- Webinar: From Project Ideas to Polished Writing
Vispero: Research and Organize with Claude Using JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion. Thursday, February 5 Noon ET. - Podcast: On reading, mentorship and Braille Advocacy
Freedom Scientific: Olga Espinola shares her life story. Dave Williams discusses tactile Braille displays. Elizabeth Whitaker introduces upcoming training opportunities. - 2025 World Wide Web Consortium Membership Survey
W3C: Members of W3C gave positive feedback about the current W3C, as well as helpful suggestions for our future. - Group Note Draft: Cryptography usage in Web Standards
W3C: clear, practical, and standards-compliant guide for recognized cryptographic algorithms and their appropriate applications in various scenarios. - Group Note Draft: Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements
W3C: describes user requirements related to text-to-speech rendering of electronic documents containing ruby annotations. - Texas and Eight Other States Renew Attack on Section 504
DREDF: It allows people with disabilities to receive services in the community rather than in institutions. - The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It
New York Times: The term, long considered a slur for those with intellectual disabilities, is seeing a resurgence on social media and across the political right. - Cognitive Accessibility Institute
COGAI: supports cognitive accessibility as an organisational capability helping organisations evidence responsibility, governance, and readiness. - Repeatable Form Fields Made Simple
Aaron Gustafson: To improve the experience for screen reader users, theremove-labelvalue is combined with the associated label/legend to create accessible names. - Please do not use auto-scrolling content on the web and in applications
Bogdan Cerovac: auto-scrolling content can be a real nightmare for multiple groups of users. - Styling ::search-text and Other Highlight-y Pseudo-Elements
Daniel Schwarz: So that covers the usability, but what about the accessibility? - From Demand Letter to Lawsuit
Dennis Deacon: Understanding the Digital Accessibility Escalation Path. - How the same content always has multiple different versions
Diana Khalipina: the same content can create clarity for one person and confusion, stress, or exclusion for another, without changing a single word. - Stories of small businesses with big hearts
Diana Khalipina: accessibility is not connected inclusively to big corporations. - Digital Trust in Europe: what 2026 might hold
Diana Khalipina: 93% of European websites still fail basic accessibility checks. - How web accessibility supports women’s health
Diana Khalipina: Here are some real ways accessibility helps women stay healthy and engaged online. - A small confession about web accessibility and motherhood
Diana Khalipina: web accessibility can be an extra piece of wood that helps to stabilize the mental state of parents. - MacOS Accessibility with pyax
Eitan Isaacson: A tool to inspect and test accessibility behaviors on MacOS. - Predictions for the future of accessibility
Eric Bailey: compliance deadlines and automated tools risk creating performative accessibility that fails users. - How an accessibility designer adds keyboard shortcuts to a web app
Eric Bailey: another window into the sometimes unglamorous-yet-vital tasks that being an accessibility designer demands. - “WCAG is difficult to read, don’t read it” is a self-fulfilling prophecy
Eric Eggert: reading WCAG, and then proceeding to understanding it, is essential despite its difficulty. - What Is MCP, and How Can It Help Your WordPress Website?
Eric Karkovack: They might also scan PDF files to ensure compliance, generate transcripts for your multimedia content, or add accurate ALT attributes to images as you upload them. - Unicorns exist
Erik Kroes: Some thoughts on the concept of the “accessibility unicorn”. - Accessibility in visualization, full course out now!
Frank Elavsky: In collaboration with Alberto Cairo’s Open Visualization Academy, I have released a full course on accessibility in visualization. - CSS in 2026: The new features reshaping frontend development
Jemima Abu: the native accessibility and semantics of a real<select>with the kind of styling flexibility we previously only got from JavaScript-powered components. - A Decade of Building for Everyone
Jenny Lay-Flurrie: Ten years ago, Accessibility at Microsoft started a new chapter. - Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary
Josh Tumath: when you increase the system text size in your iOS or Android phone’s accessibility settings, the text gets bigger everywhere except on the web. - Being Strong Is Exhausting
Kelly Mack: Burnout Is The Cost of Relentless Overexertion. - Book: Accessibility for Everyone
Laura Kalbag: Perhaps someday I will find time to write a second edition, but first I wanted to make the book free - Accessibility Events in February 2026
Laura Wissiak: A curated guide to the February events driving real change for people with disabilities. - The Mistake Of CES’s Accessibility Stage
Lucy Greco: This year’s accessibility coverage was abysmal and incredibly hard to find. - Automated Accessibility Testing on the Web: Possibilities and Limitations
Maria Korneeva: why a significant portion of barriers remain invisible even with the most modern automation. - Designing and building from our own worldview
Martin Underhill: why accessibility exists: to continually remind people who design and build that their experience of the world is not the only one. - Between the Dots: What Designers Miss Without Braille Users
Megan Dausch: how to create better digital experiences for the braille community. - Fedra
Quin Gillespie: lightweight, fast, and accessible Mastodon client for Windows, designed to be completely usable with screen readers and keyboard navigation. - 10 Digital Accessibility Predictions for 2026
Ricky Onsman: I could, of course, be very wrong but, anyway, here goes. - Editable tables: choosing the right approach
Russ Weakley: it helps to understand the three most common approaches and what each one is actually good at. - Preventing Common Issues When Working with AI-Generated Code
Schalke Neethling: Accessibility Testing – Use ARIA snapshots as the default. - A Measure of Humanity
Sharyn Morrow: This blog focuses on accessibility and disability. In the next three sections, I’ll explain how ICE operations connect to those topics. - Why I Don’t Call Myself an Accessibility Expert
Sheri Byrne-Haber: It’s the result of significant discomfort with the term “expert,” resulting from a lot of overthinking and concerns about saying the wrong thing. - Designing beyond the happy path in design systems
Stéphanie Walter: The designer’s happy path is only a fraction of the real experience. - Apple Creator Studio’s Secret Sauce is iPadOS
Steve Aquino: the iPad is the most accessible computer Apple has ever made. - Do we all see the same colors?
Tatyana Bayramova: Discovering how color blindness affects color perception and accessibility. - Your 2026 Accessibility Game Plan
Aaardvark: framework to help you build accessibility into how your agency works without burning out your team or blowing up your processes. - Building Accessible Tab Interfaces
A11y Collective: Master ARIA roles, keyboard navigation, and screen reader compatibility. - Mobile app accessibility under EN 301 549 v4.1.0
Abra: EN 301 549 v4.1.0 introduces a combination of conceptual clarifications and changes in both the definitions and Clause 11 that directly affect how mobile apps are assessed for accessibility. - A Galaxy of Difference
Accessible Android: I’ve noticed a big difference in Android accessibility. - ta11y
Accessible Community: An evaluation tool to help organizations around the world become more accessible. - Why Drupal CMS 2.0 is the Innovation Engine Your Enterprise Needs
Acquia: you can now apply Recipes for common site functionality such as SEO tools, AI, and accessibility tools. - PDF Accessibility Index
Allyant: This practical resource takes you through these Title II requirements, giving you the six steps to get started. - The Calculus of Inclusion
Assistive Technology Blog: Navigating the Intersection of AI and Accessibility in Higher Education. - Podcast: Heather Hepburn
AXSChat: a passionate accessibility evangelist who kick-started the accessibility programme at Skyscanner, now Head of Accessibility. - WCAG 2.1 AA Compliance for Interactive Maps
Concept3D: How Concept3D Is Helping Higher Education Meet New Digital Accessibility Requirements - ADA reform and the path to a true win-win for businesses and people with disabilities
Deque: These proposed changes deserve careful, thoughtful examination. - Make accessibility testing up to 4x faster with Deque’s new AI-powered features
Deque: To solve AI-created accessibility challenges, you need AI-powered accessibility solutions. - How to design great alt text: An introduction
Deque: On the surface, it’s a simple concept to learn and is usually straightforward to implement. - Why Figma Annotations Are Critical for a Shift-Left Accessibility Approach
DigitA11y: Accessibility annotations in Figma are notes, labels, and specifications added to design files to communicate accessibility requirements clearly. - Podcast: Matt Roberts – When Accessibility Gets Personal
Digital Accessibility Podcast: a designer, design leader, and accessibility advocate whose lived experience has profoundly shaped his approach to inclusive design. - The government’s good scores are no fluke
Digital Accessibility Portal: reassuring news regarding compliance with digital accessibility on public websites in Luxembourg. - Digital accessibility gets its own observatory
Digital Accessibility Portal: the Digital Accessibility Observatory aims to provide you with all the latest data on accessibility, updated frequently. - Why Accessibility Checker Doesn’t Have a Toolbar
Equalize Digital: A high quality website shouldn’t require an accessibility widget or toolbar. - Video: How the New WordPress Accessibility Ready Testing Process Works
Equalize Digital: shows exactly how to test a theme from start to finish. - Video: Demystifying Screen Reader Use for Manual Testing
Equalize Digital: Deneb and Kosi break it down for you and show you how to use the free screen reader of your choice. - Why Accessibility Should Be Your Business’s New Year’s Resolution
GrackleDocs: It’s a strategic business decision that opens doors to new markets. - Podcast: Disability Inclusion, Trust, and Belonging
IAAP: Chris Ruden, a transformational keynote speaker, change management expert, and disability inclusion advocate. - ReadAble
Knowbility: extension to simplify online reading by rephrasing sentences into fragments, making digital content more accessible. - Video: Accessibility 101 + Core Concepts
Knowbility: This includes making the case for accessibility, describing a UI component, native applications, navigation and design. - Video: Straight Talk What Disabled Users Want You to Know When Designing Your Product
Knowbility: User Experience Research makes a profound difference when creating products for all. - From Plateau to Progress
Level Access: How Proactive Planning Can Revive Accessibility. - Revisit (Reflow?) the past to prepare for the future
Minnesota IT: PDF accessibility is still a hot topic. Get tips to prepare for April 2026 and beyond. - PDF Scan Results
Pope Tech: powered by GrackleDocs PDF Testing engine which uses the PDF/UA standard for its tests. - Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey #2
WebAIM: results of a survey conducted in December 2025 and January 2026 to collect salary and job-related data. - AI Can Explain Your Code. Stop Documenting the Obvious
David Lewis: You can ask it to explain a module, trace a request, describe a component, or summarise a flow. - On Coding Agents and the Future of Design
Jeffrey Veen: we’re at the beginning of a new era of further crystallization, and it feels both more disruptive and more enabling than the shift to responsive design 15 years ago. - We named them after the humans they were replacing
Jeffrey Zeldman: “The word ‘computer’ only really slid over to mean ‘a machine’ in the late 19th and early 20th centuries”. - Little Fish Eat Big Fish
Leah Reich: This weekend, you may have learned that social media and relentless footage of atrocities do not, in fact, desensitize us. - Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer
Stefan Kaltenegger: AI coding tools like agents can be valuable allies in everyday development work. - Introducing ReliCSS: A Tool for Front-End Archaeology
Stuart Robson: an online tool that finds those browser hacks you no longer need. - How to think about Gas Town
Steve Klabnik: This isn’t a fundamentally novel idea. The novel part comes in that it’s agents doing the work, not humans.
Weekly Reading List February 2 2026
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