Introduction
Welcome to KC News, your monthly briefing on what’s new and updated in the TPGi Knowledge Center.
Knowledge Base
We’re continuing to work on refining and updating ARC Rules and the Knowledge Base, Tutor training courses, and our suite of Design Patterns and will report on progress in coming newsletters.
Blog Posts since our last newsletter
- What State ARIA In?, October 20, 2025
Aditya Jainapur explains how to use ARIA to indicate the difference between selected, pressed, current, and checked states of elements. - Tables: Beyond Rows and Columns, October 13, 2025
Akash Shukla explains the best way to use semantic table markup to present web content in accessible rows and columns. - Understanding the Removal of 4.1.1 Parsing in WCAG 2.2, October 1, 2025
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.
Our Weekly Reading List is compiled from 492 RSS feeds and 55 email newsletters by Principal Technical Writer Ricky Onsman and published as a blog post every Monday. The emphasis is on digital accessibility industry news, averaging about 60 items per edition.
If you don’t have time to go through the full lists, you’ll find links to a few notable articles further on.
On-demand TPGi Webinars
- User Centered Testing with User Journeys, October 30, 2025 at 10am ET
Charlie Pike, Director of Platform Success, looks at types of user journeys, and how to convert them into test plans for evaluating websites and applications. - Understanding ADA Title II: Accessibility Auditing, Compliance, and Prioritization, October 28, 2025 at 12pm ET
Vispero’s Chief Accessibility Officer, David Sloan, guides attendees through key components of corrective action planning – accessibility auditing, remediation, validation, and documentation, along with vendor management and planning for new content. - Agile and Accessible User Experiences with AT User Flow Testing, October 1, 2025 at 12pm ET
Vispero’s Chief Accessibility Officer, David Sloan, PhD, and Isabel Holdsworth, a senior accessibility engineer at TPGi and JAWS user, will show you how to complement technical accessibility testing through user experience evaluations of real-world user flows.
Many more TPGi webinars are available via on-demand recordings. Check the Webinars page for details.
Podcasts
- The State of Accessibility – Episode 14, November 12, 2025
David Sloan, Chief Accessibility Officer, and guest John Lilly, Principal Accessibility Engineer, discuss how you can create more accessible mobile app user experiences and start creating more inclusive digital experiences for all.
For an archive of past episodes of the The State of Accessibility and other podcasts, visit the Podcast page.
Other Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events – November
- Inclusive India: Digital First, November 10, Mumbai, India
Learn, share and network with thought leaders and experts focusing on inclusion and accessibility in the Digital First ecosystem. - TPAC 2025, November 10-14, Kobe, Japan
W3C’s annual conference gathers all work groups to transcend group borders, coordinate solutions to technical issues, with public breakouts. - AbilityNet TechShare Pro, November 12-13, London, UK + online
Europe’s largest conference for the accessibility and disability inclusion community. - World Usability Day 2025, November 13, global
Theme: Emerging Technologies and Human Experience. Contribute to a more accessible and environmentally conscious world. - Accessing Higher Ground, November 17-21, Denver CO + online
Accessible media, web and technology conference focusing on the university, business and public setting. - Web Directions Developer Summit, November 19-20, Sydney, Australia
Web Directions Developer Summit covers cutting edge technologies and practices current in front end engineering–from the back to the front of the front end. - Gaady Awards, November 20, San Francisco CA
Recognizing and celebrating the outstanding achievements of individuals and organizations in the field of accessibility.
Upcoming Events – Further Ahead
- Accessible Europe 2025: ICT 4 All, December 2-3, Brussels, Belgium
A multistakeholder regional knowledge development forum held within the framework of the ITU Regional Initiative for Europe. - International Day of Persons with Disabilities, December 3, global
Aims to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development. - Sight Tech Global, December 4-5 (dates TBC), online
Free global conference dedicated to fostering discussion among technology pioneers on how rapid advances in AI and related technologies will fundamentally alter the landscape of assistive technology and accessibility. - Meets Easy Accessibility, December 10, online
Three accessibility experts share their stories, tools, tips, and practices. - 2026 APA National Conference, January 21-23, Austin, TX
Hear from leading US and Texas accessibility speakers at the Accessibility Professionals Association’s annual conference. - ATIA 2026, January 29-31, Orlando FL
The Assistive Technology Industry Association’s annual gathering, the leading community-building and learning event for all things AT.
For more events, see the Technical Events Calendar. This calendar is continuously updated, listing events up to a year ahead, as well as past events for reference.
Reading List Highlights
- OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse
Adrian Roselli: OpenAI has announced it’s launched a new browser, Atlas, with ChatGPT built in. - 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. - 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. - Headers, headings, and titles
Martin Underhill: use the terminology defined by the super smart people who wrote HTML and ARIA. - 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. - a11y-tools bookmarklets
Ian Lloyd: All the bookmarklets from a11y-tools.com wrapped up and organised in one place for your convenience.
These articles have been selected from the Weekly Reading List, posted on the TPGi Technical Blog.
How to contact the KC
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