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

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

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

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

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

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

Searchable archive

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

List home and searchable archive

• What Is a Digital Accessibility Program?
  Vispero: A Guide to Building Inclusive Digital Experiences.
• How to Move From a Digital Accessibility Audit to Ongoing Accessibility
  Vispero: Digital accessibility is not a one-time project.
• Webinar: Use AI Features in JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion to Navigate Digital Content
  Vispero: Thursday, June 4 at noon ET.
• Employee Spotlight – Omar Wahby’s Story
  Vispero: “At Vispero, I focus on applying AI to enhance our products, including JAWS screen reading software.”
• Join Us for Our June 2026 Training Events
  Vispero: The Freedom Scientific training team offers ongoing opportunities for you to join us in live training sessions and advance your skills.
• Upcoming: W3C/GS1 Workshop on E-commerce for Humans and AI Agents
  W3C: 8-9 September 2026, in Zurich, Switzerland, with remote participation, hosted by Google.
• Sens. Markey, Capito, Reps. McGarvey, Rutherford Reintroduce Legislation to Expand Access to Educational Services for Students with Communications Disabilities
  Sen. Ed Markey: “Every student deserves the opportunity to learn and grow in the classroom.”
• Fixing Accessibility After the Fact Is Too Late
  Aaron Gustafson: At Ability Summit 2026, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on a topic that feels more urgent by the day.
• How good is Browser Support for the ARIA Notify API?
  Alexander Lehner: a thorough check with different screen readers on different platforms and browsers.
• Designing with Mustard
  Anna E. Cook: Tools don’t define design. Apparently, we need to talk about this again. Just with a different condiment.
• The hidden but costliest blunder in budgeting for website and digital products
  Anne-Mieke Bovelett: why the conversation about accessibility belongs in the budget meeting, not just in the developer backlog.
• Equal Access Public Media to rebrand as Organization for Accessible Journalism
  Beth McCowen: National nonprofit says clearer name will better communicate a focus on accessibility in journalism.
• Will agentic browsing scoring actually help accessibility for people?
  Bogdan Cerovac: It has the potential, but only when human understands accessibility.
• Overflow bug with .visually-hidden class
  Chris Ferdinandi: used to hide content visually while keeping it accessible to screen readers.
• Keyboard Accessibility for Better Website Navigation
  David Gevorkian: Strong keyboard accessibility improves website usability for everyone.
• Alzheimer’s & digital accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: small design choices, real cognitive relief.
• When dark mode becomes hard to read: a halation problem
  Diana Khalipina: halation (also called the irradiation effect).
• What a 12-month web accessibility journey actually looks like in practice
  Diana Khalipina: Twelve months, 12 phases.
• 5 most common web accessibility issues
  Diana Khalipina: If you’re looking for a checklist to make your website accessible, there’s a better place to start.
• Video: We all receive digital newsletters every day, but how accessible are they really?
  Diana Khalipina: It’s a small part of digital communication, but it affects a huge number of people every day.
• College grad designs new sticker reminding us accessibility is for everyone
  Emily Scarlett: “How do we create a world together that includes everybody?”
• NFB sues DOJ and HHS over deadline extensions
  Glenda Sims: What it means for your ADA Title II and Section 504 compliance program.
• Artificial Intelligence, History, and Blindness: Lessons and Musings
  Jonathan Mosen (LinkedIn): If we’re not deliberate and careful, we risk fragmenting social cohesion completely.
• Updated Japanese translation of WCAG 2.2
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: overall refinement including success criterion names.
• 10 Ways to Make Your Emails More Accessible
  Lauren Sherrard: Almost every marketing email has accessibility problems.
• Why “Click Here” Is Bad for Accessibility (And What to Use Instead)
  Lauren Sherrard: considered poor accessibility practice for years, and there are several good reasons why.
• Context-aware headings in HTML
  Manuel Matuzović: The headingoffset content attribute allows us to offset heading levels for descendants.
• ADA Website Accessibility Class Action Settlement- Pharmavite
  Mark Miller: an accessibility class action alleging their websites were not accessible to blind or visually impaired users under the ADA and similar laws.
• Using the browser console for accessibility testing – Part 2
  Russ Weakley: how simple console scripts can help identify accessibility features and potential issues directly in the browser.
• A bookmarklet highlighting roles that must never have author-provided names
  Russ Weakley: I converted one of those console scripts into a standalone bookmarklet.
• A bookmarklet highlighting mismatches between the visible label and accessible name
  Russ Weakley: I converted another of those console scripts into a standalone bookmarklet.
• The Faces Age Verification Cannot Read
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Half of U.S. states now require online age verification, and the systems doing the verifying were not built with disabled faces in mind.
• Fireside: Glenda Sims AKA the GoodWitch
  Steve Faulkner: we both have worked to make digital stuff more accessible to people with disabilities over the years.
• Quality assurance, accessibility and Astro: Part 3
  Steve Frenzel: I’ve tackled two major topics: accessible form validation and improved screen reader support in general.
• InnoCaption’s Cristina Duarte Talks the CODA life, Accessibility Advocacy, Captions in interview
  Steven Aquino: I connected with Duarte earlier this week over email.
• The Need for Accessible Kiosks
  Taylor Arndt: Here’s the Thing — It’s Fixable.
• Learn from your AI Development process
  Ted Drake: Have Claude create a test strategy from your projects to save time and improve quality on your next AI development project.
• Common Accessibility Challenges in PDF Documents
  Vijayshree Vethantham: A single PDF may contain several problems that make it difficult for people using assistive technology to access and understand the content.
• Video: Accessibility in WordPress 7.0
  Accessibility Craft Podcast: what changed, what accessibility improvements made the release, and why the new admin color updates sparked so much debate.
• Talk Forward
  app-suite: a free Android screen reader with an iOS-inspired gesture model.
• Podcast: Jasmin Ambiong and Steve Tyler
  ASXChat: Ambiong is a blind Filipina disability advocate based in Wellington, NZ. Tyler is from UK pan-disability organisation Leonard Cheshire.
• ADA Title II & HHS Accessibility Deadline Extensions
  BarrierBreak: What the ADA Title II and HHS Accessibility Deadline Extensions Mean for Your Organization.
• BarrierBreak Selected by Washington State to Deliver Accessible Document Remediation Services
  BarrierBreak: Through this agreement, we will provide accessible document remediation services to a whole range of public organizations.
• Legal Update: May 2026
  Converge Accessibility: May was a noticeably calmer month with hardly any cases to report on. That’s not to say it’s been a slow month.
• Introducing the HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial
  Chrome for Developers: draw DOM content directly into a 2D canvas or a WebGL/WebGPU texture while keeping the UI interactable, accessible, and hooked up to your favorite browser features.
• Another Stab at the Perfect CSS Pie Chart… Sans JavaScript
  CSS Tricks: CSS should be powerful enough to let us style a pie chart. JavaScript should not be required.
• Tooltips that work for everyone
  Eleven Ways: Building accessible tooltips is a minefield — especially when you mix in rich content and screen reader quirks.
• Multi-level navigation
  Eleven Ways: the challenge of identifying parent sections for screen readers.
• Accessibility Report 2026
  Email Markup Consortium: The data is clear: a major reason why accessibility is failing in email is a lack of implementation.
• Video: ACT rules – update on automatic and manual testing
  Funka: Malin Hammarberg on Accessibility Conformance Testing rules, part of the Web Accessibility Initiative.
• Video: All the questions you wanted to ask during GAAD – but didn’t get the chance
  Hassell Inclusion: If you’re trying to make progress with accessibility in the reality of your organisation, we hope you’ll find the conversation useful.
• Videos: AccessU 2026
  Knowbility: Six videos from the AccessU 2026 conference.
• Join the AR/VR User Research Panel and help make tech more accessible
  Meta: Your feedback will help shape more accessible experiences for everyone.
• Video: Ask The Professionals: Accessible Events
  OZeWAI: Ricky Onsman moderates a panel with Jennison Asuncion, Julia Svaganovic, and Rosie Putland on making online, offline and hybrid events accessible.
• Using BeeLine Reader in your Canvas Course
  Pope Tech: BeeLine Reader uses color gradients to help students and faculty read more easily.
• How Salesforce Is Scaling Accessibility in the Age of AI
  Salesforce: introducing a suite of AI-powered accessibility skills designed to bring guidance directly into the tools where development work happens.
• Google Built Antigravity for Everyone Except People Who Need It
  Silktide: To show off MWG they used Antigravity, a prototype AI coding tool designed to turn natural language prompts into clean, accessible code.
• LLMs Don’t Understand Text. They Do Something Way Weirder
  Silktide: When AI models process your 200,000-word document, they don’t read sequentially like you do.
• Self-Paced Accessibility Courses
  Teach Access: New to Accessibility? Start Here. For those just beginning to explore disability and accessibility.
• Designing accessible documents
  TetraLogical: Making documents accessible ensures everyone can access the same content.
• Video: AI Ownership & X-Ray Accessibility
  The Accessibility Breakdown Podcast: Justin and Mark explore the future of accessibility with AI tools.
• Video: Coast Duo Review
  The Blind Life: Is This The Most Portable Low Vision Magnifier Yet?
• Chain Restaurant Online Ordering
  UsableNet: Where Checkout Breaks for Blind Customers.
• The Accessibility Mindset
  UsableNet: Building a Program That Sticks.
• Canva Accessibility Review: Can It Create Accessible PDFs?
  Venngage: Canva might not be the complete solution you think it is.
• Real-time AI transcription for conferences, workshops, and in-person events.
  VolenScribe: Built by event organizers who understand accessibility matters.
• Do web components make your design system framework-agnostic?
  Adam Silver: this is down to the false dichotomy between engineers.
• The Intent Debt
  Addy Osmani: Intent debt lives in the artifacts you never wrote – the goals, constraints and rationale that explain why the system is the way it is.
• The 2–7 problem
  Anton Sten: Picture a one-to-ten grade for quality. AI output never leaves the middle. It always lands somewhere between a 2 and a 7.
• Conway’s Law
  Donnie D’Amato: Stop trying to own the artifacts, own the infrastructure.
• Write-first design
  Karl Koch: write-first, build later. It runs through the whole design process, and it changes what design feels like to do.
• Output isn’t design
  Karri Saarinen: Design keeps being misunderstood in our industry.
• Claude Code sucks at UI design
  Nick Babich: It perfectly matches what people have in mind when they say “AI slop.”
• Obscuring Text with @counter-style
  Preethi Sam: handy in various ways, like generating a sequence of characters to hide data or to create a word rotator.
• Lowering the Barrier to CSS @property Adoption
  Schalke Neethling: has so many benefits that become more and more apparent once you spend some time with it.
• Voice is the New UI
  UX Planet: people are more and more relying on voice to describe what they want in natural language.
• How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
  Vitaly Friedman: We shouldn’t assume that AI knows how to choose the right component and how to design with accessibility in mind.