Category: technical reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weekly Reading List October 6 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Top 3 Risks of a Poorly Created VPAT
  TPGi: Why VPATs Matter More Than You Think.
• Webinar: AI Tips, Tools, and Techniques – Where to Begin
  Freedom Scientific: Recorded Thursday, September 4
• Enhancements in JAWS 2025.2508.120 (September 2025)
  Freedom Scientific: Support for Multi-Line Braille Displays, AI Features, Aria and Web, Google Suite, Office Apps, Zoom, Braille, Other.
• Video: ADA Title II: What Public Entities Need to Know in 2025
  3Play Media: David Sloan from TPGi on what Title II entails, what digital content is covered, and the steps your organization can take.
• For Review: WCAG 3 Working Draft
  W3C: W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 Working Draft is updated. For review questions and how to comment, please see the WCAG 3 section ‘About this draft’. The starting place for background, timeline, and up-to-date information is the WCAG 3 Introduction.
• For Wide Review: Accessibility Maturity Model — Updated Draft Note
  W3C: Accessibility Maturity Model Updated Draft Note is ready for review. Please comment by 30 September 2025.
• The Socioeconomic Impact of Digital Transition
  BBC: closing the digital divide could unlock billions of pounds in economic and social value for the UK.
• CSUN General Call for Presentations
  Opens on September 4 and concludes September 23. The 41st conference will be held March 9 through 13, 2026, at the Anaheim Marriott.
• H.R.3417 – Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act of 2025
  US Congress: To establish uniform accessibility standards for websites and applications of employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, joint labor-management committees, public entities, public accommodations, testing entities, and commercial providers, and for other purposes.
• Legal Update: August 2025
  Converge Accessibility: Southern District of NY cases, Nexus Still Required in Third Circuit, Federal versus State Court in CA, Eighth Circuit, Bill Tracker.
• Rising tide of ADA website lawsuits targets Missouri small businesses
  Kansas City Business Journal: The Growing Trend
• The National Design Studio is a Scam
  Christopher Butler: Joe Gebbia has no business designing government services.
• Level Access Accelerates Investment in AI Innovation
  Level Access: AI-powered accessibility agents will to redefine scalable digital accessibility.
• TetraLogical launches accessible self-led training courses
  TetraLogical: to help digital teams build confidence in accessibility. Course list.
• Testing Methods: Low or No Background Audio
  Dennis Deacon: audio content (like speech or dialogue) must not have background sounds that make the speech hard to hear.
• Baby Steps Accessibility – Color Contrast of Text
  Dennis Deacon: I thought we’d start with the #1 accessibility problem impacting the digital world: color contrast.
• Sneak accessibility
  Chris Ferdinandi: the most effective way to fix accessibility issues in the sites and apps that we build is just do it.
• Quick Tip: Stop Gate Keeping Tech
  Nat Tarnoff: I despise AI, but I will never stop someone from using any tech to make their quality of life better.
• How to Minimize Legal Risks in Accessibility Compliance
  Nat Tarnoff: you cannot avoid lawsuits about accessibility. What you can do is minimize your risk.
• Quick accessibility analysis of Norwegian party websites just before election
  Bogdan Cerovac: Long story short – all political party websites have issues.
• Do you know your ADA Digital Accessibility Risk?
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: What many decision-makers miss, however, is that risk is not evenly distributed across the marketplace.
• Screenreader HTML support look up app
  Steve Faulkner: a way to contrast and compare support across screen readers in the HTML support tables.
• active-descendant console debugger
  Steve Faulkner: I asked ChatGPT to help create a script to help debug aria-activedescendant.
• OKLCH color picker, generator and converter
  Jakub Krehel: Because OKLCH’s lightness ties directly to contrast, it’s easier to make color palettes that are readable and accessible.
• 10 Life Lessons on Accessibility
  Christiane Link: here are some lessons and thoughts I had.
• A Requiem for My Dignity, Sacrificed at the Altar of AI
  Robert Kingett: I decided to try an “AI” screen reader. It was a Category 5 hurricane of humiliation.
• ARIA-live cheatsheet: announcing stuff without annoying your users
  James Sheasby Thomas: As with any ARIA role or attribute, there’s always a risk that inappropriate use will annoy, confuse or block assistive technology users.
• The Accessibility Paradox
  Aparajita Marathe & Anne Marie Piper: How Blind and Low Vision Employees Experience and Negotiate Accessibility in the Technology Industry
• Podcast: Accessible Numbers
  Laura Parker: about presenting numbers clearly for anyone who designs services.
• AI1y (AI and A11y) – Part III
  NirA11y: Can I Trust AI to Be Right 100% of the Time for Accessibility?
• Podcast: The Most Misunderstood Accessibility Features in Acrobat
  Chax Chat: Chad Chelius and Dax Castro bust myths about tag trees, reading order, and common mistakes.
• WCAG 2.2: Where to Begin
  Accessible Web: start with smaller tasks instead of trying to understand the full scope of WCAG.
• Assistive Technologies for People with Disabilities
  Be Accessible: Assistive technology aims to eliminate barriers among people with disabilities.
• Digital accessibility in a post-EAA deadline world
  Deque: Actionable advice for developments in the Netherlands and France.
• How to make the leap to paid accessibility tools when you need to accelerate progress
  Deque: making the leap from free to paid can be tricky.
• Summer 2025 Digital Accessibility
  UsableNet: A Screen Reader’s Review.
• What’s Next in Digital Accessibility
  UsableNet: 5 Takeaways You Can Use Now.
• How to Perform a Comprehensive WCAG Audit
  A11y Collective: Discover pro tips for efficient testing, result interpretation, and ongoing accessibility maintenance.
• Accessible Writing Techniques for Web Content
  A11y Collective: Transform your writing workflow with actionable tips for reaching every reader.
• A Web Developer’s Guide to Buttons vs Links
  A11y Collective: Get clear guidance on proper usage, accessibility requirements, and UX best practices for your web development projects.
• An Accessible Guide to WCAG 3.3.8: Authentication Without Frustration
  auth0: Logging in can be tough for users with cognitive disabilities.
• Video: Everything you wanted to know about Accessibility
  Hassell Inclusion: Live Q&A with Jonathan Hassell.
• Using AI To Redefine Software Accessibility Testing
  Forbes: the AI’s behavior created entirely new accessibility barriers that traditional testing had never evaluated.
• Podcast: Why Digital Accessibility Starts Within: Lessons from Crystal Preston-Watson
  AXSChat interview with the Senior Digital Accessibility Analyst at Salesforce.
• You Don’t Have to Be Blind to Use a Screen Reader
  Pedal Point: For me—and for many others—screen readers aren’t about replacing sight, but about expanding options.
• The latest Kindle update is a good step toward accessibility
  Android Authority: Key refinements upgrade the Kindle experience for some users.
• BITS, Microsoft, and the American Council of the Blind Launch Groundbreaking Accessibility Partnership
  Press Release: to directly influence the future of accessibility across Microsoft Narrator and M365 apps such as Word and Outlook.
• JAWS Tips: Windows UAC Fix
  Easterseals Crossroads: When Windows User Account Control is not spoken by JAWS.
• Accessible Telegram
  Mahmood: Script to Enhance Telegram Web Accessibility for VoiceOver Users on iOS.
• This Emerging Technology Can Keep Screens Steady in an Always-Moving World
  Honeywell: Learn about a new system being developed to improve user experience of everyday touchpoints.
• Web development without limits part 3: Practical guide for accessible design
  Heise: In order to develop accessible websites, it is helpful to take user needs into account.
• Designing for Autonomy: UX Principles for Agentic AI Systems
  UX Magazine: How do we craft interfaces that support trust, transparency, and control in systems we don’t fully script?
• You no longer need JavaScript
  Lyra Rebane: I think a lot of things are just plain nicer to make in HTML/CSS.
• The Good, the Bad, and the Iffy: is there such a thing as an ethical designer?
  Elizabeth Goodspeed: Unfortunately, once people knew how to build accessible, user-friendly apps, they also knew they didn’t have to.
• The melancholy of history rhyming
  Baldur Bjarnason: I worry what will happen when the “AI” Bubble pops.
• The web behind glass
  Medienbäcker Thomas Günther: advice for designing and developing websites for the delightful and elegant new design language, Liquid Glass™.
• The Lifespan Gap
  Grace Dow: Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are dying nearly 20 years earlier than the general population.

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

• Join Vispero at the 2025 Future Travel Experience (FTE) Global Conference
  The FTE Global is the largest and most influential gathering of air transport executives in North America.
• JAWS for Kiosk Now Makes LG’s Kiosks Accessible
  Gen 2 Self-Ordering Kiosks are built with accessibility in mind from the outset.
• Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 13
  Mark Miller and David Sloan explore Inclusive Design 24 (ID24) on September 23 at 10:30 AM EST.
• Podcast: FSCast #261
  Freedom Scientific: An in-depth look at multiline Braille support in JAWS, and an AI user survey by the AFB
• 26 awardees in W3C’s TPAC Inclusion and Invited Expert Support funds
  W3C: The goal is to reduce barriers for participants who are contributing positively to the work of W3C groups, but who require financial support to be more actively involved.
• IMPROVING OUR NATION THROUGH BETTER DESIGN
  Donald J. Trump: I am announcing “America by Design,” a national initiative to improve experiences for Americans.
• Trump’s new chief design officer aims to make federal websites ‘satisfying’
  MSN: Joe Gebbia’s directive is to “update today’s government services to be as satisfying to use as the Apple Store”.
• A notional design studio
  Ethan Marcotte: I read through the “America by Design” web page. And I have some thoughts.
• America by Design is Deplorable for All
  Frank Taylor: Not by any meaningful measure is this site accessible.
• Review of the Disability Discrimination Act
  Australian government reviews legislation for first time in over 15 years.
• Comments Needed to Stop republican Attack on Section 503
  Lainey Feingold: Proposal will gut rules about federal contractors hiring disabled workers.
• The 7% Betrayal
  Grace Dow: Federal officials are moving to dismantle a key policy aimed at increasing employment opportunities for disabled people.
• Focus on the people that make things happen
  Martin Underhill: Broadly speaking, there are two ways to do it.
• Podcast: Designing for Everyone
  United in Accessibility E58: Sam Evans, IAAP, interviews Stéphanie Walter on Enterprise UX and Digital Accessibility.
• Character count accessibility tests
  U.S. Web Design System: Any USWDS character count component should pass these manual accessibility tests.
• WP Accessibility 2.2.0 Released
  Joe Dolson: includes one major new feature and one substantial change.
• Introducing Baby Steps Accessibility
  Dennis Deacon: laser-focused on a particular task that will improve your digital product’s level of accessibility.
• Testing Methods: Contrast (Enhanced)
  Dennis Deacon: ensure that text and images of text have a contrast ratio of at least 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text.
• How to Create an Accessible Table with Clickable Rows
  Alexander Lehner: A table row with a click event handler doesn’t magically turn into an accessible control.
• New bookmarklet: WCAG SCs Lookup tool
  Ian Lloyd: I made a tool to look up WCAG SCs and copy the links.
• Accessible Authentication
  Karl Groves: what we know, what we don’t, and what to do next.
• A11y 101: 2.4.3 Focus Order
  Nat Tarnoff: The vast majority of the complaints I’ve seen claiming focus order issues are problematic, really aren’t.
• Exploring grid-aware websites
  Nic Chan: a grid-aware website responds to the cleanliness or dirtiness of a user’s electricity grid.
• Nested Scroll Bars Are the One of the Biggest Accessibility Evils, Ever
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: I’m a little salty about this topic because it frequently severely impacts me.
• 5 simple fixes that make digital spaces calmer—for neurodivergent and all users.
  L? Silveus: reduce barriers for neurodivergent users but also create calmer, more usable experiences for everyone.
• Podcast: Amy Low – CEO of AbilityNet
  Joe James is joined for The Digital Accessibility Podcast by the head a UK charity that has been transforming lives through technology for over 25 years.
• Why inclusive products are green products
  Tetralogical: While we are not experts on the subject, we can still contribute to sustainability goals by helping create inclusive products.
• Preparation for the update to ADA’s Title II Series: Implementation
  Minnesota IT Services: Get some tips on strategies and tactics to prepare your organization.
• Video: “Accessibility Life Hacks” Series
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: How to use AI to add alt text to images on mobile devices.
• Unlock the potential of the EAA
  Fable: The European Accessibility Act (EAA) deadline on June 28, 2025 was a rest stop, not the final stop.
• Unlock the potential of the EAA
  Fable: The European Accessibility Act (EAA) deadline on June 28, 2025 was a rest stop, not the final stop.
• How Designing for Disability Benefits Everyone
  Vision Australia: The curb-cut effect demonstrates how solutions designed for people with disabilities often benefit everyone.
• How To Check That Your Colour Meaning Is Accessible
  Vision Australia: three practical testing methods to test colour meaning for accessibility before publication.
• Why Your Word Lists Might Be Excluding Readers (And How to Fix Them)
  Vision Australia: demonstrates practical techniques using Word’s ribbon tools to build lists that communicate effectively for all users.
• Digital Accessibility in Hospitality
  UsableNet: What I Learned as a Blind Guest.
• Video: Don’t Expect a Winner in the Game if There Isn’t a Scoreboard
  Knowbility: Sharron Rush with Chris Law, Executive Director, Standards Accessibility Reporting.
• Ableism
  a11yblog: generalization about someone who has a disability is known as ableism.
• Video: Bundles of enthusiasm
  In this episode of Unfinished Business, Andy Clarke and Richard Rutter are joined by Léonie Watson.
• How to Scope Accessibility Remediation
  Equalize Digital: It’s almost never as simple as counting pages and multiplying by a flat fee.
• Accessibility Statements are not Legal Contracts. They’re Value Signals.
  Pedal Point: Accessibility statements must match reality.
• Time to Prepare for Apple’s Accessibility Nutrition Labels
  Access Armada: For developers of accessible apps, these labels are an opportunity to distinguish themselves.
• Video: Tackling Tricky Accessibility Challenges
  Suzanne Dergacheva, Co-Founder of Evolving Web, is joined by Janell Sims, Manager of Digital Accessibility Services at Harvard University Information Technology.
• Web Accessibility in Government
  Lullabot: Common Misses and Practical Fixes.
• Narrator Gets On-screen Braille Viewer in Windows 11 With Latest Dev & Beta Update
  Accessibility boost arrives to Windows 11.
• BrowserStack Accessibility Design Toolkit
  Figma layouts for contrast, spacing, focus order and tap targets.
• Tactile Maps Automated Production (TMAP)
  An accessible web-app that quickly generates tactile street maps.
• Seeing a New Future
  ATB: How Smart Glasses Are Unlocking Independence For Visually Impaired Individuals
• Web Accessibility in CoFa
  Code Factory: Once upon a future time, there will be a fully accessible banking product at DKB.
• When design doesn’t land (and what we can do about it)
  Sash Milne: When design doesn’t land, it’s rarely because the design was weak. More often, the system wasn’t ready to hold it.
• The AI age is the “age of no consent”
  Pavel Samsonov: design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed.
• Are AI-Generated Synthetic Users Replacing Personas?
  James Newhook: What UX Designers Need to Know.
• The case of the white favicon
  Tevin Steinke: Hopefully I can save some time for somebody who runs into the same thing.
• CSS Elevator: A Pure CSS State Machine With Floor Navigation
  Christian Sabourin: complete with direction indicators, animated transitions, counters, and even accessibility features.
• A Radio Button Shopping Cart Trick
  Preethi: comes with accessibility drawbacks because it uses duplicated interactive elements.
• Making Sense of CSS Length Units
  Oded Sharon: the user might decide to change it in the user-settings for accessibility reasons.
• The -path of Least Resistance (Part 2)
  Amit Sheen: offset-path animations should respect user preferences and accessibility guidelines.
• Why “Good UX” Isn’t Enough
  Jon Daiello: Accessibility needs both design and engineering partnership.
• “Your” vs “My” in user interfaces
  Adam Silver: It’s a trick question because often you don’t need any prefix.
• The Basics of Anchor Positioning
  Ahmad Shadeed: What’s better than facing an actual problem and trying to solve it with position: absolute?
• How to dismiss native HTML dialog elements when the backdrop is clicked
  Chris Ferdinandi: The [closedby] attribute tells browsers what methods of closing a
  should be used/supported.
• Visualizing Responsive Typography
  Miriam Suzanne: Utopia helpfully provides a warning when we create scales that are inaccessible.

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

• Position Vacant: Senior IT Accessibility Specialist App/Web
  Vispero: provide subject matter expertise regarding Section 508 program & policy support.
• Universal Design vs Inclusive Design
  TPGi: which is better for Digital Accessibility? That’s the wrong question, according to Ricky Onsman.
• Video: Six Ways to Manage PDFs More Efficiently with JAWS
  Freedom Scientific: Are you looking for ways to access, navigate, and read PDFs with JAWS?
• Podcast: New Pricing of JAWS the Screen Reader
  BBC Radio 4: what is the best course of action for current and new [UK] users of JAWS.
• W3C Invites Implementations of Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1
  W3C Comments on https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/CR-act-rules-format-1.1-20250819/ are welcome by 20 October 2025.
• Guidance on Applying WCAG 2 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT)
  W3C Group Note 21 August 2025
• WCAG2ICT — W3C Group Note updated to coordinate with EN 301 549
  W3C WAI: For the list of substantive changes, see Changes since the 15 November 2024 Note.
• European Accessibility Act in Belgium: Compliance, Complaints & Penalties
  In Belgium, accessibility compliance is regulated by multiple government agencies, depending on the product or service type and the region.
• Why does big tech not run Accessibility bug bounties?
  Chris Yoong: 10 reasons why this would be great.
• Use of Color (Level A) WCAG 1.4.1 – Accessibility Design tips
  Chris Yoong: Simple, actionable tips.
• “Best practice” is just your opinion
  Craig Abbott: I’m going to be honest, when doing accessibility audits, the term “best practice” bothers me.
• About “best practices”
  Eric Eggert: The first thing I noticed when reading [Craig Abbott’s] piece is that how he experienced the term is different from how I have.
• Testing Methods: Images of Text
  Dennis Deacon: Text should be displayed using actual text, not images of text.
• “WCAG 2.2 Techniques” Japanese translation
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: The “WCAG 2.2 Techniques Collection” has recently been released (with some parts translated into Japanese).
• The First Rule of ARIA
  Nat Tarnoff: Today I’m looking at a why we should be using more native HTML controls and fewer custom ones.
• CSS-only scrollspy effect using scroll-marker-group and :target-current
  Sara Soueidan: how to use this property, as well as discuss accessibility expectations.
• Adapting ChatGPT to Meet Neurodivergent Communication Needs
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: ChatGPT can be challenging for some neurodiverse people.
• Yellow, Purple, and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes”
  Stéphanie Walter: Includes 6 palettes you can re-use and a full video tutorial.
• Code Reviews That Actually Improve Frontend Quality
  Den Odell: Catch Accessibility Gaps Early.
• Trusting the browser
  Medienbäcker Thomas Günther: I’ve been thinking about how we approach accessibility in web development.
• The exploitation of the blind
  Adison Verlice: The blindness industry is filled with holes that exploit the blind, not help them. Let’s take JAWS as an example.
• Design for all: reading between the lines
  Frank Elavsky: there is something a little tricky about this phrase when it comes to accessibility and disability.
• Video: An accessibility love letter
  Michelle Chu at Design Outlook 2025, Melbourne, Australia.
• Interaction Design and Accessibility: UX Without Barriers
  Alicia Jarvis: When designers neglect accessibility, we exclude millions of people from fully engaging with technology.
• Developing an alt text button for images on my website
  James G: I decided to see if I could make a HTML-and-CSS-only alt text button for images on my website.
• Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR)
  Knowbility: The AIR 2025 program runs from mid-September through mid-November, with the awards ceremony in January.
• Survey: Exploring Artificial Intelligence Use by People With and Without Disabilities
  AFB: We want to learn how AI experiences differ between people with and without disabilities. Closes September 30, 2025.
• Podcast: Designing for Everyone
  IAAP #58: Stéphanie Walter on Enterprise UX and Digital Accessibility
• WordPress Page Builder Accessibility Comparison 2025
  Equalize Digital: our second annual report comparing the out-of-the-box accessibility of WordPress page builders and block libraries.
• What is AI Localization? And Should You DIY or Outsource?
  3Play Media: AI localization is transforming how video content reaches global audiences.
• Captioning and Transcription for Higher Education
  3Play Media: the processes of converting spoken content in videos and audio recordings into text.
• No, We’re Not an Accessibility Overlay
  Accessible Web: Here’s what an overlay is and what we offer instead.
• Project templates
  Fable: Project templates help you launch accessibility research quickly and easily.
• Fable’s cognitive accessibility pilot
  Fable case study: The working group is made up of four task forces, each with a specific objective.
• Video: The ARRM Framework: What It Is and How It Can Be Leveraged for Digital Inclusion
  Knowbility: Jan McSorley with Denis Boudreau.
• Understanding U.S. Digital Accessibility Laws for Government Entities
  Level Access: breakdown of requirements impacting federal, state, and local government entities, and guidance for navigating compliance.
• A11M – Part II
  NirA11y: One of the most common and frustrating discussions I had as Head of Accessibility at Wix was about automation.
• Podcast: Adding Metadata for Document Accessibility
  Colleen Gratzer: Find out why metadata is important for accessibility, what metadata to add and how to add metadata to a document.
• Staff member gets emotional over the closure of the Derby office
  Silktide: We’ve decided to close its doors for good.
• Accessible Recruitment
  Tetralogical: a way to ensure that every candidate can perform at their best, and each role is filled by the person most capable of doing it.
• Reflecting on My First Year: Growth and Goals for the Future
  Taylor Arndt: When I first started working full-time for Techopolis, I had doubts.
• The Story Behind Beyond The Gallery
  Techopolis: a centralized, accessible way to find and share shortcuts.
• Using a Resort’s Mobile App as a Blind Guest: Barriers Beyond the Basics
  UsableNet: These tools promise convenience. But for blind guests who use screen readers, they can create frustrating and unpredictable barriers.
• Making a Hotel Reservation with a Screen Reader: Simplicity That Works
  UsableNet: To my surprise, this was one of the best digital booking experiences I’ve had in a while.
• 10 ADA Title II Website Compliance Mistakes Local Governments Make (and How to Avoid Them)
  UsableNet: compliance mistakes, why they happen, and concrete steps to avoid them.
• How to Write a Technical White Paper (2025 Guide)
  Venngage: how to plan, research and write a technical white paper.
• Practical guide to testing keyboard accessibility
  a11yblog: What if I told you that keyboard accessibility – one of the oldest WCAG rules – is still one of the most broken?
• Living an Immigrant Life with a Disability
  AAPD: As a disabled researcher and advocate, I understand that disability is a normal part of human experience.
• Digital Transition: A wake-up call for inclusive design
  AbilityNet: Digital exclusion correlates strongly with socio-economic disadvantage.
• The good, the bad and the unreadable
  Funka: Contrast and size is not enough.
• Understanding common keyboard types and how their switch mechanisms work
  There are at least three significant options in today’s market when it comes to choosing the type of custom keyboard you want.
• Google Docs can now read your documents aloud to you with natural-sounding AI voices
  Create and listen to audio versions of your documents using Gemini directly in Google Docs.
• Apple Releases iOS 18.6.2, iPadOS 18.6.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
  Bringing a Fix for an Actively-Exploited Security Vulnerability.
• Paperback
  Paperback is a lightweight, fast, and accessible ebook and document reader.
• A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer
  Smashing Magazine: While reviewing the AI examples, Kate realized that one had accessibility issues.
• The Double-Edged Sustainability Sword Of AI In Web Design
  Smashing Magazine: With the right prompts, generative AI can be an accessibility tool.
• Design System Awards
  zeroheight: Shortlist Announced and Voting 15 September, 2025. Voting Closes 3 November, 2025.
• Motion design is cool, but can hurt users — here’s how I fixed it
  LogRocket: Ignoring prefers-reduced-motion settings means you are forcing motion on users who may be sensitive to it.
• Why you shouldn’t ignore niche app user types
  LogRocket: more than simply checking an accessibility box.
• Why AI Won’t Replace Accessibility Experts (And Why That’s Great News)
  Grackle Docs: In fact, it will make them more valuable than ever.
• Academic Editors Research on the Accessibility of Different Colour Schemes for Web Resources for People with Colour Blindness
  Daiva Sajek, Olena Korotenko (National Technical University of Ukraine), Tetiana Kyrychok (National Technical University of Ukraine).
• Video: Icon Interpretation vs. Recognizability
  NN Group: Icons aren’t universal. Learn why recognizability and interpretation matter and why testing is essential for clarity.
• Inclusive Innovation
  Center for Democracy & Technology: How to Incorporate Privacy into Inclusive Design for Assistive Technologies.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-august-25-2025/.

• ADA Kiosk Software Requirements: A Guide for Public Entities and Vendors
  David Sloan: While public entities might think about providing essential functionality and content, accessibility often remains an afterthought.
• On Dashes, A.I., and Screen Readers
  Ricky Onsman: This post was prompted by some discussion at TPGi about the use of em dash punctuation.
• Webinar: Translating Digital Accessibility: Creating Inclusive Experiences for Global Brands
  Mitchell Evan, Principal Accessibility Engineer at TPGi, and Viviana Bernabe, Head of Interpreting & Accessibility at Welocalize: September 10, 2025. 11:00 AM ET (8 AM PT)
• Six Ways to Manage PDFs More Efficiently with JAWS
  Freedom Scientific: an overview of PDFs, discuss multiple ways to access, read, and interact with them, plus show you how to optimize Settings in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Interest Group Charter
  W3C: Rechartered to 31 July 2027, open to the public; W3C Membership is not a prerequisite.
• DARE Resource Guide
  IAAP: supports policymakers, advocates, and professionals dedicated to improving the accessibility of digital content, services, products, and environments for persons with disabilities.
• Level Access Among America’s Top 300 Fastest-Growing Software Companies in 2025
  This is the ninth year Level Access has been recognized in the Inc. 5000.
• A closer look at axe MCP Server
  Deque: empowers every developer with immediate accessibility expertise, regardless of skill level. This technology is truly a game-changer.
• SEBI sets a new standard for digital accessibility in finance in India—Here’s what to know
  Deque: cover the circular’s requirements and how they impact financial institutions.
• How to eliminate costly rework and fix accessibility issues early with expert guidance from axe Assistant
  Deque’s purpose-built generative AI chatbot for accessibility, axe Assistant, is available where we already collaborate.
• You need to get started on ADA Title II compliance now
  Deque: : How to strategize funding, slash risk, and ensure ROI
• Accessibility issues of CAPTCHA
  Gian Wild: No one CAPTCHA will be accessible to all users.
• My Thoughts on the State of Surveys
  Adrian Roselli: I should disclose that I am broadly wary of surveys. I am also not a researcher.
• 4 stages of Accessibility Maturity
  Chris Yoong: From intention to integration.
• Link Purpose (In Context) WCAG 2.4.4 – Accessibility Design tips
  Chris Yoong: Simple, actionable tips.
• FashionNova fined $5.15M, Vueling Airlines €90,000
  Chris Yoong: While Carrefour, Agir, Auchan, E.Leclerc have been serviced notice under the EAA.
• Testing Methods: Resize Text
  Dennis Deacon: Users must be able to resize text up to 200% of its original size without loss of content or functionality.
• Can components conform to WCAG?
  Hidde de Vries: We can build UI components with accessibility in mind. What about claiming conformance?
• Able Player: version 4.7.0 beta 1 looking for testing!
  Joe Dolson: There are quite a few bug fixes in this release, a fair amount of code polish, and a new base design.
• How much should you spend on accessibility?
  Karl Groves: digital accessibility is emerging not only as a legal requirement but also as a vital pillar of inclusive, ethical, and sustainable business practices.
• Making Sports Information More Accessible
  Kelly Ford: A Preview of the Sports Scores App.
• Video: speaking with McGill University About accessibility for all
  Lucy Greco: I spoke with 2 leaders in accessibility in the Montreal community.
• A11y 101: 2.4.2 Page Titled
  Nat Tarnoff: When we don’t provide a clear <title> in the <head> element of our HTML, we create issues.
• AI effluential
  Steve Faulkner: it’s fairly obvious that accessibility is not and never has been a priority for OpenAI.
• Focus not obscured
  Tatiana Fokina: partially or completely obscured elements in the focus state are a barrier for keyboard users.
• Accessibility in numbers
  Tatiana Fokina: Here, I’ve collected sources with various statistics related to digital accessibility.
• Covering hidden=until-found
  Geoff Graham: I’m sure there’s a good use case for hiding content accessibly in some fashion while making it searchable.
• Getting Creative With Quotes
  Andy Clarke: from an accessibility and semantic standpoint, quote marks aren’t required because screen readers and search engines will recognise a blockquote.
• The Psychology Of Color In UX Design And Digital Products
  Rodolpho Henrique: creating emotional connection and delivering consistent and accessible digital products.
• The quest for the perfect progressively enhanced dropdown menu
  Chris Ferdinandi: The bane of my existence right now is trying to figure out the right way to implement subnav/dropdown menus that work for everyone.
• CSS-only solutions are not accessible
  Chris Ferdinandi: why CSS-only solutions like that are often worse for accessibility than other options.
• Video: What’s New in Web UI: I/O 2025 Recap
  Una Kravets: letting the browser handle the complex, repetitive work of state management and accessibility.
• How people with disabilities interact with the web
  A11yBlog: blind and visually impaired, deaf and hard of hearing, and those with motor impairments.
• When HTML Speaks Clearly
  A11yBlog: when I leaned into accessibility, I discovered a new appreciation for the elegance of HTML.
• Hidden risks of relying solely on WCAG in the EU
  A11yBlog: Can a WCAG-compliant website still face multiple accessibility penalties in the EU?
• Podcast: Flipping the Script on Audio Description: The Art of Listening
  Reid My Mind Radio: the power of sound design in film.
• How our dog increased my appreciation for accessibility
  Jason Grigsby: My concussion gave me a greater appreciation for the accessibility features that operating systems and browsers have built.
• Lost in Jargon
  Grace Dow: Oh, you’re struggling to understand? Let me make that worse for you.
• Style your underlines
  Jeremy Keith: You should use underlines to keep your links accessible. But you should also use CSS to make those underlines beautiful.
• SEBI Mandates Digital Accessibility Across Financial Industry in India
  DigitalA11y: From now on, digital accessibility is no longer optional, it’s a regulatory requirement for all SEBI-regulated entities.
• Podcast: How a Blind Person Uses Social Media and AI to Drive Accessibility
  Equal Entry: James Warnken traces his career path from college internships in SEO and marketing to becoming a passionate accessibility educator and consultant.
• Unpacking Document Accessibility: Risks and Best Practices
  Level Access: best practices for making your organization’s documents accessible—across every format.
• A11M – Part I on A11y and LLMs
  NirA11y: Perhaps the focus should shift towards ensuring AI systems themselves are accessible?
• How to create better (and more accessible) heading structures
  Pope Tech: accessibility mistakes to avoid when creating heading structures.
• Title II Compliance Timeline
  UsableNet: Key Dates and Deadlines for 2026.
• Mobile App Accessibility Guidelines
  UsableNet: Best Practices for EAA Compliance.
• Ecommerce Website Accessibility
  UsableNet: How to Meet European Accessibility Act 2025 Requirements.
• Podcast: Relay #236: Focus Traps
  David & Mike talk about focus traps, consider the ones they tend to fall into, and discuss how to create systems to help avoid them.
• Making Color Usage Accessible
  Section508.gov: the importance of color usage in accessibility, and … the tools and techniques you can use.
• Why digital accessibility should be a B2B priority too
  Hassell Inclusion: investing in accessibility could give B2B brands a competitive edge.
• Why U.S. companies need to pay attention to the EAA
  Evinced: If you’re a U.S.-based business, it’s easy to assume that the European Accessibility Act doesn’t apply to you.
• Rebuilding Graphs for Accessibility
  Khan Academy: “How do you make a graph accessible?” We’re glad you asked.
• Accessibility Maturity Snapshot (beta)
  Intopia: self-assessment tool designed to help you understand your level of digital accessibility readiness and implementation.
• Videos: Accessibility and Inclusion 2025
  The Outlook: all talks from the June 2025 conference in Melbourne, Australia.
• Ally iOS Updates + What’s Next — We’d Love Your Feedback!
  Karthik Mahadevan: also answers comments and questions.
• Breaking the Silence: How Rose Ayling-Ellis is Redefining TV Inclusion With Code of Silence
  A new British crime drama, “Code of Silence,” … has been lauded … for its groundbreaking ability to convey the authentic sensory experience of being deaf, from its visual style to its intricate sound design. It is also available in both American and British Sign Language.
• New assistive technology device communicates facial expressions to people who are blind
  HapWare uses haptics or vibrations on the wrist to relay visual cues like gestures.
• NVDA 2025.2 Released
  NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2025.2 of NVDA … is now available for download.
• Access is Love
  Christiane Link: Design and Disability at the Victoria & Albert Museum
• To Tell My Disabled Stories, I Needed to Unlearn Ableist Workshop Critiques
  Sarah Fawn Montgomery: I masked in workshop and on the page, even as it invalidated my lived experience.
• It’s not just burnout
  Sara Wachter-Boettcher: A new study says nearly half of tech workers are significantly burned out.
• Better CSS layouts: Time.com Hero Section
  Ahmad Shadeed: I … choose layouts from popular websites and see how I can rebuild them better in CSS.
• Facebruce apologises for our racist pedo chatbot
  Bruce Lawson: Our latest innovation, the sAIvile™ AI companion.
• freeCodeCamp 2025 Summer Hackathon
  Helen Chong: I also offered suggestions for improving their code based on web standards such as web accessibility.
• Podcast: Design Is How Smart Teams Decide – with Pavel Samsonov
  Rethink Episode 49: The importance of problem scoping and definition in design, criticizing the linear approach of the Double Diamond model.
• The Best Line Length
  Glyph Lefkowitz: What’s a good maximum line length for your coding standard?
• My Top 4
  Donnie D’Amato: use only 4 CSS properties? overflow-wrap, max-width, margin, scroll-behavior.
• Another article about centering in CSS
  Andy Bell: The tired old meme that centering in CSS is “impossible” has never been so irrelevant.
• Video: There’s a new stretch keyword in CSS?
  Miriam Suzanne: But how is that different from 100%? And how is that different from 100vh when we want a full-height layout?
• The State of CSS 2025 Survey Results
  Sacha Greif: One could be forgiven for being slow to adopt all these new-fangled CSS features. After all, do we really need them?

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-august-18-2025/.

• Webinar: ADA Title II: What Public Entities Need to Know About Digital Accessibility
  Join David Sloan and Erik Ducker, Senior Director of Product Marketing at 3Play Media, August 26, 2025. 12:00 PM ET (9 AM PT).
• Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 12
  Mark Miller and David Sloan sit down with JAWS for Kiosk expert, Matt Ater, August 14 at 10:30 AM EST.
• New Support Eligibility Policy for JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion
  Beginning September 1, phone and email technical support will be available exclusively for customers with a current Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA), an active subscription, or customers licensed for the current version of JAWS, ZoomText, or Fusion. (FS link broken)
• Join Us for An Introduction to Using AI with JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion
  Elizabeth Whitaker: Learn AI with our new AI live webinar series and comprehensive online guide. First webinar: August 7 at Noon ET.
• Employee Spotlight: Mohammed Laachir’s Story
  Shelly Klure: We shine the spotlight on Mohammed Laachir, Product Owner at Vispero.
• JAWS, ZoomText & Fusion Now Available in UK by Subscription
  Sight and Sound: all three are now available through a flexible subscription model.
• I Don’t Use Scripts: The Reality of a JAWS User
  Accessibility4all: When we think of JAWS scripts, we think of scripts for Discord, Reaper, TeamTalk, and other programs.
• How we work to make Amazon accessible for everyone
  Amazon’s vision is to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, which means making our devices and services accessible to everyone.
• Legal Update: July 2025
  Ken Nakata: Unruh, Eastern District of New York, res judicata, Using the Discovery Process, Bill Tracker.
• New Research Brief – Lingering Inequalities in the Information Age
  Burton Blatt Institute: An Examination of Disparities in Internet Access Among People with Disabilities.
• How States Are Using New Data to Boost Accessibility
  GovTech: states are conducting surveys to better understand the experiences of people with disabilities.
• The needs of people with mental health disabilities
  Gian Wild: In fact, WCAG2 does not reference the needs of people with mental health disabilities at all.
• Accessibility and the agentic web
  Léonie Watson: even the most accessible retail websites don’t provide enough information.
• Tone policing and respectability politics
  Chris Yoong: How these techniques derail Accessibility work, and what to do about it.
• Accessibility pushback
  Chris Yoong: Stop the excuses, debunking some common pushback against Accessibility.
• Testing Methods: Contrast (Minimum)
  Dennis Deacon: ensures text and images of text have a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 against their background.
• Update project WP A11y Docs July/August 2025
  Rian Rietveld: This update informs you about how the documentation will be set up, the work we did up to now, what we are going to do next, how you can help.
• Avoiding the word “help”
  Eric Eggert: I frequently see the word “help” used in accessibility, and I don’t like it.
• We should listen to the philosophers more
  Hidde de Vries: in university, pretty much every course prepared me to be annoyingly critical of AI. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t aware of any of it.
• Video: Built-in accessibility: blessing or curse?
  Hidde de Vries at JSHeroes May 2025.
• A11y 101: 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks
  Nat Tarnoff: The standard take on the skip link is we include a visually-hidden link at the top of the page.
• Accessibility Part Of The Tripod
  Nicolas Steenhout: Accessibility, performance, and security are three critical parts of a good, quality site.
• True Disability Inclusion Requires Planning for the Unexpected
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: people often focus on the thing: the ramp, the captioning, the hearing device, the accessible stall, the screen reader. But …
• When “Neutral” Isn’t Really Neutral
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: 12 Everyday Practices That Disproportionately Impact People with Disabilities.
• Why semantic HTML still matters
  Jono Alderson: Somewhere along the way, we forgot how to write HTML – or why it mattered in the first place.
• HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML
  Steven Witterns: Only ARIA (accessibility) is notable, and only because this was what Semantic HTML was supposed to do and didn’t.
• The Web Is About to Get Better for Everyone, Everywhere
  Den Odell: the European Accessibility Act will require digital products provided in the EU to meet actual, enforceable accessibility standards.
• What’s the European Accessibility Act got to do with my design system?
  Geri Reid: Not sure whether it applies to your design system or if you’ve missed an important deadline?
• Newsletter: Designing for Online Content
  Dr. Nicole L’Etoile, CPACC: Your go-to resource for everything related to designing engaging and accessible online learning environments.
• Cognitive Load and Web Accessibility: Quick Tips for Clearer Content
  BOIA: It’s difficult to come up with simple rules that improve cognitive load.
• Why WCAG Conformance Doesn’t Mean “Perfectly Accessible”
  BOIA: While WCAG conformance is a worthy goal, it needs to be part of a broader commitment to your users.
• Reframing the average user
  Fable: A guide to inclusive product design
• How to Implement a Digital Accessibility Policy in Higher Education
  Level Access: why accessibility policies matter and how to build one that works in practice, not just on paper.
• What Is Use Case Testing?
  Level Access: Understanding Functional AT Testing and its Applications.
• Meet the team: Craig Abbott
  Tetralogical: Principal Accessibility Specialist focuses on embedding accessibility into organisational policies, processes, and culture.
• Accessibility Guidelines
  Vox Media: Use this checklist to help build accessibility into your process no matter your role or stage in a project.
• Video: When and how to use tabindex for better accessibility
  Pope Tech: Learn what tabindex is and three ways to use it to support keyboard accessibility.
• Document Structure in Word: The Essentials
  Vision Australia: This guide explains the invisible framework that makes documents truly accessible
• WCAG vs EAA: Understanding where WCAG stops and where the EAA starts
  Stark: what’s in and out of scope—and why organizations need to operationalize accessibility.
• Accessibility Quick Start: High Impact Practices for Non-Frontend Devs
  Hackernoon: practical, high-impact strategies to help you cover a lot of basic accessibility ground with minimal effort.
• Designing for Intelligence, Efficiency, and Accessibility
  Hackernoon: how AI is reshaping UX through three powerful lenses: intelligence, efficiency, and accessibility.
• Understanding WCAG 1.1.1 Non-text Content for WordPress
  Equalize Digital: why it’s important, common mistakes in WordPress, and how you can meet this success criterion.
• Captions and Subtitles: What’s the Difference?
  University of Colorado: These terms are often used interchangeably, but they serve distinct purposes.
• Do-It-Yourself Accessibility Basics
  NCADEMI: ensure that students with sensory, physical, and cognitive disabilities can effectively use the materials you create.
• Don’t Lose Focus: Why Keyboard Focus Indicators Matter for Everyone
  Pedal Point: Let’s talk about why visible focus indicators are so important.
• Is Your Website Legally Compliant?
  Tamman: Understanding ADA and WCAG accessibility requirements.
• Video: That Doesn’t Need to Be a PDF
  US Access Board: panel discussion with experts from FDIC, USAB, and GSA when a PDF document is the proper solution.
• Synchron Uses New Apple Tech to Allow ALS Patient to Control an iPad With His Mind
  Public footage of its work with Apple’s new BCI Human Interface Device (HID) protocol.
• SA launches new assistive tech to empower people with disabilities
  Locally developed technologies are designed to enhance the lives of people with disabilities in South Africa.
• Video: Unboxing Dreame X40 Ultra
  Lucy Greco unboxes the DREAME X40 Ultra Robotic Vacuum.
• Amazon has quickly removed Assistive Reader from the Kindle
  It was only available for a couple of days before Amazon removed it.
• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | July 2025
  Microsoft: Copilot, real-time voice interpretation in different languages, emoji stuff.
• 4 Windows Accessibility Features to Improve Your Workflow
  Improve the Cursor and Mouse, Live Captions, Scrollbars on All Apps, Voice Dictation.
• GPT-5: Here’s What’s New in ChatGPT’s Big Update
  CNET: OpenAI says its new generative AI model is a lot faster and smarter than its predecessor.
• GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff
  Ethan Mollick: the answer to the first question everyone will have is: Yes, this is a big deal.
• Why Designers Sound Negative (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
  Andy Budd: designers often fall into the role of the designated dissenter—not because they want to be contrarian, but because nobody else seems to be asking, “Will this actually work for the user?”
• Interfaces That Augment or Replace?
  Zeh Fernandes: The more familiar we are with a tool, the more fluent we become in using it to think.
• A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known
  Jim Nielsen: What are all the values you can put in an anchor tag’s href attribute?
• The one-liner for max-width, centering, and margins
  Chris Coyier: we can smash it all into a one-liner now if you’re feeling it.
• The Power Of The Intl API
  Smashing Magazine: A Definitive Guide To Browser-Native Internationalization.
• We Keep Reinventing CSS, but Styling Was Never the Problem
  Den Odell: it gets easier when we stop pretending there’s a perfect answer just one abstraction away.
• Infinite Pixels
  Eric Meyer: if I hand a browser values that are effectively infinite by way of the infinity keyword, it will necessarily end up clamping to something finite.
• Staying relevant
  Jeffrey Zeldman: Staying relevant in your profession as you age and technology changes.
• My CSS Foundation
  Mike Mai: Most people mistake a leading (line-height) of 1.5 as a standard or accessibility requirement.
• All the concerns that make you a boring developer
  Dave Rupert: Are you allowing people the dignity to use your product? No? Oof.
• I’m Done with GitHub. Bye!
  Jared White: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says, “The evidence is clear: Either you embrace AI, or get out of this career.”

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-august-11-2025/.

• Vispero Appoints Rhonda Bassett?Spiers CEO to Drive Innovation and Growth
  Seasoned tech executive to guide the global accessibility leader into its next phase of customer-focused expansion
• More Than Just Text: The Real Power of Labels
  Akash Shukla: Have you ever thought about why defining a clear and descriptive label matters so much in accessibility?
• Webinar: VPAT® 101: Introduction to the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template
  Presented on August 21, 2025 at 12pm ET by Brian Elton, Practice Manager, Training.
• Podcast: FSCast #260
  Freedom Scientific: Convention Special, And a Bit Of AI
• Unlock the Power of AI in the Workplace
  Freedom Scientific: In this interactive training series, you will learn to use tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot
• August 2025 Training Events
  Freedom Scientific: ongoing opportunities for you to advance your skills.
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) update
  Shawn Lawton Henry and Kevin White will give updates on WCAG 2, WCAG 3, and resources, at a session of #ID24 on 25 September.
• Vision for W3C is a W3C Statement
  The W3C Advisory Board has published today as a W3C Statement the document Vision for W3C, which articulates W3C’s core vision for the Web.
• Vision for W3C: a manifesto for our operations and decision making
  Coralie Mercier: Vision for W3C articulates the World Wide Web Consortium’s core vision and operational principles.
• W3C invites implementations of Incremental Font Transfer
  The Web Fonts Working Group has published Incremental Font Transfer as a W3C Candidate Recommendation.
• State of Digital Accessibility Survey
  Level Access, IAAP and G3ict. Deadline is August 20 2025.
• Attitudes to Digital Accessibility 2025 Survey
  AbilityNet. Deadline is September 5 2025.
• Introducing Accented
  Pavel Pomerantsev: Accented helps you catch accessibility issues on your page the moment they appear — no need to run audits using browser extensions. It integrates seamlessly into your dev flow with just a few lines of code.
• 1.2.5: Adversarial Conformance
  Adrian Roselli: I made a demo for WCAG 2.2 Success Criterion 1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded) AA.
• Horizontal Scrolling Containers Are Not a Content Strategy
  Adrian Roselli: I should clarify that I am not talking about carousels. That said, because users often consider horizontal scrolling containers to be carousels, I will be talking about carousels.
• Countdowns and timers – forgotten detail that can make your users really hate your product
  Bogdan Cerovac: consider all users when developing countdowns, timers and similar dynamic information or risk making some experiences horrible.
• Testing Methods: Audio Control
  Dennis Deacon: when audio plays automatically for more than 3 seconds on a web page, users must be able to either pause or stop it, or adjust its volume separately from the system’s overall volume.
• On inclusive personas and inclusive user research
  Eric Bailey: I am not a big fan of personas. They’re oft-abused tools whose utility is far too frequently not interrogated.
• Announcing My Next Phase
  Lucy Greco: I have retired from UC Berkeley. I am therefore available to do professional public speaking and accessibility consulting.
• Video: Using AI For Accessibility Work
  Lucy Greco: This talk explores the way to think about using AI for accessibility tasks.
• Video: When Banking Is Accessible, Everyone Wins
  Lucy Greco: a short presentation about how accessible banking has changed my ability to be independent.
• A11y 101: 2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below Threshold
  Nat Tarnoff: a requirement that reduces the potential for severe damage. Let’s discuss why.
• The Many “Blindnesses” of Neurodivergence That Have Nothing To Do With Sight
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Neurodivergent “blindness” is a functional gap characterized by difficulty processing certain types of information in real-time.
• The Accessibility Choice – July 2025
  Silvia Maggi: The latest accessibility news and discoveries. A monthly update.
• Web Components: Working With Shadow DOM
  Russell Beswick: There are connectivity issues with accessibility, where the shadow root boundary can interfere with ARIA.
• Liquid Glass on the Web
  Chris Coyier: Note that the liquid glass look has been rightfully criticized for text contrast accessibility.
• Video: Tools for Developers
  Kilian Valkhof, Miriam Suzanne, and James Stuckey Weber talk about developer tools including the Polypane browser and other accessibility tools.
• Creating a scroll-spy with 2 lines of CSS
  Una Kravets: make sure you have proper content and tab navigation wherever the list of anchor links lives.
• From Word Fluff to Real Impact: Achieving Specific, Measurable, and Accountable Accessibility
  Kelly Ford: Accessibility rights are being threatened. We need committed unequivocal commitments now more than ever.
• Accessibility and friction
  Tommy Palmer: One thing that plenty of people are guilty of, myself included, is ignoring web accessibility.
• Creating a culture of accessibility
  Martin Underhill: When I joined Sage, digital accessibility was almost entirely absent from the company culture.
• Font comparison and review: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono
  After a month of daily use, I can now assess this font’s practical advantages.
• Podcast: Ben Ogilvie
  Head of Accessibility at ArcTouch, on The Digital Accessibility Podcast.
• ADA Video Compliance Checklist
  Ensure accessibility and avoid legal risks. Get practical steps that work.
• Implementing Accessible SVG Elements
  Learn techniques for ARIA roles, testing, and creating inclusive graphics that work for everyone.
• How Keyboard Traps Impact Web Accessibility
  Learn practical solutions to create barrier-free web navigation.
• You’re Now Liable: Complying with the EAA Requirements
  Even if your business isn’t located in the European Union, the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and its requirements likely still affect you.
• Tips To Build Accessible Buttons
  David Gevorkian: Discover the strategies to provide button accessibility and an equal and inclusive experience for every user.
• Digital Accessibility’s Gap: AI to Bridge Mobile and Web Barriers
  This article is based on Jason Tan and Michael Bervell at A11yNYC.
• CareER and Intopia join forces to champion digital accessibility in Hong Kong
  Together, we’ll help Hong Kong organisations to build more inclusive digital experiences for everyone.
• Video: Be a Digital Ally: European Accessibility Act is Here – What Next?
  Sharron Rush interviews Susanna Laurin from Funka.
• Foundations: types of assistive technology and adaptive strategies
  Overview of common assistive technologies (AT) used by people with seeing, hearing, moving, and thinking disabilities.
• Accessibility Policy: Why It Matters and What to Include
  Having a clear internal accessibility policy is essential.
• Accessibility by Design: Preparing K–12 Schools for What’s Next
  Cynthia Curry: For K–12 educational agencies, digital accessibility efforts must align with existing priorities, practices, and policies.
• 12 heuristics for content design
  Andrew Tipp: Heuristic 1. Accessible: Content should be perceivable, understandable and usable for disabled people.
• Why product owners can’t afford to ignore accessibility
  Annie Mannion: For many product owners (POs), the first encounter with digital accessibility comes as a surprise — and possibly not a pleasant one.
• The Cost of Inaccessibility
  Publishers who overlook ebook accessibility do so at their own peril, facing significant financial penalties and irreversible damage to their brand reputation.
• Don’t trust the (design) process
  Jenny Wen: For a good period of time, between like, 2014–2020, design was all about The Process. You know it.
• Responsive video is (almost) easy now
  Koos Looijesteijn: With the humble HTML <video> you can unlock true responsive video.
• Design Systems in 2025: Why They’re the Blueprint for Consistent UX
  Atanu Sarkar: Some people may disagree, but design systems are useful.
• NVDA 2025.2beta5 available for testing
  Download the beta and provide feedback using our issue reporting process.
• Apple Releases
  iOS 18.6, iPadOS 18.6, macOS Sequoia 15.6, watchOS 11.6, tvOS 18.6, and HomePod Software 18.6
• Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 224
  Includes resolving a VoiceOver issue.
• Introducing Copilot Mode in Edge
  Our next step towards building a more powerful way to pilot the web.
• Kindle Software Update 5.18.4 Adds New Accessibility Features
  Nathan Groezinger: It’s a fairly significant update that adds some new accessibility features, including text-to-speech.
• Overview of Accessibility Nutrition Labels
  Apple to app developers: “over time, you’ll be required to share accessibility support details to submit new apps and app updates to the App Store”.
• Video Game Makers Start Rolling Out Accessibility Tags
  Shaun Heasley: Xbox is the first, but many others in the industry are set to follow suit.
• Disabled, Overheated, and Overlooked
  Grace Dow: As climate change drives more frequent and intense heat waves, many disabled people, especially wheelchair users, face a disproportionate risk.
• Groundhog Day for Accessibility
  Christiane Link: Network Rail’s design choices leave whole communities excluded and public resources wasted.
• “Sinners”: A Landmark for Black American Sign Language
  The critically acclaimed period horror film is accessible in Black American Sign Language (BASL), a distinct dialect of American Sign Language (ASL).

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-august-4-2025/.

• Beyond Sight: What a Blind Traveler’s Journey to Antarctica Reveals About Accessibility Design
  Melissa Morse: Isabel Holdsworth, a blind assistive technology engineer at TPGi, shared her experience traveling to Antarctica.
• Webinar: VPAT® 101: Introduction to the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template
  Presenter: Brian Elton. Presented on August 21, 2025 at 12pm ET.
• How Semantics and ARIA Attributes Support Accessible Design
  Melissa Morse: why semantics, design patterns, and attributes matter so much and how they shape the effectiveness of any accessibility audit.
• New 2025 Jaws Licensing and Pricing Explained
  Jim Barbour and Curtis Chong: Vispero has introduced new licensing options and prices for its JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion software.
• Celebrating 35 Years of the ADA
  The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990. Resource for events, reflections.
• News Flash: Alcazar v. Fashion Nova
  Ken Nakata: 5.15 million reasons to settle web accessibility lawsuits quickly.
• First Public Working Draft: CSS Borders and Box Decorations Module Level 4
  This module contains the features of CSS relating to the borders and decorations of boxes on the page.
• First Public Working Draft: IMSC Text Profile 1.3
  This specification defines a text-only profile of Timed Text Markup Language 2 intended for subtitle and caption delivery applications worldwide.
• Axe-core at 3 billion: A milestone in the movement for digital accessibility
  Preety Kumar: A milestone in the movement for digital accessibility.
• State of HTML 2025 now open!
  Lea Verou: After two weeks of hard work from a small team spanning three continents, we are finally ready to launch!
• Help Ensure That Streaming Services, Video Conferencing, and Emergency Services are Accessible!
  The Communications, Video, and Technology Accessibility Act (CVTA) would bring telecommunications accessibility standards up to date with current advances in technology.
• The Rise of the Chief Accessibility Officer
  Ensuring digital accessibility should not simply be tacked onto other leaders’ duties.
• Video: Advancing Digital Accessibility with W3C WAI
  Shawn Lawton Henry & Kevin White at John Slatin AccessU, 31 May 2025.
• Don’t Change the Company—Reflect It
  To make accessibility last, connect it to what your company already cares about—like speed, trust, or great design.
• Testing Methods: Use of Color
  Dennis Deacon: if you’re using color to indicate meaning, state, or action, like red text to indicate an error or green to show success, you must provide another visual cue as well.
• How to Create Audio Description VTT Files for Free
  Meryl Evans: No fancy tools needed.
• Quick tip: Use fewer links
  Nat Tarnoff: The overall product card has gotten cluttered with too many calls to action.
• A modern approach to font fallbacks with font property adjustments
  Nic Chan: improve accessibility for those who struggled with reading pixel fonts.
• Disability Pride Month 2025
  Sharon Morrow: Despite the grim state of things in the US, it is still Disability Pride Month.
• super short note: placeholder perfidy
  Steve Faulkner: It’s a hint not a label.
• A Primer on Focus Trapping
  Zell Liew: This whole focus trap thing is used to create accessible modal dialogs since it’s a whole ‘nother trouble to inert everything else.
• The Figcaption Problem
  Chris Coyier: The problem is when the image is less wide than the container and we want the figcaption to only be as wide as the image is.
• Embedding Accessibility SMEs in Remote Teams
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Organizational structure is what determines whether accessibility efforts succeed or stall.
• The ‘Accessibility’ link is a Lie: My Adventures in Weaponizing Corporate Virtue Signaling
  Robert Kingett: The Accessibility Statement [ … ] is, in my experience, often the most cynical lie on the entire internet.
• Level Access Appoints Tresilian Segal as New Chief Marketing Officer
  Segal will help shape Level Access’s global strategy, as the company empowers organizations around the world to navigate AI advancements and a tightening regulatory landscape.
• Creating Accessible Navigation Menus: Challenges and Best Practices
  Some of the most common accessibility issues associated with navigation menus.
• Scaling Enterprise Accessibility with AI Agents
  The common challenges that limit the success of enterprise accessibility programs.
• Scale Your Impact with AI Advancements: Summer ’25 Release Recap
  We introduced a powerful set of AI-driven features designed to reduce manual effort, streamline workflows, and empower accessibility champions.
• How to Make Your Learning Management Systems Accessible: A Five-Step Roadmap
  The connection between LMS accessibility and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance.
• Digital Accessibility in 2025: A Screen Reader User’s Honest Take
  Michael Taylor: areas that have improved—such as online shopping, banking, and social media—and the ones that still make it challenging to perform basic tasks, including travel, healthcare, and mobile apps.
• The Accessibility Show #7
  Joe Dolson: Looking deeper after automated testing.
• WCAG in Plain English
  Making accessibility standards easy to understand, one success criterion at a time.
• Make Your Website Talk with The JavaScript Web Speech API
  Andrew Magill: Help make your site more accessible and ready for the future of AI-driven web experiences.
• Designing Better UX For Left-Handed People
  Vitaly Friedman: roughly 10% of people are left-handed. Yet most products — digital and physical — aren’t designed with it in mind.
• What is assistive technology?
  David Redmond: How we define assistive technology is important for a few reasons.
• Fast, Simple, High Impact: DIY Accessibility Testing for Any Team
  Accessibility doesn’t have to be overwhelming or expensive.
• How to Integrate Automated Accessibility Testing into Your Mobile App Dev Cycle
  Leeanna Marshall: Automated Accessibility Testing in Mobile Apps.
• The Ultimate Guide to the European Accessibility Act for WordPress
  Amber Hinds: practical guidance tailored for website owners, web developers, and WordPress plugin/theme developers.
• 5 simple fixes that make digital spaces calmer—for neurodivergent and all users
  L? Silveus: support people whose minds process information differently—people who are autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, or otherwise neurodivergent.
• Podcast: Web Accessibility with Mike Gifford
  Oliver Davies with Senior Strategist at CivicActions, W3C Invited Expert and Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer.
• Few Guesses, More Success: 4 Principles to Reduce Cognitive Load in Forms
  Huei-Hsin Wang: structure, transparency, clarity, and support — minimize users’ cognitive load and improve usability.
• ZP for Zoom
  An app that enhances your VRS calls on Zoom with real-time sign language interpretation.
• Podcast: Flipping the Script on Audio Description: AD as a Tool For Creation
  The creative possibilities of audio description (AD) with Blind Composer , Kemal Gorey.
• Video: What’s New in Google Accessibility | Episode 9
  Latest product and feature updates that help make Google more accessible
• This built-in Windows 11 app can pull the text in any image with one click
  Roland Freist: Using the OCR feature in the Windows Photos app, you can instantly extract the text inside any image with one click.
• Designing for User Font-size and Zoom
  Miriam Suzanne: Using modern CSS units and math functions.
• The MIT study that could change how UX researchers use AI
  Lawton Pybus: Studies are finally starting to reveal patterns in how human cognition and artificial intelligence interact.
• An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership
  Michel Ferreira: The magic happens when you embrace the overlap instead of fighting it—when you start thinking of your design org as a design organism.
• How to Discover a CSS Trick
  Lee Meyer: my work on CSS-Tricks feels like “discovering,” not “inventing,” secret synergies between CSS features.
• A Friendly Introduction to SVG
  Josh Comeau: We can do so many cool things with SVG. It’s an absolutely critical part of my toolkit.
• Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML
  Jens Oliver Meiert: a link guide.
• Celebrating 20 years of MDN
  Joe Walker: MDN started as a community-driven wiki, helping developers navigate that rapidly-evolving web with an emphasis on web standards.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-28-july-2025/.

• Improving Client-side Page Routing for Better Accessibility
  Doug Abrams: How client-side routing in single page app frameworks can create barriers for people using assistive technology.
• W3C opens Inclusion Fund and Invited Expert Fund for TPAC 2025
  To support people from under-represented groups to attend or meaningfully contribute to Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee (TPAC) meetings.
• Diversity report 2025
  Annual report on gender and geographic diversity of W3C’s governing bodies.
• Why EAA Compliance and Legal Trends Are Shaping Accessibility in 2025
  Jason Taylor: The EAA applies to more than just EU-based companies.
• VA Not Prioritizing Accessibility When Purchasing IT Systems, IG Says
  The July 1 report looks at VA’s compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
• Attacks on Public Broadcasting Lead US Accessibility Champion to Reject Prestigious Award
  Larry Goldberg: In this article Larry explains why he could not accept the award. Lainey thinks this is an important act of resistance against the current US national government.
• Sassy Outwater-Wright: Accessibility Champion and More, Dies at 42
  Lainey Feingold: includes links to an article Sassy wrote and a webinar she organized about advocacy skills.
• European Accessibility Act (EAA) FAQ
  Ela Gorla: information on the application of the EAA in the context of websites and mobile apps.
• 2025 Disability Index Report
  Insights from the results of the 2025 Disability Index, the tool for benchmarking disability inclusion in business.
• Announcing Vitaly Friedman as our 2025 Keynote Speaker
  This year’s keynote speaker for WordPress Accessibility Day will be Vitaly Friedman.
• Why I don’t trust WCAG 2.2 and what I’m hoping from 3.0
  Daniel Schwarz: What’s wrong with WCAG 2.2 — and how will WCAG 3.0 improve things?
• Inclusive AI Isn’t New—But How We Use It Matters More Than Ever
  Ted Drake: People need to know how AI works, when to trust it, and when to double-check.
• ARTY Could Get You Sued
  Adrian Roselli: I can’t actually assert the ARTY overlay will result in a lawsuit, though there is a trend of overlays attracting lawsuits.
• Let’s build an Accessible Menu with Modern Web Features
  Alexander Lehner: Thanks to the Popover API and CSS Anchor Positioning, creating your own custom menu element has become a lot easier.
• We need to talk about your accessibility statement
  Bogdan Cerovac: Having an accessibility statement in itself is saying a lot, but only if the statement is telling the truth and in the right way.
• Why eCommerce Must Put Digital Accessibility First
  Dennis Deacon: As eCommerce continues to grow, so does the responsibility to ensure these sites are accessible to all users, including people with disabilities.
• Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days
  Eric Bailey: Here’s a sampling of some of the newsletters I look forward to.
• How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype
  Hidde de Vries: If we’re not cautious, we may accidentally feed the AI hype by talking about it in specific ways.
• Why use Able Player instead of `video`?
  Joe Dolson: what is it that the video element sucks at where Able Player excels?
• Making sense of accessibility and the law
  Martin Underhill: The legal landscape is difficult to wrap your head around.
• A11y 101: 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide
  Nat Tarnoff: To comply with the guideline, we want to offer an option to the user.
• a label and a name walk into a bar
  Steve Faulkner: When is a label also an (accessible) name, when is it not and when is it neither?
• Getting Clarity on Apple’s Liquid Glass
  Geoff Graham: Accessibility: let’s get right to the heart of where the pushback against liquid glass is coming from.
• Setting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container)
  Daniel Schwarz: Luckily, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) gives us a pretty hard rule to follow.
• Why I’m Writing Pure HTML & CSS in 2025
  Joel Dare: Accessibility and SEO benefits are automatic.
• A Designer’s Guide to WCAG Accessibility
  Zarina Majidova: Accessibility is a core part of creating inclusive, effective design.
• How Keyboard Traps Impact Web Accessibility
  Discover how keyboard traps affect accessibility and learn practical solutions to create barrier-free web navigation.
• How To Create An Accessible Formula Sheet
  Veronica Lewis: updated list of tips and strategies for how to create an accessible formula sheet for low vision students.
• Red Flags for Accessibility
  Christiane Link: warning signs that your organisation may have room for improvement, along with practical strategies to address them.
• Eight Skunkworks Projects That Advance Accessibility Without Approval
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: You don’t need a VP title or a budget to improve accessibility.
• Video: Assistive Technology Interview Series: Captions (Closed, Open, and Live)
  Heather Berg speaks with Laura Siegel, State of Vermont Director of Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Deafblind Services at The Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living.
• Key Accessibility Takeaways from Google I/O 2025
  We’ve spent time digesting the main accessibility-related themes.
• Three quick ways to shift left and fix accessibility issues sooner
  Jeremy Rivera: With the right tools, digital accessibility is not only easy, but it can be faster than what you’re doing now.
• Podcast: Naked and Semantic (with Fabien Basmaison and Jens Oliver Meiert)
  A reminder of the enduring value of accessible, maintainable, and standards-based web design.
• From human to human, describing images is the least you can do
  Silvia Maggi: The use of generated text might save time for who creates, but the results are lazy and unhelpful. Don’t be that person.
• The top 5 digital accessibility myths debunked
  Jonathan Hassell: from working with marketing, creative, digital, and design teams over the years.
• Strengthening digital accessibility is a powerful tool for advancing inclusion
  John Samuel: Any organization committed to inclusion understands the critical role of accessibility. It’s non-negotiable.
• When Accessibility Standards Slip, Design Steps Up
  Rochelle Ratkaj Moser: Accessibility is not a trend, a feature, or a checkbox on your project brief.
• Making 7 Million eCommerce Websites More Accessible
  Amber Hinds: Equalize Digital’s Role in Enhancing WooCommerce Core and Extensions.
• Using Voiceover and Voice Control together On IOS
  Community discussion: pros and cons.
• New Chrome extension makes web more accessible for neurodivergent users
  Kate Rix: Pop-up ads, hard-to-read fonts and robotic voices can overwhelm neurodivergent readers. LumiRead solves that.
• Inclusive Sans expands upon Penguin’s history with playfulness and curiosity
  Accessibility and boldness are the key focus in Olivia King’s customised typeface for the publishing giant.
• Expert Generalists
  Martin Fowler: our most effective colleagues have a skill in spanning many specialties.
• Two approaches to fallback CSS scroll driven animations
  Cyd Stumpel: Scroll-driven animations are set to land in all major browsers by the end of the year.
• Video: Multicol and fragmentation
  Rachel Andrew gives the latest updates around CSS multicol and fragmentation. CSS Day talk, 55 minutes.
• Video: The Era of Experience & The Age of Design
  Turing Award winner Dr. Richard S. Sutton on an AI shift systems learn autonomously through their own interactions and observations. 38 minutes.
• Why Non-Native Content Designers Improve Global UX
  Oleksii Tkachenko: they did not finish the process of securing a healthcare provider […] due to unclear or inaccessible communication.
• Tiny Screens, Big Impact: The Forgotten Art Of Developing Web Apps For Feature Phones
  Tom Barrasso: If you develop with keyboard accessibility in mind, supporting flip phone navigation is easy.
• Design Patterns For AI Interfaces
  Vitaly Friedman: a simple, systematic approach to building AI experiences that stick.
• How Will AI Impact the Next Generation of Designers?
  Eric Karkovack: Philosophies regarding color, typography, and accessibility are crucial to producing quality work.
• Designers Beyond the Interface: Building, Leading, and Solving in the Age of AI
  Dun Huang: Design systems are what help AI tools stay consistent, accessible, and on-brand.
• Stop animating everything!
  Chris Ferdinandi: And frankly, it’s an accessibility issue for neurodivergent folks like me.
• CSS Hyphens, Words, Syllables, and Languages
  Frank M. Taylor: There’s a newish CSS feature called hyphens that specifies how you want words to be hyphenated when the text wraps.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-july-21-2025/.

• Managing Focus and Visible Focus Indicators:
  Kirby Tucker Practical accessibility guidance for the web.
• How South Korea’s Disability Discrimination Act Is Reshaping Kiosk, Web, and Mobile Accessibility
  Melissa Morse: South Korea is undergoing a rapid transformation in digital accessibility.
• Position Vacant: Senior IT Accessibility Specialist App/Web
  Full-Time / Remote US: will provide subject matter expertise regarding Section 508 program & policy support.
• Ten Tips for Increasing Productivity with Google Docs and JAWS
  Elizabeth Whitaker and Rachel Buchanan: Want to learn how to navigate, format, and organize documents more efficiently?
• Employee Spotlight: Jim Pors’ Story
  Shelly Klure: takes us to the Netherlands as we get to know Jim Pors, International Sales Manager for Optelec.
• Incoming Chairperson of G3ict Board
  Shilpi Kapoor has been appointed as the Chairperson of Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs Board.
• European Accessibility Act 2025: Is Your Website EAA Compliant?
  David Gevorkian: The European Accessibility Act (EAA) aims to make products and services more accessible across the EU.
• Why NYC Businesses Face ADA Website Lawsuits and Wage & Hour Claims
  Michael Samuel, Esq: While these issues may seem unrelated on the surface, they share some striking parallels and practical overlaps.
• 2025 Midyear Accessibility Lawsuit Report: Key Legal Trends
  Jason Taylor: The numbers are in: digital accessibility lawsuits are on track to surge nearly 20% in 2025.
• From “I” to “We”: Building Lasting Accessibility by Letting Go
  Ted Drake: Long lasting accessibility leadership is driven with community engagement.
• Podcast: Henny Swan – Director at Tetralogical
  In this episode of The Digital Accessibility Podcast, Joe James is joined by Henny Swan, internationally recognised accessibility expert and Co-Founder of TetraLogical.
• Screen reader HTML support tables
  Steve Faulkner: With the addition of Gez Lemon to the editing team, work continues on expanding and improving the HTML and screen reader support information.
• short note: WCAG/ARIA – state of confusion
  Steve Faulkner: WCAG 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value, states – what a person can do, what a person cannot do.
• Accesstive Will Get You Sued
  Adrian Roselli: This post is, of course, my opinion. I provide evidence throughout to support that opinion.
• Testing Methods: Identify Input Purpose
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that each input field’s purpose can be programmatically determined.
• Make Screen Readers talk with the ARIA Notify API
  Alexander Lehner: Microsoft Edge has recently implemented the new API as a developer and origin trial. Here’s what I think.
• Please, can we have ARIA Notify
  Nic Chan: I’m delighted to see that there has been more chatter about implementing the ARIA Notify API.
• Was my IAAP Certification worth it?
  Nic Chan: I’m still on the fence about renewing my certification.
• A11y 101: 2.2.1 Timing Adjustable
  Nat Tarnoff: The reality is that completing forms on a timed schedule is a very difficult thing to do.
• Scroll-Driven Sticky Heading
  Amit Sheen: if the browser has reduced motion enabled or if the page is being accessed with assistive technology, the effect is disabled and the user gets all the content in a fully semantic and accessible way.
• What is popover=hint?
  Una Kravets: To make this more declarative, and more accessible […] what we really need are interest invokers.
• The accessibility pipeline for frontend teams
  Dominic Nguyen: How Storybook 9 integrates accessibility into every part of the development lifecycle.
• Malleable software
  Geoffrey Litt, Josh Horowitz, Peter van Hardenberg, and Todd Matthews: Restoring User Agency in a World of Locked-Down Apps.
• A convenience for some; necessary for others
  Lucy Greco: There are so many ways that technology liberates people with disabilities.
• Allyant Announces the Launch of its AI-Powered PDF Remediation Software
  Nicole McTheny: CommonLook PDF accessibility software now includes AI auto-tagging, supporting users of every ability, accelerating PDF compliance
• Video: Assistive Technology Interview Series
  Heather Berg & Julia Bessy: Zoom Text & Other Low Vision Tools
• Convince Your Client to Invest in Accessibility
  Sometimes a client is unwilling to invest in digital accessibility.
• Does WCAG Only Care About Visually Impaired People? Let’s Talk About It.
  Monika Prasad: when you hear “digital accessibility,” what comes to mind?
• AI for Accessibility, Engagement, Audio, and Access
  This article is based on four lightning talks given at A11yNYC.
• Case study: Fable’s cognitive accessibility pilot
  We decided it was more useful, and less harmful, to recruit based on needs, challenges, and assistive technology usage.
• Building Accessible Websites with a University Page Builder
  Colleges and universities are frequent targets for web accessibility lawsuits.
• Ethics of AI in Accessibility
  Avoiding Bias when Using Generative AI Text
• Experience ADHD
  Get a small taste of the ups and downs of ADHD, including hyperactvity, impulsivity, and time blindness.
• Droip: The Modern Website Builder WordPress Needed
  Zareen Tasnim: One of Droip’s standout features is its built-in focus on accessibility from day one.
• Accessible by Design: Building Inclusive Digital Products from the Ground Up
  Nir Horesh: “Accessible by design”—you keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.
• Video: The Accessibility Show #6
  Can Joe find menus in the menus of restaurant sites?
• WTF: WCAG Technique Failure – Bad Alt Text
  Renee Dunn: article series highlights real-world examples of failures for specific WCAG criteria.
• Cognitive Accessibility: Writing Copy That Works for Everyone
  Josh Crawford: practical techniques for plain language writing, multi-format content presentation, and clear information structure.
• Google Meet captions are now fully customizable
  This new feature gives you granular control over how captions appear on your screen.
• Why iOS 26 Accessibility Matters for Blind iPhone Users
  Skylar Covich: many newer blind users—especially older ones or those who suddenly lose vision—gravitate toward Siri.
• ScribeMe
  Mark Morad: [iOS / iPadOS] visual assistant and document scanner that can describe images [using AI].
• Video: Overcoming the Challenges of Enterprise UX
  Stéphanie Walter: Enterprise UX is not just “regular UX at scale.”
• Overcoming the Challenges of Enterprise UX
  Stéphanie Walter: I pulled together 12 takeaways from the conversation for people who don’t have time to watch the whole thing.
• Video: Simplicity: Sustainable, Humane, and Effective Software Development
  Dave Thomas & Sarah Taraporewalla discuss a better way.
• Building the Web in Islands, Not Mountains
  Den Odell: Not every site needs to be a full-blown app. In fact, most don’t.
• Influence the State of HTML 2025 Survey!
  Lea Verou: Which upcoming HTML features or Web APIs are currently on your radar?
• Design Guidelines For Better Notifications UX
  Vitaly Friedman: As always in design, timing matters, and so do timely notifications.
• Unmasking The Magic: The Wizard Of Oz Method For UX Research
  Victor Yocco: a proven UX research tool that simulates real interactions to uncover authentic user behavior.
• Antidatalossconfigurationism
  Donnie D’Amato: I’m in the middle of deep thought about what a text component looks like.
• A revisit of the Every Layout sidebar with :has() and selector performance
  Heydon Pickering: Every Layout’s Sidebar exemplifies a quantum CSS layout, perhaps better than any other layout we offer.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-july-14-2025/.

• Robust roles on Android
  John Lilly: we’ll focus on WCAG SC 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value, but primarily just “Role”.
• Panel: Policy to Practice: Turning Accessibility Regulations into Action
  Eugene Woo (Venngage), Eli Fresquez III (NM Dept of Justice), Jake Abma (W3C), David Sloan (TPGi): July 9 at 2pm ET
• Webinar: Creating Accessible Social Media Content
  Leilani Mason, Anthony Priore: Designing for Connection and Inclusion, July 16 at 12pm ET.
• Webinar: The State of Accessibility – Episode 11
  Mark Miller, David Sloan: AI’s Disruption on Design Part 2, July 24 at 10:30am ET.
• Webinar: It Takes All Three
  Matt Ater, Adrian Thompson (ImageHOLDERS), John Kiss (Aptaero): How Hardware, Software, and Accessibility Experts Create Inclusive Airline Experiences, July 30 at 12pm ET.
• Download the July Update of Fusion Suite 2025
  Elizabeth Whitaker: new features and enhancements for JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2025.
• Freedom Scientific at the ACB and NFB Conventions
  Elizabeth Whitaker: ACB Convention July 4-11, Dallas, TX; NFB Convention July 8-13, New Orleans, LA.
• July 2025 Training Events
  Elizabeth Whitaker: Freedom Scientific July schedule.
• JAWS and Multi-Line Braille: Expanding the Way We Read
  Elizabeth Whitaker: users will be able to view multiple lines of Braille text at once.
• Public release of W3C’s 2025-2028 strategic objectives initiatives
  Seth Dobbs: rigorously consider accessibility, internationalization, privacy, and security.
• Legal Update: June 2025
  Ken Nakata: three of the more interesting cases this month.
• India’s Digital Accessibility Laws and Overview
  Monika Prasad: one of the fastest growing and emerging markets for innovating, building, and nurturing digital technology.
• Why Digital Accessibility Must Be a Priority for State and Local Governments
  Key legal requirements
• The European Accessibility Act and Banking
  What EU Financial Institutions Need to Know
• ADA Title II Revision
  Kevin Gumienny: Training Needed To Satisfy New Web Content And Mobile App Accessibility Requirements For State And Local Government Entities
• ADA Title II
  Rob Jolly: What the New Digital Accessibility Rule Means for Public Entities.
• Check / Uncheck all in a Table
  Adrian Roselli: Unless you have user testing results saying otherwise, maybe put a check-all checkbox outside the table.
• Give Users’ Brains a Break
  Homer Gaines Jr.: UX Tips for Cognitive Accessibility.
• Video: Browsing on the Amazon Fire TV
  Patrick Lauke explores some of the accessibility features of the Amazon Fire TV.
• The Tiniest Progress
  Eric Eggert: newsletter
• Looking elsewhere
  Robb Owen: the output of LLMs and design-tooling tends to be a chaotic rat-king of <div>s with no regard for semantics or accessibility.
• You MUST listen to RFC 2119
  Eric Bailey: RFC 2119 establishes language around requirement levels.
• Hierarchy in tables
  Martin Underhill: I’ve seen a lot of tables that should be lists, but there are still a lot of tables that absolutely should be tables.
• Video: How does tech enable me as deafblind?
  Torbjörn Svensson: digital accessibility and how it is something that everyone benefits from.
• iOS Accessibility Inspector: Beyond Automation
  Mark Steadman: what should users be doing with it to catch more accessibility bugs?
• Video: Assistive Technology Interview Series: Screen Readers
  How screen readers work, which ones are most common, and why user experience varies so widely.
• More than a checklist
  Ross Mullen: Turn accessibility into real progress.
• Video: When and how to use tabindex for better accessibility
  Whitney Lewis: learn what tabindex is and three ways to use it to support keyboard accessibility.
• Video: Getting started with manual testing
  Whitney Lewis: Learn how to include manual testing accessibility testing in your workflow.
• Interview with Lola Odelola
  Steve Faulkner: TetraLogical sponsors her work on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG).
• Ensuring Accessibility in Single Page Applications
  Michael Beck: A Comprehensive Guide.
• How to Create Accessible Data Tables
  Michael Beck: Best Practices for Web Developers.
• Designing for Cognitive Disabilities
  Michael Beck: Best Practices for an Inclusive Web.
• Top Tools for Testing Accessibility
  Michael Beck: A Guide for Developers and Webmasters.
• How to Use ARIA Roles and Properties Effectively
  Michael Beck: what ARIA is, when to use it (and when not to), and best practices.
• Testing Methods: Orientation
  Dennis Deacon: Content must support both portrait and landscape positions unless a specific orientation is essential.
• Implement WCAG Rules in Your Infographics
  Make your visuals accessible to all.
• A11y 101: 2.1.4 Character Key Shortcuts
  Nat Tarnoff: Keyboard shortcuts are designed to help multiple disabilities.
• Accessible Social Media: Alt Text
  Callum McMenamin: how to add alt text to your social media images, and why it’s important.
• CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language
  Gabriel Shoyombo: The future of CSS … should be a thoughtful expansion, power balanced by clarity and innovation grounded in accessibility.
• Why no one takes content design seriously (and how to change that)
  Jas Deogan: Content enables accessibility.
• 7 Mistakes I Wish I Had Avoided at the Start of My UX Career
  Denys Sergushkin: Mistake #7: Ignoring Accessibility.
• Meet the Google engineer making Maps more accessible
  Robin Young, Karyn Miller-Medzon: Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, “I couldn’t find out if I could get in the door”.
• Creating an Effective Website Accessibility Checklist
  Paola Gonzalez: One of the most effective ways to incorporate accessibility into your process.
• Breaking Barriers
  Gabriel Laurent: The Gaming Industry’s Accessibility Revolution
• What to Say When You Don’t Know the Accessibility Answer
  Josh Crawford: handle unknown accessibility scenarios with confidence while building credibility with colleagues.
• The orders of Complexity of websites
  Treasa Ní Chonchúir: and what they imply for the design of web platform features.
• The Natural Language Interface
  Niq Bernadowitsch: The next user interface.
• The broken rhetoric of AI
  Mike Schindler: A detox guide for designers navigating today’s AI discourse.
• Video: Why visual website builders didn’t take off
  Salma Alam-Naylor: Step into 1995: when the web got images, JavaScript, and visual dev tools. This is how it all began, where it went wrong, and how it’s still going wrong today.
• Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress
  Nilay Patel: not a puff piece, goes quite deep.
• Feedback Is Not an Attack
  Ashley Willis: Feedback should be thoughtful, specific, grounded, and mutual. If you’re not doing it with intention, you’re not doing it right.
• Alek
  Text-based AAC app designed to help users respond more naturally during real-time conversation. (video demo)
• Vivaldi Browser
  Android browser Vivaldi is accessible and offers additional customization options.
• Narrator Update
  AI-Driven image descriptions, speech recap, live transcription, dictate text with voice access.
• SortSite
  Accessibility Checker
• Polypane 25
  Helps you make your site more responsive, more accessible and faster.
• WooCommerce Accessibility Conformance Report
  WooCommerce is a free plugin that adds ecommerce functionality to WordPress websites.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-july-7-2025/.

• Vispero and Matt Ater Recognized in Forbes’ Accessibility 100
  This honor highlights the individuals and organizations making transformative strides in the accessibility space.
• The EAA Is Here!
  David Sloan: What does this mean for organizations that provide products and services to consumers in the European Union (EU)?
• What Is a VPAT?
  Melissa Morse: Understanding the Meaning and Value of the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template.
• Join Vispero at the 2025 Disability:IN Conference
  Anthony Priore: A global corporate disability inclusion event designed to promote a thriving economy for all.
• Choosing the Right FS Software License
  Choosing the right Edition and License option can make a big difference in your JAWS®, ZoomText®, or Fusion™ software experience.
• Podcast: FSCast #259
  Multiline Braille; visual tables; and a cruise in Antarctica
• Deque named a top innovator on the 2025 Forbes Accessibility 100 list
  Deque is proud to be featured among so many champions of accessibility.
• IAAP Global Accessibility Leadership Award
  Nominations / applications open until 22 July.
• EU accessibility rules set to reshape payments industry
  The payments industry is expected to undergo some of the most significant changes under the EAA.
• Microsoft’s commitment to the European Accessibility Act
  Jenny Lay-Flurrie & Nanna-Louise Linde: We are committed to making sure that our products and services comply with the European Accessibility Act.
• The EAA Deadline is Here. Now What?
  Here’s how to improve your accessibility game, ensure EAA compliance, and not get left behind again.
• The EAA and the new era of digital accessibility
  Preety Kumar: This transformation couldn’t have come at a more profound time.
• The European Accessibility Act: Dreams and Gratitude
  Lainey Feingold: my hopes and dreams for this law and my gratitude for those who did the hard work to make it happen.
• A beginning of a new international accessibility era
  Bogdan Cerovac: You have probably read a lot about EAA, I know I have.
• Times up: European Accessibility Act (EAA) is now in effect
  Dennis Deacon: It creates a harmonized framework across all EU member states, aimed at improving accessibility.
• Don’t Stop Now
  Nat Tarnoff: It may be EAA time. A single day may arrive and pass. That doesn’t mean we stop improving accessibility.
• Understanding the European Accessibility Act (EAA)
  A New Era for Inclusive Products & Services in the EU.
• European Accessibility Act
  Andre Felix: products and services required to be accessible!
• WCAG 3, increment or overhaul?
  Alastair Campbell: A question has been raised though: Should we be incrementally updating WCAG 2 instead?
• Understanding EN 17161 Design for All
  Henny Swan: a framework that supports embedding accessibility into strategy, design, and development processes.
• Quality is a trap
  Eric Bailey: We must be careful to not conflate process with results.
• Able Player version 4.6.0
  Joe Dolson: I released my first update version of Able Player today, along with the major update to the Able Player WordPress plugin.
• Able Player for WordPress: version 2.0
  Joe Dolson: New Features in WordPress.
• Can Good UX Protect Older Users From Digital Scams?
  Carrie Webster: particularly for non-tech-savvy older users navigating today’s digital world.
• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to design
  Milen Donev: Unleash your creative magic by mastering the art of human-centered craft.
• 14 logic-driven UI design tips to improve any interface
  Adham Dannaway: UI design tips to improve your interface designs using logic rather than gut feel.
• SVG Optimization and Accessibility Basics
  David Bushell: SVG elements don’t have an alt attribute like images. The <title> element can be used to provide an accessible text description.
• Tying Accessibility to Business Objectives
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Let’s face it: The federal government isn’t going to restart enforcing the ADA anytime soon.
• From Word Fluff to Real Impact
  Kelly Ford: Achieving Specific, Measurable, and Accountable Accessibility.
• A tailored digital accessibility plan for your organization—in minutes.
  Matthew Luken: One of the most impactful efforts your organization can undertake.
• ADA Compliance Checklist for Physical Spaces
  It’s just as crucial as digital accessibility.
• Top 5 Web Accessibility Issues in 2024 (And How to Fix Them)
  Kim Collins: low contrast text, low contrast graphics, keyboard operability, keyboard focus, heading text.
• Video: Be a Digital Ally
  Sharron Rush & Natalie Patrice Tucker: Navigating the Digital Accessibility Career Trajectory.
• Know your HTML (yes, TSX included)
  Anselm Hannemann: there are still very few frontend developers today who truly know how to write semantic HTML and build with accessibility in mind.
• Podcast: AXSChat with Sabine Lobnig
  Sabine Lobnig focuses on the Global Accessibility Reporting Initiative (GARI), which aims to inform consumers about accessibility solutions and help them identify devices that meet their needs.
• Accessible Customer Service Starts Here
  A Guide for Businesses Who Want to Do Better
• Accessibility Lessons from the MyWay+ Rollout
  In November 2024, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government launched a digital ticketing system with significant accessibility barriers.
• Accessible Shopify Themes
  Nic Chan: Breaking Down Shopify’s Accessibility Requirements
• Course: Website Accessibility, v3
  Jon Kuperman: Build content for everyone and become your company’s accessibility expert!
• Tool: Contrast Report
  Select either WCAG AA or AAA guidelines and the tool lets you generate a shareable link.
• A closer look at Apple’s Accessibility Nutrition Labels
  These labels help users understand if an app will be accessible prior to downloading it.
• WCAG Success Criterion “Identifying Input Purpose”
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: In order to make Web input forms accessible, it is essential to provide appropriate labels for each input field.
• Don’t Fix Over It, Demand It
  Nir Horesh: Why You Should Require Accessibility from Your Suppliers.
• Tool: WCAG 2.2 Card Deck
  Johannes Lehner: This is a Figma Community file.
• Tool: Remediator.app
  From Jira to VPAT®. Instantly.
• Infographic: Who Accessibility Helps
  Exactly who benefits when you make your WordPress website accessible. [ with text alternative ]
• Dis/abling Futures: What Ableism Stops Us Noticing
  Craig Slee, Loes Damhof, Martin Calnan: So, what happens if we engage with futures through a (dis)ability lens?
• What we’re missing out on because the world isn’t more accessible
  Young Lee: It’s important to ponder what we lose when communities aren’t accessible.
• InDesign 20.4: Major Accessibility Advances
  Native MathML Export, Enhanced SVG Support with Image Tags, Enhanced Navigation File Titles, Nested List Documentation.
• New Visual Interpreter Service: VisualEyes Access
  Visual Interpreter Pro (VIP) Service.
• Agent Management Interface Patterns
  Luke Wroblewski: As AI applications evolve to agents doing work for people, agent management becomes a critical part product design.
• The Hovercar Framework for Deliberate Product Design
  Lea Verou: what if the key to shipping great products wasn’t starting small — but starting big?
• Animating zooming using CSS: transform order is important… sometimes
  Jake Archibald: I tapped to zoom into an image, and it animated in an odd way that I’d seen before.
• The Future of Content Design in an AI World
  Andrew Tipp: In a nutshell? It’s a bit scary. But full of possibilities. For now.
• The Power of White Space in UX Design
  Toby Biddle: When it comes to UX design, white space (also known as negative space) is often overlooked.
• Mobile UX Trends 2025
  Iva Olah: 9 Common Pitfalls & Best Practices
• Using hearing devices with your Windows 11 PC
  Low Energy Audio (LE Audio) is a new technology for audio streaming over Bluetooth.
• Firefox 140.0 Release Notes
  A new vertical tabs feature along with support for the Custom Highlight API, the SVG `fetchpriority` attribute, and more.
• What’s new in DevTools, Chrome 138
  Sofia Emelianova: elements in Elements > Styles are now keyboard-focusable.
• When did forward slash become solidus
  Paul Martz: Does anyone know why this change was made apparently only to the native Mac Mail client?

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-june-30-2025/.