- Join Vispero at the 2025 M-Enabling Summit
TPGi: “Digital Accessibility Innovation—A Deep Dive into Next-Generation User Experiences”, October 6 to 8 in Arlington, Virginia. - Webinar: Agile and Accessible User Experiences with AT User Flow Testing
TPGi: David Sloan, Chief Accessibility Officer, & Isabel Holdsworth, Senior Accessibility Engineer, on October 1, 2025 at 12pm ET. - JAWS Inspect September 2025 Update
TPGi: September release aligns JAWS Inspect with the latest JAWS screen reader update and updates to ARIA handling. - Webinar: Unlocking the future of Multiline Braille
Vispero: an exclusive webinar showcasing the future of braille access with Monarch and JAWS, Oct 22, 2025 12pm ET - Employee Spotlight: Meagan Griffith’s Story
Freedom Scientific: shining the spotlight on Meagan Griffith, Accessibility Engineer at TPGi, a Vispero company. - FSCompanion
Freedom Scientific: AI-Powered assistant for Learning JAWS and Microsoft Applications. Video / Try it out. - Group Note: CSS Snapshot 2025
W3C: The CSS Working Group has published CSS Snapshot 2025 as a Group Note. - 2026 Call for Digital A11Y Professional Development Webinars
IAAP: submit a proposal for a webinar(s) in our 2026 Professional Education Webinars – Digital Accessibility Series. - Book: Inclusive Design for Accessibility
With contributions from twelve accessibility leaders, this book is for digital designers, developers, UX professionals, product managers, and business leaders committed to inclusive design. - Screen readers do not need saved by AI
Craig Abbott: What needs fixing is the way we, as humans, use language and iconography online. - Don’t Panic: A Former Employee’s Guide to Layoffs
Crystal Preston-Watson: Although I can’t say it’s good news, you’re not alone. - Baby Steps Accessibility – Page Titles
Dennis Deacon: Let’s look at the frequently overlooked page title. - Digital Accessibility: Start Now, Don’t Wait
Dennis Deacon: Digital accessibility isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity, for millions of people. - Testing Methods: Visual Presentation
Dennis Deacon: ensure that users can control and adjust the visual presentation of text to improve readability and accessibility - What to expect in WCAG 3.0
Diana Khalipina: WCAG 3.0 is being designed to be more human-centered, more flexible. - Why You Should Test Your Page Without JavaScript
Ilknur Eren: there’s a less-discussed [ accessibility ] area you should consider: how your site behaves without JavaScript. - Deep down, I love maintenance
Joe Dolson: for accessibility, [ maintenance is ] figuring out when past decisions are no longer the right decisions. - Reviewing the Logic and Value of the W3C’s Accessibility Maturity Model
Karl Groves: Why does this Accessibility Maturity Model even exist, in the first place? - WCAG 3.0 (W3C Working Draft 8 September 2025)
Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: an overview of the changes in this Working Draft and the current (tentative) guideline items. - The Impact of Invisible Stigma on User Interviews: Lessons for UX Researchers
Laura Wissiak: Invisible stigma … deeply influences how people with disabilities engage in user research. - A (not so Swift) rant…
Lauren Sherrard: Taylor Swift’s new website … bypasses accessibility standards. - Web Accessibility in Government: Common Misses and Practical Fixes
Lindsey Markel: six common government website issues and practical fixes you can start today. - My approach to manual web accessibility testing
Luis Felipe Murillo Madera: I’ve found ways to make it approachable and effective. - Avoid Adding Modals to Other Modals or Dropdowns
Melanie Sumner: avoid mixing dropdowns, search boxes, and modals in a single interaction … combining them can create accessibility failures. - WCAG 3 September 2025 Update
Rachael Bradley Montgomery: The question everyone is likely asking is “When will WCAG 3 be complete?” - Update project WP A11y Docs August 2025
Rian Rietveld: the brainstorm session about the content; new contributors that joined in; the work planned for September 2025; how you can help. - Video: Navigating the World of Web Accessibility
Sara Soueidan: I finally sat down with Kevin Powell for a long-overdue, in-depth conversation about web accessibility. - Inaugural AuDHD Day, September 9th
Sharyn Morrow: AuDHD is a term used by people who are both autistic and have ADHD. - Disability Inclusion Requires More Than a Lanyard
Sheri Byrne-Haber: Inclusive access is not about placing the burden on individuals with disabilities to make themselves visible. - Which Languages Are Required for EAA Compliance?
3Play Media: The EAA has introduced significant considerations regarding language support for accessible video content. - Understanding Focus Indicators for Web Accessibility
A11y Collective: Learn WCAG-compliant techniques for clear visual feedback and keyboard navigation. - Meeting the Mandate
Allyant: How Infinite Campus Turned the ADA Title II Deadline into a Software Development Strategy. - New Alternative Print Production Facility
Allyant Opens State-of-the-Art Alternative Print Production Facility, Doubling U.S. Production Footprint. - Accessibility in a Zero-Click Web
Access Armada: Preparing for an AI-Mediated Future. - Podcast: Understanding Hypermobility and Neurodivergence
ASX Chat: with Jane Green, founder/Chair of SEDSConnective. - Turn Your Monitor to Grayscale
BOIA: Basic Web Accessibility Tests. - Minnesota Web Accessibility Laws: An Overview
BOIA: How the Minnesota Human Rights Act and applies to digital accessibility. - Publication of ISO Plain Language Standard Part 2, ISO 24495-2:2025
Centre for Accessibility Australia: new publication presents a clear understanding of what plain language legal communication is. - Making Content Accessible for People with Limited English Proficiency
Equal Entry: This article is based on Irina Morozova‘s talk at A11yNYC. - AI and Assistive Tech: Key Advancements in Accessibility
Level Access: unpacks how AI is transforming the assistive technologies used by many people with disabilities. - Five Ways State and Local Governments Can Scale Accessibility
Level Access: It’s common for state and local government agencies to struggle with scaling their accessibility initiatives. - Video: Make complex data accessible for users with disabilities
Pope Tech: two design strategies for making your data more accessible. - Championing inclusive language
Tetralogical: Inclusive language fosters psychological safety. - Video: Keyboard, keyboard, who’s got a keyboard…
The Accessibility Show: #8 with Joe Dolson on how ubiquitous keyboard accessibility problems really are. - Steps for Converting a Microsoft Word File to PDF to Include the Tag Structure
Access Ingenuity: start sharing your documents with others without worrying about edits and formatting differences. - Resource: Third-Party Digital Product Procurement Guide
Allyant: Six Best Practices for Evaluating and Purchasing Accessible Technology. - Resource: Responding to a Web Accessibility ADA Demand Letter or Lawsuit
Allyant: Six Steps to Take. - Resource: A Software Vendor’s Guide to VPATs
Allyant: Streamline Procurement, Strengthen Sales, Secure Renewals. - Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough
Ars Technica: Neurodiverse employees may be benefiting far more from chatbots than their neurotypical colleagues. - The power and poetry in accessible communication
Blind New World: I’m Matthew Harris, a 65-year-old poet from Maryland who’s living with Usher syndrome. - The engineer behind seamless experiences
Digital Journal: Akash Singh on making accessibility the core of design. - Understanding WCAG 1.2.1 Audio-only and Video-only (Prerecorded) for WordPress
Equalize Digital: why it’s important, common mistakes in WordPress, and how you can meet this success criterion using WordPress tools. - The Central Role of Accessibility Leaders in Publishing
Inclusive Publishing: Accessibility has become a central focus in the book publishing industry. - Splide
A lightweight, flexible and accessible slider/carousel written in TypeScript. No dependencies, no Lighthouse errors. - Disability Club: Inclusive Social Media
Strives to be the most accessible social media platform catering to users of all capabilities. - NVDA 2025.3 Released
NV Access: now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. - What’s New in TalkBack Version 16.1
Accessible Android: Gemini image descriptions changes, reduce delay settings, Braille input screen gestures customizable. - What’s New in iOS 26 Accessibility for Blind and DeafBlind Users
Excellent summary by Scott Davert, Coordinator of Technology, Research and Innovation at Helen Keller National Center. - Robots to assess city accessibility in Irvine
University of California: self-evaluation of public facilities uses robots to collect data on the accessibility of the city’s streets. - While you’re fixing the fun stuff, fix the important stuff too
Andy Bell: we’re inadvertently causing … potentially problems for people using assistive technology, such as a screen reader. - How to stand out when anyone can build anything
Anton Sten: It’s about fundamentally different skills that most people skip entirely. - Just use HTML
Chris Ferdinandi: hitting enter on an input won’t submit the form. This removes a native accessibility feature. - On craft and compromise
Chris Ferdinandi: If you ask me to “skip accessibility” for the sake of speed, I won’t. - 7 Alternatives to Dark UX Patterns
Dhananjay Mukerji: Ethical design is not just about honesty. It’s also about accessibility and equity. - Confirmation dialogs: How to design dialogues without irritation
Dmitry Sergushkin: A well-designed confirmation dialog must be accessible to all users, including those who rely on assistive technologies. - Designing a new button to visually show and hide alt text
James G: I made a button for visibly showing and hiding alt text on my website. - 2025: 0 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML
Jens Oliver Meiert: The point of this annual analysis is to check on full HTML conformance—absence of markup errors—on home pages. - From Data To Decisions: UX Strategies For Real-Time Dashboards
Karan Rawal: Reliability strongly connects with accessibility. - How to fold socks
Mike Monteiro: How do you think about your creative practice? What are the most important parts of it? - I moved my Astro websites to Europe
Steve Frenzel: it is possible to break away from all US digital products and use European solutions. - Follow-the-leader pattern with CSS anchor positioning
Una Kravets: creating a single “follower” (positioned) element and dynamically updating its anchor on an event or state change. - Evaluating the User Experience of Zara’s Online Store
Zarina Majidova: For a brand of this scale, users should expect a smoother and more accessible shopping experience. - Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 billion
The Verge: The European software company will take Vimeo private after the deal closes.
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