- 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.
Weekly Reading List November 17 2025
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