Author: Ricky Onsman

Translating Accessibility

Doug Abrams: what information should and should not be translated?

https://www.tpgi.com/translating-accessibility/

 

Are Your Self-Service Kiosk Devices and Websites EAA-Compliant?

Melissa Morse: Web Accessibility Testing Tools Aren’t Enough.

https://www.tpgi.com/are-your-self-service-kiosk-devices-and-websites-eaa-compliant/

 

Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 10

Mark Miller and David Sloan explore how AI is reshaping design and development workflows:  June 18, 2025, at 10:30 AM EST.

https://www.tpgi.com/the-state-of-accessibility-episode-10/

 

FS June 2025 Training Events

Elizabeth Whitaker: Six Essential Tips for Enhancing Your OneDrive Experience with JAWS, Insert J Club Live Training Q&A, FSOpenLine

https://blog.freedomscientific.com/join-us-for-our-june-2025-training-events/

 

Is the DOJ Web Accessibility Rule in Danger?

Ken Nakata: This post is about protecting something we all strive hard to achieve.

https://convergeaccessibility.com/2025/06/02/doj-web-accessibility-rule-in-danger/

 

Legal Update: May 2025

Ken Nakata: BloomsyBox v UserWay; Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act of 2025; Pennsylvania; Colorado; Bill tracker.

https://convergeaccessibility.com/2025/06/02/legal-update-may-2025/

 

New Attempt to Roll Back Accessibility Requirements – Comments Needed

Lainey Feingold: U.S. Department of Energy proposes drastic change to decades-old regulations

https://www.lflegal.com/2025/06/energy-department-rollback/

 

Japan Celebrates Digital Accessibility All Year Long

Lainey Feingold: Guest article by Makoto Ueki.

https://www.lflegal.com/2025/06/japan-gaad-makoto-ueki/

 

New law to ensure accessibility of services, devices for people with disabilities

Croatian Parliament: create a more inclusive society and enable greater independence for people with disabilities.

https://www.sabor.hr/en/press/news/new-law-ensure-accessibility-services-devices-people-disabilities

 

Understanding Italy’s Digital Accessibility Laws

Summarizes the key laws governing digital accessibility in Italy.

https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/italian-accessibility-requirements/

 

The EAA and B2B Tech: What Vendors Need to Know

Best practices for future-proofing your B2B products in the changing EU regulatory landscape.

https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/eaa-and-b2b-product-vendors/

 

ADA Demand Letters: What They Are and How to Respond

These letters mandate that the company take action to fix any accessibility barriers claimed.

https://accessibleweb.com/tips-tools-tutorials/ada-demand-letters-what-they-are-and-how-to-respond/

 

Guide to ADA Website Compliance Lawsuits

David Gevorkian: Failure to comply with web accessibility laws could lead to costly legal consequences.

https://beaccessible.com/post/ada-website-lawsuits/

 

EAA Complaint Rules: France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain

The most reliable complaint-handling information available for June 2025.

https://blog.usablenet.com/eaa-complaints-guide-france-germany-ireland-italy-spain

 

Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog

Adrian Roselli: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, including this one.

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/06/where-to-put-focus-when-opening-a-modal-dialog.html

 

ARIA/HTML relationship Severance

Steve Faulkner: On ARIA and HTML relationships referencing elements outside the shadow DOM, and vice versa.

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/06/07/aria-html-relationship-severence/

 

It’s not too late for European Accessibility Act activities

Bogdan Cerovac: Stay calm, but make sure you are preparing.

https://cerovac.com/a11y/2025/05/its-not-too-late-for-european-accessibility-act-activities/

 

The hero of my own story

Brian DeConnick: Last week, I ended three and a half years … as the accessibility specialist on the VA.gov Platform Governance team.

https://www.briandeconinck.com/the-hero-of-my-own-story/

 

More on What Makes a Good Accessibility Designer

David A. Kennedy: you’re diving into one of the most complex, challenging spaces for a designer.

https://davidakennedy.com/blog/more-on-what-makes-a-good-accessibility-designer/

 

Testing Methods: Live Audio-only

Dennis Deacon: make live audio-only content, such as web-based audio conferencing, live speeches, and radio webcasts, accessible through a text alternative.

https://www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessibility/testing-methods-live-audio-only/

 

So, you screwed up your EAA compliance. What now?

Eric Eggert: you just realized that your website or apps will not meet the requirements.

https://yatil.net/blog/so-you-screwed-up-your-eaa-compliance-what-now

 

The trash pile is on fire

Heather Buchel: Twitter, junior developers, developer advocates, remote work, NFTs/web3.

https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2025/06/on-fire/

 

Colour alone can be used to convey meaning, and I don’t like it!

Martin Underhill: the exception for if the contrast ratio of the colour is high enough.

https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/colour-alone-can-be-used-to-convey-meaning-and-i-dont-like-it

 

DailyHTML bot on Mastodon

Moritz Glantz: posts one random HTML element per day with a short explanation and a link to the spec.

https://moritzglantz.de/blog/posts/accessibility-link-tester/daily-html-mastodon-bot/

 

Quick Tip: WCAG doesn’t round

Nat Tarnoff: That’s it. That’s the tip. WCAG doesn’t round.

https://tarnoff.info/2025/06/05/quick-tip-wcag-doesnt-round/

 

A11y 101: 1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus

Nat Tarnoff: I’ll be honest, I often question if I’m evaluating this one right.

https://tarnoff.info/2025/06/02/a11y-101-1-4-13-content-on-hover-or-focus/

 

Designing Through Uncertainty

Elizabeth Alli: User experience design is, by nature, a practice of listening in the dark.

https://designerup.co/blog/designing-through-uncertainty/

 

What’s new in axe Developer Hub

Ben Allen: Updates for more flexibility, security, and control.

https://www.deque.com/blog/whats-new-in-axe-developer-hub-updates-for-more-flexibility-security-and-control/

 

Inclusive development practices in Next.js projects

Jeremy Rivera: demonstrate how tools like axe DevTools can help you validate real-world usability.

https://www.deque.com/blog/inclusive-development-practices-in-next-js-projects/

 

Championing Accessibility: Technical and Non-Technical Tips

Based on a talk given by Kai Wong and Asha Sachdeva at A11yNYC.

https://equalentry.com/championing-accessibility/

 

Build Native Apps for Everyone

A Roadmap to Mobile Accessibility.

https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/five-tips-to-create-accessible-native-mobile-apps/

 

Securing Budget for Your Institution’s Accessibility Program

Build a clear, confident case for dedicated accessibility funding.

https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/securing-budget-for-your-institutions-accessibility-program/

 

3 free tools to caption videos

Whitney Lewis: TurboScribe, Slack, oTranscribe (+ Premiere Pro).

https://blog.pope.tech/2025/06/03/3-free-tools-to-caption-videos/

 

Adapt or Design

A twelve-part project of 99% Invisible in three acts: articles and podcast about assistive design.

https://99percentinvisible.org/adapt/

 

Podcast: ShopTalk

Jen Simmons on Declarative Web Push, Form Control Styling, & More.

https://shoptalkshow.com/667/

 

Getting Creative With HTML Dialog

Andy Clarke: In the past, ialogues relied on a mix of divisions, ARIA, and JavaScript.

https://css-tricks.com/getting-creative-with-html-dialog/

 

HTML-native accordions

Chris Ferdinandi: create accessible, HTML-native accordions (sort of), without any JavaScript.

https://gomakethings.com/html-native-accordions/

 

Fewer Ideas: An Unconventional Approach To Creativity

Eric Olive: challenges the value of exercises like brainstorming and explores more effective methods for sparking creativity to improve design.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/fewer-ideas-unconventional-approach-creativity/

 

Video: CSS if() functions & reading-flow (in Chrome 137)

Una Kravets: illustrates with codepens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apn8ucs7AL0

 

CSS Only Contrast

Donnie D’Amato: many of us who work with CSS and accessibility have been looking for a solution that helps provide the right amount of contrast for a given color.

https://blog.damato.design/posts/css-only-contrast/

 

Make the Web a More a Colorful Place!

Miriam Suzanne: A guide to using new color spaces & formats with OddContrast

https://www.oddbird.net/2025/06/06/oddcontrast-guide/

 

How to Make Accessibility "Stick"

Sheri Byrne-Haber: Accessibility teams need to move from "no" to "yes, but".

https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/how-to-make-accessibility-stick/

 

Keyboard Navigation: Ensuring Usability Without a Mouse

Michael Beck: it’s about ensuring everyone can fully engage with your content and services.

https://afixt.com/keyboard-navigation-ensuring-usability-without-a-mouse/

 

Making Scannable Web Pages for Assistive Technology

Jared Cunha: Guidance for implementing workflows and best practices.

https://coforma.io/perspectives/making-scannable-web-pages-for-assistive-technology

 

How to Ensure Full Accessibility in Custom ARIA Buttons

Florian Schroiff: Unlock ARIA button techniques to ensure full accessibility.

https://www.a11y-collective.com/blog/aria-button/

 

Video: The Discomfort of Describing Persons in Alt Text

Elizabeth J. Pyatt: strategies for determining which qualities of a person should be described in image alt text.

https://mediaspace.umn.edu/media/t/1_544og2vi

 

Make your surveys easier to manage for users

Our project investigating the accessibility of digital surveys has now been finalised.

https://stiftelsenfunka.org/what-we-do/ongoing-projects/new-project-examines-accessibility-in-surveys/make-your-surveys-easier-to-manage-for-users/

 

Telling time with sound

Simon Miner: how I built an accessible audio clock in 15 hours using AI

https://pedalpoint.com/2025/05/telling-time-with-sound-how-i-built-an-accessible-audio-clock-in-15-hours-using-ai/

 

When Accessible Features Break

Kristen Witucki: A personal story of persistence, advocacy, and the power of allyship.

https://tammaninc.com/learn/when-accessible-features-break/

 

On the Lookout for Low-Vision Users

Lookout helps guide blind or low-vision users through everyday life.

https://www.eastersealstech.com/2025/06/05/on-the-lookout-for-low-vision-users/

 

Expressive Captions Convey Sound and Spirit on Android Phones

Captions now not only capture sounds — they capture the spirit of the moment.

https://www.eastersealstech.com/2025/06/04/expressive-captions-convey-sound-and-spirit-on-android-phones/

 

New Android App Amps Up Communication

Project Activate supports people with ALS, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis or muscular dystrophy.

https://www.eastersealstech.com/2025/06/03/new-android-app-amps-up-communication/

 

Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year

New features include Accessibility Nutrition Labels on the App Store, Magnifier for Mac, Braille Access, and Accessibility Reader; plus innovative updates to Live Listen, visionOS, Personal Voice.

https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2025/05/apple-unveils-powerful-accessibility-features-coming-later-this-year/

 

 

Book: Inclusive Design for Accessibility: A Practical Guide to Digital Accessibility, UX, and Inclusive Web & App Design

Dale Cruse & Denis Boudreau: pub August 2025 [ disclosue – Ricky Onsman is a technical editor ]

https://www.packtpub.com/en-us/product/inclusive-design-for-accessibility-9781835888230

 

Video: The NPS.gov Media Player: An Accessible Option for All Government

U.S. Access Board’s Section 508 webinar

https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/play/d1Z31KUOZG83J2ZcsldzEgpgh4p7ygCUkVPFWCIIONMz_txn6gpPEvKN6NvYt2FbZ-BOY3Zn_qxSTKr2.ZqLo4B8O1tVC77XD

 

Accessibility makes new cybersecurity requirements more robust

Funka has been tasked with helping ensure that the standards take accessibility into account.

https://stiftelsenfunka.org/what-we-do/ongoing-projects/accessibility-makes-new-cybersecurity-requirements-more-robust/

 

Testing Methods: Prerecorded Media Alternative

Dennis Deacon: providing an alternative for prerecorded synchronized media and for all prerecorded video-only media.

https://www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessibility/testing-methods-prerecorded-media-alternative/

 

Re: broken promises

Heather Buchel: AI tools are making less space for … the more creative and fulfilling parts of working in web accessibility.

https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2025/05/broken-promises/

 

Advertising? On my blog?

Heydon Pickering: I’m just trying to turn my own hard work, on my own, into a buck.

https://heydonworks.com/article/advertising-on-this-blog/

 

The col element

Heydon Pickering: So what is <col> for, then?

https://heydonworks.com/article/the-col-element/

 

Using Ray-Ban Meta Glasses

Léonie Watson: they’ve already become part of my daily routine, just like my phone and my watch.

https://tink.uk/using-ray-ban-meta-glasses/

 

Quick Tip: Context is Key

Nat Tarnoff: Testing with Auto Scanning Tools

https://tarnoff.info/2025/05/27/quick-tip-context-is-key/

 

Dialog is for modals, popover is for everything else

Mayank: So what’s the difference between them and which one should you use when?

https://mayank.co/notes/popover-vs-dialog/

 

Awareness

Jeremy Keith: An awareness of HTML is like a superpower when it comes to accessibility.

https://adactio.com/journal/21911

 

The landing zone

Jeremy Keith: Even before mobile devices showed up there was never a single fold.

https://adactio.com/journal/21923

 

What We Know (So Far) About CSS Reading Order

Daniel Schwarz: The reading-flow and reading-order proposed CSS properties are designed to specify … how accessibility tools deduce the order of elements.

https://css-tricks.com/what-we-know-so-far-about-css-reading-order/

 

Video: Deploying accessibility at scale: Strategy, tactics, and battle stories

Stewart Hay (Intopia MD), Mary Roemmélé (Workday Director of Accessibility) & Larene Le Gassick (Canva Team Engineering Lead – Accessibility)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqcxaUpGJb0

 

The Accessibility Advantage — Whiteboard Friday

Lyssa-Fêe Crump: Unlock the accessibility advantage and boost your SEO

https://moz.com/blog/the-accessibility-advantage-whiteboard-friday

 

What is a Conforming Alternate Version and when would we use it?

When inaccessible digital content may be unavoidable.

https://mn.gov/mnit/about-mnit/accessibility/news/?id=38-683740

 

Video: What’s new in web

Rachel Andrew: a roundup of everything that was mentioned at Google I/O 2025.

https://web.dev/blog/whats-new-in-web-io2025

 

Just fucking use HTML

Kyrylo Silin: You know what loads faster than your bloated, overengineered mess? Plain, unadulterated HTML.

https://justfuckingusehtml.com/

 

Update on CSS Anchor Positioning

W3C CSS WG Blog: We are particularly interested in comments and suggestions on improving the accessibility guidance.

https://www.w3.org/blog/CSS/2025/05/12/update-on-css-anchor-positioning/

 

Privacy on the web: creating a more trustworthy web

Seth Dobbs: one of the key areas that we call “horizontals”.

https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/privacy-on-the-web-creating-a-more-trustworthy-web/

 

Figma Sites: when accessibility is an afterthought

Kristina Gushcheva-Keippilä: prioritises superficial qualities of web experiences.

https://archive.md/Ku47F

 

Designing Calm: UX Principles for Reducing Users’ Anxiety

Yuri Shapochka: In an already stressful world, our digital products all too often amplify that stress.

https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2025/05/designing-calm-ux-principles-for-reducing-users-anxiety.php

 

HTML5 Elements You Didn’t Know You Need

Max Prilutskiy: dialog, details, summary, meter, output.

https://dev.to/maxprilutskiy/html5-elements-you-didnt-know-you-need-gan

 

the captcha paradox

We may be required to prove we are a bot—or at least represented by one.

https://talkingrobot.com/2025/05/the-captcha-paradox/

 

A modern, lightning-quick PoW captcha

Cap is a lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative.

https://capjs.js.org/

 

HellCaptcha: Accessibility Theater at Its Worst

hCaptcha’s "Accessibility" Mode Is a Fucking Cookie.

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/hellcaptcha-accessibility-theater-at-its-worst/

 

Alternative text in the wild: 5 alternative text examples

Whitney Lewis: why the example is right or could be better.

https://blog.pope.tech/2023/03/31/alternative-text-in-the-wild-5-alternative-text-examples/

 

UX and inclusive design: Help me understand!

Milen Donev: Embrace every unique perspective to build truly universal experiences.

https://uxplanet.org/ux-and-inclusive-design-help-me-understand-3eae8a1cf093

 

WordPress needs documentation about accessibility, help me work on it

Rian Rietveld: WordPress Accessibility Team doesn’t have enough time nor the resources to work on this.

https://rianrietveld.com/2025/05/19/wp-accessibility-docs/

 

An Open Letter to OpenAI and Jony Ive

Mike Calvo: Building an Accessible Future Together

https://pneumasolutions.com/an-open-letter-to-openai-and-jony-ive-building-an-accessible-future-together/

 

Video: An Insider’s Look at InDesign’s Accessibility Improvements

DAISY Consortium webinar on accessibility improvements to Adobe InDesign.

https://inclusivepublishing.org/blog/an-insiders-look-at-indesigns-accessibility-improvements-w/

 

How to Write Alt Text for Complex Images

Michael Beck: A Guide to Clarity and Accessibility

https://afixt.com/how-to-write-alt-text-for-complex-images-a-guide-to-clarity-and-accessibility/

 

Accessibility reads: Thursday, May 29

Matthew Luken: video + featured articles

https://www.deque.com/blog/accessibility-reads-thursday-may-29/

 

The 2025 AHRC accessibility guidelines

Abin Choudhury: What’s new, and why it matters.

https://www.deque.com/blog/the-2025-ahrc-accessibility-guidelines-whats-new-and-why-it-matters/

 

Moving Forward with Mobile Technology

Apple, Android, Bridging the Gap Between People and Technology

https://www.eastersealstech.com/2025/05/28/moving-forward-with-mobile-technology/

 

EAA FAQ

Scope, Penalties, and Compliance Steps for Businesses by June 2025

https://blog.usablenet.com/eaa-faq-scope-penalties-and-compliance-steps

 

Growing Up With Accessibility Gaps

Michael Taylor: A Screen Reader User Reflects

https://blog.usablenet.com/growing-up-with-accessibility-gaps-a-screen-reader-user-reflects

 

Up and Coming ARIA Up and Coming ARIA

John Northup: tools to keep on your radar as browser and screen reader support continues to evolve.

https://webaim.org/blog/up-and-coming-aria/

 

How Compassion Fatigue is Crushing Disability Allyship

Sheri Byrne-Haber: people become emotionally exhausted and detached after repeated exposure to distressing stories.

https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/how-compassion-fatigue-is-crushing-disability/

 

AI Audiobooks are not accessible

Robert Kingett: What makes me even more furious is that [ Audible is ] calling this an accessibility victory.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250527/

One of the things I do at TPGi is compile a weekly reading list for our Chief Accessibility Officer, culled from 434 RSS feeds and 42 email lists and newsletters. The focus is on focus on digital accessibility, web dev or design, general web tech,
and disability.

Weekly industry news update for CAO

 

Inside GAAD 2025: Lessons Learned and Strategies to Move Accessibility Forward

Melissa Morse:  key moments and resources from GAAD 2025.

https://www.tpgi.com/inside-gaad-2025-key-takeaways-lessons-learned/

 

Webinar: Managing Risk and Improving UX

David Sloan: How to Prioritize ADA Title II Digital Accessibility Efforts, June 11, 2025 at 12pm ET

https://www.tpgi.com/webinar-managing-risk-and-improving-ux-how-to-prioritize-ada-title-ii-digital-accessibility-efforts/

 

4 Tips to Make Food and Hospitality Kiosks Accessible for Everyone

Melissa Morse: physical access, screen readers, visual cues, usability testing.

https://www.tpgi.com/4-tips-to-make-food-and-hospitality-kiosks-accessible-for-everyone/

 

Cutting Edge Meets Agility: New JAWS Version Coming Soon for Multi-Line Braille Displays

Vispero, APH, and HumanWare announce enhanced experience for users of multi-line braille displays.  

https://www.aph.org/blog/cutting-edge-meets-agility-new-jaws-version-coming-soon-for-multi-line-braille-displays/

 

From Risk to Resilience: Bridging Legal Compliance and Technical Execution in Accessibility

James Thurston & Ken Nakata: highlight the stakes and propose strong and sustainable solutions when it comes to accessibility.

https://atos.net/en/blog/from-risk-to-resilience-bridging-legal-compliance-and-technical-execution-in-accessibility

 

Colorado OIT Amends Accessibility Rule

Ken Nakata: Colorado is the unquestionable leader in public sector web and digital accessibility.

https://convergeaccessibility.com/2025/05/21/news_colorado_oit_amends_oit_rule/

 

Washington State Mandates Open Captions in Theaters

The fifth U.S. jurisdiction to require open captions in movie theaters.

https://deaffriendlyconsulting.com/announcement/washington-open-caption-law-movie-theaters/

 

Canadian Digital Accessibility Laws Overview

Monika Prasad: highlight what they mean for digital products, and share useful links.

https://www.digitala11y.com/canadian-digital-accessibility-laws-overview/

 

New Privacy Principles for a more trustworthy web

Tara Whalen: Last week, W3C published its Statement on Privacy Principles.

https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/new-privacy-principles-for-a-more-trustworthy-web/

 

Zero Project Call for Nominations 2026

Focused on the topics of Accessibility, ICT, and Crisis Response.

https://zeroproject.org/research/zero-project-call-for-nominations-2026

 

Only one-third of organisations directly engage with disabled people in digital accessibility efforts

Sarah Sarsby: A new survey from Applause, which specialises in digital quality.

https://attoday.co.uk/only-one-third-of-organisations-directly-engage-with-disabled-people-in-digital-accessibility-efforts/

 

Accessibility Report 2025

Email Markup Consortium: Accessibility in HTML emails remains critically under-addressed in 2025.

https://emailmarkup.org/en/reports/accessibility/2025/

 

ASR Technology Showing Signs of Plateau

3Play Annual Study: human review remains essential for meeting accessibility standards.

Download the Free 2025 State of ASR Report: https://go.3playmedia.com/rs-2025-asr

https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/2025-asr-report-release/

 

Video: Ask the Professionals – CMS and Accessibility

Moderated by OZeWAI Committee Member Ricky Onsman (TPGi), with Amber Hinds (Equalize Digital), Mike Gifford (CivicActions), and Ricky Blacker (WPEngine).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TB54ksDnB8

 

My Request to Google on Accessibility

Adrian Roselli: if your team cannot explain how the thing satisfies all WCAG Success Criteria at Level AA, then don’t release the thing.

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html

 

Make Screen Readers talk with the ARIA Notify API

Alexander Lehner: let the screen reader announce a specific text. This is the idea behind the new ARIA Notify API.

https://www.oidaisdes.org/aria-notify-first-look.en/

 

Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) reflections just before European Accessibility Act (EAA)

Bogdan Cerovac: awareness alone is not enough.

https://cerovac.com/a11y/2025/05/global-accessibility-awareness-day-gaad-reflections-just-before-european-accessibility-act-eaa/

 

Testing Methods

Dennis Deacon: Prerecorded Extended Audio Description

https://www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessibility/testing-methods-prerecorded-extended-audio-description/

 

Third-Party Solutions & Accessibility – A Primer

Dennis Deacon: customer push back in including third-party solutions in scope for audits.

https://www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessibility/third-party-solutions-accessibility-a-primer/

 

The caption element

Heydon Pickering: The <caption> element has nothing to do with closed captions.

https://heydonworks.com/article/the-caption-element/

 

Running for the AB

Hidde de Vries: These are my answers to the Meet the candidates questions.

https://hidde.blog/ab-meet-candidates/

 

A Deep Dive into the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act of 2025

Karl Groves: The Problem This Act Solves.

https://karlgroves.com/a-deep-dive-into-the-websites-and-software-applications-accessibility-act-of-2025/

 

Are you sure that table isn’t a list?

Martin Underhill: The thing about a table is, it’s rigid; necessarily so.

https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/are-you-sure-that-table-isnt-a-list

 

A11y 101: 1.4.12 Text Spacing

Nat Tarnoff: Who needs this flexibility?

https://tarnoff.info/2025/05/19/a11y-101-1-4-12-text-spacing/

 

How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility

Stéphanie Walter: Making the Case for Accessibility: Empathy, ROI, and Real Change

https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/how-to-convince-people-to-care-and-invest-in-accessibility/

 

The creative power of constraints

Arun Venkatesan: Constraints are the primordial soup from which creativity arises.

https://arun.is/blog/creative-power-constraints/

 

Video: Inclusive Design Patterns: From Gen-Z To to Aging Audiences

Vitaly Friedman at Beyond Tellerand 21 May 2025.

https://beyondtellerrand.com/blog/btconf-dusseldorf-2025-video-vitaly-friedman

 

Video: There Is No Spoon

Léonie Watson at Beyond Tellerand 21 May 2025.

https://beyondtellerrand.com/blog/btconf-dusseldorf-2025-video-leonie-watson

 

Video: Painting With the Web

Matthias Ott at Beyond Tellerand 21 May 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pq7VqNrtk4

 

Podcast: Accessible design systems

UXPodcast: Karen Hawkins, accessible design practice lead at Level Access.

https://uxpodcast.com/339-accessible-design-systems-karen-hawkins/

 

You can style alt text like any other text

Andy Bell: one of those nice touches that will elevate your user interface.

https://piccalil.li/blog/you-can-style-alt-text-like-any-other-text/

 

A Reader’s Question on Nested Lists

Juan Diego Rodríguez: a nested list, where each sublist marker/counter is of a different kind.

https://css-tricks.com/a-readers-question-on-nested-lists/

 

Expanding/collapsing with Details

Andrew Downie: So far I have not found a screen reader that has any issues.

https://ozewai.org/blog/technical-articles/expanding-collapsing-with-details/

 

The problem(s) with image accessibility

Oded Sharon:  Consider the following code that should work, but contains flaws that harm the page’s
accessibility.

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/04/23/img-and-accessibility.html

 

The 4 Motivations for Accessibility – The Big WHY?

Nir Horesh: business, curb cut, legal, inclusion.

https://www.nira11y.com/post/the-4-motivations-for-accessibility-the-big-why

 

Color Contrast and Readability: The Cornerstones of Accessible Design

Michael Beck:  few topics are as fundamental—or as overlooked—as color contrast and readability.

https://afixt.com/color-contrast-and-readability-the-cornerstones-of-accessible-design/

 

Finding the Joy in Alt Text

Bryn Newell: we should begin to care a little more deeply about alt text.

https://bryn.codes/writing/the-joy-in-alt-text/

 

3 Tools to Help Fix the Web’s Most Common WCAG 2.2 Failures

Miranda Michalski: Lighthouse, axe, WAVE.

https://spin.atomicobject.com/fix-common-wcag-2-failures/

 

Building A Practical UX Strategy Framework

Paul Boag: create a playbook, including for accessibility.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/building-practical-ux-strategy-framework/

 

What Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance Can Teach Us About Web Design

Frederick O’Brien: Robert M. Pirsig’s musings on the arts, sciences, and Quality ring as true now as they
ever have.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/what-zen-art-motorcycle-maintenance-teach-web-design/

 

Video: Empathy in Automation

Sharon Steed in conversation with Aaron Gustafson on inclusive, human-centered automation.

https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/urn:li:ugcPost:7330624084201852928/

 

::pseudo-elements?

David Bushell: I don’t like pseudo-elements. At least not where they’re going.

https://dbushell.com/2025/05/23/pseudo-elements/

 

Podcast: The design of web design

Noel Minchow interviews Miriam Suzanne on CSS origins, the cascade, accessibility, and the balance between user control and brand expression.

https://podrocket.logrocket.com/design-of-web-design-miriam-suzanne

 

What people think about AI in the Accessibility Industry

What our respondents answered on this very on trend topic.

https://a2i.co.uk/blog/ai-and-accessibility/

 

AI is now used for audio description.

Kathryn Locke & Tama Leaver: But it should be accurate and actually useful for people with low vision.

https://theconversation.com/ai-is-now-used-for-audio-description-but-it-should-be-accurate-and-actually-useful-for-people-with-low-vision-256808

 

Podcast: Flipping the Script on Audio Description: Time to Think Outside the Vox

Thomas Reid:  talking about American Sign Language, Audio Description, live captioning and more.

https://reidmymind.com/flipping-the-script-on-audio-description-time-to-think-outside-the-vox/

 

Defining RACI Roles for Improving Digital Accessibility

Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed.

https://www.accessarmada.com/blog/defining-raci-roles-for-improving-digital-accessibility/

 

What is a Conforming Alternate Version and when would we use it?

When inaccessible digital content may be unavoidable and have cause for a secondary accessible version.

https://mn.gov/mnit/about-mnit/accessibility/news/?id=38-683740

 

Level Access’s Commitment to Employee-Centric Culture Validated by Two Awards for Chief People Officer Colleen Wood

The 2025 OnCon Icon Award and DCA Live HR Leaders of the Year Award.

https://www.levelaccess.com/news/level-access-chief-people-officer-colleen-wood-receives-two-awards/

 

Inclusive user research: building rapport

Ela Gorla: how can you build trust and mutual understanding with disabled participants?

https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/05/23/inclusive-user-research-building-rapport/

 

How Global Brands Are Preparing for EAA Compliance in 2025

How UsableNet Can Help.

https://blog.usablenet.com/how-global-brands-are-preparing-for-eaa-compliance

 

25 Years of Digital Accessibility with UsableNet

Jason Taylor: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t—and Why UsableNet Is Built for What’s Next.

https://blog.usablenet.com/25-years-of-digital-accessibility-with-usablenet

 

How to Talk to Clients About the European Accessibility Act

Chris Hinds: leaders and long-term thinkers who care about their customers’ success.

https://equalizedigital.com/how-to-talk-to-clients-about-the-european-accessibility-act/

 

Accessibility Testing on Windows on Mac

Tatyana Bayramova: A quick guide to Accessibility Testing using Windows-only tools on a modern Mac with Apple Silicon processor.

https://tatanotes.com/blog/accessibility-testing-on-windows-on-mac/

 

TikTok Rolls Out New Accessibility Updates

Alt text, screen reader support, text size, dark mode, auto-captions, photosensitivity support.

https://www.tiktok.com/accessibility/en

 

Exploring iOS 18’s New Accessibility Features for Speech

Live Speech, Personal Voice, Switch Control, Listen for Atypical Speech.

https://www.eastersealstech.com/2025/05/22/exploring-ios-18s-new-accessibility-features-for-speech/

 

Polypane 24.1

New Measure tool, XML viewer and Find by CSS selector.

https://polypane.app/blog/polypane-24-1-new-measure-tool-xml-viewer-and-find-by-css-selector/

 

Apple Unveiling New Accessibility Features

Shaun Heasley: App Store accessibility labelling, Braille support on Apple products.

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/05/20/apple-unveiling-new-accessibility-features/31461/

 

So you think you want an Accessibility Advisory Council?

Sheri Byrne-Haber: What to do, and more importantly, what to avoid

https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/so-you-think-you-want-an-accessibility-advisory/

 

Smith’s Hill principal’s story shows accessibility is everyone’s business

[ disclosure: my kids went to Smith’s Hill and I consider David a friend ]

https://regionillawarra.com.au/smiths-hill-principals-story-shows-accessibility-is-everyones-business/59587/

One of the things I do at TPGi is compile a weekly reading list for our Chief Accessibility Officer, culled from 434 RSS feeds and 42 email lists and newsletters. The focus is on focus on digital accessibility, web dev or design, general web tech,
and disability.

Weekly industry news update for CAO

 

Everything’s More Complicated in Groups: Required Groups

Alicia Evans:  how to communicate a required status for groups.

https://www.tpgi.com/everythings-more-complicated-in-groups-required-groups/

 

JAWS Inspect Update: May 2025

Melissa Morse: faster, leaner, and even more aligned with the latest assistive technology.

https://www.tpgi.com/jaws-inspect-update-may-2025/

 

Download the May 2025 Update of Fusion Suite 2025

Elizabeth Whitaker: The May update includes new features and enhancements that will benefit all users.

https://blog.freedomscientific.com/download-the-may-2025-update-of-fusion-suite-2025/

 

Webinar: Ten Tips for Managing Windows 11 with JAWS

Elizabeth Whitaker: Thursday, May 15 at noon ET

https://blog.freedomscientific.com/join-us-for-ten-tips-for-managing-windows-11-with-jaws/

 

Educational and Cultural Exchange on Digital Accessibility — Highlights from Hong Kong

Shawn Henry: international cooperation to advance digital accessibility around the world.

https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/educational-and-cultural-exchange-on-digital-accessibility-highlights-from-hong-kong/

 

Reintroduction of the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act

American Council of the Blind: The bill was introduced by Republican Congressman Pete Sessions from Texas.

https://www.acb.org/reintroduction-websites-and-software-applications-accessibility-act

 

The Accessibility Clock Is Ticking for State Governments

Nikki Davidson, Noelle Knell: State and local governments must prioritize upgrading their websites.

https://www.govtech.com/gov-experience/the-accessibility-clock-is-ticking-for-state-governments

 

2025 CSUNATC.TV

The hub for all livestream and digital content from the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7reFpQdLPN55Ky_N6GRTL16tAY38d2k

 

Market Drivers for Digital Inclusion

Based on current trends and projections for 2025

https://m-enabling.com/market-drivers/

 

100+ ARIA CodePens

Manuel Matuzović: useful resource

https://codepen.io/collection/rBNWPv

 

Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components

Jan Maarten:  it’s a common misconception that accessible components will result in accessible designs.

https://github.blog/engineering/user-experience/design-system-annotations-part-1-how-accessibility-gets-left-out-of-components/

 

Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components

Jan Maarten: How to make Preset annotations for your design system.

https://github.blog/engineering/user-experience/design-system-annotations-part-2-advanced-methods-of-annotating-components/

 

Tabindex, programmatic focus, and outline styles

Chris Ferdinandi: I sometimes need to programmatically focus on elements that would not normally be focusable.

https://gomakethings.com/tabindex-programmatic-focus-and-outline-styles/

 

Automated accessibility test tools find even less than expected

Robert Dodd: What do they catch? What do they not catch? (NB comments)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/automated-accessibility-test-tools-find-even-less-than-robert-dodd-pk7be/

 

Talkin’ Tables @ AccessU

Adrian Roselli: As of 18 May I have embedded a 3MB tagged PDF of the slides.

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/talkin-tables-accessu.html

 

Selfish Accessibility 2025 @ AccessU

Adrian Roselli: As of 18 May I have embedded a 2MB tagged PDF of the slides.

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/selfish-accessibility-2025-accessu.html

 

Figma sites, this isn’t empowerment. It’s miseducation

Chris Yoong: This week, Figma got it wrong.

https://chrisyoong.com/blog/figma-sites

 

Organizing a design system via folksonomy

Eric Bailey: Other ways of organizing things.

https://ericwbailey.website/published/organizing-a-design-system-via-folksonomy/

 

The European Accessibility Act and B2B Software: What Internal Platforms Must Comply With

Karl Groves: Understanding the legal landscape requires reviewing […] the specific national implementations across EU Member States.

https://karlgroves.com/the-european-accessibility-act-and-b2b-software-what-internal-platforms-must-comply-with/

 

A11y 101: How to test manually

Nat Tarnoff: Too often, I see companies touting their high accessibility scores.

https://tarnoff.info/2025/05/15/a11y-101-how-to-test-manually/

 

I’m wrong. This is good.

Nat Tarnoff: If you fail, own it and work it out. Feel free to fail.

https://tarnoff.info/2025/05/12/im-wrong-this-is-good/

 

We launched our first Shopify theme

Nic Chan: I will not shut up about the accessibility of Shopify themes.

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/we-launched-our-first-shopify-theme/

 

Need help navigating accessibility? Let’s talk in my Accessibility Office Hours

Scott Vinkle: Think of these as your quick, focused video call lifeline to unblock any accessibility roadblocks.

https://scottvinkle.com/blogs/work/need-help-navigating-accessibility-lets-talk-in-my-accessibility-office-hours

 

How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility

Stéphanie Walter: Making the Case for Accessibility: Empathy, ROI, and Real Change.

https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/how-to-convince-people-to-care-and-invest-in-accessibility/

 

How to (not) use aria-label, -labelledby and -describedby

Steve Frenzel: Thank you once again James Edwards from TPGi and Adrian Roselli.

https://stevefrenzel.dev/posts/how-to-not-use-aria-label-aria-labelledby-and-aria-describedby/

 

HTML Email Accessibility Report 2025

Geoff Graham: The top 10 issues haven’t changed order since last year.

https://css-tricks.com/html-email-accessibility-report-2025/

 

The Hidden Gold of Web Accessibility: Everything About ARIA Labels

Florian Schroiff: Dive into ARIA labels for web accessibility.

https://www.a11y-collective.com/blog/aria-labels/

 

Unlocking Accessibility: Frontend developers discuss semantic HTML and accessible code

Kelly Clarkson & Samantha Merrett: asking various professions or teams specific questions about digital accessibility.

https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/25/unlocking-accessibility-frontend-developers-discuss-semantic-html-and-accessible-code/

 

95% of Home Pages are Inaccessible

Allie Paschal: Here’s what UX designers can do about it.

https://archive.md/P0gi6

 

How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

Jen Simmons:  now you can, with contrast-color(). Here’s how it works.

https://webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast-color/

 

Integrating Localization Into Design Systems

Rebecca Hemstad & Mark Malek: integral to delivering inclusive and accessible experiences to global users.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/integrating-localization-into-design-systems/

 

The problem with good design

Adam Silver: how good design leads to more problems.

https://adamsilver.io/blog/the-problem-with-good-design/

 

The Height Enigma

Josh Comeau: it feels random until you learn about the underlying mechanisms that explain the behaviour.

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/height-enigma/

 

Fallback lang attributes

Medienbäcker Thomas Günther: automatic language detection for screen readers [is] often unreliable.

https://medienbaecker.com/articles/fallback-lang-attributes

 

Missing a Human Touch: Why Automated Testing and AI Don’t “Solve” Digital Accessibility… Yet.

Alexis Hubbard: automation and AI are extremely high tech, so they should be able to solve these issues with ease, right?

https://afb.org/blog/entry/missing-human-touch-1

 

How Often Should We Speak About HTML Conformance?

Jens Oliver Meiert: it’s rare for sites to ship with valid HTML.

https://meiert.com/blog/speaking-about-html-conformance/

 

Building an Accessibility Paper Trail Using Automatic Logging

Dara Brewington: a robust accessibility paper trail that protects your organization by proving your commitment to inclusivity.

https://accessibleweb.com/tips-tools-tutorials/building-an-accessibility-paper-trail-using-automatic-logging/

 

One-click fix: Get suggestions to make your code accessible in the IDE

Could a more accessible web finally be on the horizon?

https://www.deque.com/blog/one-click-fix-get-suggestions-to-make-your-code-accessible-in-the-ide/

 

Building accessible apps with Next.js and axe DevTools

Jeremy Rivera: Let’s talk about how to build apps that are both fast and accessible

https://www.deque.com/blog/building-accessible-apps-with-next-js-and-axe-devtools/

 

Section 504 digital accessibility deadlines: What every HHS-funded provider must know

Glenda Sims: a major update to Section 504 regulations. It was the first full rewrite in almost 50 years.

https://www.deque.com/blog/section-504-digital-accessibility-deadlines-what-every-hhs-funded-provider-must-know/

 

How human-centered design improves accessibility remediation

Sam Proulx: Many barriers could be avoided if companies included people with disabilities early in the UX research process.

https://makeitfable.com/article/how-human-centered-design-improves-accessibility-remediation/

 

25 Years of Progress: How Accessibility, and Mindsets, Have Evolved

This year marks UsableNet’s 25th anniversar.

https://blog.usablenet.com/25-years-of-progress

 

Designing for Everyone: Tools to Help You Nail Accessible Color Contrast

Ian Culver: Color choices aren’t just about branding—they’re about inclusion.

https://spin.atomicobject.com/accessible-color-contrast/

 

How To Create Accessible Content

Content Accessibility Checklist

https://digital.accessibility.princeton.edu/checklist

 

Easier for Everyone: A Look at Apple’s Upcoming Powerful New Accessibility Features (2025)

Venkat: Apple recently shared some exciting news about powerful new features designed to make their devices even more accessible later this year.

https://assistivetechnologyblog.com/2025/05/apple-new-accessibility-features-2025-explained.html

 

New AI and accessibility updates across Android, Chrome and more

Angana Ghosh: In honor of GAAD, we’re rolling out new accessibility updates across Android and Chrome.

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/android-gemini-ai-gaad-2025/

 

AI in Action: Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Jenny Lay-Flurrie: AI has been a game changer for accessibility.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/accessibility/ai-in-action-celebrating-global-accessibility-awareness-day/

 

Talkback 16 is rolling out

Joshua: google started rolling out talkback 16.

Android 16 features and changes
list: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/16/summary

https://www.applevis.com/forum/android/talkback-16-roling-out

 

Exciting new times for Be My Eyes for Windows / updates

Jessica: completely rebuilt from the ground up.

InnoSearch AI: https://www.applevis.com/forum/assistive-technology/be-my-eyes-provide-app-accessible-shopping-blind-low-vision-users

https://www.applevis.com/forum/windows/exciting-new-times-be-my-eyes-windows-updates

 

a Deep dive into VoiceOver settings for iOS and iPadOS

Levi Gobin: how each setting in VoiceOver’s settings on iOS and iPadOS affects the way VoiceOver behaves.

https://www.applevis.com/guides/deep-dive-voiceover-settings-ios-ipados

 

Reading flow ships in Chrome 137

Chris Coyier: Chrome is dropping reading-flow and reading-order.

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/reading-flow-ships-in-chrome-137/

 

‘Shifting left’ for better accessibility in Firefox

Kim Bryant: Shifting left means building accessibility in from the start.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/shifting-left-for-better-accessibility/

 

NVDA 2025.1beta5 available for testing

David Goldfield: For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer.

https://groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/9237

 

Bringing lasting change to society through accessible technology

Interview with Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Distinguished Engineer, Sony Corporation

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/technology/stories/entries/interview_de_yamamoto/

 

Reflecting on a Year of Progress in Accessibility and What’s Ahead

Heather Dowdy: making entertainment more accessible and celebrating the community of Netflix members.

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/reflecting-on-a-year-of-progress-in-accessibility-and-whats-ahead

 

Creating a more accessible web with Aria Notify

Evelynn Kaplan & Patrick Brosset: new API that’s designed to make web content changes more accessible to all MS Edge users.

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/05/05/creating-a-more-accessible-web-with-aria-notify/

 

One of the things I do at TPGi is compile a weekly reading list for our Chief Accessibility Officer, culled from 434 RSS feeds and 42 email lists and newsletters. The focus is on focus on digital accessibility, web dev or design, general web tech,
and disability.

CSUN Recap – Testing Mobile Apps: Tools, Techniques, and Best Practices – Part 2 (Android)

Laurie Pagano | Carolina Crespo | John Lilly: we developed an iOS app and an Android app to demo some accessibility issues.

https://www.tpgi.com/csun-recap-testing-mobile-apps-tools-techniques-and-best-practices-part-2-android/

 

The EAA Is Coming

Melissa Morse: 5 Steps to Prepare Your Self-Service Terminals.

https://www.tpgi.com/the-eaa-is-coming-5-steps-to-prepare-your-self-service-terminals/

 

What Is a Self-Service Kiosk Device?

Melissa Morse: one thing that’s often overlooked is whether these kiosks are accessible to everyone.

https://www.tpgi.com/what-is-a-self-service-kiosk-device/

 

Celebrating with The Perfect Toast

Ian Lloyd: I’ll summarise some of the problems with the toast messages.

https://www.tpgi.com/celebrating-with-the-perfect-toast/

 

The State of Accessibility – Episode 9

GAAD with Isabel Holdsworth: live on our LinkedIn on May 15, 2025, at 10:30 AM EST.

https://www.tpgi.com/the-state-of-accessibility-episode-9/

 

Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.2 to Mobile Applications (WCAG2Mobile)

W3C Group Draft Note 06 May 2025

https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2mobile-22/

 

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1

W3C Recommendation 06 May 2025.
Changes from Dec 2024: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#changelog

https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/REC-WCAG21-20250506/

 

Legal Update: April 2025

Ken Nakata: there is a lot of ground to cover.

https://convergeaccessibility.com/2025/05/05/legal-update-april-2025/

 

States drop constitutional challenge to Section 504 in Texas v. Kennedy

Glenda Sims: This removes asignificant legal threat to disability rights.

https://www.deque.com/blog/states-drop-constitutional-challenge-to-section-504-in-texas-v-kennedy/

 

The Impact of Accessibility Laws in Canada: A Critical Perspective

In this episode of A11y Insights, Thomas Logan and Ken Nakata welcome Nicolas Steenhout.

https://equalentry.com/accessibility-laws-impact-canada/

 

How to Achieve RGAA France Compliance for Web Accessibility

Your organization may face steepfines under French accessibility law.

https://blog.usablenet.com/how-to-achieve-rgaa-france-compliance

 

Accessibility Lawsuits Expand Beyond Websites

Recent lawsuits have expanded the definition of digital spaces.

https://www.accessibility.com/blog/accessibility-lawsuits-expand-beyond-websites

 

Oman Launches Digital Accessibility Guideline to Boost Inclusive e-Government Services

Aayushya Ranjan: promotes inclusive e-services for all citizens, supporting Vision 2040 and global best practices.

https://techafricanews.com/2025/04/18/oman-launches-digital-accessibility-guideline-to-boost-inclusive-e-government-services/

 

Do Not Publish Your Designs on the Web with Figma Sites…

Adrian Roselli: Unless you want to fail all the WCAGs, create litigation risk, etc.

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/do-not-publish-your-designs-on-the-web-with-figma-sites.html

 

The true path to garbage code: Figma Sites

Joe Dolson: Figma Sites are a clear path to creating an incredible mess of a site.

https://www.joedolson.com/2025/05/the-true-path-to-garbage-code-figma-sites/

 

Potential accessibility issues of floating animations on webpages and mobile apps

Bogdan Cerovac: The ones that kind of float or hover close to classical web content and react on different user interactions.

https://cerovac.com/a11y/2025/05/potential-accessibility-issues-of-floating-animations-on-webpages-and-mobile-apps/

 

AI doesn’t need to think. We do!

Craig Abbott: We’re still misunderstanding AI.

https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/ai-doesnt-need-to-think-we-do/

 

Creating a more accessible web with Aria Notify

Patrick Brosset: The web platform has been missing an imperative way to notify users of assistive technologies about important changes to a webpage.

https://patrickbrosset.com/articles/2025-05-05-creating-a-more-accessible-web-with-aria-notify/

 

Able Player: Receiving the Torch

Joe Dolson: I’m honored that Terrill has chosen to pass the project over to me.

https://www.joedolson.com/2025/05/able-player-receiving-the-torch/

 

Alternative format for slides

Stéphanie Krus: I’ve been trying to find a good way to provide an accessible alternative format for slides.

https://blog.chezleskrus.com/2025/05/08/alternative-format-for-slides/

 

We need universal basic income

Karl Groves: This is a follow-up to my prior post: “AI is the future of accessibility“.

https://karlgroves.com/we-need-universal-basic-income/

 

K.I.S.S. ARIA

Nat Tarnoff: No ARIA is better than bad ARIA.

https://tarnoff.info/2025/05/05/k-i-s-s-aria/

 

Are ‘CSS Carousels’ accessible?

Sara Soueidan: highly experimental and they are not yet ready for production.

https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-carousels-accessibility/

 

Could AI convert all the PDF forms on GOV.UK into web forms?

Tim Paul: This is useful because web forms are more accessible.

https://www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/could-ai-convert-all-the-pdf-forms-on-gov-uk-into-web-forms/

 

Building a more accessible GitHub CLI

Ryan Hecht & Andrew Feller: When it comes to accessibility, the terminal is fundamentally different from a web browser or a graphical user interface.

https://github.blog/engineering/user-experience/building-a-more-accessible-github-cli/

 

Disclosures and Accordions

Disclosures and accordions created using <details> and <summary> have built-in accessibility.

https://webaim.org/techniques/disclosures/

 

How Accessibility Audits Are Shaping the Future of User-Centered Design

Amit Aggarwal: impacting businesses, and fostering inclusivity across the digital world.

https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2025/04/how-accessibility-audits-are-shaping-the-future-of-user-centered-design.php

 

Test your skills: HTML accessibility

Assess whether you’ve understood our HTML: A good basis for accessibility article.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Core/Accessibility/Test_your_skills/HTML

 

How AI is Changing Motion Design (And What It Can’t Do Yet)

It’s making high-quality animation and motion design more accessible than ever.

https://www.sitepoint.com/ai-changing-motion-design/

 

Disability Personas from A Web for Everyone

Aaron Gustafson: Sarah Horton & Whitney Quesenbery’s quality book is online.

https://knowaboutaccessibility.org/category/resources/

 

AI Harms Disabled People

Grace Dow: AI-generated profiles impersonating people with Down syndrome and other disabilities are increasing on social media.

https://gracedowwrites.com/2025/05/08/ai-harms-disabled-people/

 

20 Years of Apple Voiceover

VoiceOver remains a cornerstone of Apple’s commitment to inclusive design.

https://doubletaponair.com/20-years-of-apple-voiceover/

 

Expertise and lived experience: Making online shopping accessible

Akash Kakkar: Being fully blind, I have firsthand experience with the challenges.

https://blindnewworld.org/expertise-and-lived-experience-making-online-shopping-accessible/

 

The Role of ICR in Making Handwritten Documents Accessible

Rahul Jain: Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) is a sophisticated form of Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

https://techfreedom.in/the-role-of-icr-in-making-handwritten-documents-accessible/

 

Password Managers for the Blind

Tim Dixon: There are lots of password managers available, but not all of them work well with screen readers.

https://www.timdixon.net/blog/2025/04/password-managers-for-the-blind/

 

The code element

Heydon Pickering: I mark up my text with markdown to output… markup.

https://heydonworks.com/article/the-code-element/

 

What does a typical week look like as an Accessibility Consultant?

Claire Webber: The world of digital accessibility is incredibly broad.

https://intopia.digital/articles/typical-week-as-an-accessibility-consultant/

 

GAAD 2025 Digital Accessibility Resources

Naomi Saines: We’ve released some useful resources and made some exciting announcements.

https://intopia.digital/articles/gaad-2025-digital-accessibility-resources/

 

Axe Assistant: Expert answers to any digital accessibility question, instantly

A generative AI chatbot built for digital accessibility.

https://www.deque.com/blog/axe-assistant-expert-answers-to-any-digital-accessibility-question/

 

Deque Axe Assistant – First impressions

Craig Abbott: It provides helpful general advice, but doesn’t stand out when nuance is needed.

https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/deque-axe-assistant-first-impressions/

 

Foundations: Keyboard accessibility

Demelza Feltham: Prioritising semantic HTML and offering keyboard-friendly alternatives.

https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/05/09/foundations-keyboard-accessibility/

 

EAA 2025: Top Questions Answered Ahead of the Deadline

In this blog, we answer the most common ones.

https://blog.usablenet.com/eaa-2025-deadline-top-questions-answered-ahead-of-compliance

 

Unlocking Accessibility

Kelly Clarkson & Samantha Merrett: Information Architects share their approach to digital accessibility and design with people with disabilities.

https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/09/unlocking-accessibility-information-architects-share-their-approach-to-digital-accessibility-and-design-with-people-with-disabilities/

 

Scoping Your Accessibility Audit the Accessible Web Way

Dara Brewington: how to approach your accessibility audit strategically.

https://accessibleweb.com/tips-tools-tutorials/scoping-your-accessibility-audit-cost-the-accessible-web-way/

 

Situational Disabilities and How Digital Accessibility Impacts Everyone

David Gevorkian:  people with situational disabilities are often overlooked in conversations and initiatives related to accessibility.

https://beaccessible.com/post/situational-disability/

 

Are Accessible Websites “More Expensive" to Develop?

Mary: Can you afford to make your website accessible, too?

https://www.boia.org/blog/are-accessible-websites-more-expensive-to-develop

 

Multiple H1 Tags Are Bad for Accessibility (And SEO)

Chris: if you use them incorrectly, the user experience will suffer.

https://www.boia.org/blog/multiple-h1-tags-are-bad-for-accessibility-and-seo

 

Zoom Testing for Web Accessibility: A Quick Guide

Vince: One of the easiest ways to test content is to simply “zoom in.”

https://www.boia.org/blog/zoom-testing-for-web-accessibility-a-quick-guide

 

4 WordPress Habits That Harm Accessibility (And How to Fix Them)

Anita: Misusing headers, trusting themes for color, poorly marked up lists, using default image alt text.

https://www.boia.org/blog/4-wordpress-habits-that-harm-accessibility-and-how-to-fix-them

 

Accessible Forms: Tips and Techniques

Michael Beck: ensuring that yourforms are accessible is essential.

https://afixt.com/accessible-forms-tips-and-techniques/

 

PDFs, non-HTML documents, and accessibility

Whitney Lewis (updated): PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoints, and Excel spreadsheets are non-HTML documents.

https://blog.pope.tech/2022/05/03/pdfs-non-html-documents-and-accessibility/

 

Don’t Fall for the WordPress ADA Compliance Plugin Myth

Paola Gonzalez: There is no plugin that can make your WordPress website ADA compliant.

https://equalizedigital.com/dont-fall-for-the-wordpress-ada-compliance-plugin-myth/

 

When design excludes

Ashmira Hamirani, Padmini Ray Murray: Why accessibility must be taught in India’s tech and design classrooms

https://www.thenewsminute.com/news/when-design-excludes-why-accessibility-must-be-taught-in-tech-and-design-classrooms

 

Podcast: Ultimate Guide to Creating a Transcript for Audio and Video Content

Colleen Gratzer: Find out how to create a transcript and 7 reasons you should.

https://creative-boost.com/ultimate-guide-to-creating-a-transcript/

 

The Legal Risks of Using an Overlay

The cost of not investing in real accessibility solutions.

https://tammaninc.com/learn/the-legal-risks-of-using-an-overlay/

One of the things I do at TPGi is compile a weekly reading list for our Chief Accessibility Officer, culled from 434 RSS feeds and 42 email lists and newsletters. The focus is on focus on digital accessibility, web dev or design, general web tech,
and disability.

Understand the JAWS Screen Reader Experience — Without the Guesswork

Melissa Morse: Manual testing with screen readers like JAWS can be slow for beginners and difficult to scale.

https://www.tpgi.com/understand-the-jaws-screen-reader-experience-without-the-guesswork/

 

Reflections on the IAAP EU Accessibility 2025 Hybrid Event

David Swallow: brought together accessibility professionals, industry representatives, and public sector stakeholders from across Europe.

https://www.tpgi.com/reflections-on-the-iaap-eu-accessibility-2025-hybrid-event/

 

Webinar: The Intrapreneur’s Guide to Leading Accessibility Change in Complex Organizations

Mark Miller & Amanda Roper: May 15, 2025 at 12pm ET (GAAD)

https://www.tpgi.com/webinar-the-intrapreneurs-guide-to-leading-accessibility-change-in-complex-organizations/

 

Event handling in JAWS and NVDA

James Edwards: When you’re scripting for a screen reader, then you’re scripting for the browser, with exactly the same level of JavaScript support.

https://www.tpgi.com/event-handling-in-jaws-and-nvda/

 

Webinar: Marking a Milestone: Celebrating 30 Years of JAWS on Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Matt Ater & Jennison Asuncion: May 14, 2025 at 4pm ET (GAAD)

https://www.tpgi.com/webinar-marking-a-milestone-celebrating-30-years-of-jaws-on-global-accessibility-awareness-day/

 

E-Commerce Accessibility: How to Optimize Online Stores for All Users

Melissa Morse: Let’s explore practical, high-impact strategies to optimize your online store.

https://www.tpgi.com/e-commerce-accessibility-how-to-optimize-online-stores-for-all-users/

 

Nominations and Statements for W3C Advisory Board 2025 Election

Includes Hidde de Vries, Jaunita (George) Flessas, Mike Jackson, and Avneesh Singh.

https://www.w3.org/2025/04/ab-nominations

 

WCAG 3.0’s Proposed Scoring Model: A Shift In Accessibility Evaluation

Mikhail Prosmitskiy: Could this be the start of a new era in accessibility?

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/wcag-3-proposed-scoring-model-shift-accessibility-evaluation/

 

Announcing the Digital Accessibility Framework

Michael Cooper:  The project is designed to forecast new accessibility requirements in emerging technologies.

https://aihal-accessibility.com/articles/announcing-digital-accessibility-framework

 

Advancing accessibility standards

Rachael Bradley Montgomery: We are excited to share the Digital Accessibility Framework (DAF)

https://accessiblecommunity.org/blog/advancing-a11y-standards/

 

Canonical Plugin Proposal for Accessibility Prompts Concern from Contributors and Experts

Rae Morey: Experts say Matt Mullenweg’s proposal risks sidelining accessibility and undermining WordPress’s core values.

https://www.therepository.email/canonical-plugin-proposal-for-accessibility-prompts-concerns-from-contributors-and-experts

 

The cite element

Heydon Pickering: the title of the work, and only the title of the work, that should form the citation.

https://heydonworks.com/article/the-cite-element/

 

The canvas element

Heydon Pickering: The <canvas> element, like <audio>, is a kind of replaced element.

https://heydonworks.com/article/the-canvas-element/

 

Webcast: The Accessibility Show, with Joe Dolson

Episode 5: Can A.I. create an accessible site?

https://wpbuilds.com/accessibility/5/

 

Focus priming

Martin Underhill: What’s it called when you click somewhere on a webpage?

https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/focus-priming

 

A11y 101: 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast

Nat Tarnoff: the way we test contrast for graphics is different than how we test contrast for text, kind of…

https://tarnoff.info/2025/04/28/a11y-101-1-4-11-non-text-contrast/

 

Tag, You’re It

Sara Soueidan: the chain

https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/tag-youre-it/

 

4 ways I use AI as an accessibility specialist

Scott Vinkle: a glimpse into how I leverage AI as an accessibility specialist at Shopify.

https://scottvinkle.me/blogs/work/4-ways-i-use-ai-as-an-accessibility-specialist

 

Contrast Report

Features like AA and AAA, regular large text and UI elements, an option to “fix”,

https://contrast.report/

 

Menu and navigation: The difference

Steve Frenzel: Updated from April 29, 2025: Thanks to James Edwards from TPGi.

https://stevefrenzel.dev/posts/menu-and-navigation-the-difference/

 

Anchor Positioning Just Don’t Care About Source Order

Geoff Graham: just one of the things that makes anchor positioning something I’m so excited about.

https://css-tricks.com/anchor-positioning-just-dont-care-about-source-order/

 

Video: Organizational Scaffolding for Accessible Design and Content

Rob Carr: Organizations need scalability and consistency in their accessibility work, aligning people, policies, and processes to integrate it across roles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M2cMLDU4u4

 

Creating an Accessible Accordion with HTML Description Lists

Karl Groves: [ might be some issues with this ]

https://afixt.com/creating-an-accessible-accordion-with-html-description-lists/

 

Catching up on accessibility with AI chat

Mike Gower: Fascinating design challenges are emerging in AI chat interactions.

https://archive.md/JNvtM#selection-479.0-479.67

 

Designing for Everyone: Tools to Help You Nail Accessible Color Contrast

Ian Culver:  If your color palette doesn’t meet accessible contrast standards, you’re creating barriers.

https://spin.atomicobject.com/accessible-color-contrast/

 

Progressive Dehancement

David Bushell: what if I purposefully downgraded the experience?

https://dbushell.com/2025/05/02/progressive-dehancement/

 

Accessibility no-brainers

Medienbäcker Thomas Günther: I’ve collected some habits that require little to no effort but have a huge impact on accessibility.

https://medienbaecker.com/articles/accessibility-no-brainers

 

What is Accessibility Sludge and How to Get Rid of It

Sheri Byrne-Haber: Accessibility sludge shows up as delays, roadblocks, and inefficiencies that don’t need to exist.

https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/what-is-accessibility-sludge-and-how-to-get-rid/

 

Abandoning the accessibility consultant career path

Lea Rosema: it’s not my career path anymore to become an accessibility specialist.

https://lea.codes/posts/2025-04-25-abandoning-the-accessibility-consultant-path/

 

How accessible are today’s digital public services?

Emma Atkins:   why are so many disabled people and those with neurodiverse conditions still encountering barriers?

https://www.capgemini.com/insights/expert-perspectives/how-accessible-are-todays-digital-public-services/

 

The True Cost of Inaccessibility and Why Metrics Matter More Than Ever

Jaunita Flessas & Michael Bervell: these metrics and models can guide your next steps.

https://testparty.ai/blog/the-true-cost-of-inaccessibility-and-why-metrics-matter-more-than-ever

 

To hover or not to hover?

Understanding WCAG requirements for UI component states

https://mn.gov/mnit/media/blog/?id=38-680276

 

Remediate or Rebuild: How to Make Your Current Website Accessible

Amber Hinds: Take our ‘Remediate or Rebuild’ Quiz

https://equalizedigital.com/remediate-or-rebuild-website-accessible/

 

I Broke the Disabled Button

Homer Gaines, CPACC: to me, “dimmed” didn’t tell me the button was disabled.

https://rightbadcode.com/i-broke-the-disabled-button

 

Video: Whimsica11y: bringing the joy and whimsy to *everyone*

Sara Joy: State of the Browser 2025 talk

https://2025.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/sara-joy/

 

Caption Formats: Acronyms Explained

Rebecca Klein: If you aren’t sure what SRT, WebVTT, or SMPTE-TT mean.

https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/caption-format-acronyms-explained/

 

Dial in on Accessibility Regulations with the New Compliance Center

With the Compliance Center, you can now track and align with accessibility regulations within Accessible Web RAMP.

https://accessibleweb.com/disability-law/accessibility-regulations-compliance-center/

 

Widgets promise accessibility in the UAE, but they’re falling short.

Abin Choudhury: Discover a better approach.

https://www.deque.com/blog/widgets-promise-accessibility-in-the-uae-but-theyre-falling-short-discover-a-better-approach/

 

How keyboard testing improves digital accessibility

Michael Harshbarger:  It’s not only the right thing to do; it’s better for your business.

https://www.deque.com/blog/how-keyboard-testing-improves-digital-accessibility/

 

Exploring iOS 18’s New Accessibility Features for Mobility

Key features aimed at making Apple devices easier to use for users with limited mobility.

https://www.eastersealstech.com/2025/04/30/exploring-ios-18s-new-accessibility-features-for-mobility/

 

Tools of the Trade: Accessibility Without the Cost

This article is based on Jeremy Rivera’s talk at A11yNYC .

https://equalentry.com/accessibility-tools-without-cost/

 

6 ways mobile usability fails people with disabilities

Sam Proulx: There’s a perception-reality mismatch when it comes to how mobile app accessibility standards impact digital usability for people with disabilities.

https://makeitfable.com/article/mobile-usability-reality-check-for-inclusive-ux/

 

Understanding the Accessibility Usability Score (AUS)

AUS offers a consistent way to measure and compare accessibility over time.

https://makeitfable.com/article/understanding-the-aus/

 

Spanish Digital Accessibility Laws: What Organizations Need to Know

Summarizes the key digital accessibility regulations in Spain.

https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/spanish-accessibility-requirements/

 

Level Access Welcomes Andrew Snyder as Chief Customer Experience Officer

New executive will helporganizations advance accessibility in a complex and evolving digital
landscape.

https://www.levelaccess.com/news/level-access-welcomes-andrew-snyder-as-chief-customer-experience-officer/

 

From Nomensa to GAIN

Charlie Chang: Announce the launch of GAIN, a dynamic new creative-led, insight-driven company that blends data, tech and creativity.

https://www.nomensa.com/blog/from-nomensa-to-gain/

 

Video: Remediate a PDF for accessibility using Adobe’s Accessibility Checker

Whitney Lewis: a great way to review and fix PDF accessibility issues.

https://blog.pope.tech/2025/04/30/remediate-a-pdf-for-accessibility-using-adobes-accessibility-checker/

One of the things I do at TPGi is compile a weekly reading list for our Chief Accessibility Officer, culled from 434 RSS feeds and 42 email lists and newsletters. The focus is on focus on digital accessibility, web dev or design, general web tech,
and disability.

CSUN Recap – Testing Mobile Apps: Tools, Techniques, and Best Practices – Part 1 (iOS)

Laurie Pagano, John Lilly & Carolina Crespo: This article is based on a talk delivered at CSUN 2025.

https://www.tpgi.com/csun-recap-testing-mobile-apps-tools-techniques-and-best-practices-part-1-ios/

 

Join TPGi and Vispero at the 2025 National Restaurant Association (NRA) Show

Anthony Priore: from May 17 to 20 in Chicago, IL.

https://www.tpgi.com/join-tpgi-and-vispero-at-the-2025-national-restaurant-association-nra-show/

 

How to meet SC 2.5.3 Label in Name

Akash Shukla: For any user interface component that has a visible label — with text or an image of text — the accessible name must contain the visible label text.

https://www.tpgi.com/how-to-meet-sc-2-5-3-label-in-name/

 

FTC Approves Final Order Requiring accessiBe to pay $1 Million

Despite the company’s claims, accessWidget did not make all user websites WCAG-compliant and these claims were false, misleading, or unsubstantiated.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/04/ftc-approves-final-order-requiring-accessibe-pay-1-million

 

A million-dollar blunder: How the FTC’s settlement with software provider accessiBe can help your business avoid similar missteps

If your product doesn’t live up to the hype, you’ll have to deal with the consequences—which could include a potential FTC lawsuit.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2025/04/million-dollar-blunder-how-ftcs-settlement-software-provider-accessibe-can-help-your-business-avoid

 

EDF and the Global Disability Summit 2025

That’s a wrap (for now)!

https://www.edf-feph.org/edf-and-the-global-disability-summit-2025-thats-a-wrap-for-now/

 

Coming together as we fall apart

Peter Torres Fremlin: Was the Global Disability Summit a Goodbye?

https://www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/gds2025/

 

Since WCAG, Have We Forgotten People?

Charlii Parker: Reframing Accessibility Beyond Standards and Synthetic Personas

https://medium.com/@charliiparker/since-wcag-have-we-forgotten-people-4c21cad0057a

 

Shopping apps are, unsurprisingly, very inaccessible as well

Bogdan Cerovac: shopping websites have worst accessibility, and it seems that shopping native mobile applications also share this.

https://cerovac.com/a11y/2025/04/shopping-apps-are-unsurprisingly-very-inaccessible-as-well/

 

Tag, you’re it

Eric Eggert: the chain continues.

https://yatil.net/blog/tag-you-re-it

 

A11y 101: 1.4.10 Reflow

Nat Tarnoff: the core of what reflow is about has little to do with screen size.

https://tarnoff.info/2025/04/21/a11y-101-1-4-10-reflow/

 

Beyond Compliance: Unlocking Business Growth Through Accessibility

Scott Vinkle: accessibility isn’t just a moral imperative—it’s a smart business strategy.

https://scottvinkle.me/blogs/work/beyond-compliance-unlocking-business-growth-through-accessibility

 

Video: Navigating the 2026 ADA Guidelines

5 speakers

https://internet2.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e9791e0a-2d74-4aed-8005-b2c1015b0b20

 

Testing Methods – Pre-recorded Captions

Dennis Deacon: Automated caption testing has notable limitations in evaluating quality.

https://www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessibility/testing-methods-pre-recorded-captions/

WCAG in Plain English

Making accessibility standards easy to understand, one success criterion at a time.

https://aaardvarkaccessibility.com/wcag-plain-english/

 

Podcast: 5 Tips for Creating Accessible PDFs Efficiently

Colleen Gratzer: If you’re new to creating accessible PDFs you may face certain challenges.

https://creative-boost.com/5-tips-for-creating-accessible-pdfs-efficiently/

 

Sign Language & Code: Deaf-in-Tech Nigeria’s Approach to Inclusive Tech Training

Venkat: Imagine a classroom where the fluid movements of sign language unlock the complex logic of code.

https://assistivetechnologyblog.com/2025/04/deaf-in-tech-nigeria-sign-language-coding.html

 

Unlocking Accessibility: Frontend developers discuss semantic HTML and accessible code

Kelly Clarkson & Samantha Merrett: focuses on asking various professions or teams specific questions about digital accessibility.

https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/25/unlocking-accessibility-frontend-developers-discuss-semantic-html-and-accessible-code/

 

Who Should You Assign as Your Web Accessibility Advocate?

Dara Brewington: You must acknowledge and resolve all customer accessibility requests.

https://accessibleweb.com/tips-tools-tutorials/who-should-you-assign-as-your-web-accessibility-advocate/

 

Korean telcos roll out AI tools to support disability inclusion

South Korea’s major telecommunications companies are accelerating efforts to make their services more accessible.

https://www.communicationstoday.co.in/korean-telcos-roll-out-ai-tools-to-support-disability-inclusion/

 

Accessibility reads: Thursday, April 24

Matthew Luken: now monthly – video and plus article links.

https://www.deque.com/blog/accessibility-reads-thursday-april-24/

 

Tracking WCAG Adoption by Country

Monika Prasad: Did you know that not all accessibility laws reference the same version of WCAG?

https://www.digitala11y.com/tracking-wcag-adoption-by-country/

 

The History of Digital Accessibility: A Timeline of Progress

Monika Prasad: Digital accessibility has evolved over the past several decades.

https://www.digitala11y.com/the-history-of-digital-accessibility-a-timeline-of-progress/

 

Autism Acceptance Through Assistive Technology

This year marks the Autism Society of America’s 60th anniversary of supporting people with autism.

https://www.eastersealstech.com/2025/04/23/autism-acceptance-through-assistive-technology/

 

The European Accessibility Act is making usability (and profitability) a priority

Kate Kalcevich: The European Accessibility Act (EAA) isn’t just another piece of accessibility legislation—it’s a crossroads.

https://makeitfable.com/article/can-eaa-boost-ux-and-profit/

 

Video: Be a Digital Ally: Accessibility Snapshots

Sharron Rush: This month, we’re really pleased to be doing these accessibility snapshots.

https://knowbility.org/blog/2025/be-a-digital-ally-accessibility-snapshots

 

Accessible Links: Best Practices for Hyperlink Accessibility

Links provide a roadmap for users, guiding them from one digital destination to the next.

https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/enhancing-accessibility-link-text-best-practices/

 

The Business Case for Digital Accessibility in Higher Education

This will equip you with key talking points you can use to start meaningful conversations.

https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/accessibility-business-case-education/

 

Usability vs. Accessibility: Two Pillars of Effective Product Design

We’ll unpack the difference between usability and accessibility and how they relate to each other.

https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/usability-vs-accessibility/

 

Dangerous Accessibility Assumptions That Put Everyone at Risk

Sheri Byrne-Haber: Accessibility isn’t an extra feature or a nice-to-have add-on.

https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/dangerous-accessibility-assumptions-that-put/

 

Video: What’s New in Google Accessibility | Episode 8

New features and improvements rolling out across your favorite Google products

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AjnMVAn4E4

One of the things I do at TPGi is compile a weekly reading list for our Chief Accessibility Officer, culled from 434 RSS feeds and 42 email lists and newsletters. The focus is on focus on digital accessibility, web dev or design, general web tech,
and disability.

Join Us for Six Ways to Manage Mail in the New Outlook with JAWS

Elizabeth Whitaker: Thursday, April 17 at noon ET for a live webinar

https://blog.freedomscientific.com/join-us-for-six-ways-to-manage-mail-in-the-new-outlook-with-jaws/

 

Enhancements in JAWS 2025.2504.89 (April 2025)

Recent updates to Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge impacted the ability to select and copy text on web pages using JAWS. This update restores this functionality.

https://support.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/JAWS/JAWSWhatsNew#latest

 

Nominations Open – International Excellence Awards for Accessible Publishing 2025

This global award recognizes a publisher and a project initiative that have demonstrated exceptional leadership and achievements in advancing the accessibility of commercial e-books .

https://www.accessiblebooksconsortium.org/w/news/2025/accessible-books-consortium-international-excellence-award-call-for-nominations

 

CSUN 2025: A DeafBlind Take on Progress, Priorities, and the Road Ahead

Scott Davert: shares his firsthand experiences with cutting-edge assistive technology devices demonstrated at CSUN 2025.

https://www.helenkeller.org/csun-2025-a-deafblind-take-on-progress-priorities-and-the-road-ahead/

 

Leading Autism Organizations Release Joint Statement on Upholding Scientific Integrity and Supporting the Autism Community

Partners across the disability and public health sectors stand united in our call for science-based decision-making.

https://autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/leading-autism-organizations-release-joint-statement-on-upholding-scientific-integrity-and-supporting-the-autism-community/

 

Tariffs and People with Disabilities

Sheri Byrne-Haber:  tariffs on imported pharmaceutical products is a direct hit to people with disabilities.

https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/tariffs-and-people-with-disabilities/

 

Announcing development of Trust Meter Technical Specification

Inclusive Design Research Center: TMTS outlines the requirements for notifying AI systems operators when the scenario, group or individual about whom the AI-based decision is made (beginning with people with disabilities), is unreliable to make these decisions.

https://idrc.ocadu.ca/about/news/announcing-development-of-trust-meter-technical-specification/

 

Do politics belong at web events?

Remy Sharp: Nothing is free of politics in this era as it does indeed impact nearly everything we do.

https://remysharp.com/2025/04/07/do-politics-belong-at-web-events

 

Beware of Vibe Accessibility

Bogdan Cerovac: our use of GenAI drastically reinforces it’s own biases.

https://cerovac.com/a11y/2025/04/beware-of-vibe-accessibility/

 

A11y 101: 1.4.5 Images of Text

Nat Tarnoff: The problem of images of text is that screen readers can’t see the text.

https://tarnoff.info/2025/04/14/a11y-101-1-4-5-images-of-text/

 

What It Means to Shift Left on Accessibility and How to Do It Right

Matt Robison: building inclusivity into every phase of a project—from strategy to QA—saving time, reducing risk, and creating better user experiences.

https://www.lullabot.com/articles/what-it-means-shift-left-accessibility-and-how-do-it-right

 

Out of order

Donnie D’Amato: Trying to manipulate the order of things using CSS often has hidden problems.

https://blog.damato.design/posts/out-of-order/

 

Inclusive Dark Mode: Designing Accessible Dark Themes For All Users

Alex Williams: offering customization and embracing adaptability can transform dark mode from a design trend into a universally empowering tool.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/inclusive-dark-mode-designing-accessible-dark-themes/

 

AI and Accessibility: Opportunities and Challenges for Content Creators

Josh Crawford: the intersection of AI adoption and accessibility responsibility presents both exciting opportunities and significant challenges.

https://www.digitalaccesstraining.com/pages/articles?p=ai-and-accessibility-opportunities-and-challenges-for-content-creators

 

The Contrast Triangle

Chip Cullen: Interesting tool for calculating conformant color contrast.

https://contrast-triangle.com/

 

Never lose a z-index battle again

Manuel Matuzović: Infinity can be super helpful when you want to ensure an element is at the top of the z-axis.

https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2025/never-lose-a-z-index-battle-again

 

Fostering An Accessibility Culture

Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats: offers insights from his own journey, where small, consistent habits made a big difference.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/fostering-accessibility-culture/

 

What Does It Really Mean For A Site To Be Keyboard Navigable

Eleanor Hecks: Prioritizing keyboard navigation prioritizes the user experience for a diverse audience.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/what-mean-site-be-keyboard-navigable/

 

Video: Exploring AI’s Role in Accessibility

Aquent Gymnasium interviews Aaron Gustafson, Accessibility Innovation Strategist for Microsoft, on "AI for
Accessibility".

https://www.youtube.com/live/7ObB4jM-QXU

 

Web typography: a refresher and history

Jeffrey Zeldman: A refreshing dip into what we’ve learned about web typography over the past 20+ years.

https://zeldman.com/2025/04/20/web-typography-a-refresher-and-history/

 

How to write error messages that actually help users rather than frustrate them

Amy Hupe: we often forget to give the same care and attention to the times when things will go wrong.

https://piccalil.li/blog/how-to-write-error-messages-that-actually-help-users-rather-than-frustrate-them/

 

Tooltip Should Not Start An Accessible Name

Kelly Ford: The unique should generally come first in an accessible name.

https://theideaplace.net/tooltip-should-not-start-an-accessible-name/

 

Debunking the Myths of the iOS Accessibility Inspector

Mark Steadman: the tool has gotten a bad reputation for being unreliable and only being an "automated" checker.

https://dev.to/steady5063/debunking-the-myths-of-the-ios-accessibility-inspector-4597

 

Overengineered anchor links

Mats Erdkamp: Anchor links are deceptively simple at first glance: click a button, scroll to the heading, and done.

https://thirty-five.com/overengineered-anchoring

 

Empowering Teams During Accessibility Remediation: What Works & What Doesn’t

Chris Hinds: Navigating the complexities of accessibility remediation can be intimidating for organizations.

https://equalizedigital.com/empowering-teams-during-accessibility-remediation-what-works-what-doesnt/

 

Accessibility Support

Will your code work with assistive technologies? A caniuse for accessibility.

https://a11ysupport.io/

 

How to Prioritize Backlog Video Content for EAA Compliance

Sofia: By making your backlog video content accessible, you can ensure that everyone will enjoy your content, regardless of their abilities.

https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/eaa-backlog-video-compliance/

 

Five Exemplary Example Accessibility Statements Aligned with Best Practices

Heather Berg: These accessibility statement examples come from real organizations across industries.

https://accessibleweb.com/tips-tools-tutorials/exemplary-accessibility-statements-examples/

 

A holistic approach to digital accessibility

Preety Kumar:  business leaders can help close the accessibility gap and eliminate the disconnect between where we want to be and where we are.

https://www.deque.com/blog/a-holistic-approach-to-digital-accessibility/

 

ADA Compliance Checklist for Websites & Mobile Apps 

Meghna: many businesses are still unaware that inaccessible websites and mobile apps can constitute a violation of the civil rights of Americans with disabilities.

https://www.digitala11y.com/ada-compliance-checklist-for-websites-mobile-apps/

 

Inclusive Gaming: Analyzing Audio Description in Overwatch’s Kiriko Video

Meryl Evans: how Blizzard Entertainment masterfully implements audio description in their lore video for the Overwatch character Kiriko.

https://equalentry.com/audio-description-overwatch-kiriko/

 

Boost revenue with accessible ecommerce checkout optimization

Krista Pereira: Gen Z’s criteria for frictionless experience is similar to that of their grandparents: get me through the process fast and without issues.

https://makeitfable.com/article/fix-checkout-barriers-reduce-revenue-leaks/

 

Alt Text for Accessibility

Practical tips for writing it more effectively.

https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/alt-text-for-accessibility/

 

Accessibility Challenges When Interacting With Web Forms on Mobile

Michael Taylor: common shortcomings with mobile web form accessibility.

https://blog.usablenet.com/accessibility-challenges-when-interacting-with-web-forms-on-mobile

 

How to Pick the Perfect Font Size

Andrée Lange: A Guide to WCAG Accessibility

https://www.a11y-collective.com/blog/wcag-minimum-font-size/

 

Automated accessibility testing: strengths and limits

Callum McMenamin: a clear, practical discussion on how automated and manual testing complement each other.

https://www.openaccess.nz/blog/automated-accessibility-testing-strengths-and-limits/