Author: Ricky Onsman

• 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/.

• Catching Up with ADA Title II for Web and Mobile Accessibility
  Vispero: Understanding the new requirements, what they apply to, and where compliance gaps exist can help organizations respond.
• Podcast: Jaws, Zoomtext, and something new
  Talking Technology: A chat with the CEO of Vispero, Rhonda Bassett-Spiers.
• Webinar: Multiline Braille with the Dot Pad X and JAWS
  Freedom Scientific: a powerful combination that puts multiline Braille at your fingertips. Tuesday, January 20 at noon ET.
• Group Note Drafts
  W3C: Threat Modeling Guide and Threat Model for Decentralized Credentials.
• Updated Candidate Recommendation
  W3C: Web Neural Network (WebNN) API.
• Strengthening Community Engagement at TPAC 2025
  W3C: looking back at the IE & inclusion Funds.
• Barriers from Links with ARIA
  Adrian Roselli: I knew there were issues, but couldn’t rattle them off from the top of my head. So I built some examples.
• Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design
  Amit Sheen: Accessibility Is The Real Perfection.
• Podcast: How to Price Accessibility Services
  Colleen Gratzer: A Complete Guide for Consultants.
• Video: Accessibility checklist for websites with heavy animations
  Diana Khalipina: without clear rules, they can become a serious accessibility barrier.
• When representation changes the way we see accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: Highlights that accessibility isn’t extra work – it’s dignity, independence, and belonging.
• When “well-written” AI content becomes an accessibility barrier
  Diana Khalipina: texts often look professional and well-structured, yet reading them requires more effort than it should.
• Floating Action Buttons are bad, and what to do instead
  Erik Kroes: as I always run into them, their inefficiency and inaccessible design.
• I Learned The First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way
  Hashim Quraishi: I had to delete the ARIA role attribute that I had added with the best intentions.
• Touch Targets and Web Accessibility
  Ilknur Eren: small touch targets can make a website difficult or even impossible to use.
• How Professionals With Disabilities Use AI Tools at Work: 5 Practical Applications
  Jeffrey Howard: practical guidance for HR leaders and employees on implementing accessible AI tools.
• My Calendar 3.7.0 & My Calendar Pro 3.3.0 released
  Joe Dolson: The most significant user-facing change is the switch from using a elements for navigation to using button elements for navigation.
• Making the Web More Inclusive with WCAG Standards
  Lacey Gerard: To illustrate some of these new guidelines, meet Henry.
• Preserve Accessibility Expertise: DHS Trusted Tester Study Group
  Laura Wissiak: A collaborative effort to keep Section 508 training alive amid shifting DEI landscapes.
• My favourite front-end and web development conferences
  Manuel Matuzovi?: As someone who enjoys attending conferences, I thought it might be helpful to share a list.
• Lowering the specificity of multiple rules at once
  Manuel Matuzovi?: You probably already knew that you can use :where() to lower the specificity of a single selector.
• Sharing Accessibility As A Competitive Advantage on The CTO Show
  Maxwell Ivey: a masterclass for founders, product leaders, designers, and executives.
• Opening and Closing Dialogs Without JavaScript Using HTML Invoker Commands
  Schalk Neethling: When you use command="show-modal", the browser handles managing the accessibility tree
• The Accessibility Manager Moment No One Warns You About
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: “Why didn’t anyone tell me?” one or more of the CEO / COO / CFO / Corporate Counsel asks.
• Tips on How to Pick the Right Icons for Your Website
  Stéphanie Walter: And if you use icons alone, don’t forget about accessibility Alternative text.
• Webinar: Chatting Fireside with Bruce Lawson
  Steve Faulkner: Today we spoke on various topics for an hour.
• the Accessibility story of Apple Creator Studio
  Steven Aquino: accessibility’s strong link to Apple Creator Studio should thus be unsurprising.
• AIMAC Founders Joe Devon, Eamon McErlean Talk first round of results in new interview
  Steven Aquino: co-founders of the AI Model Accessibility Checker (AIMAC).
• Accessibility Testing on Windows on Mac
  Tatyana Bayramova: A quick guide to Accessibility Testing using Windows-only tools on a modern Mac.
• Using Maturity Models to Build Accessibility That Lasts
  Ted Drake: how maturity models help organizations build accessibility over time instead of relying on one-off fixes or a few experts.
• Names Are Hard But They Don’t Have To Be
  Todd Libby: Every day, millions of people around the world encounter forms that reject their names.
• There is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element
  Zell Liew: the focus-trapping is deprecated advice if you use <dialog>.
• Drinking Our Own Champagne
  Acquia: How Acquia’s Marketing Team is Leveraging Drupal AI to Scale.
• Making an iOS E-Commerce Product List Accessible to VoiceOver and Beyond
  Axess Lab: I wanted to show how I code and test iOS apps using VoiceOver as a blind developer.
• Podcast: Christopher Patnoe
  AXSChat: Christopher Patnoe is the Lead for EMEA Accessibility and Disability Innovation at Google.
• Newsletter: Weekly Innovation in Assistive Tech
  The AT Pulse: Google accessibility, coding framework, tactile graphics, more.
• Podcast: The Real Cost of Accessibility: Tools, Time, and ROI
  Chax Chat: Dax Castro and Chad Chelius break down the real-world value of accessibility tools.
• Be part of the Luxembourgish screen reader adventure
  Digital accessibility portal: two new voices to reproduce texts in Luxembourgish as faithfully as possible.
• Podcast: eSight Updates with Roland Mattern
  Easterseals Crossroads: Special Guest is Director of Sales – eSight.
• Webinar: When design kills usability – meet the custom cursor
  Funka: Join us for a journey through the wildest custom cursors on the web – and discover why they are a nightmare for accessibility.
• 2025 Web Almanac – Accessibility
  HTTP Archive: In 2025, web accessibility matters more than ever as mainstream technologies increasingly rely on inclusive features.
• 2025 Year in Review
  IAAP: Reflecting on our progress | Moving forward into 2026.
• Webinar: Creating Accessible PDF Forms
  Knowbility: part of the Be a Digital Ally series.
• The Future of Accessibility Is Hybrid Intelligence
  Level Access: how the Hybrid Intelligence model emerged, what it means in practice, and why it’s a critical differentiator.
• Accessibility Program Strategy
  Level Access: Turning This Year’s Budget into Measurable Impact.
• Streamlining Document Accessibility
  Level Access: How to Save Time and Reduce Risk by Working Smarter.
• Accessibility Team Meeting Notes
  Make WordPress Accessible: WP A11y Meetup call for speakers; Working Group Updates.
• Podcast: How Accessibility Boosts SEO & UX
  Page 2: Amber Hinds of Equalize Digital.
• Canvas Accessibility Dashboard Product updates
  Pope Tech: New Detail View in Canvas Dashboards.
• How UX personas made our AI training data more inclusive
  Chinwe Uzegbu: we’ve long recognized the danger of designing for an “ideal user”.
• Data visualization. How to make it understandable
  Erik Messaki: When data visualization becomes a puzzle instead of a tool.
• Please Tell Me if This is a Bad Idea
  Leah Reich: one of the things that about mutual aid is that the inefficiency keeps people safe.
• Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
  Maggie Appleton: speculative design fiction that asks provocative questions and reveals the shape of constraints we’ll face as agentic coding systems mature.
• Supporting Open Source in 2026
  Marc Grabanski: Why It Matters More Than Ever ($50,000).
• Some Thoughts on the Open Web
  Mark Nottingham: The Open Web is an amazing public good, both for those who consume information and those who produce it.
• AI tribalism
  Nolan Lawson: if you say the magic word “accessibility,” … then suddenly they’re doing a better job than the median web dev.
• Beyond Generative: The Rise Of Agentic AI And User-Centric Design
  Victor Yocco: When systems plan, decide, and act on our behalf, UX moves beyond usability testing.
• The Most Annoying UX Patterns of the Modern Web. Part 2
  Zarina Majidova: Once you start noticing these patterns, they appear everywhere.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-january-26-2026/.

• Getting Started with Section 508 Digital Accessibility
  Vispero: A practical guide to creating accessible, 508-conformant digital experiences.
• ADA Title II Digital Accessibility Readiness Checklist
  Vispero: A practical guide for public entities and their partners.
• Understanding ADA Title II and Digital Accessibility Requirements
  Vispero: the DoJ final ruling of 2024 prompted many public entities to reassess what compliance requires.
• Employee Spotlight
  Vispero: Cory Jackson’s Story.
• Assistive Technology
  Vispero: Go Beyond Compliance to Foster Productivity, Retention, and Scale.
• Your Guide to U.S. Accessibility Laws and Standards for Blind and Low Vision Access
  Vispero: a high-level overview.
• Download the Latest Adobe Reader Update
  Freedom Scientific: Adobe has resolved an issue that prevented users from filling out PDF forms with screen readers such as JAWS.
• Proposed Advancement of Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1 to W3C Recommendation
  W3C: this document defines a format for writing accessibility test rules.
• First Public Working Draft: SHACL 1.2 Node Expressions
  W3C: This document describes Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) Node Expressions.
• W3C Invites Implementations of Web Authentication
  W3C: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 3.
• EPUB and HTML – Survey results and next steps
  W3C: we have decided that we will not add HTML to EPUB 3.4.
• Design in Code, Get Praise
  Adam Silver: Most designers use Figma, but I had created an HTML prototype using the GOV.UK Prototype Kit.
• My Use of ‘AI’ on this Site
  Adrian Roselli: I’m using this post to acknowledge my past practices and establish future ones on this site related to ‘AI’.
• How I Evaluate an ACR (VPAT®)
  Adrian Roselli: it’s often the first step to identifying how a company presents the accessibility of its offerings.
• Brief Note on Application Keyboard Shortcuts
  Adrian Roselli: Identifying keyboard shortcuts for an application is mostly an internationalization problem.
• Live Region Support
  Adrian Roselli: covers how live regions are exposed to screen reader users.
• A Step Backward for Accessibility
  Aina G. Irbe: The US State Department’s Font Flip-Flop.
• Flexible Menu Animation with Anchored Container Queries
  Alexander Lehner: These queries enable us to style an anchored element’s descendants based on its current position relative to the anchor.
• Start the new year by running your sprint reviews with zoom and text scaling turned on
  Alicia Jarvis: This isn’t about running a one-off accessibility exercise.
• Designing accessibility for real use, not dashboards
  Anna E. Cook: Accessibility isn’t proven by a score, it’s proven when people with disabilities can actually use the product.
• 2026 deserves proactive accessibility governance
  Bogdan Cerovac: 2025 was amazing for accessibility, no doubt about it.
• Testing Methods: Error Suggestion
  Dennis Deacon: helping people recover from mistakes during data entry or interaction.
• Testing Methods: Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data)
  Dennis Deacon: safeguarding users from costly or irreversible mistakes during critical interactions.
• Testing Methods: Help
  Dennis Deacon: users encountering errors, confusion, or complex tasks can access clear, actionable guidance.
• Testing Methods: Error Prevention (All)
  Dennis Deacon: safeguarding users from making serious mistakes before submitting information.
• Testing Methods: Redundant Entry
  Dennis Deacon: reducing friction for users by preventing them from unnecessarily entering the same information multiple times.
• Testing Methods: Accessible Authentication (Minimum)
  Dennis Deacon: removing cognitive barriers from the authentication process.
• Testing Methods: Accessible Authentication (Enhanced)
  Dennis Deacon: emphasizes alternatives that reduce reliance on memory, dexterity, or complex visual cues.
• Testing Methods: Name, Role, Value
  Dennis Deacon: all interactive components are both perceivable and operable through programmatic means.
• Testing Methods: Status Messages
  Dennis Deacon: dynamic content updates are communicated effectively to users of assistive technologies.
• Digital Accessibility: The Strategic Imperative Hiding in Plain Sight
  Dennis Deacon: The question is no longer whether digital accessibility matters, it’s whether your organization will lead or follow.
• How to start improving web accessibility in 2026 with a human approach
  Diana Khalipina: Web accessibility is for people, by people – this simple idea should shape how to begin.
• Alt text: when real life is more nuanced than the guidelines
  Diana Khalipina: the criteria and standards are not perfect and are being continuously improved.
• Video: If a tool promises accessibility, shouldn’t it be accessible itself?
  Diana Khalipina: I analyze how accessible the websites of automatic accessibility evaluation tools really are.
• 10 unexpected facts about web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: one of them isn’t entirely correct. Could you guess which one?
• How accessible are social networks in 2026?
  Diana Khalipina: Here’s a closer look at TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X through an accessibility lens
• 26 actions you can take to create inclusion in 2026
  Elin Williams: this is by no means an exhaustive list, but I hope it provides some helpful info to get you started.
• Accessible faux-nested interactive controls
  Eric Bailey: In web accessibility, a thing you absolutely cannot do is nest one interactive control inside another.
• New year. New focus. New online presence and communication.
  Erik Kroes: I’m changing some things about how I do things, mostly online.
• Looking back on 2025, and looking forward
  Erik Kroes: It’s 2026. Let’s join the flood of retrospectives.
• Dear Mozilla, I don’t want an “AI kill switch”
  Hidde de Vries: I want a more responsible approach for all.
• 5 accessibility checks to run on every component
  Hidde de Vries: five key aspects we can test and document during development.
• Judging severity in accessibility issues
  Joe Dolson: figuring out how important something is has an undercurrent of judging who matters more.
• Able Player 4.8
  Joe Dolson: Release Candidate & Call for Translators.
• Basic Accessibility Gaps Still Too Common
  Kelly Ford: Microsoft please justify CopilotNative.Chat.Controls.
• What I am looking forward to in 2026
  Laura Wissiak: a few things have me particularly excited to work on in the next year.
• Accessibility as Compliance Work
  Laura Wissiak: The 2025 rush to meet the EAA reduced accessibility to a compliance sprint. I’m hopeful that this will now settle into a new benchmark.
• The Parasocial Model of Disability
  Liz Jackson & Rua Williams: advocates for corporate disability inclusion have perfected a practice of masterfully executed ineffectiveness.
• Traveling with a Service Dog: Part 1
  Lucy Greco: some of the challenges that make traveling with a service dog more difficult than necessary.
• Traveling with a Service Dog: Part 2
  Lucy Greco: The Hidden Hurdles.
• Traveling with a Service Dog: Part 3
  Lucy Greco: Navigating U.S. Re-Entry.
• Better defaults for popovers
  Manuel Matuzovi?: I recently added a rule to my reset style sheet UA+ that I wanted to share with you.
• The final nail in the HTML5 document outline coffin
  Martin Underhill: Safari has joined Firefox and Chrome in removing support.
• Custom Keyboards
  Melanie Sumner: we thought it would be fun to build custom keyboards. We were only mostly right.
• Digital Independence Day
  Moritz Glantz: On every first Sunday of the month, you spend a bit of time becoming less dependent on Big Tech.
• 2025
  Moritz Glantz: ’tis the season for “end of the year”-posts. Let’s go.
• 2025 Recap
  Nic Chan: For me, the overall theme of this year was survival.
• HelloFresh? No. ByebyeFresh
  Nicolas Steenhout: I’m canceling my HelloFresh subscription because they moved to using AI for everything.
• On Abbreviating Accessibility
  Ricky Onsman: The only reason any of this is an issue is because a11y happens to look like it can be pronounced. Just because it can, doesn’t mean it should.
• Eight quick things to remember when using aria-owns
  Russ Weakley: looks at aria-owns from both a specification perspective and a practical, real-world perspective.
• Tests for CSS generated content alternative text
  Russ Weakley: If that content is meant to be seen, it might also need an accessible version for people who can’t see it.
• People with reduced vision: technology settings and possible impacts
  Russ Weakley: There is no single way that people with low vision use technology.
• HTML content categories
  Russ Weakley: They describe how elements fit into the document structure and how they relate to the elements around them.
• How can you tell what’s allowed inside each HTML element?
  Russ Weakley: understand how HTML elements can be used, so that the final HTML is well formed and valid.
• Is aria-label allowed on static elements?
  Russ Weakley: there are legitimate cases where static elements use aria-label.
• Do screen readers announce “bullet” when a list uses list-style: none?
  Russ Weakley: the answer actually lives deep in the browser pipeline.
• What is the minimum markup needed to create a modal?
  Russ Weakley: Is it possible to build a modal dialog without any JavaScript at all?
• Three accessibility assumptions
  Russ Weakley: assumptions that can quietly shape how we test, debug, and interpret results.
• The State of Modern AI Text To Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users
  Samuel Proulx: The past year has seen an explosion in new text to speech engines based on neural networks, large language models, and machine learning.
• 2026 Accessibility hiring looks busy, yet the patterns show underlying weakness
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Fewer employers are hiring in ways that signal their accessibility programs are durable.
• Everyone Loses When Paying Fines Becomes a Business Strategy
  
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Compliance fines, legal fees, and settlement agreement costs are appearing in budgets.
• Video: Adrian Roselli – Fireside chat
  Steve Faulkner: we discuss a range of subjects such as AI, Conferences, WCAG, laws, the US and other stuff.
• Fireside chat – the story so far…
  Steve Faulkner: In case you missed any of the first five.
• Last Week in WAI #3
  Steve Faulkner: 2026 is upon us and the work of the W3C AGWG continues… WCAG3 – 4 more years?
• Accessible Visual Design
  Suzanne Shea: through the lens of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2.
• Building the Brain of Your Accessibility AI
  Ted Drake: build trusted, scalable AI assistants by curating the right standards, documentation, and institutional knowledge.
• How to Tell Better Accessibility Stories with Data (and AI)
  Ted Drake: turn accessibility data into clear stories using simple frameworks, real examples, and AI visuals.
• Building a Production-Ready Nuxt Module From Idea to Published
  Todd Libby: building @colabottles/center-div, a simple Nuxt module for accessible, hydration-safe centering.
• Video: How to Create Audio Description for YouTube Videos
  3Play Media: YouTube Audio Description is now available for any creator that has access to multi-language audio.
• aria-label or title? Screen Reader Behaviour Explained
  A11y Collective: Get clear guidance on implementation and accessibility standards.
• Higher Education sector lacking time to address accessibility, says survey
  AbilityNet: Attitudes to Digital Accessibility Survey 2025.
• Who Wants To Be An Accessionaire?
  Accessionaire: Test Your WCAG Accessibility Knowledge.
• Accessible Canada Act (ACA) Compliance
  Allyant: in 2025 Canada introduced new Digital Accessibility requirements.
• 2026 Assistive Technology & Disability Awareness Calendar
  Assistive Technology Blog: An active calendar designed to live inside your daily schedule.
• Optimizing VoiceOver in an iOS E-Commerce App with Conditional Accessibility
  Axess Lab: without breaking Full Keyboard Access or Voice Control in the process.
• How to Make Your WordPress Website Accessible
  Be Accessible: goes beyond installing plugins or applying quick fixes.
• The Unacceptable Unemployment Rate for the Blind and Low-Vision Community
  Be My Eyes: the vast majority of people who are blind or have low vision remain excluded from the workforce.
• CES 2026
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: Includes Mobility, Health and Smart Home Tools with Accessibility Potential.
• Podcast: Accessible Color Without Killing Your Design
  Chax Chat: Chad Chelius and Dax Castro tackle accessible color head-on.
• Legal Update: December 2025
  Converge Accessibility: Missouri Anti-ADA Website Lawsuit Bills; Federal Courts & Unruh Complaints; Online only shopfront ADA lawsuits fail; lawsuit against web developer disclaimer fails.
• ADA reform and the path to a true win-win for businesses and people with disabilities
  Deque: These proposed changes deserve careful, thoughtful examination.
• Podcast: Tanya Van Workum & Jan Jaap De Groot
  Digital Accessibility: Joe is joined by Tanya and Jan Jaap ABRA, a mobile accessibility consultancy based in the Netherlands.
• RBI Digital Accessibility Guidelines for Banks
  DigitalA11Y: A Complete Implementation Guide.
• Beyond Manual Audits: How Automation Strengthens Accessibility
  Equal Entry: automated monitoring tools help spot the everyday issues that slip through.
• Why Your WordPress Plugin Needs a VPAT / Accessibility Conformance Report
  Equalize Digital: Let’s break down what a VPAT is, why it matters for WordPress plugins specifically
• How early accessibility solutions evolved into core UX design principles
  Fable: ten historical product innovations born from the desire to make everyday experiences accessible to people with disabilities.
• Cognitive accessibility on museum websites
  Funka: conducted user tests on a selection of museum websites.
• 7 ways we’re making Android more accessible
  Google: Including dark theme’s expanded option, emotion tags in Expressive Captions, and easier Voice Access activation with Gemini.
• Videeo: The Equalize Editor
  Knowbility: Sam Dooley on A Web Application for Braille Math Document Translation.
• How Accessibility Unlocks Revenue for European Organisations
  Level Access: For many businesses in Europe, digital accessibility isn’t just a compliance obligation—it’s a growth lever.
• What Is Digital Accessibility Maturity, and How Do You Improve It?
  Level Access: why it matters, and how organisations can strengthen their programmes to support long-term compliance.
• What Is an Accessibility Champion, and Why Do You Need One?
  Level Access: their role in shaping an impactful accessibility programme, and how you can begin championing accessibility.
• Closing the Accessibility Risk Gap
  Level Access: How to Surface the Risks That Matter and Reduce Exposure.
• Introducing FAR, AMP, and LABS
  Pedal Point: three new accessibility packages crafted straight from client feedback and real service experience.
• Video: User Impact of Inaccessible PowerPoints
  Pope Tech: issues like missing slide titles and incorrect reading order affect screen reader and keyboard users.
• Video: User Impact of Inaccessible PDFs
  Pope Tech: how inaccessible PDFs create barriers for screen reader and keyboard-only users by comparing an untagged PDF with a properly structured, accessible PDF.
• Common accessibility misconceptions
  TetraLogical: Covering a range of topics from disabilities and assistive technology to implementation practices and testing tools.
• Common misconceptions about testing accessibility
  TetraLogical: Testing for accessibility is often misunderstood.
• Web Accessibility in 2026
  UsableNet: Five Predictions Shaped by How the Web Is Changing
• What Holiday Shopping in 2025 Revealed About Accessibility
  UsableNet: A Screen Reader User’s Experience.
• ADA Web Lawsuit Trends for 2026
  UsableNet: What 2025 Filings Reveal.
• 2026 Predictions
  WebAIM: The Next Big Shifts in Web Accessibility. (excellent calls, in this aggregator’s opinion)
• Fullscreen Video and Iframes Made Easy
  Aaron Gustafson: The component looks for aria-label, title, or other native naming on the wrapped element.
• A Production-Ready Web Component Starter Template
  Aaron Gustafson: The template bakes in best practices from the start: Accessible patterns and ARIA support.
• Death to Scroll Fade!
  David Bushell: Accessibility is a real concern. But getting anyone to care about accessibility is a challenge by itself.
• Responsive and fluid typography with Baseline CSS features
  Miriam Suzanne: If you are going to implement responsive typography, it’s important to do so carefully, and test that the results are still accessible.
• An experiment in vibe coding
  Nolan Lawson: LLMs still suck at accessibility – lots of <div>s with onClick all over the place.
• ARIA roles can remove their children’s semantics
  Stefan Judis: Don’t mess with ARIA unless you know what you’re doing.
• All I Want for Christmas is a Better Alt Text – Part 1
  Tarek Ziadé: Nearly half of the images on the web still lack alternative text.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-january-19-2026/.

This is the last Weekly Reading List for 2025. We will recommence publication from January 19 2026.

• Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 15
  Vispero: David Sloan is joined by Matt Ater, Jeremiah Rogers, and Mitchell Evan for a year-end recap of the digital accessibility landscape.
• Download the December Update of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026
  Vispero: offering new functionality and enhancements that increase efficiency and productivity.
• Webinar: Building a Complete Accessibility Program: From an Audit to Long-Term Inclusion
  Vispero: Join David Sloan and Amy Major for a practical and insight-driven webinar designed to help organizations build a complete, start-to-finish, digital accessibility program. January 29 2026 at 12noon ET.
• Gillibrand Leads Bipartisan Push To Increase Accessibility Of VA Technology
  Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY): urged the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to take swift action to make its technology accessible to people with disabilities.
• TPAC 2025 Breakouts recap
  W3C: A handful of themes stood out this year.
• W3C Invites Implementations of IMSC Text Profile 1.3
  W3C: IMSC 1.3 defines a text-only profile of [ttml2] intended for subtitle and caption delivery applications worldwide.
• Updated Candidate Recommendation
  W3C: Dubbing and Audio description Profiles of TTML2.
• Updated Candidate Recommendation
  W3C: CSS Color Adjustment Module Level 1.
• Group Note Draft
  W3C: RDF 1.2 Interoperability.
• Video: Leading Inclusive Digital Transformation — Accessibility
  W3C: Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C WAI Director, introduces accessibility, W3C, WAI, and WCAG.
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
  W3C at #ID24: Shawn Lawton Henry and Kevin White update on WCAG 2, WCAG 3 (it’s a long way off), and what’s between.
• The anatomy of an accessible video player (on TV)
  Alicia Jarvis: An accessible TV video player isn’t one feature. It’s a system.
• 3 color contrast mistakes designers still make
  Allie Paschal: WCAG color contrast is more than just text.
• Forced Colors Mode
  Chris Ferdinandi: what is, how it affects designs, and how to build for it.
• Why accessible video is still not possible on Instagram
  Chris Yoong: The core issue lies in the lack of support for industry-standard accessibility features.
• German auditors reject accessibility overlays in EAA context
  Chris Yoong: Use of accessibility widgets disqualifies websites from BIK certification.
• A Decade of Accessibility Weekly
  David Kennedy: It may be one of the most impactful things I’ve made during my career.
• Testing Methods: Labels or Instructions
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that users understand what is expected when interacting with input fields and controls.
• Testing Methods: Error Identification
  Dennis Deacon: highlights the importance of clear, actionable feedback when users make mistakes.
• Testing Methods: Consistent Help
  Dennis Deacon: emphasizes the critical role of predictability and reliability in user support mechanisms across digital experiences.
• Testing Methods: Change on Request
  Dennis Deacon: emphasizes that any changes to the user interface or content … should occur only when explicitly requested by the user.
• Testing Methods: Consistent Identification
  Dennis Deacon: designed to ensure that components with the same functionality are consistently identified across a digital experience.
• Testing Methods: Consistent Navigation
  Dennis Deacon: emphasizes predictability and familiarity in digital experiences.
• Testing Methods: On Input
  Dennis Deacon: designed to preserve user control and prevent confusion caused by unexpected changes when interacting with input elements.
• 6 web accessibility Christmas facts
  Diana Khalipina: The holidays highlight something research has shown for years: accessibility is deeply contextual.
• Why we need to rethink web accessibility through Lean Impact?
  Diana Khalipina: compliance alone doesn’t tell us whether people’s lives are actually better because of it.
• Christmas as a moment to understand how others experience the world
  Diana Khalipina: 10 Christmas activities that gently open conversations about accessibility naturally.
• Web accessibility beyond disability: International Migrants Day
  Diana Khalipina: one group is still rarely mentioned: migrants.
• How web accessibility specifically helps women
  Diana Khalipina: t quietly supports millions of women every day, often without them ever using the word “accessibility”.
• The Cost of Our Judgments
  Grace Dow: Moments taken out of context often invite the harshest interpretations.
• Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM
  Eric Meyer: If we’re going to have a Shadow DOM, the least we can do is make it as accessible and useful as possible.
• Don’t leave the screen reader hungry
  Geri Reid: Screen readers don’t always announce what’s visually on screen.
• Is Calibri woke, or simply more accessible?
  Helena Ferry: switching back to Times New Roman actually reduces accessibility.
• My 2025 review
  Hidde de Vries: Here’s some of my reflections and highlights in work, music, and travel.
• Hell is other people’s markup
  Ian Lloyd: The HTML De-Crapulator can provide many ways to simplify markup.
• WhatsApp Web and Messenger Accessibility Fixes
  Jamie Teh: while the accessibility of the UWP app was quite decent, the web app has some major accessibility problems.
• Complying with WCAG is not all for websites (PDF)
  Jianan Lyu: Accessibility issues and solutions faced by users with dyslexia when accessing WCAG-compliant websites.
• Is it an evil overlay? How can you tell?
  Joe Dolson: where do we draw the line between a potentially useful tool and an evil overlay?
• The many lives of the page title
  Katrin Kampfrath: A page title identifies or describes a page and as such reassures us that we are indeed on the chosen page.
• In 2025
  Kim Grey: Another year, another review.
• A look back at web accessibility in 2025
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: look back at web accessibility in 2025, and feel like, “That was something that happened.”
• A11y Considerations in Math on the Web
  Manuel Sánchez: the main assistive technologies are in different stages, as we will see.
• Accessibility is personal
  Matthias Zöchling: Is making the web more accessible rewarding? That too.
• Beyond Compliance, The Hidden Benefits of Web Accessibility
  Maxwell Ivy: We can’t simply depend on fear of compliance regulations, lawsuits, or negative publicity.
• Accessibility Contrast Disagreement Explorer (APCA vs WCAG)
  Mike Gifford: Explore how different color combinations respond to APCA & WCAG testing.
• Semantics beyond the tag name
  Nathan Knowler: There is a terrible epidemic that plagues the web: divitis.
• Onwards into the unknown
  Peter Torres Fremlin: Setbacks and soulmates: a disabled look back on 2025
• Why role=”button” on a <button> does nothing
  Russ Weakley: This example highlights a common point of confusion about how ARIA works.
• Did you know some ARIA roles remove child semantics?
  Russ Weakley: Understanding which ARIA roles replace structure, and which merely reinforce it, is important.
• Tests for aria-labelledby and aria-describedby
  Russ Weakley: aria-labelledby and aria-describedby do not ask the browser to discover text automatically.
• More about screen reader speech queues
  Russ Weakley: a single example to show why they don’t always behave the way you might expect.
• How aria-labelledby really works
  Russ Weakley: The aria-labelledby attribute lets you use existing text on the page to name another element for assistive technologies.
• Does Chrome get the <header> element wrong?
  Russ Weakley: Chrome is not misinterpreting the “ARIA in HTML” specification.
• Five accessibility trends to watch in 2026
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: These are not speculative shifts. They are already underway.
• What Continuous Improvement Model is Best for Accessibility?
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: the Plan-Do-Check-Act approach offers a simple starting point.
• Giving pages a clear shape by using headings
  Steve Barnett: We can make our pages easier to understand by using headings.
• In conversation Fireside with Web Existentialist – Eric Bailey
  Steve Faulkner: a thinker and prodigious developer/advocate of accessibility practice and disability rights.
• Dialog view transitions
  Thomas Günther: the <dialog> element has a lot of built-in features that make it accessible and user friendly by default.
• AI and variables: Building more accessible design systems faster
  Tobi Olowu: I had an accessible design system up and running in just a few days.
• Financial sector accelerates digital accessibility efforts, 2025 survey
  AbilityNet: only a third of finance sectors expect their organisation to increase spending on digital accessibility into 2026.
• AbilityNet wins recognition award at RIDI’s 10th Anniversary
  AbilityNet: received a Recognition Award at the 10th anniversary of the Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) Awards.
• From Advocacy to Action: Sharron Rush on 25+ Years of Digital Inclusion
  Accessibility Craft 148: Executive Director of Knowbility, one of the most widely recognized nonprofit organizations focused on digital inclusion globally.
• EN 301 549 Accessibility Standard
  Allyant: EN 301 549 applies broadly to ICT; however, EN 301 549 is not a law itself.
• Making an iOS E-Commerce Product Detail Page Accessible to VoiceOver and Beyond
  Axess Lab: how I improved the VoiceOver experience on the Product Detail Page .
• Our Favourite Things of the Last Year
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: the accessibility features, tools, and stories that stood out to us in the last year.
• Podcast: Webhosting Providers Need to Treat Accessibility as Infrastructure
  Cloudways: Saad Khan, Director of Product Marketing at Cloudways, and Chris Hinds, COO at Equalize Digital, discuss.
• The Quiet Unwinding of Civil Rights and Democracy
  Converge: DOJ rescinds its Title VI Disparate Impact Regulation.
• Beyond Compliance
  Disability Belongs: Why Accessibility Must Be Built into Organizational Culture.
• Adapting UX research for neurodiversity and cognitive disabilities
  Fable: Learn how to adapt UX research for cognitive testers.
• The most common cognitive barriers in digital experiences
  Fable: When it comes to cognitive accessibility, many common design patterns create friction.
• Cognitive accessibility toolkit
  Fable: will help you make the most of cognitive accessibility research with Fable Engage.
• Colour Contrast Checker
  GrackleDocs: Color contrast is fundamental to creating inclusive digital experiences.
• Digital Accessibility Laws in Australia
  GrackleDocs: Australia treats digital accessibility as a discrimination issue, not a “nice extra”.
• Digital Accessibility Laws in Canada
  GrackleDocs: Canada has been quietly but firmly wiring digital accessibility into law.
• The Curb Cut Effect
  Level Access: How Digital Accessibility Elevates UX for Everyone.
• 2025: A Year in Review
  Minnesota IT: 2025 was a big year for digital accessibility.
• Data visualization accessibility: Focus on color
  Minnesota IT: Make your data visualizations more inclusive—starting with color.
• Common misconceptions about implementing accessibility
  TetraLogical: Misconceptions about how to implement accessibility are common.
• Windows Narrator HTML Support
  TetraLogical: A Work in progress: Last updated 10 December 2025. Editors: Grace Snow, Steve Faulkner.
• Retail Search Accessibility
  UsableNet: A Screen Reader User’s Holiday Shopping Experience.
• Norway’s HelsaMi Case
  UsableNet: Daily Accessibility Fines and EAA-Era Compliance.
• Anti-Scraping Tools Undermine Web Accessibility for Disabled Users
  WebProNews: these often hinder accessibility for users with disabilities by breaking compatibility with screen readers and assistive tools.
• Reading List, Dec 2025
  WebAxe: A dozen articles you should read.
• Dynamic Datalist: Autocomplete from an API
  Aaron Gustafson: the benefits of native autocomplete with the flexibility of dynamic data.
• Wrapping up 2025 (sort of)
  Andy Bell: I’m doing my annual wrap up post early this year because I’m really tired
• Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG
  Andy Clarke: Sadly, some splitting solutions don’t deliver an always accessible result.
• Styling by Language
  Julia Undeutsch: Using the lang Attribute for Multilingual Design.
• What Are UX Research Deliverables?
  MeasuringU: Here’s a list of common UX research deliverables classified as interim, final, and artifacts.
• How To Measure The Impact Of Features
  Vitaly Friedman: Meet TARS — a simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-december-22-2025/.

• How Vispero Helped a Global Retailer Mature Its Accessibility Program
  Vispero: A global retailer recognized the need for a consistent, sustainable approach to digital accessibility.
• A global retailer recognized the need for a consistent, sustainable approach to digital accessibility.
  Vispero: When websites and apps are built to work seamlessly with screen readers and magnifiers, accessibility stops being an abstract mandate and becomes a measurable, brand benefit.
• What is Assistive Technology for Blind and Low Vision Users?
  Vispero: Assistive technology (AT) serves as a critical bridge to participation, independence, and opportunity.
• Webinar: Assessing the European Accessibility Act
  Vispero: David Swallow explores What is the Impact Several Months Later?
• First Public Working Draft: SHACL 1.2 Rules
  W3C: The Data Shapes Working Group has published a … document [ that ] describes Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) Rules.
• Splinter.js — I made a more accessible text splitting tool
  Andy Clarke: My goal is make a text splitter which is more accessible than others I’ve found.
• Not Just Awareness, please.
  Christiane Link: Disability awareness training typically focuses on understanding disability from a medical or charitable perspective.
• How to Check If a PDF Is Accessible: Complete Guide for Designers
  Colleen Gratzer: Find out 5 reliable ways to check a PDF for accessibility.
• Getting a close button to hang off of a dialog
  Darin Senneff: Have you ever had to implement a modal dialog with a close button designed to hang off of the corner?
• Testing Methods: On Focus
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that when interactive elements … receive focus, they do not trigger unexpected changes of context.
• Testing Methods: Pronunciation
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that meaning is not lost in pronunciation.
• Testing Methods: Reading Level
  Dennis Deacon: digital content must be understandable to its intended audience.
• Testing Methods: Abbreviations
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that all users can understand abbreviated content in digital materials.
• Testing Methods: Unusual Words
  Dennis Deacon: ensuring that all users can comprehend content, regardless of their language proficiency, cognitive abilities, or prior knowledge.
• Testing Methods: Language of Parts
  Dennis Deacon: the effective handling of multilingual content within a single page or document.
• Testing Methods: Language of Page
  Dennis Deacon: the ability for a page’s default human language to be programmatically determined.
• My interview for the Autism Stories podcast is online
  Diana Khalipina: I want to say thank Doug Blecher for inviting me.
• Web accessibility trends for 2026
  Diana Khalipina: Here are six research-supported trends shaping the year ahead.
• Is your festive newsletter accessible?
  Diana Khalipina: Here’s how to send a newsletter that feels festive and readable for everyone.
• 10 unexpected facts about web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: one of them isn’t entirely correct. Could you guess which one?
• Why edtech MUST be accessible
  Diana Khalipina: when we make edtech accessible, we are shaping the way an entire generation learns.
• Tooltip Components Should Not Exist
  Dominik Dorfmeister: I’m not saying tooltips themselves should not exist. They are a valuable tool when applied “correctly”.
• Meeting WCAG is an achievement
  Eric Eggert: Meeting WCAG lays the basis, the foundational layer for accessibility to happen at all.
• Better Than Nothing
  Grace Dow: Being disabled shouldn’t mean being forced into poverty or following antiquated rules.
• Accessibility is for everyone – because at some point, we are all disabled
  Helena Ferry: If you think accessibility is for “other people”, think again.
• Reusable components as a foundation for accessibility
  Helena Ferry: When accessibility is built directly into your design system or component library, inclusion becomes part of your product’s identity.
• Accessibility is a human right, cruelty a human wrong
  Jeffrey Zeldman: Calibri is easier than Times New Roman for folks with certain visual disabilities to read.
• A new attempt at ADA reform to protect small businesses
  Karl Groves: after more than a decade of these predatory lawsuits, people are looking for change.
• A Practical Guide to Flutter Accessibility – Part 1: The Basics
  Karol Wrótniak: Learn how to build accessible Flutter apps using built-in tools.
• Future Fashion & Inclusive Design
  Laura Wissiak: Reflections from London Fashion Week 2025, where inclusivity took center stage.
• Accessibility as a Core Requirement
  Michael Harshbarger: Accessibility belongs with core non-functional requirements.
• Accessibility Estimates & Delivery Confidence
  Michael Harshbarger: how PERT, Agile practices, and real accessibility issues work together.
• APCA + WCAG 2 Contrast Checker
  Mike Gifford: Enter colors using any modern CSS color format supported by your browser. This tool evaluates WCAG 2.x & APCA Lc contrast ratios.
• A11y 101: 2.4.11 Focus Not Obscured (Minimum)
  Nat Tarnoff: some portion of the focused item must still be visible when focused if something covers it.
• The <time> element should actually do something
  Nolan Lawson: couldn’t find any browser or assistive technology that actually makes use of the <time> element.
• “It is a theatre of contradictions”
  Peter Torres Fremlin: Disability day, climate change, and curated news from 38 countries.
• What does “hidden” actually mean in Accessible Name computation?
  Russ Weakley: clearly see which elements are treated as hidden and which ones still count toward the accessible name.
• Using the browser console for accessibility testing
  Russ Weakley: use a few simple scripts to inspect accessibility features on any page.
• How does the Shadow DOM appear in the accessibility tree?
  Russ Weakley: The Shadow DOM is a way for web components to keep some of their internal structure private.
• What is an “accumulated text bucket”?
  Russ Weakley: a container the browser fills with bits of text from different sources before deciding what the final name should be.
• 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.
• Cynthia Shelly – Fireside Chat 29th November 2025
  Steve Faulkner: Cynthia has had a long career in accessibility, she worked at Microsoft on the initial Edge browser engine.
• Coding Resources I Recommend for Beginners
  Taylor Arndt: Learning to code can feel intimidating when you first start, especially if you rely on accessibility tools.
• Accessible by Design: The Role of the ‘lang’ Attribute
  Todd Libby: I am here to discuss the importance of the language attribute in your code.
• Johnny Ball helps older adults unlock time through tech
  AbilityNet: Broadcaster and BBC TV presenter has joined forces with AbilityNet and BT Group to help older and disabled people master basic digital skills.
• Flutter 3.38.0: How an accessibility upgrade broke Android headings
  Abra: Headings were no longer being announced as headings by TalkBack on Android.
• ADA Title II Readiness
  Allyant: A Practical Guide to Achieving Digital, Document, and Alternative Format Communications Compliance.
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
  Allyant: What is WCAG?
• Section 508 Compliance
  Allyant: What is Section 508 Compliance?
• EAA Compliance
  Allyant: What is EAA Compliance?
• Inaccessible Fuel and Charging Stations
  Axess Lab: Wheelchair user insights and the EAA
• ADA’s New 2026 Deadline
  Axess Lab: What Tech Vendors Need To Know
• VPAT – Volountary Product Accessibility Template
  Axess Lab: The Voluntary Product Accessibility Template is a document outlining how well your product complies with accessibility regulations.
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
  Centre for Accessibiity Australia: 2025 Year in Review

What Tech Vendors Need To KnowWhat Tech Vendors Need To Know

• Podcast: Are You Fixing the Wrong Thing?
  Chax Chat: Are you spending hours “fixing” things in a PDF that your screen reader users will never notice?
• WordPress Alt Text Best Practices
  Equalize Digital: one of the simplest tools for improving web accessibility, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood.
• Understanding WCAG 1.2.4 Captions (Live) (Level AA) for WordPress
  Equalize Digital: ensures that users who are deaf or hard of hearing can still follow along with real-time events.
• Automated Accessibility Testing for React
  HowToTestFrontEnd: Tools and Best Practices you can use.
• Five Ways to Advance Digital Accessibility in 2026
  Level Access: Preparing your digital accessibility program for 2026?
• Podcast: UDOIT, Accessibility, and Higher Ed Innovation
  IAAP: A Conversation with Mogan Busch, CPACC.
• Video: Designing accessible animation and movement on your website
  Pope Tech: design strategies for accessible animation and movement on your website.
• Video: WAVE extension updates
  Pope Tech: The Summary and Details tabs were combined; you can retest a page without the page reloading; the Details tab includes the AIM Score.
• New Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly: Mad Studies
  Society for Disability Studies: The interdisciplinary field of mad studies emerged out of the anti-psychiatry, Mad liberation and Mad pride movements.
• Video: Which website builder ranks best in accessibility?
  Squarestylist: how popular website builders—Shopify, Showit, Squarespace, Webflow, and Wix—perform in terms of accessibility.
• Common misconceptions about WCAG
  TetraLogical: the way the guidelines are discussed often leads to mixed assumptions about what they cover.
• Shopify Accessibility Lessons from a Small Business Saturday Purchase
  UsableNet: walk through the stages of that shopping journey and describe what worked and what didn’t from an accessibility perspective.
• Webinar: Common Mistakes
  US Access Board: Easily Missed or Misunderstood Accessible Design Requirements.
• Podcast: Making digital accessibility a reality
  WP Builds: Interview with Anne-Mieke Bovelett and Nathan Wrigley.
• What’s New in Google TalkBack 16.2
  Accessible Android: The rollout typically takes one to two weeks to complete. Let’s take a look at what’s new.
• CSS Wrapped 2025
  Chrome: 22 powerful new CSS features that landed in Chrome this year.
• 2025 – A year in recap – Windows Accessibility
  Windows: we reflect on how our products are evolving based on feedback and insights from the disability community.
• Beyond the Machine
  Frank Chimero: Creative agency in the AI landscape
• The only winning move is not to play
  Gregg Bernstein Let’s not debase ourselves as user researchers further.
• The Machine-Testable Future
  John Alsopp: Why AI’s Transformative Impact May Be More Narrow Than We Think.
• It’s Uncomfortable To Sit With “I Don’t Know”
  Jim Nielsen: I, for one, often feel increasingly unsure of everything I thought I knew.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-december-15-2025/.

• A Simpler, Faster User Registration Experience Going Live on December 4
  Vispero: we’ve already made significant improvements to make registration quicker, clearer, and more comfortable for all users.
• Employee Spotlight – Brett Lewis
  Vispero: Brett Lewis has been promoted to Director of Engineering, reporting to Nathan Romney, Chief Technology Officer.
• Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 15
  Vispero: David Sloan, Chief Accessibility Officer, is joined by special guests from our team for a year-end recap of the digital accessibility landscape.
• Why We’re Updating Our Support Policy, And What It Means for You
  Vispero: To strengthen reliability and ensure every customer gets timely, consistent help, we’re updating how support will work moving forward.
• December 2025 Training Events
  Freedom Scientific: you’re sure to find something that will help you at work, school, or play.
• 5 Accessibility Insights Every Retailer Should Know Before the Holiday Rush
  Matt Ater: Here are five things the accessibility community wants retailers to know.
• Advancing Accessibility through Digital Inclusion
  United Nations: digital inclusion means much more than internet access for all.
• November 2025 Kobe DevMeetup
  W3C: more than 100 attendees gathered to hear this year’s outstanding speakers.
• 2025 U.S. Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold
  3Play Media: annual up-to-date overview of what is happening in the digital accessibility legal space in the United States.
• Video: I’m Not Remarkable
  Apple: Musical tribute to students with disabilities (and the Apple products they can use).
• You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone
  Adrian Roselli: it’s important to acknowledge the reality of the human condition and limitations in technologies.
• Web Design / Dev Advent Calendars for 2025
  Adrian Roselli: you may (should) recognize some of the ones listed below.
• Solving small text and contrast issues for large-screen readability
  Alicia Jarvis: Why your beautiful UI becomes unreadable the moment it hits a TV screen—and how to fix it.
• The next revolution in design: Emotional accessibility
  Ben Wintner: Why the future of accessible design depends on how products make us feel.
• Accessibility with Interactive Components at React Advanced Conf
  Daniel Curtis: ARIAKit, an open-source accessibility library, enables developers to build custom UI components that meet WCAG standards.
• When Download Links Aren’t Links
  Darrell Shandrow Hilliker: A Critical Accessibility Failure in AI Tools Blind People Depend On.
• Testing Methods: Target Size (Minimum)
  Dennis Deacon: making sure people can actually activate interactive controls.
• Testing Methods: Dragging Movements
  Dennis Deacon: all about ensuring that interaction is never a barrier.
• Testing Methods: Concurrent Input Mechanisms
  Dennis Deacon: ensure digital content can be navigated and activated using multiple input methods simultaneously, without conflict.
• Testing Methods: Target Size (Enhanced)
  Dennis Deacon: ensuring that all interactive elements are sufficiently large for easy activation.
• Testing Methods: Motion Actuation
  Dennis Deacon: addresses an often-overlooked barrier in digital accessibility: reliance on motion-based interactions.
• Testing Methods: Label in Name
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that the visible text label of a user interface component is directly reflected in its programmatic name.
• Testing Methods: Pointer Cancellation
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that users can cancel or reverse pointer actions, taps, clicks, drags, before completing them.
• Web Accessibility Advent Calendar
  Diana Khalipina: something special to celebrate the end of 2025 and to thank everyone working to make the digital world more inclusive.
• Case study: accessibility journey of Starbucks
  Diana Khalipina: a surprisingly thoughtful and evolving approach to accessibility, both in-store and online.
• Today is International day of persons with disabilities
  Diana Khalipina: Accessibility is about designing for the real world – messy, diverse, imperfect, human.
• How to go beyond WCAG without overwhelm?
  Diana Khalipina: for most people, WCAG feels like a huge wall of rules. Complicated, technical, intimidating.
• Fit Text Responsibly
  Donnie D’Amato: there’s still an open question about accessibility for this.
• Accessibility Maintenance Plans
  Equalize Digital: Why Agencies Should Offer Them
• Understanding WCAG 1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded) for WordPress
  Equalize Digital: addresses the needs of people who are blind or have low vision.
• The PMs Role in Preventing Digital Ableism
  Homer Gaines: One area where digital ableism can be found is in the company’s product development process.
• Another reminder that overlays and widgets are bad
  Homer Gaines: In the past five days, I have seen two separate accessibility companies claim their widgets can fix accessibility issues.
• Color Contrast and Web Accessibility
  Ilknur Eren: A high color contrast improves benefits a wide range of users such as users with low vision, color blindness, and those viewing screens in poor lighting or with glare.
• My Calendar 3.7.0 Beta
  Joe Dolson: With this model, it makes more sense for accessibility to use buttons.
• Image Description Toolkit 3.6.0 Available
  Kelly Ford: The release features a new –redescribe option as well as support for two Microsoft Florence-2 models via Hugging Face.
• International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2025 Thoughts
  Laura Wissiak: Thoughts (and maybe Prayers) on the current status of digital inclusion.
• I’m speaking at Web Day Out 2026
  Manuel Matuzovi?: The core idea of the event is to get you up to speed on the most powerful web platform features that you can use right now.
• Dealbreaker bugs in native popovers
  Manuel Matuzovi?: Popovers can contain focusable elements, such as buttons.
• ‘Sloppy’ Code and Accessibility Issues
  Margaret Manto and Emily Kennard: The Trouble With Trump’s Silicon Valley-Inspired Web Design Project
• Should pagination take you to a new page?
  Martin Underhill: You might even wonder why this article is even necessary.
• What most teams misunderstand about the European Accessibility Act
  Matthaios Mantzios: The EAA isn’t a design guideline. It’s a legal milestone.
• Did you know your browser has two accessibility trees?
  Russ Weakley: here’s the strange part: Chrome doesn’t have one accessibility tree, it has two!
• How Chrome builds the accessibility tree – start to finish
  Russ Weakley: We’re often told that the browser builds its accessibility tree ‘from the DOM,’ but what does that actually involve?
• Understanding screen reader speech queues
  Russ Weakley: To understand how screen readers work — and to diagnose issues — you need to understand the screen reader speech queue.
• What is an AXEvent?
  Russ Weakley: a notification generated by the browser and sent to assistive technologies when something meaningful changes.
• What happens when an event occurs? — the quick answer
  Russ Weakley: Ever wondered how a browser turns an interaction into a screen reader announcement?
• What are DOM mutations?
  Russ Weakley: These mutations can happen with or without JavaScript.
• What really happens when a user clicks an accordion button?
  Russ Weakley: don’t expect a neat step-by-step “path” — expect a dance that moves across different layers.
• End-to-end browser and accessibility event architecture
  Russ Weakley: When announcements behave unexpectedly or different browsers produce different results, the cause usually lies in these hidden systems.
• Understanding aria-live timing: a two-layer model
  Russ Weakley: Did you know that there are two completely separate systems that determine when live regions are spoken?
• How to Avoid Boiling the Accessibility Ocean
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Accessibility is often framed as a gigantic task that requires attention to everything at once.
• Crystal Preston Watson – Fireside Chat 25th November 2025
  Steve Faulkner: Despite the shambolic nature of my recording/editing it worked out OK.
• The Task Manager I Had To Build Because My ADHD Brain Fired Every Other App
  Taylor Arndt: I am blind. I am neurodivergent. I manage a lot. So I built the tool I actually needed.
• Why Government Should Be Careful About Regulating AI
  Taylor Arndt: I work in technology, I build accessible apps, and I depend on AI every single day.
• The Idiot Sandwich – On Embedding Alt Text
  Terence Eden: It’s a lovely idea – and technically feasible – but it fails to account for user needs.
• The Architecture of Anxiety and Shame, Part Two
  Todd Libby: A roach motel is a deceptive pattern to which it is easy to sign up for a service or subscription, but extremely difficult to cancel.
• Deloitte Reading pledges 3 years of support for AbilityNet
  AbilityNet: Disabled people, older people and digitally excluded people will benefit from Deloitte Reading’s fundraising and volunteering efforts.
• Podcast: How Karl Groves is Reimagining Event Ticketing
  Accessibility Craft: 146 – Amber and Chris interview special guest Karl Groves about Eventably.
• Podcast: Throwback: Accessible Typography with Carie Fisher
  Accessibility Craft: 145 – Carie Fisher explores how typography choices impact digital accessibility.
• How Button Traits can make a chaotic iOS app accessible
  Axess Lab: if this can be fixed, then the same method can fix anything.
• Podcast: Eugene Woo
  AXSChat: CEO of Venngage, a design platform that helps organizations produce accessible documents at scale.
• Be My Eyes Wins Apple’s 2025 App Store Award for Cultural Impact
  Be My Eyes: A milestone achievement reflecting our community’s dedication to accessibility.
• Can User-Generated Content Lead to an ADA Demand Letter?
  BOIA: you should still take reasonable actions to keep your entire site as accessible as possible.
• AI and the Future of Accessibility
  Carnegie Mellon University: As AI reshapes how content is created and consumed, accessible, human-centered design must remain at the core of that evolution.
• International Day of People with Disability
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: Digital Accessibility Matters.
• Legal Update: November 2025
  Converge: this was a slow month for new case development.
• From Reactive to Proactive: Building a Sustainable Accessibility Program
  Equal Entry: This article is based on Lina Trifon ‘s talk at A11yNYC.
• 7 ways we’re making Android more accessible
  Google: New features are rolling out to make your device more helpful.
• Video: Spilling the tea on digital accessibility
  Intopia: Lauren Hayes is a blind freelance digital and arts accessibility consultant dedicated to making both digital and physical spaces accessible to everyone.
• Intopia launches Assistive Technology Survey 2025
  Intopia: designed to capture how Australians and New Zealanders use, access and experience assistive technology.
• Keeping Up with EAA Compliance
  Level Access: Proven Strategies for Long-Term Success.
• Forrester Research: As technology has evolved, so has the need for accessibility.
  Microsoft: accessible technology empowers everyone. And with the rise of AI, we’re entering a new era of possibility.
• PAC 2026 Release notes
  PAC: PAC 2026 includes artificial intelligence (AI) functions.
• Common misconceptions about disability
  TetraLogical: Disability is often misunderstood or misrepresented online and in mainstream media.
• 30 Ways Media Can Improve Accessibility
  UNESCO: guide media in equitable reporting and concrete guidance for producing accessible content and fostering inclusive management practices.
• Mobile Accessibility Narration: A Frustrating Shopping Experience
  UsableNet: Some of the flaws I encountered were particularly bizarre.
• ADA Accessibility Lawsuit Tracker
  UsableNet: Final Numbers in Web Accessibility Lawsuits for November 2025
• POUR: Four Major Web Accessibility Principles Every Design Needs
  WebABLE: most poor user experiences boil down to: a design without web accessibility in mind.
• Expressive Captions are now available on YouTube
  YouTube: displaying the intensity of speech in all caps, expressions of sounds like sighs and gasps, as well as noises from the environment.
• A Web Component for Obfuscating Form Fields
  Aaron Gustafson: will automatically obfuscate the value when the field loses focus.
• One CSS Trick to Eliminate Scrollbar Layout Shifts
  Amit Merchant: use the scrollbar-gutter CSS property
• Use overscroll-behavior: contain to prevent a page from scrolling while a
  is open
  Bramus van Damme: Chrome 144 features a small change to overscroll-behavior: it now also works on non-scrollable scroll containers.
• UX for reversible actions
  Eric Chung: A decision framework for designing with recovery in mind.
• Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog is open
  Geoff Graham: you can see the trouble with active scrolling when a “dialog” is open.
• HTML Semantics
  Jens Oliver Meiert: The Short Descriptions of All 113 Elements
• HTMHell Advent Calendar 2025
  Manuel Matuzovi?: 24 articles on security, accessibility, UX, and performance.
• A complete guide to the HTML number input
  Ollie Williams: Today, there are few reasons to avoid <input type="number"/>.
• light-dark() isn’t always the same as prefers-color-scheme
  Stefan Judis: Today I learned that they don’t always behave the same.
• Designing For Stress And Emergency
  Vitaly Friedman: Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-december-8-2025/.

• Vispero Accounts: An Explanation, an Apology, and a Path Forward
  Rhonda Bassett-Spiers: We want to begin by acknowledging something important: we should have communicated these changes earlier, more clearly, and with greater transparency.
• Podcast: Discovering an unfamiliar territory with Page Explorer, and a chat with Andrés felipe Pulgarín from Colombia
  Freedom Scientific: FSCast #264.
• Employee Spotlight: Ricky Onsman’s Story
  Freedom Scientific: This month we are shining the spotlight on Ricky Onsman, Principal Technical Writer.
• Cognitive Accessibility Research Modules and Issue Papers
  W3C: Editor’s Draft 30 November 2025. Looks at different Web technologies and provides a detailed analysis of accessibility issues for people with disabilities that may require cognitive accessibility supports; user needs; areas for further research, and directions for solutions.
• Group Note Draft: Web User Agents
  W3C: Feedback and comments on this document are welcome.
• First Public Working Draft: CSS Backgrounds Module Level 4
  W3C: contains the features of CSS relating to the backgrounds of boxes on the page.
• Creating a more accessible web with ARIA Notify
  Aaron Gustafson: an ergonomic and predictable way to tell assistive technologies (ATs), such as screen readers, exactly what to announce to users and when.
• Can toast messages be accessible?
  Adam Silver: If you mean you can make toast messages work well for everyone then the answer is obviously no.
• Video: AI for good accessibility
  Alastair Campbell: This is a post for the presentation I gave at Virta11y 2025.
• Tools won’t solve it entirely for you
  Anselm Hannemann: I’ve tested Lighthouse, Claude, ARCToolkit, axe DevTools and did a quick manual check myself.
• 5 reasons why WCAG AA compliance does not mean your website is accessible
  Craig Abbott: There’s a common misconception that if you meet the WCAG 2.2 to level AA, then your website is accessible.
• Black Friday and Cyber Monday: why accessibility could be your biggest sales advantage
  Dave Davies: shoppers using assistive technology abandon websites that don’t work for them.
• Testing Methods: Pointer Gestures
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that all users, regardless of dexterity, motor ability, or input method, can fully engage with a website or application.
• Testing Methods: Focus Appearance
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that users can clearly perceive which element currently holds keyboard focus.
• Testing Methods: Focus Not Obscured (Enhanced)
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that when an element receives keyboard focus, it remains entirely visible within the viewport.
• Testing Methods: Focus Not Obscured (Minimum)
  Dennis Deacon: users must always be able to see where they are on the screen.
• Testing Methods: Section Headings
  Dennis Deacon: Content must be organized with descriptive section headings that clearly communicate structure, relationships, and hierarchy.
• Testing Methods: Link Purpose (Link Only)
  Dennis Deacon: Every link should communicate its purpose through its text alone
• Testing Methods: Location
  Dennis Deacon: every user can orient themselves within a website or application through clear navigational context.
• First french lawsuits: when grocery e-commerce meets accessibility law
  Diana Khalipina: first major collective legal case targeting several large private e-commerce retailers for digital inaccessibility in France.
• Why web accessibility is a women’s rights issue?
  Diana Khalipina: Web accessibility isn’t a niche issue, mostly it is a women’s rights issue.
• Accessibility ? Usability ? Universal Design
  Diana Khalipina: the difference between being able to access something and being able to actually use it with dignity.
• wc-pagination
  Dominic Myers: This web component creates a mostly accessible (please see note) pagination element (GitHub).
• The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA
  Eleanor Hecks: CAPTCHAs were meant to keep bots out, but too often, they lock people with disabilities out, too.
• From Jokes to Jabs: Everyday Ableism
  Grace Dow: ableist framing that uses disability or health as a political tool.
• Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?
  Hidde de Vries: One of the busiest breakout sessions I attended at this year’s TPAC was the one about the open web and what threats to consider.
• Blue Beanie Day 2025: Standards, Accessibility, Action
  Laura Wissiak: The web was designed with accessibility in mind.
• My Favorite Accessibility Wins This Year
  Natalie MacLees: I’ll be honest – accessibility work can feel like shouting into the void sometimes.
• Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days
  Nic Chan: I got into an argument with my own brain while trying to create a meaningful distinction between newsletters and blogs.
• “Self-advocacy is hard work”
  Peter Torres Fremlin: I bring together my favourite quotes from recent reading.
• WP A11y Docs update November 2025
  Rian Rietveld: new design and a better search option; feedback on WordCamp Netherlands; new and updated documentation; accessibility audit.
• Accessibility and Usability: Inline Field Validation vs. Constantly Active Submit Button
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Opinions on this topic often depend on the specific context of use and user experience goals.
• Happy Thanksgiving: A Reflection on Gratitude
  Taylor Arndt: Accessibility still has a long way to go, but progress is being made
• Introducing Perspective Intelligence
  Taylor Arndt: As a blind developer, accessibility is a core part of the design process.
• EAA monitoring: the story so far
  AbilityNet: we outline the experiences so far of how the Act is being monitored.
• Bridging the Digital Divide
  AbilityNet: KeyRing’s Journey with BT and AbilityNet.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 4.1.3: Status Messages (Level AA)
  AccessibilityOz: Status messages should be programmatically determinable through appropriate roles or properties.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 1.4.13: Content on Hover and Focus (Level AA)
  AccessibilityOz: When additional content becomes visible upon receiving pointer hover or keyboard focus it should be dismissible
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 1.4.12: Text Spacing (Level AA)
  AccessibilityOz: allow users to adjust text spacing to improve readability.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 1.4.11: Non-Text Contrast (Level AA)
  AccessibilityOz: user interface components are required to meet colour contrast requirements.
• Accessibility Should Be Free: Why HoverSpeak is the “Anti-Subscription” Tool We’ve Been Waiting For
  AT Blog: It isn’t trying to sell you an audiobook experience; it is trying to solve a usability problem, for free.
• EAA deadlines, why you probably can’t wait another 5 years
  Axess Lab: Deadlines for companies can be hard to grasp because … it depends!
• Mastering ARIA
  Be Accessible: Writing Clearer Code for Enhanced Web Accessibility
• ADA Requirements for Retail Stores
  Be My Eyes: How to Offer More for Blind and Low Vision Customers.
• Digital Accessibility in 2025: A Year in Review
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: Digital accessibility is evolving rapidly, and 2025 is shaping up to be a landmark year.
• Podcast: Accessible and Amazing! An Author’s Journey
  Chax Chat: Chad and Dax talk to Matisse Hamel-Nelis about her new book, Accessible Communications: Create Impact, Avoid Missteps and Build Trust.
• Video: Beyond Automation
  GrackleDocs: Dr. Ann Knettler on AI-Enhanced Workflows for PDF/UA Remediation.
• Video: What you need to know about the links between AI and Accessibility for 2026
  Hassell: This webinar recording will tell you what you need to know in advance of 2026
• Podcast: Accessibility in Practice
  IAAP: Teaching, Testing, and Leadership with Radek Pavlí?ek, CPWA.
• Video: WCAG 3 Status and Review
  Knowbility: Rachael Bradley-Montgomery, Ph.D, Co-chair of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group.
• In-Process 27th November 2025
  NVDA: We have another new release! But that’s not all.
• Video: Accessibility ‘not a checkbox’
  Shaw Trust: our collaboration spotlights inclusive design
• Meet the team: Grace
  TetraLogical: an Accessibility Specialist with a love of inclusive design, a passion for mentoring, and two extremely fluffy cats.
• Retail Homepage Accessibility and the European Accessibility Act
  UsableNet: Modern retail websites have many parts and sections that contribute to the overall experience. One of the most important is the homepage.
• Animation and Carousels
  WebAIM: For people with cognitive and learning disabilities, animation can make task completion difficult or even impossible.
• The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026
  Alex Russell: Have we finally rounded the corner? A look at the device and network landscape.
• Use overscroll-behavior: contain to prevent a page from scrolling while a
  is open
  
  Bramus van Damme: fixes an issue developers have been dealing with for ages.
• Responsive Letter Spacing
  CloudFour: What we really wanted was a gradual transition.
• The only frontend stack we should talk about
  Jan Deppisch: we engineers very often neglect real-world constraints — accessibility, slow connections, older devices.
• Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid
  Josh Comeau: a newer addition to CSS Grid which allows us to extend the grid layout down through the DOM tree.
• Cross-Browser Anchor Positioning
  Miriam Suzanne: With the release of Firefox 145, CSS anchor positioning is available in all browsers.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-december-1-2025/.

• The Challenge of Choice
  Vispero: A Guided Path Through Vispero’s Assistive Technologies.
• From Compliance to Competitive Advantage
  Vispero: How Digital Accessibility Drives Enterprise Growth
• How a Leading U.S. Airline Transformed Self-Service Travel
  Vispero: with 700 Accessible Kiosks Powered by JAWS.
• Webinar: An Introduction to Copilot: Crafting Confidence and Capability
  Freedom Scientific: boost your productivity when using JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion with AI built in. 12noon ET, Dec 5, 2025.
• Video: How to Create and Sign In to Your Vispero Account in JAWS 2026
  Freedom Scientific: from navigating the initial sign-in screen to registering a new account, verifying your email, and logging in to start using JAWS.
• Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group
  W3C: Matthew Atkinson, Christian Liebel, Jeffrey Yasskin, and Sen Yu join Hadley Beeman, Marcos Cáceres, Sarven Capadisli, Xiaocheng Hu and Lola Odelola.
• Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51
  NPR: Alice Wong, an author and activist who fought for disability rights and justice, has died. Wong was 51 years old.
• In Memory of Alice Wong (1974 – 2025)
  DREDF: By now, many of you know that Alice Wong is now a disabled ancestor.
• Mourning Alice Wong
  ASAN: We are missing our friend Alice Wong. Alice died on November 14.
• The Value of Selecting Selects by Value
  Adrian Roselli: This is meant to use voice control to test select menus … by their value because their accessible names are hidden.
• Flexible Menu Animation with Anchored Container Queries
  Alexander Lehner: The CSS Anchor Positioning Module Level 2 document introduces the new anchored value for the container-type property.
• Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects
  Amit Sheen: One of the biggest advantages of using keyframes tokens is that accessibility can be baked in, and it is actually quite easy to do.
• AI will soon deliver code that will pass automatic testing by default
  Bogdan Cerovac: we now have some accessibility benchmarks for a selected range of AI models.
• Testing Methods: Focus Visible
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that every interactive element shows a clear, visible indicator when it receives keyboard focus.
• Testing Methods: Headings and Labels
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that every heading and label clearly communicates the topic or purpose of the content it introduces.
• Testing Methods: Multiple Ways
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that users can reach content through more than one pathway.
• Testing Methods: Link Purpose (In Context)
  Dennis Deacon: ensures every link clearly communicates its destination.
• Selfish Post on ARC Toolkit
  Dennis Deacon: Maybe this will help others, as well as myself, locate information on ARC Toolkit.
• Testing Methods: Focus Order
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that users navigating with a keyboard, or any non-pointer input, can move through a web page in a way that feels logical, consistent, and predictable.
• Testing Methods: Page Titled
  Dennis Deacon: Every page needs a clear, descriptive title that accurately reflects its purpose and content.
• Testing Methods: Bypass Blocks
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that users can skip repetitive content … to reach the main page content quickly.
• 10 unexpected facts about web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: one of them isn’t entirely correct. Could you guess which one?
• Case study: why Microsoft is still one of the most exciting accessibility innovators
  Diana Khalipina: in accessibility, their journey is bold, experimental, and deeply human-centered, full of surprising moves that go beyond compliance.
• How to build a meaningful accessibility roadmap?
  Diana Khalipina: Without structure, even the best intentions fade and accessibility is often the first thing to slip away.
• Web accessibility & mental health: why we need to talk about it
  Diana Khalipina: mental-health issues and cognitive differences often sit in the shadows of our accessibility discussions.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 1.4.10: Reflow (Level AA)
  Gian Wild: ensure that content remains readable and accessible on mobile devices.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 1.3.5: Identify Input Purpose (Level AA)
  Gian Wild: The purpose of each input field is to clearly define its intended function.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 1.3.4: Orientation (Level AA)
  Gian Wild: Mobile content should be usable in any orientation.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 2.5.4: Motion Actuation (Level A)
  Gian Wild: remove the need for users to manually move their mobile devices.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 2.5.3: Label in Name (Level A)
  Gian Wild: it is important that the accessible name of controls matches their visual label.
• Aria-labels and Privacy: A Word of Caution
  Homer Gaines: Using aria-labels can expose sensitive data to tracking software.
• Accessibility Improvements in WordPress 6.9
  Joe Dolson: extensive accessibility improvements across WordPress Core and Gutenberg.
• Don’t be afraid to read JIS X8341-3 (WCAG)
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: We often hear that the JIS standard for web accessibility, JIS-X8341-3 and WCAG, on which it is based, are difficult to read.
• Give Accessibility a Seat at the Notepad Table Please
  Kelly Ford: Why is something this basic once again left out for accessibility?
• Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna: Lights, Camera, Mobility, Action!
  Laura Wissiak: Vienna is leaning into its livable city image, and a big part of this is accessibility.
• An accessible pagination pattern (or two)
  Martin Underhill: I’ve always found the standard pagination pattern a bit too minimal.
• Democratising Digital Accessibility
  Matthew Deeprose: AI-Enabled Tool Development for Barrier-Free Content Creation.
• Slides: W3C TPAC Sustainable Web Guidelines Breakout Discussion (Slides)
  Mike Gifford: W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group met on November 12, 2025.
• A11y 101: 2.4.7 Focus Visible
  Nat Tarnoff: Since we want all our user interfaces keyboard operable (Yes, phones too), we need to show where the user focus is placed.
• Video Course: Practical Accessibility
  Sara Soueidan: 40+ Lessons, 15hr+ of Video with Text Adaptations, and One Structured Curriculum. 30% off for Black Friday until December 4.
• When Accessibility Progress Plateaus
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: How to Regain Momentum.
• Belonging Is the Secret to Success
  Stephanie Cawthon: Revisiting a keynote at The Ohio State University that explored how an accessibility mindset connects to student belonging, retention, and lasting change.
• Last Week in WAI #2
  Steve Faulkner: issues and discussions going in the W3C Web Standards Cauldron of words (AKA Web Accessibility Initiative).
• AI and Accessibility, Transforming Digital Access for People with Disabilities
  Todd Libby: The Promise of AI-Powered Accessibility (12 October, 2023).
• A University Guide to Budgeting and Auditing for ADA Video Compliance
  3Play Media: video content plays a central role in modern learning and can be challenging to make accessible.
• BT Group and AbilityNet partnership
  AbilityNet: the partnership is expanding its reach across new regions in the UK, including Northern Ireland.
• Podcast: A Better, More Accessible Media Player
  Accessibility Craft: 144 – Amber and Steve interview special guest Joe Dolson about Able Player.
• Ads and accessibility mismatch
  Axess Lab: Ads online today are not built with accessibility in mind.
• Podcast: Erika Hall
  AXSChat: The co-founder and Director of Strategy at Mule advocates for evidence-based design and clear language.
• Be My Eyes Partners with Guide Dogs NSW/ACT
  Be My Eyes: Connecting Blind and Low Vision Australians with expert visual assistance through a new digital partnership.
• Microsoft will not release a 2025 diversity report
  Beta News: Microsoft says “we’ve evolved beyond that to formats that are more dynamic and accessible.”
• Free Wi-Fi for Remote Communities
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: Boosting Disability Inclusion.
• Testing HTML Light DOM Web Components: Easier Than Expected
  Cloud Four: modernizing a large, decades-old legacy web application, keeping accessibility front and center.
• Axe-con 2026: Full agenda reveal
  Deque: We’ve got experts from Adobe to Zendesk, and all points in between.
• Preety Kumar at Microsoft Ignite
  Deque: How Accessibility is Shaping the Future of AI
• RGAA Compliance: The Complete Guide to French Digital Accessibility (2025 Edition)
  DigitalA11y: Understanding RGAA is essential because France takes digital accessibility very seriously.
• European Accessibility summit: accessibility driving innovation
  EDF: main conclusions of the first sessions, including the Keynote and the session on the EAA.
• Understanding WCAG 1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded) (Level A) for WordPress
  Equalize Digital: If your WordPress site features videos with spoken content … captions are essential.
• State of Digital Accessibility Report: 2025-2026
  Level Access: Exploring our findings.
• 9 startups changing disability tech
  Mashable: From making brain-computer interfaces affordable to enabling people with low vision to follow live sports.
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7262
  Microsoft: Improvements in in Narrator and Magnifier.
• Video: Building for Everyone: How Accessibility is Shaping the Future of AI
  Microsoft Ignite: Preety Kumar (Deque), Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft), Ed Summers (GitHub).
• When is an accessibility review required?
  Minnesota News: It’s not always obvious, particularly for back-end technology.
• 40 years of progress
  Minnesota News: Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind & Hard of Hearing.
• National Federation of the Blind Partners with ElevenLabs to Transform Accessible Reading
  NFB: Empowering Choice in How Stories Are Heard.
• Federal Pro Se ADA Title III and FHA Lawsuit Numbers Surge, Likely Powered by AI
  Seyfarth Shaw: plaintiffs are filing more ADA Title III and FHA complaints using AI tools that enable harassing litigation tactics.
• How Disability-Affirming Language Builds Connection, Confidence and Customers
  PWD Australia: Megan Spindler-Smith, Acting CEO of the national cross-disability rights and advocacy organization.
• HHS Section 504 Digital Accessibility FAQ for Healthcare Providers
  UsableNet: HHS has made it explicit that web content and mobile apps used in health and human service programs must be accessible for people with disabilities
• Screen Reader Accessibility Q&A
  UsableNet: from October 2025 Webinar.
• AI will be a Big Win for Blind Users, Not a Shield From ADA Lawsuits
  UsableNet: the latest announcements from JAWS underscore just how significant that shift may be.
• Video: Past, Present & Future of Accessibility in WordPress
  WP Accessibility Meetup: Amber Hinds (Equalize Digital) chats with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg.
• Video: Integrated Accessibility Testing Tools in WordPress
  WP Campus: A conversation with developers and creators behind integrated accessibility testing plugins.
• The 2025 Guide to Accessible Gifts
  Easter Seals Crossroads: here is a preview of a few products featured on the INDATA Black Friday podcast.
• My CSS layout strategy
  Andy Clarke: It isn’t really about grids; it’s about a repeatable way to make layout decisions.
• The dichotomy of print versus the web
  Baldur Bjarnason: I’ve been thinking about print versus the web (and digital in general) as society-wide media systems.
• “A.I.” browsers: the price of admission is too high
  Bruce Lawson: Over the weekend, I tried two of the new “A.I.” browsers.
• Safari strikes again
  Chris Ferdinandi: In Safari, buttons don’t get focused when clicked.
• You Don’t Need Animations
  Emil Kowalski: They can make an interface feel unpredictable, slow, and annoying.
• Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
  Matthew Prince: an in-depth recount of exactly what happened and what systems and processes failed.
• Gemini 3 For UI Design
  Nick Babich: Gemini 3 is the latest state-of-the-art LLM from Google.
• Gemini 3 for Web Design
  Nick Babich: I want to show you how to make the most of this tool for web design.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-november-24-2025/.

• Accessible Names and Labels: Understanding What Works and What Doesn’t
  TPGI: Akash Shukla explains how and why to use labels so the correct accessible names are visible and conveyed correctly to assistive technologies.
• Webinar: Assessing the European Accessibility Act
  TPGi: David Swallow on the EAA’s impact so far, the lessons learned from early compliance efforts, and actionable guidance. November 25, 2025 at 10am ET.
• Book: Digital Accessibility Ethics
  Routledge: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech.
• End with one thing per page
  Adam Silver: Users expect to arrive on a page that matches the link they just clicked.
• Pre-order “Digital Accessibility Ethics”
  Adrian Roselli: Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, and Chancey Fleet gathered 36 authors to write 32 chapters about ethics in digital accessibility. I am one of those 36 authors.
• Why accessibility on TV is fundamentally different from mobile
  Alicia Jarvis: TV requires its own unique design approach due to its distinct input, viewing, distance, and cognitive environments.
• How Disabled Users Really Test Websites In Real Life
  Clive Loseby: Testing by disabled users brings clarity about what works and what does not.
• Testing Methods: Animation from Interactions
  Dennis Deacon: designed to protect users from motion-triggered discomfort, including seizures, dizziness, or nausea.
• Testing Methods: Three Flashes
  Dennis Deacon: extends the protections of 2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below Threshold.
• Testing Methods: Interruptions
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that users are allowed to turn off updates from the author/server except in emergencies.
• Testing Methods: No Timing
  Dennis Deacon: recognizes that not all users interact with web content at the same pace, some need extra time to read, navigate, or respond.
• Testing Methods: Re-authenticating
  Dennis Deacon: when a user’s session expires or re-login is required … the system must allow them to continue without losing previously entered data or context.
• Testing Methods: Timeouts
  Dennis Deacon: ensures people are notified whenever inactivity could lead to data loss.
• Generic impact prioritization lists are an empty promise. We can do better.
  Erik Kroes: compliance is a boring binary judgement.
• PhD on applications for identity wallets
  Floris Jansen: I will design, develop and test tools for voting, signing or communication, with a focus on the human-computer interaction (HCI) and accessibility side of it.
• Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My!
  Geoff Graham: A few links about headings that I’ve had stored under my top hat.
• Can AI write accessibility specs?
  Geri Reid: I built a little RAG AI prompt that pulls together accessibility best practices for whatever component I’m advising teams on.
• Reflections from TPAC 2025
  Hidde de Vries: I want to reflect on some themes I saw recur, and what stood out to me.
• Executing a tap action with a down event
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: I think that in reality, many users are putting up with it and feeling frustrated.
• My Problem with Accessibility in UX
  Laura Wissiak: A reminder for World Usability Day: If it’s not accessible, it’s not usable. We know this, yet still ignore it in practice.
• The curse of the custom cursor
  Malin Hammarberg: Many users rely on custom cursor settings for accessibility.
• A11y 101: 2.4.6 Headings and Labels
  Nat Tarnoff: Headings and labels need to describe the content they are identifying in the content.
• My Time to Fly
  Sharyn Morrow: I’m annoyed that I didn’t figure this out on my own but it is a clear accessibility failure.
• Why You Need to Close Open Objects When Users Navigate Away
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: It’s an accessibility problem that affects navigation, focus, and trust.
• Last Week in WAI
  Steve Faulkner: Each week I get a ton of mailing list emails and a load of github emails.
• Digital accessibility progress since EAA
  AbilityNet: What the 2025 data shows
• BT Group and AbilityNet partnership drives ongoing digital inclusion success
  AbilityNet: Now entering its third phase, the partnership is expanding its reach across new regions in the UK, including Northern Ireland.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 2.1.4: Character Key Shortcuts (Level A)
  AccessiblityOZ: The purpose of these requirements is to minimize accidental activation of keyboard shortcuts.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 2.5.1: Pointer Gestures (Level A)
  AccessibilityOz: All functionality that relies on multi-point or path-based gestures can be operated using a single-point interaction.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 2.5.2: Pointer Cancellation (Level A)
  AccessiblityOZ: The purpose of this requirement is to minimize accidental activations caused by mouse clicks or touch inputs.
• Interflo Founder Michael Leung Shares About His ground-Breaking Hearing Devices
  The Accessibility Advantage: I’m bringing you a conversation with Michael Leung who is the founder of Inner Flo
• Podcast: Rochelle Ratkaj Moser
  AXSChat: With a focus on accessibility, inclusion, and mission-aligned visual storytelling, Rochelle has spent her career helping nonprofits and social impact organizations.
• Be My Eyes Partners with Guide Dogs NSW/ACT
  Be My Eyes: to Support Australians with Low Vision or Blindness.
• Australian Access Awards 2025
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: And the winners are…
• Accessible Audio Description
  Chax Chat: features guest Roy Samuelson, a renowned audio description performer and consultant.
• Simple One-Time Passcode Inputs
  Cloud Four: You can ship a fully functional OTP input today without any CSS hacks or JavaScript frameworks.
• The power of developer-led accessibility advocacy
  Deque: Advocating for accessibility means pushing to do what’s right—for our users and the health of the codebase.
• Assistive Technology (AT) Survey 2025 Media Kit
  Intopia: Australia and New Zealand’s most comprehensive national survey exploring how people use, access, and experience assistive technology.
• Three Insights That Will Shape Accessibility Strategy in 2026
  Level Access: a snapshot of key findings from our research.
• The Seventh Annual State of Digital Accessibility Report: 2025-2026
  Level Access: What key trends are shaping the digital accessibility landscape today?
• Video: Make PDFs Accessible in 2025: What You Must Know
  OZeWAI Ask the Professionals: Amanda Mace (OZeWAI) moderates a panel featuring Vithya Vijayakumare (Visability), Matthew Putland (NDIA), and Heather Jakubczyk (GrackleDocs).
• Why Headings Are Important in HTML: Structure, Accessibility, and SEO
  SitePoint: Misusing or not using headings in HTML hurts usability, accessibility, and search performance.
• Why Content Moderation Must Account for Disability
  Tech Policy Press: call out ableism as a specific and under-addressed form of online harm on [ social media ] platforms.
• Barrier-free access in focus
  Ukraine Government approves draft law on accessibility of television and on-demand media services for people with disabilities.
• What to look for in your WCAG Audit
  UsableNet: not all audits around the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are created equal.
• Dynamic Accessibility Remediation
  UsableNet: Developer-Led, Not Automated, New Report Reveals.
• Why 44% of Your Audience Might Not Understand You
  Vision Australia: Josh Crawford interviews plain language expert Jamila Savoy.
• Video: Amigo by Enhanced Vision
  Easterseal Crossroads: Blake Allee shows us the Amigo by Enhanced Vision, which is a handheld video magnifier for individuals with low vision.
• BrailleDoodle
  TPPF: affordable, two-sided tablet for Braille learning and Tactile – Science, Math, and Art with a surface that refreshes repeatedly.
• Design and Disability – Where Accessibility Meets Art
  Metal Magazine: Design and Disability exhibit at the V&A South Kensington in London.
• The Problem with Gratitude
  Kelly Mack: Requiring Gratitude from Disabled People Merely Seeking Equality.
• Your URL Is Your State
  Ahmad Alfy: how often do we, as frontend engineers, overlook the URL as a state management tool?
• Why do we need dithering?
  Dan Hollick: I thought I’d explain a little bit about why we needed to dither digital images in the first place.
• The Global Fraud Economy
  Leah Reich: [ Meta ] penalized marketers that are likely to be scammers by charging them higher ad rates.
• When Everyone’s a Developer, How Do We Promote the Web Platform Over React?
  Richard MacManus: web platform improvements are being undermined by AI development trends.
• You Should Write An Agent
  Thomas Ptacek: agents are so simple we might as well just jump into the code.
• Can it ever be the way it was?
  Stephanie Stimac: I find myself nostalgic for not only the Instagram of 2014-2018, but the general web of that time.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-november-17-2025/.

• The Challenge of Choice
  Vispero: A Guided Path Through Vispero’s Assistive Technologies.
• Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 14
  TPGi: CAO David Sloan and Principal Accessibility Engineer John Lilly discuss how you can create more accessible mobile app user experiences. November 12 at 10:30am EST.
• Link vs Button: Choosing the Right Element for the Right Job
  TPGi: Deeksha Yadav explains how and why to use semantic links and buttons so the correct actions are conveyed to assistive technologies.
• Webinar: New Features of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026
  Freedom Scientific: an overview of the software, plus demos of features that will help you work more efficiently and independently.
• Updated Candidate Recommendation: Pointer Events Level 3
  W3C: extends or modifies a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware-agnostic pointer input.
• Group Note Draft: Self-Review Questionnaire: Societal Impact
  W3C: questions for specification authors, reviewers, and implementors of new web platform technologies to answer.
• First Public Working Draft: Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description 2.0
  W3C: formal information model and a common representation for a Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description (TD), Version 2.0.
• PTS begins supervision of e-commerce services
  PTS: The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency, PTS, has now begun its first inspection to check that operators are complying with the new Accessibility Act.
• Measuring Australia’s digital divide
  The Australian Digital Inclusion Index tracks and reports on digital inclusion in Australia. 2025 Report (pdf)
• The Past, Present, and Future of Accessibility in WordPress
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Chat with Matt Mullenweg
• What testing with TV watchers can teach you about ‘keyboard-only’ design
  Alicia Jarvis: When you build for connected TVs, “keyboard-only” isn’t just an accessibility edge case.
• Shopify Needs a Mirrorfy
  Adrian Roselli: Shopify is legitimately angry at drive-by ADA lawsuits, but …
• 100, 150, or 200? Debunking the Alt text character limit
  Chris Yoong: The arbitrary limit can be built into input fields and automated tooling.
• 
  David Bushell: I’ve seen noble attempts to make a more accessible date picker. I want to push developers away from the classic date picker entirely.
• Testing Methods: Pause, Stop, Hide
  Dennis Deacon: moving, blinking, or auto-updating content, elements that can distract, overwhelm, or even disorient, must offer users the ability to pause, stop, or hide it.
• Testing Methods: Timing Adjustable
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that users are not unfairly constrained by time limits.
• Testing Methods: Character Key Shortcuts
  Dennis Deacon: a subtle but critical accessibility concern: keyboard shortcuts triggered by single character keys.
• RGAA vs WCAG
  Diana Khalipina: these two standards are like two different languages describing the same idea.
• Writing good alt text sounds simple until you actually try
  Diana Khalipina: it’s not just about describing an image, it’s about communicating its purpose and meaning.
• Evaluating Fable’s pay-per-project offering
  Eric Bailey: option for accessibility practitioners, champions, and product teams that delivers quick feedback from disabled people who use assistive technology.
• Explaining the Accessible Benefits of Using Semantic HTML Elements
  Geoff Graham: I’m getting a much clearer picture of why <button> is a best practice.
• The Loneliest Lessons I Learned Growing Up Disabled
  Grace Dow: Disabled people are much more likely to feel chronic loneliness, which is associated with serious health risks.
• Windows Copilot Serves At Best Half an Answer to Screen Reading Users
  Kelly Ford: text communicated for accessibility purposes is clipped such that when reviewing answers with Copilot, the answers you receive are incomplete.
• Quick Tip: Use More Than Tab in Screen Readers
  Nat Tarnoff: One of the issues I often see flagged by other accessibility testers is that something doesn’t work with keyboard navigation.
• 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.
• Rambling Fireside with Pat
  Steve Faulkner: conversations with some of the people of accessibility – Patrick Lauke.
• Perspective Studio: The Easy, Accessible Way to Use AI on Your Computer
  Taylor Arndt: a simple, fully accessible app that lets you chat with AI models locally on your device.
• Video: Fixing Accessibility Issues Live: A Real-World Remediation Demo
  Aaardvark: recording of a hands-on livestream where we roll up our sleeves and fix real accessibility issues.
• New ISO Standards, WCAG 2.2 Conformance, and Their Impact
  Accessible Web: ISO/IEC 40500:2025 signals a new bridge, establishing accessibility as a global benchmark rather than a regional obligation.
• A CMO’s Playbook: Reframing AI from Cost-Cutting to Strategic Growth
  Acquia: AI is no longer a side project or a budget-trimming tool.
• Accessible iOS Design
  Axess Lab: how Forza Football included blind users.
• Podcast: Gail Ramster
  AXSChat: Senior Research Associate in inclusive design, co-author of Designing Inclusive Public Toilets.
• How to Write Content That Follows Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  Be Accessible: Accessible content is a must for everyone, regardless of ability, to easily browse, comprehend, and interact with the information.
• Recapping our inaugural Axe-con Mini event
  Deque: Deque’s global community recently came together for the debut of a brand new type of event: an Axe-con Mini.
• Podcast: David Sloan
  Digital Accessibility Podcast: Joe James interviews the Chief Accessibility Officer at TPGi/Vispero.
• Beyond the Page
  Equal Entry: How an Inclusive Library Model Is Redefining Accessible Literacy.
• Should I Add an Accessibility Toolbar to My Website?
  Equalize Digital: TL;DR: Don’t Add an Accessibility Toolbar/Widget to Your Website.
• Toasts
  GitHub: no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.
• Optimizing GitHub Copilot for Accessibility with Custom Instructions
  GitHub: Custom instructions empower you to optimize accessibility by shaping how GitHub Copilot behaves.
• How to Choose and Set Up an Accessible TV
  Hable: when you choose a TV with inclusive design you open up entertainment, social time and independence.
• Colleges Are Running Out of Time on Digital Accessibility
  Inside Higher Ed: New federal rules require all college web content to be accessible by spring 2026. Most institutions are far from ready.
• Why Accessibility Belongs in Your CI/CD Pipeline
  Level Access: what product and development leaders stand to gain by adopting a proactive approach to accessibility.
• How a 3-Minute A11y Snapshot Helps Me Turn Curiosity into Connection
  Pedal Point: a new approach to sparking accessibility conversations, something I’m calling the a11y snapshot.
• Two tools for testing use of color
  Pope Tech: Free WAVE extension and Chrome developer tool.
• Grayscale testing: The missing step in color accessibility
  Pope Tech: removing color by desaturating your website to see if form states, charts, infographics, and links still make sense.
• Formidable Forms: Where Accessibility Claims Unravel
  Tab-able: a widely used WordPress plugin promoted as accessible. Our testing shows otherwise.
• Sustainable accessibility in complex organisations: strategic foundations
  TetraLogical: how clear leadership, defined accountability, and effective governance turns intention into lasting change.
• Sustainable accessibility in complex organisations: organisational realities
  TetraLogical: what it takes to build a culture of inclusion, open communication, and collaboration across teams and processes.
• Sustainable accessibility in complex organisations: external factors
  TetraLogical: how anticipating changes in the accessibility landscape and wider economic environment can help you sustain progress through change.
• After NDEAM: Building an Inclusive Corporate Culture
  UsableNet: how culture and accessibility intersect in three key areas of work life.
• Podcast: Natalie MacLees
  WP Builds: Nathan Wrigley interviews Natalie to discuss her latest project, Aaardvark Accessibility.
• Apple Releases iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1 with accessibility enhancements
  Apple Vis: Plus new language support for Live Translation, and more.
• Accessible Palette Creator
  InclusiveColors: A tool for making custom branded color palettes for web and UI design built from the ground up to meet accessible contrast requirements for WCAG, ADA and Section 508.
• Netflix introduces color-coded subtitles in ‘Physical: Asia’ to boost accessibility
  Korea Times: applies distinct colors to subtitles in each language, allowing viewers to easily distinguish who is speaking.
• BBC’s AI Leap: Revolutionizing Audio Accessibility
  WebProNews: The BBC is revolutionizing audio content with generative AI, automating real-time subtitles and transcripts for podcasts on BBC Sounds.
• Use Cases for Field Sizing
  Ahmad Shadeed: A quick look at field-sizing and where it can be used.
• The Fundamentals Problem
  Chris Butler: Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened.
• Escape Velocity: Break Free from Framework Gravity
  Den Odell: The problem isn’t React itself, nor any other framework for that matter.
• A (kind of) farewell to the web
  John Allsopp: Front-end engineering is at a crossroads, and right now I’m not optimistic about it.
• 4 Proven Methods to Get the Most Out of ChatGPT-5
  Nick Babich: despite all the advantages of this new model, it has one significant drawback — it’s not very effective at processing vague prompts.
• Fixing Baselines
  Roma Komarov : I share a technique I have already used for twelve years.
• Perfectly Pointed Tooltips: A Foundation
  Temani Afif: There is a lot that can go into making sure a tooltip is placed well.
• Six Key Components of UX Strategy
  Vitaly Friedman: create user value while achieving company goals.
• The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign
  BBC: If you set aside the symbols for currency, there is perhaps no character that holds more cultural weight than @.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-november-10-2025/.

• Video: How to Create and Sign In to Your Vispero Account in JAWS 2026
  Freedom Scientific: step-by-step tutorial.
• Podcast: FSCast #263
  Freedom Scientific: Introducing the 2026 software updates, and a potential opportunity to start your own business.
• What’s New in JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026
  Freedom Scientific: JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026 are now available, bringing powerful new features.
• Employee Spotlight: Justin Fegel’s Story
  Freedom Scientific: Justin Fegel, Technical Writer, User Education and Outreach at Vispero.
• Webinar: Gemini Jumpstart: An Introduction to Google’s Generative AI
  Freedom Scientific: using Gemini with JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion. Nov 7, 2025, 12noon ET.
• Confidence Method v1.0 and Verifiable Credential Rendering Methods v1.0
  W3C: First Public Working Drafts
• Workshop on Smart Voice Agents
  W3C: to be held virtually on Zoom from 25 to 27 February 2026.
• Last Call for Review of Proposed Corrections and Additions to Geolocation
  W3C: welcome via GitHub through 28 December 2025.
• A Message from Canada’s Chief Accessibility Officer
  Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians: I am pleased to reach out to you today and introduce myself and my office.
• Design and Delivery of Accessible Programs and Services, Including Customer Services
  Government of Canada: technical guide to support organizations on their accessibility journey.
• PMs, It’s Time to Audit Your TV Login Experience
  Alicia Jarvis: Logging in should be simple — but on TV, it’s often where accessibility breaks down.
• Better accessibility context for your artificial intelligence agents – help them help you
  Bogdan Cerovac: Model Context Protocol (MCP) is not perfect, but it is a good start – as it can provide reality for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Alternative to the New Page Explorer Feature in JAWS 2026
  Brian Hartgen: I want people to understand that while Page Explorer is very good at what it does, it is not the only game in town.
• Your accessibility score is lying to you
  Chris Yoong: Automation misses most issues, and can make teams think they’re done.
• WordPress Discovery: Obtaining Published URL before Publishing
  Dennis Deacon: You know … there’s times when technology can make you feel real stupid.
• Testing Methods: Keyboard (No Exception)
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that all content is operable from the keyboard.
• Halloween 2025 … and yes, it’s genuinely scary out there
  Dennis Deacon: Digital accessibility isn’t a seasonal project or a compliance checkbox.
• Why the European Accessibility Act could help you win more customers this Christmas
  Jonathan Hassell: What we’ve found is that many organizations were not ready for the June 28 accessibility deadline.
• Image Description Toolkit 3.5 Beta
  Kelly Ford: Featuring Geolocation Data and Web Image Downloads.
• Beyond Digital Accessibility
  Lainey Feingold: An Australian Reader Takes Deep Dive into Structured Negotiation Book.
• The return of the heading group
  Martin Underhill: So if we shouldn’t use headers for headings, what should we use instead?
• A11y 101: 2.4.5 Multiple Ways
  Nat Tarnoff: Buildings … include ramps and elevators to access areas that someone might not be able to climb stairs. Let’s review how that translates to digital spaces.
• WP A11y Docs update October 2025
  Rian Rietveld: publishing of new documentation has started; the accessibility of wpaccessibility.org itself; presentations at WP Meetups about the project; how you can help.
• Rethinking Dark Mode Image Strategies with Media Queries in HTML
  Sara Soueidan: Dimming all content images … is not an inclusive design strategy.
• Sometimes the Best Accessibility Fix is a Usability Fix
  
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: In practice, accessibility gains often come from fixing ordinary UX friction points.
• a brief professional history of me
  Steve Faulkner: 1996-2025.
• ChatGPT sez Build with semantics first
  Steve Faulkner: One of the issues that I found most perturbing from the Atlas browser FAQ’s for front end developers was the advice to use ARIA.
• Everyone’s talking to ChatGPT – so let’s make it accessible
  AbilityNet: Whether we’re quite ready for it or not, artificial intelligence is already shaping how we live, work and learn.
• Podcast: Gina Bhawalkar
  AXSChat: Gina established and now leads Forrester’s coverage of the digital accessibility space.
• ARIA Isn’t A Solution for Every Digital Accessibility Issue
  BOIA: when you treat ARIA as a “quick fix,” you’re setting yourself up for serious accessibility issues.
• What Is ISO/IEC 40500, And Why Is It Important for Web Accessibility?
  BOIA: If WCAG is exactly the same as ISO/IEC 40500, why have separate standards?
• Canberra’s wake-up call on accessible ticketing
  CANAXESS: Shipping while “accessibility is in delivery” is a go or no-go failure that excludes people with disabilities.
• Legal Update: October 2025
  Converge: SDNY Back to Rejecting Online-Only Title III Claims; A More Careful Reading of Calcano and Intent to Return; H.R. 5605 Medical Device Nonvisual Accessibility Act of 2025; Bill Tracker.
• Podcast: Tag, You’re It: Google Docs Joins the Accessibility Game
  Chax Chat: Chad and Dax are exploring recent updates to Google Docs’ PDF export capabilities.
• India’s proposed new accessibility standards
  Deque: What businesses can do today.
• India’s OTT Accessibility Revolution
  DigitA11y: New Guidelines to Make Streaming Inclusive for Everyone.
• A New Era of Digital Accessibility
  Drupal: he EAA and its Implications for Drupal
• How to Use ChatGPT to Fix Website Accessibility Problems
  Equalize Digital: how you can use ChatGPT to help write code that remediates accessibility problems found during manual testing or by using tools like Accessibility Checker.
• AI Prompts For Web Accessibility Testing
  Forbes: simplifying web accessibility to ensure compliance with ADA, EAA and WCAG standards.
• The Great PDF Reckoning
  GovTech: A Wake-Up Call for ADA Compliance.
• The AI Digital Accessibility Playbook
  GrackleDocs: Work Smarter Without Losing the Human Touch.
• Adobe InDesign 21.0—EPUB Accessibility Updates
  Inclusive Publishing: Our collaboration with Adobe’s InDesign team continues to reap rewards.
• Inclusive by design
  Microsoft: How technology is shaping the future of accessibility in Europe
• Top Accessibility Extensions for Web Testing
  NorthFortyNews: what to look for, which tools are worth installing, and how platforms like LambdaTest help fill gaps that extensions alone cannot cover.
• Video: Get started with manual testing webinar
  Pope Tech: we define what manual testing is, demonstrate four basic manual tests, and show how to incorporate sampling strategies into your accessibility workflow.
• Halloween Accessibility Nightmares
  UsableNet: 3 Real Barriers a Blind Shopper Faced in October.
• The Microsoft 365 Features for Creating Accessible Content
  Vision Australia: the built-in accessibility features in Microsoft 365 that enable content creators to produce accessible workplace communications.
• Word and PowerPoint Alt Text Roundup
  WebAIM: We tested the alternative text of everything that we could think of in Word and PowerPoint and then converted these files to PDFs.
• Conference Videos
  WebAIM: The recordings for this year’s WebAIM conference have been published to YouTube.
• ChatGPT’s Atlas
  Anil Dash: The Browser That’s Anti-Web.
• Canva Launches AI-powered Creative Operating System
  Beta News: to connect design, content, and marketing..
• Just use a button
  Chris Ferdinandi: One of the weirdest “debates” I seem to perpetually have with framework-enthusiastic developers is whether or not a <div> is “just as good” as a <button>.
• Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and Subgrid
  CSS Tricks: Making a tab interface with CSS … could they be accessible?
• Better Alt Text
  David Bushell: How to add visible alt text? I decided to use declarative popover.
• Springs and Bounces in Native CSS
  Josh Comeau: Like with all animations, we should make sure to respect user motion preferences.
• Tab stops on the web
  Thomas Günther: I want to explore this ancient typographic concept and see how it can be used on the web.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-november-3-2025/.

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Approved as ISO/IEC International Standard
  W3C: The formal recognition enables more countries to formally adopt the standard.
• U.S. Access Board Shutdown
  Due to the lack of appropriations, all Access Board services are suspended. Please see the shutdown plan.
• OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse
  Adrian Roselli: OpenAI has announced it’s launched a new browser, Atlas, with ChatGPT built in.
• Why Accessibility Breaks Between Design & Development
  Alicia Jarvis: Accessibility often starts strong in design — with thoughtful colour contrast, readable typography, and inclusive interaction flows.
• Swedish government starts to audit eCommence websites
  Chris Yoong: Government launches Accessibility inspections for retailers.
• Social media brain rot for AI
  Craig Abbott: LLMs can suffer permanent cognitive damage when they’re trained on low quality, high engagement social media posts.
• The Impact of Web Accessibility Overlays on the Usability and User Experience for People with Permanent Visual Impairments
  Daniela Kubesch: Master’s thesis from 2024 examines the real-world impact of these tools through research and user testing.
• Custom Cursor Accessibility
  David Bushell: Personally, I find the default “normal” cursor ludicrously small on my 14-inch MacBook.
• Testing Methods: No Keyboard Trap
  Dennis Deacon: ensure that users navigating with a keyboard are never trapped within a subsection of a page.
• When Offline Isn’t an Option
  Grace Dow: Social media and the internet are often seen as distractions, but for many disabled people, they are a lifeline.
• Yes, let’s teach LLMs accessibility
  Hidde de Vries: but also provide the companies using them with better strategies.
• HTML dialog: Getting accessibility and UX right
  Jared Cunha: creating dialogs that work well for all users still requires intentional accessibility and UX decisions.
• Image Description Toolkit 3.0 Available
  Kelly Ford: The 3.0 release builds on the command line workflow tools I released earlier.
• The Power User Fallacy
  Laura Wissiak: When ‘possible’ UX becomes a Dark Souls level challenge.
• Alt text or image description?
  Lauren Sherrard: What’s the difference, and when to use them?
• What’s an interactive element?
  Manuel Matuzovi?:Before I share my opinions with you, let me clarify that this post is not about MDN.
• Why training alone is never the solution to ableist behavior
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Training transfers instructions, not motivation to change bad behavior.
• Atlas Ableism
  Steve Faulkner: There is a new browser in town: ChatGPT Atlas browser.
• Know your Standards
  Steve Faulkner: some references to Web Standards which should remain relevant and up to date for the foreseeable future. Updated 20/10/2025
• Why Can’t Everything Be Accessible?
  Taylor Arndt: Every day, millions of people are left behind by technology that was never built with them in mind.
• Subtitling vs. Dubbing
  3Play Media: Which is Right for Your Audience?
• Meet Our New AI Accessibility Statement Generator
  Accessible Web: A simpler and faster way to create accessibility statements for Accessible Web RAMP users.
• Podcast: David Banes
  AXS Chat: the Chair of the Equitable AI Alliance and General Secretary of DATEurope, the European Association for the Assistive Technology Industry.
• Digital accessibility in Australian retail
  CANAXESS: Point of sale (POS) terminals, smart checkouts, public facing smart displays and employee smart displays.
• Understanding compliance and conformance in the EAA era
  Deque: help you understand the relevant terms and concepts, determine what’s required of your organization, and guide you on your next steps.
• Podcast: Do Logos Need to Be Accessible?
  Design Domination: Colleen Gratzer, the answer will surprise you!
• Combatting Misinformation
  Disability Belongs: Understanding the Facts About Neurodivergence.
• Got Data, Now What? Storytelling Through Accessible Design
  Equal Entry: based on Dr. Angela Young’s talk at A11yNYC.
• Fable expands testing community to the UK
  Fable: to help organisations comply with EU Accessibility Act.
• 3 ways we’re helping make classrooms more accessible
  Google: our built-in accessibility tools, more than $1.2 million funded through Google.org to support students and a new partnership with Understood.org.
• How to Write an Accessibility Statement in 2025, with Examples
  Equalize Digital: We’ll break down the essential components, provide clear examples, and show you how to avoid common, costly mistakes.
• Video: When compliance isn’t accessible
  Intopia: Charlii Parker interviews Ben Moxey (Guide Dogs NSW/ACT) and Douglas Fogg (Australia Post)
• Video: Tools and Techniques of a Blind Accessibility Auditor
  Knowbility: Be a Digital Ally with Janine Leinbeck.
• Beyond Compliance The Business Case for Accessibility by Industry
  Level Access: Gina Bhawalkar, Principal Analyst at Forrester, about the case for accessibility across industries.
• Accessible by design
  Minnesota News: Creating inclusive hiring experiences through Digital Accessibility.
• Preparation for the update to ADA’s Title II Series
  Minnesota News: Final recap & resources guide.
• Mastering alt text
  Shaw Trust: guidance from Alan Sleat, one of our Accessibility Assessors who uses a screen reader.
• Video: Todd Libby on Deceptive Patterns
  Shop Talk Show: what WCAG is and who it’s for, and 5 deceptive patterns in use on the web today.
• Eyeing accessibility deadline, states root out ancient web issues
  StateScoop: One state official said his goal isn’t only to remove inaccessible content, but retrain staff so that old design mistakes don’t need to be revisited.
• Mobile Ticketing Accessibility
  UsableNet: Buying Haunted House Tickets with a Screen Reader.
• Bridging the Communication Gap
  Assistive Technology Blog: How Terp 360 is Revolutionizing Sign Language Translation in Africa.
• Accessibility Assistant updates
  Microsoft: Smarter handling of tables and shapes.
• A Historic Step Without a Step
  Christiane Link: For the first time, passengers can roll, walk, or wheel straight from the platform into a high-speed Intercity Express without steps, ramps, or awkward hydraulic lifts.
• PAC 2026 beta with AI-assisted checks is here
  PAC 2026 takes PDF accessibility testing to a new level.
• Voice Access vs Voice Typing
  Web Friendly Help: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started.
• Ambient Animations In Web Design: Practical Applications (Part 2)
  Andy Clarke: Motion can be tricky: too much distracts, too little feels flat.
• The Two Button Problem
  Chris Coyier: there are two buttons, and it’s not clear which one of them is in the active state.
• Write Code That Runs in the Browser, or Write Code the Browser Runs
  Jim Nielsen: hand over performance, accessibility, localization, and a whole host of issues to the experts who build browsers.
• Are You a Carpenter or a Surgeon?
  John Allsopp: Why the Analogy Matters for Developers.
• Maybe Stop Being a Dick
  Leah Reich: The modern internet was not really built for the thoughtful exchange of ideas.
• Accessible Design vs. Inclusive Design: What’s the Difference?
  Monse-Maell: An introduction to the terminology and its differences with tangible examples.
• WordPress Foundation and WooCommerce Join Countersuit Against WP Engine
  The Repository: Alleging Trademark Infringement and False Advertising.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-october-27-2025/.

• Case Study: Adyen
  Vispero: How Adyen is Leading the Future of Accessible Payments with JAWS® for Kiosk.
• Vispero and Aira Announce Strategic Partnership
  Vispero: to Increase Awareness and Promote Equal Access for Online Communities.
• Case Study: Practising Law Institute
  Vispero: how TPGi helped PLI significantly reduce their legal risk and improve accessibility across their digital assets
• What State ARIA Inj?
  TPGi: Aditya Jainapur explains how to use ARIA to indicate the difference between selected, pressed, current, and checked states of elements..
• Webinar: Understanding ADA Title II: Accessibility Auditing, Compliance, and Prioritization
  TPGi: David Sloan, Chief Accessibility Officer, presented on October 28, 2025 at 12pm ET.
• Webinar: User Centered Testing with User Journeys
  TPGi: Charlie Pike, Director of Platform Success, presented on October 30, 2025 at 10am ET.
• October 2025 Student of the Month
  Freedom Scientific: Ollie is a ninth grader from Texas.
• The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2025
  The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up (Deque, Level Access, Siteimprove, UsableNet, Evinced, Allyant, Crownpeak, Acquia, Silktide)
• W3C logo refresh
  W3C: more than a cosmetic change, a small step towards durable and sustainable success.
• DOJ shelves ADA rulemaking on digital accessibility
  NE Biz Law: In a surprising regulatory rollback, the Department of Justice has withdrawn two key rulemaking efforts under the Americans with Disabilities Act, including long-awaited rules on digital accessibility.
• Identifying Accessibility Data Gaps in CodeGen Models
  Aaron Gustafson: We’re facing a looming wave of inaccessible code that will be extremely difficult to remediate later.
• Talkin’ Tables at A11yTO Conf
  Adrian Roselli: which I presented in place of another speaker who had to back out the day before.
• Quick fix for focus trapping on Android TV
  Alicia Jarvis: Ever tried to back out of a submenu on your TV app only to find the focus won’t move?
• How I fixed my Reduced Motion Broke My Layout problem
  Andy Clarke: it took me all morning to realise the issue wasn’t the grid, but how I’d structured my media queries.
• A11Y Linting HTML with CSS
  Chris Coyier: Will Mendes has a bit of CSS to highlight accessibility issues on HTML elements.
• Implicit labels aren’t
  Chris Ferdinandi: As James Edwards documents and Adrian Roselli reiterates, some voice command software will not navigate to implicitly labelled fields.
• 30 Days With Dolphin Screen Reader
  David Goldfield: Dolphin Computer Access is offering a 50% discount on their Supernova products for users who have a JAWS, Zoomtext or Fusion license who are willing to switch.
• Testing Methods: Keyboard
  Dennis Deacon: content is operable via a keyboard or alternate keyboard interface whenever possible.
• “AI is inevitable” is bullshit
  Eric Eggert: “AI” investors can’t acknowledge the limitation of the technology because they are all-in on it.
• I can’t read (but I’d like to)
  Erik Kroes: Reading is challenging for me, mostly because of my traumatic brain injury.
• Time saving / time wasting
  Hidde de Vries: LLM vendors promise huge time savings, while many people experience these tools cost them time.
• AI has an accessibility problem
  Jemima Abu: What devs can do about it.
• Implementing a focus indicator with :focus
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: a visual focus indicator must be displayed when a user moves the focus to a focusable object … using the keyboard.
• Headers, headings, and titles
  Martin Underhill: use the terminology defined by the super smart people who wrote HTML and ARIA.
• Page headings don’t belong in the header
  Martin Underhill: having thought about this, I don’t think headings are much use here.
• YouTube Studio Update
  Meryl Evans: Where to Find Captions and Add Audio Description.
• Lies™ by AI
  Niq Bernadowitsch: Disinformation as a service, brought to you by LLMs.
• For Your Convenience, This CSS Will Self-Destruct
  Scott Jehl: what could go wrong here if JavaScript fails to fully load, or has a runtime error, or merely takes a while to load?
• Why Every Search Needs an Announced Empty State
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Inaccessible empty states are one of those subtle failures that make an interface feel broken to some users but not others.
• What Is Dubbing?
  3Play Media: Everything You Need to Know About Dubbing Videos.
• Beyond Compliance
  Acquia: Why Accessibility Is the Key to Digital Trust and Brand Loyalty
• Accessibility as a Promise, not a Pitch
  Allyant: Inside Vaan Group’s Contractual Commitment to Accessibility.
• Why Accessibility Matters—And Why It Matters Now
  Allyant: delaying or deprioritizing accessibility is a costly, brand-damaging decision—now more than ever.
• Podcast: AXSChat with Laura Wissiak
  AXSChat: Chief Research Officer at Hope Tech, she leads the development of assistive tech hardware for mobility.
• Digital innovation, emerging technology and accessibility with Léonie Watson
  Calvium: we interviewed Léonie Watson, co-founder and Director of accessibility consultancy TetraLogical.
• Podcast: Microsoft – Accessibility for Word and PPT
  Chax Chat: Chad Chelius and Dax Castro welcome Microsoft’s Shireen Salma and Ylva Kravis to unpack new accessibility features in Word and PowerPoint.
• Deque named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms
  Deque: In this report, we received the top score in the Strategy category.
• Star raters are more challenging to make accessible than you might think
  Eleven Ways: beneath that simple surface lie a couple of tricky accessibility questions that are crucial for making sure everyone can use them effectively.
• Video: Tools and Techniques of a Blind Accessibility Auditor
  Knowbility: Be a Digital Ally with Janine Leinbeck, NFB.
• Eight Steps to Achieve ADA Title II Compliance in Higher Education
  Level Access: a practical roadmap to help your institution meet ADA Title II requirements.
• Celebrating Our Recognition as a Leader in the Forrester Wave
  Level Access: What It Means for You.
• How Accessibility Supercharges GEO and Future-Proofs Your Brand
  Level Access: Generative engine optimization (GEO), also called generative AI SEO.
• Accessibility in an AI World
  Onward Accessibility: AI Tips for A11Y Work.
• Common misconceptions about screen readers
  TetraLogical: Screen readers are familiar to many in digital, but how they work in practice can be less clear.
• Video: ADA Title II Digital Accessibility
  UsableNet: Requirements, Exceptions, and Next Steps.
• This digital hand enables hands-free virtual reality
  University of Michigan: the AI-powered agent can complete tasks by following simple voice commands .
• New iOS App: SonifEye
  Marshall Walters: An App to Hear Color; Request for Use & Feedback.
• The thing about contrast-color
  Andy Clarke: The contrast-color() function chooses either white for dark backgrounds or black for light ones.
• Quiet UI is Now Open Source
  Cory LaViska: Sorry, but I’m not solving everyone’s problems for free anymore.
• Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve
  CSS Tricks: The two competing proposals are interesting in their own right.
• Many years on the job and I still don’t get it.
  Dave Rupert: aspects of becoming a better web developer. It’s not always about lines-of-code or hours-in-chair.
• The Grayscale Problem
  Frederick O’Brien: Vibrant and accessible aren’t mutually exclusive.
• The “£532,000” dot job: Why small design changes cost big
  Ian Batterbee: Why did a tiny logo change cost GOV.UK so much?
• Common UX mistakes everyone still makes 2.0
  Jason Teunissen: Standardized, semantic HTML is a huge win.
• Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna
  Mark Bernstein: If we are providing support and advice to customers, we don’t want those customers to wrangle with each other.
• Instant snapport
  Matthias Zöchling: scroll padding can be of great help when it comes to accessibility.
• AI In UX: Achieve More With Less
  Paul Boag: Treat AI like an intern with zero experience.
• How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore
  Vitaly Friedman: Here’s how to turn your research into narratives that inspire trust and influence decisions.
• Anchor Positioning Updates for Fall 2025
  James Stuckey Weber: Let’s take a look at the current state of anchor positioning.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-october-20-2025/.

• Understanding the Removal of 4.1.1 Parsing in WCAG 2.2
  TPGi: Aditya Jainapur explains what SC 4.1.1 covered, why it was removed, how it affects accessibility in practice, and which criteria now address issues once covered by parsing.
• Tables: Beyond Rows and Columns
  TPGi: Akash Shukla explains the best way to use semantic table markup to present web content in accessible rows and columns.
• Blindness Awareness Month: Focus on Education and Accessibility
  Freedom Scientific: Each October, Blindness Awareness Month and World Sight Day invite us to reflect on the global impact of vision loss.
• Use the Find and Replace Feature in Word with JAWS
  Freedom Scientific: Learn how to save time and edit documents more efficiently using the Find and Replace feature in Microsoft Word with JAWS.
• 5.15 Million Dollar Settlement in California Web Accessibility Class Action
  Lainey Feingold: Fashion Nova website barriers spark lawsuit that should have settled.
• Should you outsource accessibility or build it in-house?
  Bogdan Lazar: What you’re really asking is you can just throw money at the problem.
• Stop inviting overlay employees & bad actors into Accessibility spaces
  Chris Yoong: It hands them blueprints for exploitation, legitimacy and control.
• Testing Methods: Text Spacing
  Dennis Deacon: ensure that content can adapt to user-defined text settings, making it easier to read.
• Testing Methods: Content on Hover or Focus
  Dennis Deacon: when content appears on hover or keyboard focus it must be dismissible, hoverable, and persistent.
• a11y-tools bookmarklets
  Ian Lloyd: All the bookmarklets from a11y-tools.com wrapped up and organised in one place for your convenience.
• Why WordPress Themes Require Underlines on Links
  Joe Dolson: what kinds of link decorations can pass the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and be fundamentally more interesting than an underline.
• No Accessibility No UX
  Julia Undeutsch: there is no such thing as user experience if not all users can experience it.
• Podcast: Understanding the Tools Blind Users Rely on
  Laura Wissiak: From Screen Readers to White Canes.
• Rethinking Cookie Dialogs
  Nat Tarnoff: Most cookie dialogs load at the bottom of the page. However, cookie banners tend to load after the main content of the page.
• Keyboard Accessibility for Everyone!
  Niq Bernadowitsch: Hear ye, hear ye, builders of the web.
• Designing for Dyslexia: Accessibility Requirements and Best Practices
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Dyslexia impacts fluency, comprehension, and reading comfort, but careful accessibility practices can lower those barriers.
• The Architecture of Anxiety and Shame, Part One
  Todd Libby: The Scarcity and Pressure to Make Decisions and Placing Guilt in the Users Lap.
• When to Use Modal vs Dialog Components
  A11Y Collective: Discover implementation patterns, accessibility guidelines, and best practices for creating user-friendly interfaces.
• Essential Visually Hidden CSS Techniques for Web Accessibility
  A11Y Collective: Fix vanishing focus indicators & conflicting sr-only classes.
• Your Guide to Writing Better Alt Text
  Accessible Web: “Alt text,” meaning alternative text, concisely describes an image’s content on a website or in a digital environment.
• Accessibility: defined
  Atomic Accessibility: Are you designing a UI? Writing a new Web feature? Native app for iOS or Android?
• The Importance of Digital Accessibility for Financial and Banking Websites
  Be Accessible: Thanks to ADA, accessible banking is now made easier for the elderly, persons with disabilities, and the underserved.
• Be My Eyes and Tesco team up on World Sight Day
  Be My Eyes: to make in-store shopping more accessible across the UK.
• Section 1557: Understanding Document Accessibility Requirements
  BrailleWorks: The 2024 final rule updating Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has stirred up uncertainty in the healthcare world.
• Finalists announced for the 2025 Australian Access Awards
  Centre For Accessibility Australia: The judging for the 4th biennial Australian Access Awards has been completed.
• 10 Easy Accessibility Tests Anyone Can Do
  DigitalA11y: You don’t need to be an accessibility ninja to run the tests outlined in this article.
• Accessibility Audits: Because Everyone Deserves to Stay in Focus
  Equal Entry: Accessibility isn’t a one-and-done checklist. It’s a living commitment.
• Accessible Reading and Assistive Tech for Visually Impaired Readers | A 2025 guide
  Hable: we stand at an exciting moment for accessible reading and assistive technology for people who are blind or visually impaired.
• Video: Now we’re past the EAA Deadline – What should you do now?
  Hassell Inclusion: The EAA’s June 2025 deadline wasn’t the end of the accessibility work organisations need to do.
• Level Access Launches New AI Agents to Pioneer the Next Wave of Digital Accessibility
  Level Access: New AI agents will power the human side of digital accessibility, helping organizations find accessibility issues earlier.
• Video: Building Digital Accessibility Excellence
  Microassist: Essential Training for Government Teams
• Co-Creating Mental Health Solutions
  Microsoft: Mental health matters—everywhere, for everyone.
• Digital Accessibility Quick Cards
  Minnesota IT Services: We’ve updated most of our Accessibility Quick Cards with new tips based on WCAG 2.1, Level AA criteria.
• Rethinking Cookie Dialogs
  Nat Tarnoff: If you are anything like me, you don’t want your data sold to third parties.
• Making a Case for Vision
  Pedal Point: a Story of Inclusive Marketing for Assistive Tech.
• Accessible form validation with examples and code
  Pope Tech: When something goes wrong, and users can’t complete a form, that’s where error messages come in.
• Website accessibility strategy
  Pope Tech: These are tasks and examples to start building your website content accessibility strategy.
• Video: How to test your form for accessibility issues with the WAVE extension
  Pope Tech: we’ll use the WAVE extension to test an example form for accessibility issues.
• Chasing the Sun
  The Repository: Inside WP Accessibility Day’s 24-Hour Event & What to Expect in 2025
• Why the European Accessibility Act is a game-changer for businesses
  Shaw Trust: is set to reward responsible businesses who embrace accessibility as a core value.
• Eyeing accessibility deadline, states root out ancient web issues
  Statescoop: One state official said his goal isn’t only to remove inaccessible content, but retrain staff so that old design mistakes don’t need to be revisited.
• Guide to the Inclusive Design Principles
  TetraLogical: who the principles are for, what they can be applied to, how they help people, and how you can integrate them into your own practices.
• The Difference Between Alt Text and Image Captions
  University of Colorado: Both describe images, but they serve very different purposes.
• Restaurant App Accessibility
  UsableNet: A Screen Reader Experience When Menus Won’t Scroll.
• Podcast: Interview with Amber Hinds and Nathan Wrigley
  WP Builds: Amber is the CEO of Equalize Digital, a company specialising in WordPress accessibility solutions.
• Fluid Headings
  Donnie D’Amato: What I set out to do is to have a rule that helps explain what the transition should be for heading font sizes between large and small screen sizes.
• Simplify
  Jeremy Keith: My old brain immediately thought this would be fairly complicated to do, but actually it’s ludicrously straightforward.
• HTML—the Most Difficult Programming Language in the World
  Jens Oliver Meiert: This is tongue-in-cheek, but the underlying point isn’t: If you’re a professional who puts HTML on your resume, ship valid HTML.
• If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents
  Sean Goedecke: The thing is, reviewing code is something a lot of developers aren’t particularly good at.
• Hue shifting when you have to work in RGB
  Jim Kang: How RGB is related to HSV, and how to implement hue shifting.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-october-13-2025/.

Weekly Reading List October 6 2025

• Understanding the Removal of 4.1.1 Parsing in WCAG 2.2
  TPGi: what SC 4.1.1 covered, why it was removed, how it affects accessibility in practice, and which criteria now address issues once covered by parsing.
• Webinar: An Introduction to ChatGPT: Conversations, Creativity, and Clarity
  Freedom Scientific: Rescheduled to Thursday, October 9 at 12noon ET.
• Podcast: Enhancing Web Accessibility With JAWS Tools + Kristina Misiunaite
  Freedom Scientific: FSCast #262: latest tools in JAWS and a chat a tax policy officer from the Netherlands.
• Why I gave the world wide web away for free
  Tim Berners-Lee: My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for.
• Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
  New Yorker: In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.
• Video: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) adopts a new logo to signal positive changes
  W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium is rolling out a new logo.
• Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) becomes a first public Draft Note
  W3C: The Sustainable Web Interest Group published a first public Draft Note of Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG).
• Videos: #id24 2025
  Full list of videos on inclusive design and digital accessibility streamed live on September 25 2025.
• How to Create an Accessible Table with Clickable Rows
  Alexander Lehner: what if you want to make the rows clickable, e.g., to show more information about the thing that the row is about?
• A threat model for accessibility on the web
  Alice Boxhall: The primary threat for accessibility on the web is neglect.
• Auditing your Design system for accessibility
  Allie Paschal: How to fix A11y issues at the system-level.
• Five years goes fast – they go even faster when it comes to accessibility
  Bogdan Cerovac: 5 years of Web Accessibility Directive went fast. Progress is evident, but is it enough?
• Why are NHS trusts buying Accessibility overlays?
  Chris Yoong: These trusts are wasting public money on useless overlays.
• HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The
  Tag
  Den Odell: It’s been in the spec for years. Yet it’s hiding in plain sight.
• Digital Accessibility and Mufflers
  Dennis Deacon: whether it’s a muffler that disrupts your neighborhood or a chatbot that excludes users, the responsibility is yours.
• Testing Methods: Non-text Contrast
  Dennis Deacon: visual elements must have a contrast ratio of at least 3:1 against adjacent colors.
• Nothing About Us Without Us
  Christiane Link: It’s the difference between designing for everyone and designing for disabled people with incidental benefits for others.
• Headings: the invisible compass of web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: there’s a hidden hero of accessible content that too often gets forgotten: headings.
• WCAG’s Longevity
  Eric Eggert: There are several reasons why WCAG 2 is such a long-living standard.
• “The primary threat for accessibility on the web is neglect.”
  Joe Dolson: It’s easy to believe that once something is a standard that it is safe to use…but that’s just not true.
• ADA Title II and PDFs: Fix, Archive, or Delete?
  Karl Groves: The DOJ has provided an important distinction between documents that are part of current services and those that are purely historical.
• Control web content with your eyes (or head or facial movements)
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: macOS and iOS actually have built-in features that allow you to control web content using your gaze, head, or facial movements.
• Video: Why you should take your makeup advice from a blind woman
  Molly Burke: universal design isn’t just good for disabled people – it’s good for business and for everyone.
• Why Americans with Disabilities Should Consider Entrepreneurship During Economic Upheaval
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: The harsh reality is that traditional employment is rarely designed with accessibility and flexibility in mind.
• WP A11y Docs update September 2025
  Rian Rietveld: In September we made the website wpaccessibility.org ready to contribute.
• Lazy
  Todd Libby: I am still around and up to some new shenanigans.
• cielo24 Acquisition: The Case for Migrating
  3Play Media: captioning, transcription, and data labeling provider cielo24 been acquired by Rev. 3Play suggests migrating to them.
• Make Navigation Accessible with aria-current
  A11y Collective: Simple examples for navigation, breadcrumbs, and multi-step processes.
• Podcast: Overlays vs Automation: What’s the Difference
  The Accessibility Advantage: Maxwell Ivey Jr. interviews Mike Paciello, AudioEye’s Chief Accessibility Officer.
• Video: When Accessibility Isn’t Easy: Features That Need Love
  Accessibility Talks: Suzanne Dergacheva on features and design patterns that often require additional attention to meet accessibility standards.
• How to handle accessibility reporting under the European Accessibility Act (EAA)
  Axess Lab: If you’re covered by the EAA, you’ll need to handle two types of accessibility reporting.
• Podcast: From Developer to Advocate: Building an Accessible Future in Germany
  AXS Chat: Guest is March Haunschild, 20 years an accessibility developer, teacher, author, and tester.
• Be My Eyes and BT/EE Pilot New Accessibility Support in UK
  Be My Eyes: on-demand, accessible customer support for blind and low-vision users across the UK.
• Accessibility Standards Explained
  Be My Eyes: What You Need to Know.
• Podcast: What Makes a Table Accessible?
  Chax Chat: Chad Chelius and Dax Castro break down the nuts and bolts of accessible tables.
• Make accessible carousels
  Chrome for Developers: when a carousel is implemented, it should be robust and accessible.
• Legal Update: September 2025
  Converge: Third Circuit and “Intent to Return” in Web Accessibility Cases, Bill Tracker.
• How to test the new ARIA Notify API with Cypress
  Cypress: helps make interactive web applications more accessible and solves some problems with current workarounds.
• axe-con 2026
  Deque: The global community is coming together to accelerate digital accessibility at axe-con 2026.
• Podcast: Breaking the ‘Overlay’ Stigma
  The Digital Accessibility Podcast: Joe James interviews Chris Holloway, head of Recite:Me.
• WordPress Cookie Banner Accessibility Lies
  Equalize Digital: false accessibility claims can put the website owner on the wrong side of not just accessibility laws but privacy laws, too.
• Accessibility Info Bites – The anatomy of an accessible button
  Intopia: Learn how to create buttons that are clear, easy to interact with, and properly coded.
• Accessibility Info Bites – The anatomy of an accessible link
  Intopia: improve access for people with disability and boost usability for everyone.
• How to conduct user testing with people with disabilities
  Intopia: You’ve finally gotten senior exec buy-in to include people with disabilities in your research study – what now?
• Accessibility Testing Comparison
  Intopia: Automated Testing vs Human Auditing vs Usability Testing.
• I completed an IT degree… What’s accessibility?
  Intopia: unfortunately, the lack of accessibility in tech education wasn’t unique to my university.
• Closing the Gaps
  Level Access: Harnessing AI Accessibility Agents in Your Workflows.
• Beyond Compliance: The Economic Case for Digital Accessibility
  NASCIO: context about the importance of digital accessibility, its benefits to state and local economies and the repercussions of inaccessible platforms.
• A guide to creating accessible PDFs using free tools
  Piccalilli: I’m going to show you how to do the following things using a practical example.
• Video accessibility strategy
  Pope Tech: Identify environment, Put processes in place, Fix existing content.
• Silktide Expands Globally
  Silktide: New Offices Across Three Continents in 2025.
• Meet the team: Ian Lloyd
  TetraLogical: Lloydi to you and me.
• The European Accessibility Act in Action: Key Takeaways
  UsableNet: understand the EAA’s scope, implement sustainable accessibility practices, create effective testing programs, and maintain compliance over time.
• Common Accessibility Challenges When Interacting With Navigation Menus
  UsableNet: common accessibility challenges that screen reader users face when interacting with menus on desktop websites.
• Navigating College Course Catalogs as a Blind Student: Barriers and Fixes
  UsableNet: In practice, this experience is frequently flawed for screen reader users.
• How Chunking Makes Content More Accessible
  Vision Australia: a simple but powerful technique that makes content more accessible by breaking information into manageable pieces.
• Reading List, Oct 2025
  WebAxe: 12 selected digital accessibility articles.
• Google’s New Rules Could Threaten Sideloading And Accessibility Along With It
  Accessible Android: the ability to install (or “side-load”) apps from outside the Google Play Store, or to use alternative app stores such as F-Droid.
• Apple confirms Voice Control bugs in macOS 26
  Aestumanda: Accessibility team acknowledges multiple dictation issues, promises fixes in future updates.
• 6 ways Kindle supports readers with disabilities
  Amazon: Discover how Kindle provides the best reading experience for all kinds of readers.
• Apple releases iOS 26.0.1 and iPadOS 26.0.1
  Apple: with fix for VoiceOver loss of speech.
• Terminal Mode Goes Live with JAWS on Monarch
  The Braillists Foundation: Thanks to the newest updates from NVDA and Vispero’s JAWS, the two screen readers are officially ready for terminal mode use with Monarch.
• AI Is Overlooking Accessibility.
  Built In: Here’s how to Change That.
• Target launches accessible self-checkout
  Fox: an accessible self-checkout for guests with disabilities, including blind and low-vision shoppers.
• User cum expert judgement model for accessibility using fuzzy approach
  Nature.com: The datasets of 20 websites have been evaluated against the conformance of WCAG 2.1.
• The Rogue Prince of Persia
  Ubisoft: developed by Evil Empire, the team worked hard to ensure the game’s new version would be accessible to everyone.
• Design for All feat. Martin Underhill
  AdLib: Interview with a digital accessibility consultant with a background in user experience design and frontend development.
• ADHD pride
  Chris Ferdinandi: my ADHD is not “a disorder.” My brain is different. Not better. Not worse. Different.
• Storefront & Warehouse
  Donnie D’Amato: One of the problems I’ve seen is a person coming into design system resources and being immediately overwhelmed by the options.
• Community language doesn’t mean inclusive language…
  Lauren Sherrard: I’m talking about inclusive language (again) — this time in relation to themed brands.
• In the economy of user effort, be a bargain, not a scam
  Lea Verou: design the tradeoff curve of use case complexity to user effort with the same care you design your pricing scheme.
• Boring is good
  Scott Jenson: I want to answer the question: why should we still care?

• Creating a truly accessible Flip Card
  TPGi: small blocks of content designed to resemble a playing card or business card, or similar two-sided thing.
• Webinar: An Introduction to ChatGPT – Conversations, Creativity, and Clarity
  Freedom Scientific: Introduction to Using ChatGPT with JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion. Thursday, October 2 at noon ET on Zoom.
• Employee Spotlight: Anthony Priore’s Story
  Freedom Scientific: we’re shining the spotlight on Anthony Priore, Digital Marketing Manager at Vispero.
• Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Call for Decision-Making based on Quality Science and Compassion for the Autism Community
  ASAN: The theories that Secretary Kennedy presented to the public demonstrate his continued disrespect for autistic people.
• DOJ Questioning the New Title II Web Regulation
  Converge Accessibility: a pretty direct indication that they want to water down the requirements.
• Let’s Play Accordion with the HTML details element
  Alexander Lehner: One helpful strategy is to place content in sections with show/hide functionality.
• Black Friday and Cyber Monday
  Dave Davies: why accessibility could be your biggest sales advantage.
• ARIA and Real World Dangers
  Dennis Deacon: When applied correctly, ARIA is invaluable. Think of it as asphalt for the potholes in HTML.
• Baby Steps Accessibility – PDFs
  Dennis Deacon: unless you’ve been creating accessible PDFs for years, chances are most of your files are not accessible.
• Testing Methods: Reflow
  Dennis Deacon: content can be presented without loss of information or functionality, and without requiring scrolling in two dimensions.
• Threats and opportunities for mature design systems
  Erin White: there are some recurring patterns I’ve observed as product teams work with our design system.
• Add an Accessibility Nutrition Label
  Geri Reid: I’ve just completed an audit for one of these labels. Here’s what I learned.
• Turns out I’m not ready to write a book
  Geri Reid: I’m starting a monthly blog about accessibility.
• Does your website need an accessibility statement? (Yes!)
  Helena Ferry: They are not just a formality, but a public commitment to inclusivity.
• Another AI reading list: these books are worth your time
  Hidde de Vries: they provide a critical look at the current wave of AI.
• Control web content with your voice
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: voice control is now a standard feature of devices (OS).
• Podcast: Where to start learning about Accessibility
  Laura Wissiak: Masterpost of Web Accessibility Resources for Developers, Designers, and Editors.
• Human Censored Design
  Liz Jackson & Rua Williams: Inclusive Design was created to systematize — the extraction of disabled ideas.
• HTMHell Advent Calendar
  Manuel Matuzovi?: Any topic or piece of HTML code you love that improves accessibility, performance … Submit ideas by October 1.
• Quick Tip: ARIA Live Regions
  Nat Tarnoff: This tip is to provide a super high level on how they function.
• Liquid Glass: Apple, you know better
  Nat Tarnoff: Update 9.26.25 – Apple has iOS 26.1 in developer beta and some of the concerns about Liquid Glass are being addressed.
• A11y 101: 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context)
  Nat Tarnoff: To make them as effective as they can be, we want to make them clear in what they do.
• What using a screen reader taught me about real web accessibility
  Sebastian Weber: Suddenly, we couldn’t ignore a11y anymore; legal compliance became a business imperative.
• Why Sticky Navigation Can Undermine Accessibility
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: or many people with disabilities, sticky navigation creates more problems than it solves.
• NVDA Keyboard Shortcuts for Different User Needs
  A11Y Collective: Navigate content, test forms, and build more accessible websites with this essential guide.
• Are Accessibility Overlays a Good Investment?
  A11Y Collective: why accessibility overlays create legal liability, break assistive tech, and cost more than fixing code properly.
• Magento Accessibility
  A11Y Collective: Creating Stores Everyone Can Use
• How to Use Accessibility Bookmarklets for Better Testing
  A11Y Collective: quickly identify WCAG issues and streamline your testing workflow for more inclusive websites.
• A Quick Guide to WCAG Color Contrast and Accessibility
  Accessible Web: Text color contrast should typically have a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1.
• Captioning Videos in Vimeo
  Converge Accessibility: a quick post showing how dead simple it is to caption videos in Vimeo.
• Enjoy rapid collaboration and localized compliance expertise with a Deque partner
  Deque: has launched a global partner network comprising carefully selected organizations
• Why false claims and false positives ruin digital accessibility programs
  Deque: our commitment to zero false positives still grounds our approach.
• Shopify Accessibility Guide
  DigitalA11y: WCAG Compliance for E-commerce Stores.
• Video: JAWS Tips
  Easterseals Crossroads: Using PictureSmart with PowerPoints
• Accessibility Matters: Turning High-Level Audits into Tangible Wins
  FE News: the question is no longer whether accessibility matters, but how quickly and effectively it can be embedded.
• Sponsorship of PDF/UA Standard
  Grackledocs: Reinforcing Commitment to Digital Accessibility.
• CAPTCHA, when security takes precedence over accessibility
  Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: its impact on accessibility in general and in Luxembourg in particular.
• Navigating EAA Compliance
  Level Access: Five Core Requirements and How to Meet Them
• How Accessible Are U.K. Retail Websites?
  Level Access: our research suggests many U.K. retailers aren’t keeping pace with evolving requirements.
• 8 in 10 Top U.K. Retail Websites Have Critical Accessibility Issues
  Level Access: the majority of U.K. retail websites do not meet basic digital accessibility requirements.
• Web Accessibility Audit Buyer’s Guide
  Microassist: Not to put too fine a point on it, but a web accessibility audit is important because accessibility is important.
• Annotating designs using common language
  TetraLogical: design documentation often includes annotations, but accessibility-specific ones are still rare.
• What Makes an Accessible College Application Form Work for Screen Reader Users
  UsableNet: When accessibility is built in, you can feel the difference.
• Accessibility First
  UsableNet: WCAG Makes Your Content Easier for People—and for AI to Understand.
• Fall 2025 Accessibility
  UsableNet: A Screen Reader User’s Look Ahead
• Simple ways to make your workplace communications accessible
  Vision Australia: writing descriptive subject lines and headings, creating meaningful links, ensuring sufficient colour contrast, and adding alternative text to images.
• Logitech’s new Signature Slim Solar+ K980 Keyboard is powered by light
  beta news: Good for testers. Switch between three devices. No batteries to replace.
• Podcast: How Meta’s Glasses Could Be the iPhone Moment for Blind Users
  Double Tap: a built-in screen reader and low-vision accessibility features.
• The Need for Accessibility Excellence
  Accessible Android: Google has a long, long way to go to make TalkBack a desktop-class screen reader.
• Beyond convenience: how smart tech can enable disabled lives
  Axess Lab: Smart tech lets me be a writer, a cat owner, and a caffeine addict on my own terms.
• Digital Accessibility Tools for Customer Service Teams
  Be My Eyes: For blind and low-vision consumers in particular, traditional customer service channels often fall short.
• Training: Catching Up With JAWS Chapter 5
  Hartgen Consultancy: Why JAWS 2026 could be the best upgrade in recent years.
• Able Player 4.7.0 & Able Player for WordPress 2.2.0 Released
  Joe Dolson: continues the process of modernizing Able Player, but also includes some useful new key features.
• The Gift Horse’s Mouth is Full of Terrible Braille
  Robert Kingett: The game was not inaccessible. It was anti-accessible.
• The End of the User Interface?
  Alex Cerqueira: The AI Agent Revolution and the Future of Human Experience
• Ambient Animations In Web Design: Principles And Implementation (Part 1)
  Andy Clarke: Check prefers-reduced-motion, and don’t assume everyone’s device can handle complex animations.
• What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (2025 Edition)
  Chris Coyier: There is more this year than there was last.
• Design Attractors
  Donnie D’Amato: stable solutions that emerge as the natural equilibrium of usability, accessibility, and implementation constraints.
• Against the protection of stocking frames
  Ethan Marcotte: it’s long past time I start discussing “artificial intelligence” (“AI”) as a failed technology.
• Unstructured Input in AI Apps Instead of Web Forms
  Luke Wroblewski: Instead of a Web form enforcing the database’s input requirements a dynamic context system can handle it.
• From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant
  Lyndon Cerejo: how to turn one-off “aha” prompts into reusable assistants that are tailored to your audience, grounded in your knowledge, and consistent every time.
• A workaround for using custom properties in media queries
  Manuel Matuzovi?: Instead of using a media query, you can use a container style query.
• Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System
  Michael Ferreira: The web has accents. So should our design systems.
• The Web’s Most Tolerated Feature
  Mike Pennisi: The idea behind zoom was fairly simple: allow developers to visually expand or shrink any given element.
• The Best CSS Unit Might Be a Combination
  Miriam Suzanne: We don’t have to choose between px and rem for spacing.
• Why WordPress Lost the Cool Kids (And How to Win Them Back)
  Nick Hamze: in creative communities, “accessible” gets read as “amateur” rather than “powerful.”
• 7 UX Skills that will be DEAD by 2026: AI will replace them
  Shai Krishna: no one is actually average … and accessibility needs are ignored.
• Call for “More Weirdness” in WordPress Theme Design Sparks Debate About Accessibility
  The Repository: Matt Mullenweg says accessibility expert [ Amber Hinds] “tipping into net negative contribution territory”.
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 — Draft Proposal
  Comedy gold from 2019 (contains swearing)

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-september-29-2025/.

• Proof Documents Faster and More Efficiently with JAWS Text Analyzer
  Freedom Scientific: a powerful JAWS feature that helps you catch formatting issues, punctuation problems, and other inconsistencies in your documents or web pages.
• September 2025 Student of the Month
  Freedom Scientific: Kenny uses JAWS on his school computer to navigate websites and complete school assignments.
• Book: This Is for Everyone
  Tim Berners-Lee: an essential read for understanding our times and a bold manifesto for advancing humanity’s future.
• ‘PowerPoint broke me’: The challenges for blind professionals
  The Japan Times: software accessibility standards remain limited under the ADA.
• Custom Carets and Users: When The Caret Is No Longer a Stick
  Adrian Roselli: (Yes, That’s a Poor Attempt at a Pun) First, let’s define caret.
• Digital Accessibility is a Journey, Not a Destination
  Dennis Deacon: It is an ongoing commitment, one that grows and changes as technology, people, and standards evolve.
• Testing Methods: Images of Text (No Exception)
  Dennis Deacon: Text must be displayed using real text, not images of text, so it can be resized, styled, and read by assistive technologies.
• Taking a shot at the double focus ring problem using modern CSS
  Eric Bailey: something you might run into when you are trying to make a large, complicated website or web app accessible at scale.
• Threats and opportunities for mature design systems
  Erin White: there are some recurring patterns I’ve observed as product teams work with our design system.
• Why Moving Away from SPAs improves Usability, Accessibility, and SEO
  Florian Thoma: A growing movement is embracing traditional server-rendered websites.
• On inclusive personas and inclusive user research
  Geoff Graham: a few notes on Eric Bailey’s grand post about the use of inclusive personas in user research.
• Add an Accessibility Nutrition Label
  Geri Reid: I’ve just completed an audit for one of these labels. Here’s what I learned.
• The politics of AI: we’ll need more sustainability, community and democracy
  Hidde de Vries: This week I attended a symposium called ”The Politics of AI: governance, resistance, alternatives”.
• The writer, the text and the audience
  Hidde de Vries: To understand art, we need to look at more than the artifact, the book, the album, the written text, the poem.
• A Quick Primer on Accessible Pagination
  Karl Groves: pagination is one of those UI patterns that can be surprisingly nuanced when it comes to accessibility.
• Why Now Is Not the Time to Think About WCAG 3
  Karl Groves: WCAG 3 is not ready for you to use as a compliance framework. Not even close.
• Accessible by Design
  Karl Groves: Improving Command Line Interfaces for All Users.
• How Blind People Navigate the World, On and Offline
  Laura Wissak: Online navigation works quite similarly to offline navigation, only the tools differ greatly.
• Support for disabled entrepreneurs severely limited
  Margaux Wosk: it’s the only form of employment that genuinely accommodates my needs.
• YNAB adds a Home screen to its iOS mobile app; but is it accessible?
  Rachele DiTullio: Whenever I see something new in an app I use frequently, I like to turn on the VoiceOver (VO) screen reader.
• CSS to speech: alternative text for CSS-generated content
  Sara Soueidan: when and how to use the slash content property syntax in CSS to provide alt text for CSS-generated content.
• forced-color-adjust: none is an unavoidable foot gun
  Sarah Higley: it is still possible to override the default styles and customize forced color styles for both good and evil.
• When an airline breaks your wheelchair you lose more than equipment
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: As many other wheelchair users and I have documented, chairs get damaged far too often.
• HTML/SR Lookup milker
  Steve Faulkner: a list of links to each of the HTML elements in the screen-reader-HTML-support tables.
• accessiBe partners with RightHear to bring accessibility beyond the screen
  accessiBe: accessiBe is partnering with RightHear, an orientation technology company, to help businesses combine digital and physical accessibility.
• How to Achieve ADA Compliance for Your Shopify Store
  A11y Collective: how to build real compliance through education & audits.
• Managing Content Visibility With aria-hidden
  A11y Collective: Discover when and how to use aria-hidden effectively in your HTML.
• aria-label or title? Screen Reader Behaviour Explained
  A11y Collective: Get clear guidance on implementation and accessibility standards.
• Podcast: Crystal Preston-Watson
  ASX Chat: from self-taught coder and journalism dropout to Senior Digital Accessibility Analyst at Salesforce’s Office of Accessibility.
• Podcast: Why Your Document Passed the Checker… but Still Fails Your Users
  Chax Chat: Join Chad and Dax as they dive into relatable stories, offer hands-on tips for remediation, and reveal the hidden flaws that checkers just can’t spot.
• Beyond compliance: Building design systems for inclusivity
  Deque: how organizations can shift focus from basic compliance to building inclusive design systems.
• The Unruh Act
  Deque: Understand the lawsuits and how state and federal regulations could combine to create blockbuster settlements.
• Vibe fixing
  Deque: How to validate AI-generated code and achieve accessibility at the speed of AI.
• Improving the DfE accessibility and inclusive design manual
  Gov.UK: In September 2024 we published the Department for Education (DfE) Accessibility and inclusive design manual.
• Video: Be a Digital Ally
  Knowbility: Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) What it is, Why you need it, and How it works.
• Introducing the Accessible Design Framework
  Level Access: accessibility needs to map to our mental model(s) of design, as well as fit seamlessly into our processes.
• Understanding WCAG for Mobile App Accessibility
  Level Access: why it’s a valuable framework for designing and building accessible apps.
• The 5th Motivation for Accessibility
  NirA11y: Brand and Marketing – The Binary Choice.
• Meet the team: Catriona Morrison
  Tetralogical: an Accessibility Specialist at TetraLogical, where she focuses on accessibility assessments and testing.
• An Introduction to the PDF/UA Standard
  Vision Australia: In this article we will look at what this standard is and how it is different to WCAG.
• Resource: Accessible Escape Room
  Now in kit form, teams of 3-10 people, with or without disabilities, try to solve puzzles while learning about accessibility.
• Samsung’s One UI 8.0 Update all but Bricks Phones for TalkBack Users
  Accessible Android: Note that Google TalkBack is not affected.
• macOS Tahoe
  AppleVis: New Features, Changes, Improvements, and Bugs for Blind, DeafBlind, and Low Vision Users.
• iOS 26 and iPadOS 26
  AppleVis: A Summary of VoiceOver and Braille Issues and Improvements.
• Amazon is focusing on accessibility for Kindle books
  GoodEReader: Amazon is prioritizing new accessibility features for vision disorders.
• What is NVDA? And why is it important?
  Vision Ireland: [JAWS] is expensive, increasingly so as a result of its new subscription model. The main alternative to JAWS is a screen reader called NVDA.
• Video: Thunderbird Accessibility Study
  Thunderbird: a closer look at accessibility in the Thunderbird desktop and mobile apps.
• Firefox Release Notes 143.0
  Firefox: Firefox now supports Windows UI Automation, which improves support for accessibility tools such as Windows Voice Access, Text Cursor Indicator and Narrator.
• Monday Tech Tip: Camera Positioning in JAWS
  Easterseals Crossroads: two features in JAWS to help position your face for video calls or meetings.
• Dateability Revolutionizes Accessible Online Dating
  BusinessWire: The only dating app for the disabled and chronically ill communities launches Version 2.0
• The Psychology Of Trust In AI
  Victor Yocco: A Guide To Measuring And Designing For User Confidence.
• Open Source the Revolution
  Leah Reich: In order for a human to speak computer, a human has to learn new languages, ones a computer can understand and process.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-september-22-2025/.

• Join Vispero at the 2025 M-Enabling Summit
  TPGi: “Digital Accessibility Innovation—A Deep Dive into Next-Generation User Experiences”, October 6 to 8 in Arlington, Virginia.
• Webinar: Agile and Accessible User Experiences with AT User Flow Testing
  TPGi: David Sloan, Chief Accessibility Officer, & Isabel Holdsworth, Senior Accessibility Engineer, on October 1, 2025 at 12pm ET.
• JAWS Inspect September 2025 Update
  TPGi: September release aligns JAWS Inspect with the latest JAWS screen reader update and updates to ARIA handling.
• Webinar: Unlocking the future of Multiline Braille
  Vispero: an exclusive webinar showcasing the future of braille access with Monarch and JAWS, Oct 22, 2025 12pm ET
• Employee Spotlight: Meagan Griffith’s Story
  Freedom Scientific: shining the spotlight on Meagan Griffith, Accessibility Engineer at TPGi, a Vispero company.
• FSCompanion
  Freedom Scientific: AI-Powered assistant for Learning JAWS and Microsoft Applications. Video / Try it out.
• Group Note: CSS Snapshot 2025
  W3C: The CSS Working Group has published CSS Snapshot 2025 as a Group Note.
• 2026 Call for Digital A11Y Professional Development Webinars
  IAAP: submit a proposal for a webinar(s) in our 2026 Professional Education Webinars – Digital Accessibility Series.
• Book: Inclusive Design for Accessibility
  With contributions from twelve accessibility leaders, this book is for digital designers, developers, UX professionals, product managers, and business leaders committed to inclusive design.
• Screen readers do not need saved by AI
  Craig Abbott: What needs fixing is the way we, as humans, use language and iconography online.
• Don’t Panic: A Former Employee’s Guide to Layoffs
  Crystal Preston-Watson: Although I can’t say it’s good news, you’re not alone.
• Baby Steps Accessibility – Page Titles
  Dennis Deacon: Let’s look at the frequently overlooked page title.
• Digital Accessibility: Start Now, Don’t Wait
  Dennis Deacon: Digital accessibility isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity, for millions of people.
• Testing Methods: Visual Presentation
  Dennis Deacon: ensure that users can control and adjust the visual presentation of text to improve readability and accessibility
• What to expect in WCAG 3.0
  Diana Khalipina: WCAG 3.0 is being designed to be more human-centered, more flexible.
• Why You Should Test Your Page Without JavaScript
  Ilknur Eren: there’s a less-discussed [ accessibility ] area you should consider: how your site behaves without JavaScript.
• Deep down, I love maintenance
  Joe Dolson: for accessibility, [ maintenance is ] figuring out when past decisions are no longer the right decisions.
• Reviewing the Logic and Value of the W3C’s Accessibility Maturity Model
  Karl Groves: Why does this Accessibility Maturity Model even exist, in the first place?
• WCAG 3.0 (W3C Working Draft 8 September 2025)
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: an overview of the changes in this Working Draft and the current (tentative) guideline items.
• The Impact of Invisible Stigma on User Interviews: Lessons for UX Researchers
  Laura Wissiak: Invisible stigma … deeply influences how people with disabilities engage in user research.
• A (not so Swift) rant…
  Lauren Sherrard: Taylor Swift’s new website … bypasses accessibility standards.
• Web Accessibility in Government: Common Misses and Practical Fixes
  Lindsey Markel: six common government website issues and practical fixes you can start today.
• My approach to manual web accessibility testing
  Luis Felipe Murillo Madera: I’ve found ways to make it approachable and effective.
• Avoid Adding Modals to Other Modals or Dropdowns
  Melanie Sumner: avoid mixing dropdowns, search boxes, and modals in a single interaction … combining them can create accessibility failures.
• WCAG 3 September 2025 Update
  Rachael Bradley Montgomery: The question everyone is likely asking is “When will WCAG 3 be complete?”
• Update project WP A11y Docs August 2025
  Rian Rietveld: the brainstorm session about the content; new contributors that joined in; the work planned for September 2025; how you can help.
• Video: Navigating the World of Web Accessibility
  Sara Soueidan: I finally sat down with Kevin Powell for a long-overdue, in-depth conversation about web accessibility.
• Inaugural AuDHD Day, September 9th
  Sharyn Morrow: AuDHD is a term used by people who are both autistic and have ADHD.
• Disability Inclusion Requires More Than a Lanyard
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Inclusive access is not about placing the burden on individuals with disabilities to make themselves visible.
• Which Languages Are Required for EAA Compliance?
  3Play Media: The EAA has introduced significant considerations regarding language support for accessible video content.
• Understanding Focus Indicators for Web Accessibility
  A11y Collective: Learn WCAG-compliant techniques for clear visual feedback and keyboard navigation.
• Meeting the Mandate
  Allyant: How Infinite Campus Turned the ADA Title II Deadline into a Software Development Strategy.
• New Alternative Print Production Facility
  Allyant Opens State-of-the-Art Alternative Print Production Facility, Doubling U.S. Production Footprint.
• Accessibility in a Zero-Click Web
  Access Armada: Preparing for an AI-Mediated Future.
• Podcast: Understanding Hypermobility and Neurodivergence
  ASX Chat: with Jane Green, founder/Chair of SEDSConnective.
• Turn Your Monitor to Grayscale
  BOIA: Basic Web Accessibility Tests.
• Minnesota Web Accessibility Laws: An Overview
  BOIA: How the Minnesota Human Rights Act and applies to digital accessibility.
• Publication of ISO Plain Language Standard Part 2, ISO 24495-2:2025
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: new publication presents a clear understanding of what plain language legal communication is.
• Making Content Accessible for People with Limited English Proficiency
  Equal Entry: This article is based on Irina Morozova‘s talk at A11yNYC.
• AI and Assistive Tech: Key Advancements in Accessibility
  Level Access: unpacks how AI is transforming the assistive technologies used by many people with disabilities.
• Five Ways State and Local Governments Can Scale Accessibility
  Level Access: It’s common for state and local government agencies to struggle with scaling their accessibility initiatives.
• Video: Make complex data accessible for users with disabilities
  Pope Tech: two design strategies for making your data more accessible.
• Championing inclusive language
  Tetralogical: Inclusive language fosters psychological safety.
• Video: Keyboard, keyboard, who’s got a keyboard…
  The Accessibility Show: #8 with Joe Dolson on how ubiquitous keyboard accessibility problems really are.
• Steps for Converting a Microsoft Word File to PDF to Include the Tag Structure
  Access Ingenuity: start sharing your documents with others without worrying about edits and formatting differences.
• Resource: Third-Party Digital Product Procurement Guide
  Allyant: Six Best Practices for Evaluating and Purchasing Accessible Technology.
• Resource: Responding to a Web Accessibility ADA Demand Letter or Lawsuit
  Allyant: Six Steps to Take.
• Resource: A Software Vendor’s Guide to VPATs
  Allyant: Streamline Procurement, Strengthen Sales, Secure Renewals.
• Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough
  Ars Technica: Neurodiverse employees may be benefiting far more from chatbots than their neurotypical colleagues.
• The power and poetry in accessible communication
  Blind New World: I’m Matthew Harris, a 65-year-old poet from Maryland who’s living with Usher syndrome.
• The engineer behind seamless experiences
  Digital Journal: Akash Singh on making accessibility the core of design.
• Understanding WCAG 1.2.1 Audio-only and Video-only (Prerecorded) for WordPress
  Equalize Digital: why it’s important, common mistakes in WordPress, and how you can meet this success criterion using WordPress tools.
• The Central Role of Accessibility Leaders in Publishing
  Inclusive Publishing: Accessibility has become a central focus in the book publishing industry.
• Splide
  A lightweight, flexible and accessible slider/carousel written in TypeScript. No dependencies, no Lighthouse errors.
• Disability Club: Inclusive Social Media
  Strives to be the most accessible social media platform catering to users of all capabilities.
• NVDA 2025.3 Released
  NV Access: now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version.
• What’s New in TalkBack Version 16.1
  Accessible Android: Gemini image descriptions changes, reduce delay settings, Braille input screen gestures customizable.
• What’s New in iOS 26 Accessibility for Blind and DeafBlind Users
  Excellent summary by Scott Davert, Coordinator of Technology, Research and Innovation at Helen Keller National Center.
• Robots to assess city accessibility in Irvine
  University of California: self-evaluation of public facilities uses robots to collect data on the accessibility of the city’s streets.
• While you’re fixing the fun stuff, fix the important stuff too
  Andy Bell: we’re inadvertently causing … potentially problems for people using assistive technology, such as a screen reader.
• How to stand out when anyone can build anything
  Anton Sten: It’s about fundamentally different skills that most people skip entirely.
• Just use HTML
  Chris Ferdinandi: hitting enter on an input won’t submit the form. This removes a native accessibility feature.
• On craft and compromise
  Chris Ferdinandi: If you ask me to “skip accessibility” for the sake of speed, I won’t.
• 7 Alternatives to Dark UX Patterns
  Dhananjay Mukerji: Ethical design is not just about honesty. It’s also about accessibility and equity.
• Confirmation dialogs: How to design dialogues without irritation
  Dmitry Sergushkin: A well-designed confirmation dialog must be accessible to all users, including those who rely on assistive technologies.
• Designing a new button to visually show and hide alt text
  James G: I made a button for visibly showing and hiding alt text on my website.
• 2025: 0 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML
  Jens Oliver Meiert: The point of this annual analysis is to check on full HTML conformance—absence of markup errors—on home pages.
• From Data To Decisions: UX Strategies For Real-Time Dashboards
  Karan Rawal: Reliability strongly connects with accessibility.
• How to fold socks
  Mike Monteiro: How do you think about your creative practice? What are the most important parts of it?
• I moved my Astro websites to Europe
  Steve Frenzel: it is possible to break away from all US digital products and use European solutions.
• Follow-the-leader pattern with CSS anchor positioning
  Una Kravets: creating a single “follower” (positioned) element and dynamically updating its anchor on an event or state change.
• Evaluating the User Experience of Zara’s Online Store
  Zarina Majidova: For a brand of this scale, users should expect a smoother and more accessible shopping experience.
• Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 billion
  The Verge: The European software company will take Vimeo private after the deal closes.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-september-15-2025/.