- A Simpler, Faster User Registration Experience Going Live on December 4
Vispero: we’ve already made significant improvements to make registration quicker, clearer, and more comfortable for all users. - Employee Spotlight – Brett Lewis
Vispero: Brett Lewis has been promoted to Director of Engineering, reporting to Nathan Romney, Chief Technology Officer. - Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 15
Vispero: David Sloan, Chief Accessibility Officer, is joined by special guests from our team for a year-end recap of the digital accessibility landscape. - Why We’re Updating Our Support Policy, And What It Means for You
Vispero: To strengthen reliability and ensure every customer gets timely, consistent help, we’re updating how support will work moving forward. - December 2025 Training Events
Freedom Scientific: you’re sure to find something that will help you at work, school, or play. - 5 Accessibility Insights Every Retailer Should Know Before the Holiday Rush
Matt Ater: Here are five things the accessibility community wants retailers to know. - Advancing Accessibility through Digital Inclusion
United Nations: digital inclusion means much more than internet access for all. - November 2025 Kobe DevMeetup
W3C: more than 100 attendees gathered to hear this year’s outstanding speakers. - 2025 U.S. Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold
3Play Media: annual up-to-date overview of what is happening in the digital accessibility legal space in the United States. - Video: I’m Not Remarkable
Apple: Musical tribute to students with disabilities (and the Apple products they can use). - You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone
Adrian Roselli: it’s important to acknowledge the reality of the human condition and limitations in technologies. - Web Design / Dev Advent Calendars for 2025
Adrian Roselli: you may (should) recognize some of the ones listed below. - Solving small text and contrast issues for large-screen readability
Alicia Jarvis: Why your beautiful UI becomes unreadable the moment it hits a TV screen—and how to fix it. - The next revolution in design: Emotional accessibility
Ben Wintner: Why the future of accessible design depends on how products make us feel. - Accessibility with Interactive Components at React Advanced Conf
Daniel Curtis: ARIAKit, an open-source accessibility library, enables developers to build custom UI components that meet WCAG standards. - When Download Links Aren’t Links
Darrell Shandrow Hilliker: A Critical Accessibility Failure in AI Tools Blind People Depend On. - Testing Methods: Target Size (Minimum)
Dennis Deacon: making sure people can actually activate interactive controls. - Testing Methods: Dragging Movements
Dennis Deacon: all about ensuring that interaction is never a barrier. - Testing Methods: Concurrent Input Mechanisms
Dennis Deacon: ensure digital content can be navigated and activated using multiple input methods simultaneously, without conflict. - Testing Methods: Target Size (Enhanced)
Dennis Deacon: ensuring that all interactive elements are sufficiently large for easy activation. - Testing Methods: Motion Actuation
Dennis Deacon: addresses an often-overlooked barrier in digital accessibility: reliance on motion-based interactions. - Testing Methods: Label in Name
Dennis Deacon: ensures that the visible text label of a user interface component is directly reflected in its programmatic name. - Testing Methods: Pointer Cancellation
Dennis Deacon: ensures that users can cancel or reverse pointer actions, taps, clicks, drags, before completing them. - Web Accessibility Advent Calendar
Diana Khalipina: something special to celebrate the end of 2025 and to thank everyone working to make the digital world more inclusive. - Case study: accessibility journey of Starbucks
Diana Khalipina: a surprisingly thoughtful and evolving approach to accessibility, both in-store and online. - Today is International day of persons with disabilities
Diana Khalipina: Accessibility is about designing for the real world – messy, diverse, imperfect, human. - How to go beyond WCAG without overwhelm?
Diana Khalipina: for most people, WCAG feels like a huge wall of rules. Complicated, technical, intimidating. - Fit Text Responsibly
Donnie D’Amato: there’s still an open question about accessibility for this. - Accessibility Maintenance Plans
Equalize Digital: Why Agencies Should Offer Them - Understanding WCAG 1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded) for WordPress
Equalize Digital: addresses the needs of people who are blind or have low vision. - The PMs Role in Preventing Digital Ableism
Homer Gaines: One area where digital ableism can be found is in the company’s product development process. - Another reminder that overlays and widgets are bad
Homer Gaines: In the past five days, I have seen two separate accessibility companies claim their widgets can fix accessibility issues. - Color Contrast and Web Accessibility
Ilknur Eren: A high color contrast improves benefits a wide range of users such as users with low vision, color blindness, and those viewing screens in poor lighting or with glare. - My Calendar 3.7.0 Beta
Joe Dolson: With this model, it makes more sense for accessibility to use buttons. - Image Description Toolkit 3.6.0 Available
Kelly Ford: The release features a new –redescribe option as well as support for two Microsoft Florence-2 models via Hugging Face. - International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2025 Thoughts
Laura Wissiak: Thoughts (and maybe Prayers) on the current status of digital inclusion. - I’m speaking at Web Day Out 2026
Manuel Matuzović: The core idea of the event is to get you up to speed on the most powerful web platform features that you can use right now. - Dealbreaker bugs in native popovers
Manuel Matuzović: Popovers can contain focusable elements, such as buttons. - ‘Sloppy’ Code and Accessibility Issues
Margaret Manto and Emily Kennard: The Trouble With Trump’s Silicon Valley-Inspired Web Design Project - Should pagination take you to a new page?
Martin Underhill: You might even wonder why this article is even necessary. - What most teams misunderstand about the European Accessibility Act
Matthaios Mantzios: The EAA isn’t a design guideline. It’s a legal milestone. - Did you know your browser has two accessibility trees?
Russ Weakley: here’s the strange part: Chrome doesn’t have one accessibility tree, it has two! - How Chrome builds the accessibility tree – start to finish
Russ Weakley: We’re often told that the browser builds its accessibility tree ‘from the DOM,’ but what does that actually involve? - Understanding screen reader speech queues
Russ Weakley: To understand how screen readers work — and to diagnose issues — you need to understand the screen reader speech queue. - What is an AXEvent?
Russ Weakley: a notification generated by the browser and sent to assistive technologies when something meaningful changes. - What happens when an event occurs? — the quick answer
Russ Weakley: Ever wondered how a browser turns an interaction into a screen reader announcement? - What are DOM mutations?
Russ Weakley: These mutations can happen with or without JavaScript. - What really happens when a user clicks an accordion button?
Russ Weakley: don’t expect a neat step-by-step “path” — expect a dance that moves across different layers. - End-to-end browser and accessibility event architecture
Russ Weakley: When announcements behave unexpectedly or different browsers produce different results, the cause usually lies in these hidden systems. - Understanding aria-live timing: a two-layer model
Russ Weakley: Did you know that there are two completely separate systems that determine when live regions are spoken? - How to Avoid Boiling the Accessibility Ocean
Sheri Byrne-Haber: Accessibility is often framed as a gigantic task that requires attention to everything at once. - Crystal Preston Watson – Fireside Chat 25th November 2025
Steve Faulkner: Despite the shambolic nature of my recording/editing it worked out OK. - The Task Manager I Had To Build Because My ADHD Brain Fired Every Other App
Taylor Arndt: I am blind. I am neurodivergent. I manage a lot. So I built the tool I actually needed. - Why Government Should Be Careful About Regulating AI
Taylor Arndt: I work in technology, I build accessible apps, and I depend on AI every single day. - The Idiot Sandwich – On Embedding Alt Text
Terence Eden: It’s a lovely idea – and technically feasible – but it fails to account for user needs. - The Architecture of Anxiety and Shame, Part Two
Todd Libby: A roach motel is a deceptive pattern to which it is easy to sign up for a service or subscription, but extremely difficult to cancel. - Deloitte Reading pledges 3 years of support for AbilityNet
AbilityNet: Disabled people, older people and digitally excluded people will benefit from Deloitte Reading’s fundraising and volunteering efforts. - Podcast: How Karl Groves is Reimagining Event Ticketing
Accessibility Craft: 146 – Amber and Chris interview special guest Karl Groves about Eventably. - Podcast: Throwback: Accessible Typography with Carie Fisher
Accessibility Craft: 145 – Carie Fisher explores how typography choices impact digital accessibility. - How Button Traits can make a chaotic iOS app accessible
Axess Lab: if this can be fixed, then the same method can fix anything. - Podcast: Eugene Woo
AXSChat: CEO of Venngage, a design platform that helps organizations produce accessible documents at scale. - Be My Eyes Wins Apple’s 2025 App Store Award for Cultural Impact
Be My Eyes: A milestone achievement reflecting our community’s dedication to accessibility. - Can User-Generated Content Lead to an ADA Demand Letter?
BOIA: you should still take reasonable actions to keep your entire site as accessible as possible. - AI and the Future of Accessibility
Carnegie Mellon University: As AI reshapes how content is created and consumed, accessible, human-centered design must remain at the core of that evolution. - International Day of People with Disability
Centre for Accessibility Australia: Digital Accessibility Matters. - Legal Update: November 2025
Converge: this was a slow month for new case development. - From Reactive to Proactive: Building a Sustainable Accessibility Program
Equal Entry: This article is based on Lina Trifon ‘s talk at A11yNYC. - 7 ways we’re making Android more accessible
Google: New features are rolling out to make your device more helpful. - Video: Spilling the tea on digital accessibility
Intopia: Lauren Hayes is a blind freelance digital and arts accessibility consultant dedicated to making both digital and physical spaces accessible to everyone. - Intopia launches Assistive Technology Survey 2025
Intopia: designed to capture how Australians and New Zealanders use, access and experience assistive technology. - Keeping Up with EAA Compliance
Level Access: Proven Strategies for Long-Term Success. - Forrester Research: As technology has evolved, so has the need for accessibility.
Microsoft: accessible technology empowers everyone. And with the rise of AI, we’re entering a new era of possibility. - PAC 2026 Release notes
PAC: PAC 2026 includes artificial intelligence (AI) functions. - Common misconceptions about disability
TetraLogical: Disability is often misunderstood or misrepresented online and in mainstream media. - 30 Ways Media Can Improve Accessibility
UNESCO: guide media in equitable reporting and concrete guidance for producing accessible content and fostering inclusive management practices. - Mobile Accessibility Narration: A Frustrating Shopping Experience
UsableNet: Some of the flaws I encountered were particularly bizarre. - ADA Accessibility Lawsuit Tracker
UsableNet: Final Numbers in Web Accessibility Lawsuits for November 2025 - POUR: Four Major Web Accessibility Principles Every Design Needs
WebABLE: most poor user experiences boil down to: a design without web accessibility in mind. - Expressive Captions are now available on YouTube
YouTube: displaying the intensity of speech in all caps, expressions of sounds like sighs and gasps, as well as noises from the environment. - A Web Component for Obfuscating Form Fields
Aaron Gustafson: will automatically obfuscate the value when the field loses focus. - One CSS Trick to Eliminate Scrollbar Layout Shifts
Amit Merchant: use thescrollbar-gutterCSS property - Use
overscroll-behavior: containto prevent a page from scrolling while ais open
Bramus van Damme: Chrome 144 features a small change to overscroll-behavior: it now also works on non-scrollable scroll containers. - UX for reversible actions
Eric Chung: A decision framework for designing with recovery in mind. - Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog is open
Geoff Graham: you can see the trouble with active scrolling when a “dialog” is open. - HTML Semantics
Jens Oliver Meiert: The Short Descriptions of All 113 Elements - HTMHell Advent Calendar 2025
Manuel Matuzović: 24 articles on security, accessibility, UX, and performance. - A complete guide to the HTML number input
Ollie Williams: Today, there are few reasons to avoid<input type="number"/>. light-dark()isn’t always the same asprefers-color-scheme
Stefan Judis: Today I learned that they don’t always behave the same.- Designing For Stress And Emergency
Vitaly Friedman: Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy.
Weekly Reading List December 8 2025
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