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Freedom Scientific: a powerful JAWS feature that helps you catch formatting issues, punctuation problems, and other inconsistencies in your documents or web pages. - September 2025 Student of the Month
Freedom Scientific: Kenny uses JAWS on his school computer to navigate websites and complete school assignments. - Book: This Is for Everyone
Tim Berners-Lee: an essential read for understanding our times and a bold manifesto for advancing humanity’s future. - ‘PowerPoint broke me’: The challenges for blind professionals
The Japan Times: software accessibility standards remain limited under the ADA. - Custom Carets and Users: When The Caret Is No Longer a Stick
Adrian Roselli: (Yes, That’s a Poor Attempt at a Pun) First, let’s define caret. - Digital Accessibility is a Journey, Not a Destination
Dennis Deacon: It is an ongoing commitment, one that grows and changes as technology, people, and standards evolve. - Testing Methods: Images of Text (No Exception)
Dennis Deacon: Text must be displayed using real text, not images of text, so it can be resized, styled, and read by assistive technologies. - Taking a shot at the double focus ring problem using modern CSS
Eric Bailey: something you might run into when you are trying to make a large, complicated website or web app accessible at scale. - Threats and opportunities for mature design systems
Erin White: there are some recurring patterns I’ve observed as product teams work with our design system. - Why Moving Away from SPAs improves Usability, Accessibility, and SEO
Florian Thoma: A growing movement is embracing traditional server-rendered websites. - On inclusive personas and inclusive user research
Geoff Graham: a few notes on Eric Bailey’s grand post about the use of inclusive personas in user research. - Add an Accessibility Nutrition Label
Geri Reid: I’ve just completed an audit for one of these labels. Here’s what I learned. - The politics of AI: we’ll need more sustainability, community and democracy
Hidde de Vries: This week I attended a symposium called ”The Politics of AI: governance, resistance, alternatives”. - The writer, the text and the audience
Hidde de Vries: To understand art, we need to look at more than the artifact, the book, the album, the written text, the poem. - A Quick Primer on Accessible Pagination
Karl Groves: pagination is one of those UI patterns that can be surprisingly nuanced when it comes to accessibility. - Why Now Is Not the Time to Think About WCAG 3
Karl Groves: WCAG 3 is not ready for you to use as a compliance framework. Not even close. - Accessible by Design
Karl Groves: Improving Command Line Interfaces for All Users. - How Blind People Navigate the World, On and Offline
Laura Wissak: Online navigation works quite similarly to offline navigation, only the tools differ greatly. - Support for disabled entrepreneurs severely limited
Margaux Wosk: it’s the only form of employment that genuinely accommodates my needs. - YNAB adds a Home screen to its iOS mobile app; but is it accessible?
Rachele DiTullio: Whenever I see something new in an app I use frequently, I like to turn on the VoiceOver (VO) screen reader. - CSS to speech: alternative text for CSS-generated content
Sara Soueidan: when and how to use the slash content property syntax in CSS to provide alt text for CSS-generated content. - forced-color-adjust: none is an unavoidable foot gun
Sarah Higley: it is still possible to override the default styles and customize forced color styles for both good and evil. - When an airline breaks your wheelchair you lose more than equipment
Sheri Byrne-Haber: As many other wheelchair users and I have documented, chairs get damaged far too often. - HTML/SR Lookup milker
Steve Faulkner: a list of links to each of the HTML elements in the screen-reader-HTML-support tables. - accessiBe partners with RightHear to bring accessibility beyond the screen
accessiBe: accessiBe is partnering with RightHear, an orientation technology company, to help businesses combine digital and physical accessibility. - How to Achieve ADA Compliance for Your Shopify Store
A11y Collective: how to build real compliance through education & audits. - Managing Content Visibility With aria-hidden
A11y Collective: Discover when and how to use aria-hidden effectively in your HTML. - aria-label or title? Screen Reader Behaviour Explained
A11y Collective: Get clear guidance on implementation and accessibility standards. - Podcast: Crystal Preston-Watson
ASX Chat: from self-taught coder and journalism dropout to Senior Digital Accessibility Analyst at Salesforce’s Office of Accessibility. - Podcast: Why Your Document Passed the Checker… but Still Fails Your Users
Chax Chat: Join Chad and Dax as they dive into relatable stories, offer hands-on tips for remediation, and reveal the hidden flaws that checkers just can’t spot. - Beyond compliance: Building design systems for inclusivity
Deque: how organizations can shift focus from basic compliance to building inclusive design systems. - The Unruh Act
Deque: Understand the lawsuits and how state and federal regulations could combine to create blockbuster settlements. - Vibe fixing
Deque: How to validate AI-generated code and achieve accessibility at the speed of AI. - Improving the DfE accessibility and inclusive design manual
Gov.UK: In September 2024 we published the Department for Education (DfE) Accessibility and inclusive design manual. - Video: Be a Digital Ally
Knowbility: Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) What it is, Why you need it, and How it works. - Introducing the Accessible Design Framework
Level Access: accessibility needs to map to our mental model(s) of design, as well as fit seamlessly into our processes. - Understanding WCAG for Mobile App Accessibility
Level Access: why it’s a valuable framework for designing and building accessible apps. - The 5th Motivation for Accessibility
NirA11y: Brand and Marketing – The Binary Choice. - Meet the team: Catriona Morrison
Tetralogical: an Accessibility Specialist at TetraLogical, where she focuses on accessibility assessments and testing. - An Introduction to the PDF/UA Standard
Vision Australia: In this article we will look at what this standard is and how it is different to WCAG. - Resource: Accessible Escape Room
Now in kit form, teams of 3-10 people, with or without disabilities, try to solve puzzles while learning about accessibility. - Samsung’s One UI 8.0 Update all but Bricks Phones for TalkBack Users
Accessible Android: Note that Google TalkBack is not affected. - macOS Tahoe
AppleVis: New Features, Changes, Improvements, and Bugs for Blind, DeafBlind, and Low Vision Users. - iOS 26 and iPadOS 26
AppleVis: A Summary of VoiceOver and Braille Issues and Improvements. - Amazon is focusing on accessibility for Kindle books
GoodEReader: Amazon is prioritizing new accessibility features for vision disorders. - What is NVDA? And why is it important?
Vision Ireland: [JAWS] is expensive, increasingly so as a result of its new subscription model. The main alternative to JAWS is a screen reader called NVDA. - Video: Thunderbird Accessibility Study
Thunderbird: a closer look at accessibility in the Thunderbird desktop and mobile apps. - Firefox Release Notes 143.0
Firefox: Firefox now supports Windows UI Automation, which improves support for accessibility tools such as Windows Voice Access, Text Cursor Indicator and Narrator. - Monday Tech Tip: Camera Positioning in JAWS
Easterseals Crossroads: two features in JAWS to help position your face for video calls or meetings. - Dateability Revolutionizes Accessible Online Dating
BusinessWire: The only dating app for the disabled and chronically ill communities launches Version 2.0 - The Psychology Of Trust In AI
Victor Yocco: A Guide To Measuring And Designing For User Confidence. - Open Source the Revolution
Leah Reich: In order for a human to speak computer, a human has to learn new languages, ones a computer can understand and process.
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