- Top 3 Risks of a Poorly Created VPAT
TPGi: Why VPATs Matter More Than You Think. - Webinar: AI Tips, Tools, and Techniques – Where to Begin
Freedom Scientific: Recorded Thursday, September 4 - Enhancements in JAWS 2025.2508.120 (September 2025)
Freedom Scientific: Support for Multi-Line Braille Displays, AI Features, Aria and Web, Google Suite, Office Apps, Zoom, Braille, Other. - Video: ADA Title II: What Public Entities Need to Know in 2025
3Play Media: David Sloan from TPGi on what Title II entails, what digital content is covered, and the steps your organization can take. - For Review: WCAG 3 Working Draft
W3C: W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 Working Draft is updated. For review questions and how to comment, please see the WCAG 3 section ‘About this draft’. The starting place for background, timeline, and up-to-date information is the WCAG 3 Introduction. - For Wide Review: Accessibility Maturity Model — Updated Draft Note
W3C: Accessibility Maturity Model Updated Draft Note is ready for review. Please comment by 30 September 2025. - The Socioeconomic Impact of Digital Transition
BBC: closing the digital divide could unlock billions of pounds in economic and social value for the UK. - CSUN General Call for Presentations
Opens on September 4 and concludes September 23. The 41st conference will be held March 9 through 13, 2026, at the Anaheim Marriott. - H.R.3417 – Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act of 2025
US Congress: To establish uniform accessibility standards for websites and applications of employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, joint labor-management committees, public entities, public accommodations, testing entities, and commercial providers, and for other purposes. - Legal Update: August 2025
Converge Accessibility: Southern District of NY cases, Nexus Still Required in Third Circuit, Federal versus State Court in CA, Eighth Circuit, Bill Tracker. - Rising tide of ADA website lawsuits targets Missouri small businesses
Kansas City Business Journal: The Growing Trend - The National Design Studio is a Scam
Christopher Butler: Joe Gebbia has no business designing government services. - Level Access Accelerates Investment in AI Innovation
Level Access: AI-powered accessibility agents will to redefine scalable digital accessibility. - TetraLogical launches accessible self-led training courses
TetraLogical: to help digital teams build confidence in accessibility. Course list. - Testing Methods: Low or No Background Audio
Dennis Deacon: audio content (like speech or dialogue) must not have background sounds that make the speech hard to hear. - Baby Steps Accessibility – Color Contrast of Text
Dennis Deacon: I thought we’d start with the #1 accessibility problem impacting the digital world: color contrast. - Sneak accessibility
Chris Ferdinandi: the most effective way to fix accessibility issues in the sites and apps that we build is just do it. - Quick Tip: Stop Gate Keeping Tech
Nat Tarnoff: I despise AI, but I will never stop someone from using any tech to make their quality of life better. - How to Minimize Legal Risks in Accessibility Compliance
Nat Tarnoff: you cannot avoid lawsuits about accessibility. What you can do is minimize your risk. - Quick accessibility analysis of Norwegian party websites just before election
Bogdan Cerovac: Long story short – all political party websites have issues. - Do you know your ADA Digital Accessibility Risk?
Sheri Byrne-Haber: What many decision-makers miss, however, is that risk is not evenly distributed across the marketplace. - Screenreader HTML support look up app
Steve Faulkner: a way to contrast and compare support across screen readers in the HTML support tables. - active-descendant console debugger
Steve Faulkner: I asked ChatGPT to help create a script to help debugaria-activedescendant. - OKLCH color picker, generator and converter
Jakub Krehel: Because OKLCH’s lightness ties directly to contrast, it’s easier to make color palettes that are readable and accessible. - 10 Life Lessons on Accessibility
Christiane Link: here are some lessons and thoughts I had. - A Requiem for My Dignity, Sacrificed at the Altar of AI
Robert Kingett: I decided to try an “AI” screen reader. It was a Category 5 hurricane of humiliation. - ARIA-live cheatsheet: announcing stuff without annoying your users
James Sheasby Thomas: As with any ARIA role or attribute, there’s always a risk that inappropriate use will annoy, confuse or block assistive technology users. - The Accessibility Paradox
Aparajita Marathe & Anne Marie Piper: How Blind and Low Vision Employees Experience and Negotiate Accessibility in the Technology Industry - Podcast: Accessible Numbers
Laura Parker: about presenting numbers clearly for anyone who designs services. - AI1y (AI and A11y) – Part III
NirA11y: Can I Trust AI to Be Right 100% of the Time for Accessibility? - Podcast: The Most Misunderstood Accessibility Features in Acrobat
Chax Chat: Chad Chelius and Dax Castro bust myths about tag trees, reading order, and common mistakes. - WCAG 2.2: Where to Begin
Accessible Web: start with smaller tasks instead of trying to understand the full scope of WCAG. - Assistive Technologies for People with Disabilities
Be Accessible: Assistive technology aims to eliminate barriers among people with disabilities. - Digital accessibility in a post-EAA deadline world
Deque: Actionable advice for developments in the Netherlands and France. - How to make the leap to paid accessibility tools when you need to accelerate progress
Deque: making the leap from free to paid can be tricky. - Summer 2025 Digital Accessibility
UsableNet: A Screen Reader’s Review. - What’s Next in Digital Accessibility
UsableNet: 5 Takeaways You Can Use Now. - How to Perform a Comprehensive WCAG Audit
A11y Collective: Discover pro tips for efficient testing, result interpretation, and ongoing accessibility maintenance. - Accessible Writing Techniques for Web Content
A11y Collective: Transform your writing workflow with actionable tips for reaching every reader. - A Web Developer’s Guide to Buttons vs Links
A11y Collective: Get clear guidance on proper usage, accessibility requirements, and UX best practices for your web development projects. - An Accessible Guide to WCAG 3.3.8: Authentication Without Frustration
auth0: Logging in can be tough for users with cognitive disabilities. - Video: Everything you wanted to know about Accessibility
Hassell Inclusion: Live Q&A with Jonathan Hassell. - Using AI To Redefine Software Accessibility Testing
Forbes: the AI’s behavior created entirely new accessibility barriers that traditional testing had never evaluated. - Podcast: Why Digital Accessibility Starts Within: Lessons from Crystal Preston-Watson
AXSChat interview with the Senior Digital Accessibility Analyst at Salesforce. - You Don’t Have to Be Blind to Use a Screen Reader
Pedal Point: For me—and for many others—screen readers aren’t about replacing sight, but about expanding options. - The latest Kindle update is a good step toward accessibility
Android Authority: Key refinements upgrade the Kindle experience for some users. - BITS, Microsoft, and the American Council of the Blind Launch Groundbreaking Accessibility Partnership
Press Release: to directly influence the future of accessibility across Microsoft Narrator and M365 apps such as Word and Outlook. - JAWS Tips: Windows UAC Fix
Easterseals Crossroads: When Windows User Account Control is not spoken by JAWS. - Accessible Telegram
Mahmood: Script to Enhance Telegram Web Accessibility for VoiceOver Users on iOS. - This Emerging Technology Can Keep Screens Steady in an Always-Moving World
Honeywell: Learn about a new system being developed to improve user experience of everyday touchpoints. - Web development without limits part 3: Practical guide for accessible design
Heise: In order to develop accessible websites, it is helpful to take user needs into account. - Designing for Autonomy: UX Principles for Agentic AI Systems
UX Magazine: How do we craft interfaces that support trust, transparency, and control in systems we don’t fully script? - You no longer need JavaScript
Lyra Rebane: I think a lot of things are just plain nicer to make in HTML/CSS. - The Good, the Bad, and the Iffy: is there such a thing as an ethical designer?
Elizabeth Goodspeed: Unfortunately, once people knew how to build accessible, user-friendly apps, they also knew they didn’t have to. - The melancholy of history rhyming
Baldur Bjarnason: I worry what will happen when the “AI” Bubble pops. - The web behind glass
Medienbäcker Thomas Günther: advice for designing and developing websites for the delightful and elegant new design language, Liquid Glass™. - The Lifespan Gap
Grace Dow: Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are dying nearly 20 years earlier than the general population.
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These weekly Reading List posts are goldmines. I follow a ton of accessibility newsletters, blogs, sources, etc., but it’s impossible to track them all. Thanks for collecting these for us!