Author: Ricky Onsman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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/.