.
• Web Accessibility Myths: Can a Font Choice Violate the ADA?
  BOIA: Not exactly — but the answer is a bit complicated.
• How Interrupting Your Users Can Create Accessibility Concerns
  BOIA: Why Live Website Changes Aren’t Great for Accessibility.
• Podcast: Accessible Forms: PDF or Web?
  Chax Chat: Dax Castro and Chad Chelius are joined by Walt Zielinski, a web developer with extensive experience building accessible form experiences.
• RightHear Signals the Future of Accessibility
  EasterSeals Crossroads: a talking signage system installed in more than 2,000 venues worldwide such as McDonald’s and Pizza Hut.
• XR Accessibility: What Meta Horizon Worlds Teaches Us About Inclusive Virtual Reality Design
  Equal Entry: based on Thomas Logan’s talk at A11yNYC on XR social accessibility in practice.
• Video: The Growth Lever Agencies Miss: Accessibility ROI in 2026
  Kinsta: Roger Williams sits down with Chris Hinds (Equalize Digital) to discuss why 2026 is the year accessibility becomes a non-negotiable hedge against declining search traffic.
• The Hidden Cost of Accessibility Debt and How to Surface It Sooner
  Level Access: what accessibility debt is, and why it’s so widespread.
• How to Test for ADA Title II Compliance
  Level Access: outlines key testing approaches to help chart an effective path to compliance.
• Accessibility Risk Reduction Playbook
  Level Access: Closing the Gap in Your Accessibility Program.
• HHS Imposes First-Time Digital Accessibility Standards for Patients with Disabilities
  Texas Medical: Effective May 11, many physicians are required to make their practice’s patient-facing technology compliant with technology accessibility standards.
• Why Blind Shoppers Struggle With Online Product Returns
  UsableNet: the most common problems when completing online returns independently.
• The Mythology Of Conscious AI
  Anil Seth: The cultural history of synthetic consciousness is both long and mostly unhappy.
• I fell for a phishing attack and lost access to my X account.
  Christian Heilmann: Here are five mistakes I did that you need to avoid.
• The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
  Politico: Brussels is going head-to-head with social media platforms to change addictive design.
• An in-depth guide to customising lists with CSS
  Richard Rutter: This first rule of styling lists is that they should be treated with the same reverence you would show any other text.
• Generative AI has broken the subject matter expert/editor relationship
  Rachel Andrew: Some thoughts about managing a publishing pipeline in a world of generative AI.
• Standard HTML Video & Audio Lazy-loading is Coming
  Scott Jehl: the feature is not yet standard, but support just landed behind a flag in Chrome Canary.
• border-shape: the future of the non-rectangular web
  Una Kravets: this property allows developers to define the geometry of an element’s border.
• Announcing Interop 2026
  Yulun Wu and Jen Simmons: Google, Apple, Igalia, Microsoft, and Mozilla collaborate to make web technology more consistent and reliable across browsers.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-february-23-2026/.

• Mastering Dialog Accessibility
  Vispero: Rajat Kumar walks you through this fundamental component of modern web interfaces.
• What’s New in ZoomText 2026 Magnifier/Reader
  Freedom Scientific: new features and improvements introduced in ZoomText 2026.
• What’s New in JAWS 2026 Screen Reading Software
  Freedom Scientific: new features and improvements available in JAWS 2026.
• Second W3C Team appointment to the TAG
  W3C: Heather Flanagan, Spherical Cow Consulting.
• Group Note Draft
  W3C: Considerations for Reviewing Differential Privacy Systems (for Non-Differential Privacy Experts).
• From Focus State to Digital Arcana
  Anna E. Cook: Newsletter name change.
• ‘I am not a robot’: Wilfully and pointlessly inaccessible by design
  Chris Mairs: Now bots outperform humans at CAPTCHAs, while legitimate agents make blocking pointless.
• Building an Accessible WordPress Theme
  Dennis Deacon: instead of modifying a parent theme, I am starting closer to first principles, using a framework I know deeply.
• WordPress Plugins, a Love/Hate Relationship
  Dennis Deacon: while plugins deliver power, they also introduce risk. Often quietly, and cumulatively.
• Ableism: a word I learned late and now I see it everywhere in digital work
  Diana Khalipina: Once you understand what is ableism, you start noticing it everywhere and especially in tech.
• AI is accidentally making documentation more accessible
  Geri Reid: AI didn’t change the rules, it exposed them.
• Trying to Make the Perfect Pie Chart in CSS
  Juan Diego Rodríguez: So, is it accessible? It is, at least when testing in NVDA.
• Building Digital Trust
  Kat Homan: An Empathy-Centred UX Framework For Mental Health Apps
• Introducing IDT 4.0 Beta 1
  Kelly Ford: An Enhanced Way to Describe Your Digital Images.
• Exploring The Impacts of Rigid Roles
  Kelly Mack: Or: Understanding The Binds of Restrictive Stereotypes
• Approximating contrast-color() With Other CSS Features
  Kevin Hamer: the final version of contrast-color() is likely still a ways off.
• The Case for Embedded Digital Accessibility
  Kyle Shachmut: Institutions that integrate accessibility into their digital infrastructure are better positioned to meet legal requirements.
• Your Design System Needs an Enforcer
  Laura Klein: When built well, they embed accessibility and design expertise right into the system.
• Breaking Barriers and Glass Ceilings
  Laura Wissiak: Women with Disabilities Leading the Way in STEM.
• Traveling with Mobility Equipment: The Hidden Hurdles
  Lucy Greco: issues for people traveling with mobility equipment.
• Wishcessibility
  Nic Chan: it’s anything that inadvertently hurts accessibility when you’re trying to improve it.
• MAiD, ableism, cognitive accessibility, and more
  Nic Steenhout: The first piece is long (1,600+ words), and intense. But it needed to be said.
• Video: Why WebAIM’s report only found 6 issues on a million pages
  Ross Mullen: Over a million homepages on the web are failing basic accessibility checks, in the same few ways over and over again.
• Accessibility Contractors Have Their Place-But It’s Not Everywhere
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Some things make perfect sense to contract out.
• Everyone Loses When Paying Fines Becomes a Business Strategy
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Compliance failures are triggering urgency or internal organizational reckoning less frequently.
• 2026 Accessibility hiring looks busy, yet the patterns show underlying weakness
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: More listings sound like good news, right?
• Don’t Fall Into the “Accessibility Grade/Score” Trap
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: these scores tell a fraction of the story, and often the wrong fraction.
• How to Avoid Boiling the Accessibility Ocean
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: The phrase reflects how things feel when accessibility relies on a small group of experts trying to fix every defect.
• Accessibility and Usability
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Inline Field Validation vs. Constantly Active Submit Button.
• How to write alt text for news
  Stacy Kess: If your image disappeared, how would you describe it?
• Video: Talking with Heydon Pickering
  Steve Faulkner: Fireside Chat with Heydon Pickering, Part 1.
• You might not need role="presentation"
  Steve Frenzel: The only real use cases would be tabbed interfaces, the menu pattern and email templates.
• Perspective Intelligence 1.4 Is Here, and It Is Just the Beginning
  Taylor Arndt: For people who care about accessible and private AI.
• Claude Code for Designers: A Practical Guide
  Tommaso Nervegna: Test accessibility and responsive behavior across devices.
• Inclusive tech themes to watch in 2026
  AbilityNet: lessons from TechShare Pro.
• WCAG 3.0 overview and update 2026
  AbilityNet: background to the upcoming Version 3.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• 10 FAQs about Teach Access Europe and building accessibility capacity
  AbilityNet: Teach Access Europe is launching to address the accessibility skills gap.
• Beyond Success Criteria
  Abra: interoperability, accessibility features and user preferences in EN 301 549 v4.1.0.
• Why accessibility must shift left in mobile development
  Abra: Shifting left changes how accessibility is implemented and evaluated.
• Podcast: Accessibility Is Smart Marketing
  The Accessibility Advantage: Maxwell Ivey talks with Melih Oztalay of Smart Finds Marketing.
• Introducing Be My Eyes Workplace
  Be My Eyes: Making Your Workday More Accessible.
• YouTube can now automatically show captions when you mute audio
  BetaNews: It is a simple idea, but one that saves viewers from having to find the captions toggle if they suddenly have to mute sound.
• Shopify Accessibility Checklist for ADA Compliance
  DigitalA11y: a practical checklist that we use while auditing Shopify stores.
• Understanding WCAG 1.2.6: Sign Language (Prerecorded) for WordPress
  Equalize Digital: requires that prerecorded video content with audio include sign language interpretation. (AAA)
• Accessibility 200: Nominations Open
  Forbes: second-annual Accessibility list will spotlight the field’s top innovators and impact-makers.
• M-Enabling Call for Speakers Open
  IAAP: Submission Window: 4 February – 30 March 2026.
• Schools race to meet web accessibility deadlines
  K-12 Dive: many districts won’t be ready to comply with the Title II rule’s requirements for websites, mobile apps and digital textbooks.
• How to Conduct Accessibility User Testing by People with Disabilities
  Level Access: testing by end users reveals which issues affect real people as they try to complete meaningful tasks.
• Helping People With Memory Loss Find Their Way With AI Glasses
  Meta: We partnered with the Oscar Mike Foundation, a nonprofit that supports military veterans with disabilities.
• Evolving the Microsoft Inclusive Design website
  Microsoft: What we learned rebuilding the Microsoft Inclusive Design website with the communities we serve
• Podcast: Autism: myth-busting and what scientists still don’t know
  NPR: Science Correspondent Jon Hamilton sets the record straight.
• Polypane 28: Project improvements, Elements panel updates and Chromium 146
  Polypane is a development browser for professional web developers with extensive accessibility tooling.
• Video: Why your website navigation doesn’t need an ARIA menu
  Pope Tech: learn the critical differences between ARIA menus and standard website navigation.
• Common Ecommerce Website Accessibility Issues
  UsableNet: and How to Fix Them.
• Scheduling Healthcare Appointments as a Blind Patient
  UsableNet: One of the most important digital tasks in healthcare is scheduling appointments online.
• Support WP Accessibility Day at WordCamp Europe
  WP Accessibility Day: raising funds to host a large, highly visible Editor-level booth dedicated to WordPress accessibility.
• A Broken Heart
  Allen Pike: Or, getting a 100x speedup with one dumb line of code.
• Fast by Default
  Den Odell: the practice of embedding performance into every stage of development.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-february-16-2026/.

• Building a Complete Accessibility Program
  Vispero: From an Audit to Long-Term Inclusion
• Defining a Digital Accessibility Roadmap
  Vispero: East Bay Municipal Utility District.
• Cvent: Making Accessibility a Standard Part of Product Quality
  Vispero: Cvent recognized that accessibility had become a critical factor in customer trust, procurement decisions, and enterprise adoption.
• IGT: Turning Accessibility into a Key Brand Differentiator
  Vispero: IGT recognized accessibility as more than a compliance requirement, it saw an opportunity.
• Employee Spotlight
  Vispero: Olga Espínola’s Story.
• Webinar: Learn How to Research, Organize, and Manage Data with Claude Using JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion
  Freedom Scientific: Thursday, February 5 at noon ET on the Zoom conferencing platform.
• Group Note Draft
  W3C: W3C Accessibility Guidelines Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0.
• Group Note Drafts
  W3C: Cognitive Accessibility Research Modules.
• Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1 is now a W3C Recommendation
  W3C: ACT Rules Format defines a format for writing accessibility test rules.
• W3C Team appointment to the TAG
  W3C: appointment to the TAG for the 2026-2028 term: Brian Kardell, Igalia.
• Department of Justice Opposes Unfair Class Action Settlement Involving Accessibility of Website under the ADA
  DoJ: The settlement agreement does not have strong enough enforcement mechanisms and compliance monitoring and too much of the money is going to attorneys fees and costs.
• NASCIO Releases Digital Accessibility Guidance for Governments
  Government Technology: assistance to the public sector around complying with federal digital accessibility requirements.
• Trump Wanted To Cut Disability Programs. Congress Just Said No
  Disability Scoop: federal lawmakers approved a spending package that rejects Trump administration efforts to alter the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
• Microsoft accessibility chief takes new role
  GeekWire: Jenny Lay-Flurrie is taking a new role at Microsoft, moving from Chief Accessibility Officer to head of the company’s Trusted Technology Group.
• Some blind fans to experience Super Bowl with tactile device that tracks ball
  Aaron Gustafson: a haptic feedback device that could allow someone who is Blind or low vision to follow a game.
• Nice Select
  Adam Argyle: Accessibility is built-in with proper focus indicators, keyboard navigation, and semantic markup.
• The problem with GroupCollect’s announcement form (perhaps you can redesign it?)
  Adam Silver: take a look at the radio buttons for “Communication method”.
• You Know What? Just Don’t Split Words into Letters
  Adrian Roselli: The title reflects my exasperation because this isn’t new.
• Honoring Mobile OS Text Size
  Adrian Roselli: If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page.
• Accessible design is digital infrastructure
  Anna E. Cook: What America by Design reveals about how public platforms fail when maintenance, governance, and accountability are treated as optional.
• Accessibility Testing for Websites
  Asheem Shrestha: A Practical WCAG 2.2 Checklist
• alt text selfies
  Bojana Coklyat et al: takes a well-known practice—the selfie—and approaches it through a disability lens.
• Podcast: How to Show Accessibility Work in Your Portfolio (Even If You Didn’t Design It)
  Colleen Gratzer: Find out how to present your accessible design, PDF remediation, website audits and collaborative work.
• How do you implement accessible linear design across light and dark modes?
  Daniel Schwarz: Practical implementation in Linear-style systems.
• Building Accessible WordPress Sites – A Practical Article Series
  Dennis Deacon: I have long believed that digital accessibility and WordPress belong together.
• White Cane Week: 10 ways to truly understand accessibility and how a white cane works
  Diana Khalipina: an international initiative highlighting the independence and daily realities of people who are blind or visually impaired.
• 10 unexpected facts about web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: insights about web accessibility that I hope you’ll find surprising, but here’s a twist: one of them isn’t entirely correct.
• What streaming platforms get right (and wrong) about accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max from an accessibility and UX perspective
• Some CSS only contrast options until contrast-color() is Baseline widely available
  Donnie D’Amato: getting a foreground color to “just work” with any given background color has been a persistent wish of mine.
• You probably shouldn’t be annotating focus order
  Eric Bailey: you’ll actually want to suppress that urge and just let things be.
• Fashioning an identity
  Elin Williams: On style, vision impairment and belonging.
• Accessible inline collapsible
  Erik Kroes: What is phrasing content, well supported, and interactive by default?
• Visually label your colours
  Floris Jansen: This makes it more usable and accessible than tooltips or no labels at all.
• Life advice to a graduating student
  Frank Erlavsky: if I could travel back in time, this is what I’d say to a student like me.
• The Assistive Tech Crisis
  Grace Dow: Schools across the United States are finding it increasingly difficult to provide assistive technology
• Accessibility progress and healthy engineering teams
  Heather Buchel: halted accessibility progress is often the result of technical debt and a floundering team.
• Why real-time form validation can become an accessibility issue
  Helena Ferry: unless handled with care, real-time validation can become an annoyance or even a complete blocker for certain user groups.
• WCAG-EM 2.0 lets you report on accessibility of more than just websites
  Hidde de Vries: More than 10 years after it first came out, WCAG-EM 2.0 was just published as a draft. We’d like your feedback!
• Able Player 4.8.0 and Able Player for WordPress 2.3.0 Released
  Joe Dolson: most importantly, it’s my first steps towards removing the jQuery dependency.
• Why Your Lighthouse Score of 100 Means Almost Nothing
  Karl Groves: The unfortunate truth is they’re fundamentally limited by what can be measured programmatically.
• trauma-informed design
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: I found the perspective of considering design from the perspective of people’s trauma intriguing.
• A Story About a Lifetime of Breaking Molds
  Kelly Mack: Or: Evading Limited Life Paths Expected by Others.
• Introduction to the new HTML element <geolocation>
  Manuel Matuzovi?: provides a button that, when activated, prompts the user for permission to access their location.
• A new meta tag for respecting text scaling on mobile
  Manuel Matuzovi?: that, in the future, may enable us to instruct browsers to respect text size settings on websites.
• The Ultimate Mobile Accessibility Resource Guide
  Mark Steadman: updated for 2026 – new resources have been added, and some minor tweaks have been made for ease of reading to the article.
• Economics of Accessibility in Consumption
  Matthew Thomas: Markets tend not to accommodate disabled workers and consumers without outside intervention.
• Podcast: How Content First Design And Accessibility Go Hand In Hand
  Maxwell Ivey: I am blessed to speak with Sarah Johnson Founder and director of Content First Design.
• Quick Tip: Do Not Replicate OS Behavior
  Nat Tarnoff: Those who need the tools have them, and those who don’t have them need to learn how to use the correct tools in their devices.
• Announcing my new newsletter
  Nic Steenhout: I’ve never had a newsletter. And I’ve been writing and blogging for a long time!
• Openclaw Is More Fun to Fiddle With Than To Use
  Samuel Proulx: Of course I have to write about openclaw.
• AI will Eliminate the Need for Accessibility Professionals? I think not.
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Every day, there are more articles about AI replacing people in tech.
• Video: A word with the accessibility egg
  Steve Faulkner: Fireside Chat with Eric Eggert 22nd January 2026
• Searching for silence
  Thar? Gabriel: When tinnitus affects a person who is hard of hearing.
• Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One
  Vitaly Friedman: dual listbox is often faster, more accurate, and more accessible than drag-and-drop.
• Is Your Content Invisible?
  Acquia: Why the WordPress “Architectural Debt” is Killing Your AI Strategy.
• System Generated PDF Accessibility
  Axess Lab: How do you make sure documents generated by systems are accessible to users and comply with accessibility legislation?
• Link Accessibility for Modern Websites
  Be Accessible: Link accessibility determines whether visitors can find what they’re looking for or struggle to find important information.
• Video: Australia’s spy agency built a brilliant page… then broke It
  CANAXESS: a stale aria-hidden attribute undermined the whole experience.
• Video: Is Vibe coding the worst idea for accessibility?
  CANAXESS: It doesn’t just allow you to ship code faster. It can also ship inaccessible code, faster, and at scale.
• Podcast: What 2025 Taught Us About Accessibility – and What Comes Next
  Chax Chat: Dax Castro and Chad Chelius take a thoughtful look back at the accessibility lessons that defined 2025.
• Legal Update: January 2026
  Converge: The year is already off to a quick start, but from some unusual places like Utah, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Washington state.
• Accessibility frameworks: spring cleaning before the big facelift
  Digital accessibility portal: 2026 will be a pivotal year for our accessibility assessment frameworks.
• Morphic Makes Accessibility Easier to Find
  Easterseals Crossroads: puts accessibility features front and center with a large, easy-to-use toolbar.
• Understanding WCAG 1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded) for WordPress
  Equalize Digital: requires that important visual information in prerecorded videos is conveyed through spoken narration.
• How Salesforce uses real-world accessibility feedback to shape AI UX design
  Fable: it’s time to test AI utility at scale in real-world products.
• Introducing Page Audits
  Fable: the new request type behind Fable Compliance Insights.
• Custom Web Development Trends Shaping Business Growth In 2026
  GeekVibesNation: Trend 4: Accessibility and Inclusive Design.
• Natively Adaptive Interfaces: A new framework for AI accessibility
  Google: Disability communities are using the NAI framework to build AI that adapts to everyone.
• How To Create More Accessible Presentations
  Intopia: A practical guide to inclusive slides, language and delivery.
• Video: Including People with Disabilities in Usability Testing
  Knowbility: the practical and ethical necessity of including people with disabilities in usability studies.
• Web Accessibility Platform Product Updates – 2026
  Pope Tech: Product updates include details on all major feature releases.
• Accessible building blocks for the web videos
  TetraLogical: introduces key accessibility considerations for some of the most widely used elements on websites.
• Why digital accessibility is now a leadership issue for universities
  Times Higher Education: whether to settle for the minimum accessibility required by international regulation or to embed it as a marker of institutional excellence.
• Canada’s ACA Digital Accessibility Deadlines
  UsableNet: What to Do Now
• Ecommerce Website Accessibility Guide
  UsableNet: ADA, WCAG & Best Practices.
• Mobile Banking Accessibility Failure
  UsableNet: A Screen Reader User’s Online Banking Disaster.
• 6 ways to set better content accessibility goals in 2026
  Vision Australia: using motivation researcher Ayelet Fishbach’s evidence-based principles.
• There is no spoon
  John Allsopp: The capabilities of these agents now are such that there are very few things you might want to achieve that they can’t at least help you get a long way toward.
• How to Improve Your HTML Game
  Jens Oliver Meiert: do you opt for the valid, semantic, accessible, and/or required-only way?
• On affordances
  Karl Koch: In the end, prioritising affordances is about more than just usability; it is about respect for the individual.
• Create Beautiful Charts and Graphs Online
  Make Graph: Make your charts accessible to everyone with visual pattern textures that help distinguish data series.
• Sounds on The Web
  Raphael Salaja: Users who can’t hear, or choose not to, should lose nothing functional.
• Stop generating, start thinking
  Sophie Koonin: But, you may argue, human developers today write inaccessible, unperformant, JavaScript-heavy code! What’s the difference?
• Is Learning CSS a Waste of Time in 2026?
  Sylwia Laskowska: accessibility forced me back into it.
• The Psychology of Color in UI/UX Design
  Upeksha Sandeepani: Inclusive color design not only improves accessibility but also makes products more professional and user-friendly.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-february-9-2026/.

• Webinar: From Project Ideas to Polished Writing
  Vispero: Research and Organize with Claude Using JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion. Thursday, February 5 Noon ET.
• Podcast: On reading, mentorship and Braille Advocacy
  Freedom Scientific: Olga Espinola shares her life story. Dave Williams discusses tactile Braille displays. Elizabeth Whitaker introduces upcoming training opportunities.
• 2025 World Wide Web Consortium Membership Survey
  W3C: Members of W3C gave positive feedback about the current W3C, as well as helpful suggestions for our future.
• Group Note Draft: Cryptography usage in Web Standards
  W3C: clear, practical, and standards-compliant guide for recognized cryptographic algorithms and their appropriate applications in various scenarios.
• Group Note Draft: Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements
  W3C: describes user requirements related to text-to-speech rendering of electronic documents containing ruby annotations.
• Texas and Eight Other States Renew Attack on Section 504
  DREDF: It allows people with disabilities to receive services in the community rather than in institutions.
• The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It
  New York Times: The term, long considered a slur for those with intellectual disabilities, is seeing a resurgence on social media and across the political right.
• Cognitive Accessibility Institute
  COGAI: supports cognitive accessibility as an organisational capability helping organisations evidence responsibility, governance, and readiness.
• Repeatable Form Fields Made Simple
  Aaron Gustafson: To improve the experience for screen reader users, the remove-label value is combined with the associated label/legend to create accessible names.
• Please do not use auto-scrolling content on the web and in applications
  Bogdan Cerovac: auto-scrolling content can be a real nightmare for multiple groups of users.
• Styling ::search-text and Other Highlight-y Pseudo-Elements
  Daniel Schwarz: So that covers the usability, but what about the accessibility?
• From Demand Letter to Lawsuit
  Dennis Deacon: Understanding the Digital Accessibility Escalation Path.
• How the same content always has multiple different versions
  Diana Khalipina: the same content can create clarity for one person and confusion, stress, or exclusion for another, without changing a single word.
• Stories of small businesses with big hearts
  Diana Khalipina: accessibility is not connected inclusively to big corporations.
• Digital Trust in Europe: what 2026 might hold
  Diana Khalipina: 93% of European websites still fail basic accessibility checks.
• How web accessibility supports women’s health
  Diana Khalipina: Here are some real ways accessibility helps women stay healthy and engaged online.
• A small confession about web accessibility and motherhood
  Diana Khalipina: web accessibility can be an extra piece of wood that helps to stabilize the mental state of parents.
• MacOS Accessibility with pyax
  Eitan Isaacson: A tool to inspect and test accessibility behaviors on MacOS.
• Predictions for the future of accessibility
  Eric Bailey: compliance deadlines and automated tools risk creating performative accessibility that fails users.
• How an accessibility designer adds keyboard shortcuts to a web app
  Eric Bailey: another window into the sometimes unglamorous-yet-vital tasks that being an accessibility designer demands.
• “WCAG is difficult to read, don’t read it” is a self-fulfilling prophecy
  Eric Eggert: reading WCAG, and then proceeding to understanding it, is essential despite its difficulty.
• What Is MCP, and How Can It Help Your WordPress Website?
  Eric Karkovack: They might also scan PDF files to ensure compliance, generate transcripts for your multimedia content, or add accurate ALT attributes to images as you upload them.
• Unicorns exist
  Erik Kroes: Some thoughts on the concept of the “accessibility unicorn”.
• Accessibility in visualization, full course out now!
  Frank Elavsky: In collaboration with Alberto Cairo’s Open Visualization Academy, I have released a full course on accessibility in visualization.
• CSS in 2026: The new features reshaping frontend development
  Jemima Abu: the native accessibility and semantics of a real <select> with the kind of styling flexibility we previously only got from JavaScript-powered components.
• A Decade of Building for Everyone
  Jenny Lay-Flurrie: Ten years ago, Accessibility at Microsoft started a new chapter.
• Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary
  Josh Tumath: when you increase the system text size in your iOS or Android phone’s accessibility settings, the text gets bigger everywhere except on the web.
• Being Strong Is Exhausting
  Kelly Mack: Burnout Is The Cost of Relentless Overexertion.
• Book: Accessibility for Everyone
  Laura Kalbag: Perhaps someday I will find time to write a second edition, but first I wanted to make the book free
• Accessibility Events in February 2026
  Laura Wissiak: A curated guide to the February events driving real change for people with disabilities.
• The Mistake Of CES’s Accessibility Stage
  Lucy Greco: This year’s accessibility coverage was abysmal and incredibly hard to find.
• Automated Accessibility Testing on the Web: Possibilities and Limitations
  Maria Korneeva: why a significant portion of barriers remain invisible even with the most modern automation.
• Designing and building from our own worldview
  Martin Underhill: why accessibility exists: to continually remind people who design and build that their experience of the world is not the only one.
• Between the Dots: What Designers Miss Without Braille Users
  Megan Dausch: how to create better digital experiences for the braille community.
• Fedra
  Quin Gillespie: lightweight, fast, and accessible Mastodon client for Windows, designed to be completely usable with screen readers and keyboard navigation.
• 10 Digital Accessibility Predictions for 2026
  Ricky Onsman: I could, of course, be very wrong but, anyway, here goes.
• Editable tables: choosing the right approach
  Russ Weakley: it helps to understand the three most common approaches and what each one is actually good at.
• Preventing Common Issues When Working with AI-Generated Code
  Schalke Neethling: Accessibility Testing – Use ARIA snapshots as the default.
• A Measure of Humanity
  Sharyn Morrow: This blog focuses on accessibility and disability. In the next three sections, I’ll explain how ICE operations connect to those topics.
• Why I Don’t Call Myself an Accessibility Expert
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: It’s the result of significant discomfort with the term “expert,” resulting from a lot of overthinking and concerns about saying the wrong thing.
• Designing beyond the happy path in design systems
  Stéphanie Walter: The designer’s happy path is only a fraction of the real experience.
• Apple Creator Studio’s Secret Sauce is iPadOS
  Steve Aquino: the iPad is the most accessible computer Apple has ever made.
• Do we all see the same colors?
  Tatyana Bayramova: Discovering how color blindness affects color perception and accessibility.
• Your 2026 Accessibility Game Plan
  Aaardvark: framework to help you build accessibility into how your agency works without burning out your team or blowing up your processes.
• Building Accessible Tab Interfaces
  A11y Collective: Master ARIA roles, keyboard navigation, and screen reader compatibility.
• Mobile app accessibility under EN 301 549 v4.1.0
  Abra: EN 301 549 v4.1.0 introduces a combination of conceptual clarifications and changes in both the definitions and Clause 11 that directly affect how mobile apps are assessed for accessibility.
• A Galaxy of Difference
  Accessible Android: I’ve noticed a big difference in Android accessibility.
• ta11y
  Accessible Community: An evaluation tool to help organizations around the world become more accessible.
• Why Drupal CMS 2.0 is the Innovation Engine Your Enterprise Needs
  Acquia: you can now apply Recipes for common site functionality such as SEO tools, AI, and accessibility tools.
• PDF Accessibility Index
  Allyant: This practical resource takes you through these Title II requirements, giving you the six steps to get started.
• The Calculus of Inclusion
  Assistive Technology Blog: Navigating the Intersection of AI and Accessibility in Higher Education.
• Podcast: Heather Hepburn
  AXSChat: a passionate accessibility evangelist who kick-started the accessibility programme at Skyscanner, now Head of Accessibility.
• WCAG 2.1 AA Compliance for Interactive Maps
  Concept3D: How Concept3D Is Helping Higher Education Meet New Digital Accessibility Requirements
• ADA reform and the path to a true win-win for businesses and people with disabilities
  Deque: These proposed changes deserve careful, thoughtful examination.
• Make accessibility testing up to 4x faster with Deque’s new AI-powered features
  Deque: To solve AI-created accessibility challenges, you need AI-powered accessibility solutions.
• How to design great alt text: An introduction
  Deque: On the surface, it’s a simple concept to learn and is usually straightforward to implement.
• Why Figma Annotations Are Critical for a Shift-Left Accessibility Approach
  DigitA11y: Accessibility annotations in Figma are notes, labels, and specifications added to design files to communicate accessibility requirements clearly.
• Podcast: Matt Roberts – When Accessibility Gets Personal
  Digital Accessibility Podcast: a designer, design leader, and accessibility advocate whose lived experience has profoundly shaped his approach to inclusive design.
• The government’s good scores are no fluke
  Digital Accessibility Portal: reassuring news regarding compliance with digital accessibility on public websites in Luxembourg.
• Digital accessibility gets its own observatory
  Digital Accessibility Portal: the Digital Accessibility Observatory aims to provide you with all the latest data on accessibility, updated frequently.
• Why Accessibility Checker Doesn’t Have a Toolbar
  Equalize Digital: A high quality website shouldn’t require an accessibility widget or toolbar.
• Video: How the New WordPress Accessibility Ready Testing Process Works
  Equalize Digital: shows exactly how to test a theme from start to finish.
• Video: Demystifying Screen Reader Use for Manual Testing
  Equalize Digital: Deneb and Kosi break it down for you and show you how to use the free screen reader of your choice.
• Why Accessibility Should Be Your Business’s New Year’s Resolution
  GrackleDocs: It’s a strategic business decision that opens doors to new markets.
• Podcast: Disability Inclusion, Trust, and Belonging
  IAAP: Chris Ruden, a transformational keynote speaker, change management expert, and disability inclusion advocate.
• ReadAble
  Knowbility: extension to simplify online reading by rephrasing sentences into fragments, making digital content more accessible.
• Video: Accessibility 101 + Core Concepts
  Knowbility: This includes making the case for accessibility, describing a UI component, native applications, navigation and design.
• Video: Straight Talk What Disabled Users Want You to Know When Designing Your Product
  Knowbility: User Experience Research makes a profound difference when creating products for all.
• From Plateau to Progress
  Level Access: How Proactive Planning Can Revive Accessibility.
• Revisit (Reflow?) the past to prepare for the future
  Minnesota IT: PDF accessibility is still a hot topic. Get tips to prepare for April 2026 and beyond.
• PDF Scan Results
  Pope Tech: powered by GrackleDocs PDF Testing engine which uses the PDF/UA standard for its tests.
• Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey #2
  WebAIM: results of a survey conducted in December 2025 and January 2026 to collect salary and job-related data.
• AI Can Explain Your Code. Stop Documenting the Obvious
  David Lewis: You can ask it to explain a module, trace a request, describe a component, or summarise a flow.
• On Coding Agents and the Future of Design
  Jeffrey Veen: we’re at the beginning of a new era of further crystallization, and it feels both more disruptive and more enabling than the shift to responsive design 15 years ago.
• We named them after the humans they were replacing
  Jeffrey Zeldman: “The word ‘computer’ only really slid over to mean ‘a machine’ in the late 19th and early 20th centuries”.
• Little Fish Eat Big Fish
  Leah Reich: This weekend, you may have learned that social media and relentless footage of atrocities do not, in fact, desensitize us.
• Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer
  Stefan Kaltenegger: AI coding tools like agents can be valuable allies in everyday development work.
• Introducing ReliCSS: A Tool for Front-End Archaeology
  Stuart Robson: an online tool that finds those browser hacks you no longer need.
• How to think about Gas Town
  Steve Klabnik: This isn’t a fundamentally novel idea. The novel part comes in that it’s agents doing the work, not humans.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-february-2-2026/.