- 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 thecontainer-typeproperty. - 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.
Weekly Reading List November 24 2025
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