- Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 17
Vispero: David Sloan is joined by Jan Williams and Meagan Griffith to review the 2026 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. - Download the March Update of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026
Vispero: new functionality and enhancements that increase efficiency and productivity. Here’s a look at three enhancements. - Webinar: Learn Six Tips for Managing the New Outlook Calendar with JAWS
Vispero: Thursday, March 26 at noon ET. - Case Study: Guide Dogs for the Blind
Vispero: Building Accessible Workplaces That Empower Every Employee. - Webinar: How to prepare for the May HHS accessibility deadline
Vispero: On March 25, David Sloan reviewed what healthcare organizations and vendors need to do now. Register to access the video. - Podcast: FSCast #268
Vispero: CSUN Recap, And a Glimpse Of What’s Coming. - Updated W3C Recommendation: Geolocation
W3C: Geolocation provides access to geographical location information associated with the hosting device. - W3C Invites Implementations of Geolocation
W3C: The Working Groups welcome comments via the GitHub repository issues by 1 May 2026. - Group Note: Use of Large Language Models in Standards Work
W3C: the Advisory Board wants to highlight considerations around different ways in which LLMs can be useful or problematic. - Getting Past the FUD
Converge: A Day-One Compliance Strategy for the New ADA Title II Web Accessibility Rule. - How the SAVE America Act Hurts Disabled Voters
TIME: The provisions of the SAVE America Act that add extra barriers to voting could further depress the turnout of disabled voters. - All the small things
Adam Silver: What makes great design is often all the small things, done right, at scale. - Accessibility Law of Headlines
Adrian Roselli: Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong. - Enhance Dialogs with the
closedbyAttribute
Alexander Lehner: The newclosedbyattribute allows you to define which user actions will close the dialog. - What building safer conversational AI for youth mental health taught me
Alicia Jarvis: How might we make an AI agent genuinely safe for a young person who might already be having a really hard time? - Progressive Web Components
Ariel Salminen: Elena is a simple, tiny library helping build Progressive Web Components – Accessible by default. - Shifting and shuffling
Beth DeConinck: Let’s try visualizing the software development life cycle a slightly different way. Instead of a timeline, let’s imagine a deck of cards. - 100 webmaster questions
Blake Watson: here is my stab at answering 100 webmaster questions. - WebMCP and the future of the agentic web
Bogdan Cerovac: do not leave accessibility behind. - Big and small
Chris Ferdinandi: It’s hard to find people that like you just for you, just the way you are. - The Accessibility Problem Isn’t Design. It’s Engineering.
Chris Gibbons: Nine months after the EAA deadline, it’s worth asking what actually changed. - The Design Brief That Never Mentioned Disabled People
Chris Gibbons: Accessibility gets engineered out. But before that, it gets designed out. - The Organisation That Never Prioritised It
Chris Gibbons: Engineering fails. Design fails. But both of those failures have a common source: organisations that never valued accessibility in the first place. - Not a Panacea
Darrell Hilliker: Why AI Browser Agents Haven’t Solved the Inaccessible Web—and What Comes Next. - Keyboard operability – why is it important?
Detlev Fischer: Mobile Testing Part 3 explores what role the keyboard plays in accessibility and app testing. - Our accessibility leaders
Diana Khalipina: 5 accessibility leaders who are actively reshaping our world. - 7 questions to check that your design doesn’t harm people
Diana Khalipina: it’s not just what people consume, it’s how easy it is to keep consuming. - Neurodiversity is more common than we assume
Diana Khalipina: not all brains process information, attention, or stimuli in the same way. And that’s not rare. - How to integrate web accessibility from the start
Diana Khalipina: teams start thinking about it too late, often when the product is already built and complex. - Test IDs are an a11y smell
Dominik Dorfmeister: I haven’t used adata-testidattribute in over a decade, so I’m surprised these takes are still around. - Lives in the Balance: Inside the Worldwide Push to Redefine Disability Support
Grace Dow: hundreds of thousands of [UK] disabled people could see their benefits change under new rules expected to start in April 2026. - How I earned 55 Education Credits for my IAAP CPWA certification in 19 months
Helena Ferry: I have just celebrated a milestones of sorts in my accessibility career. - New bookmarklet – Structure Revealer
Ian Lloyd: not only can you deselect specific elements, you can also add your own. - 3 reasons why you should care about document accessibility
Jonathan Hassell: With an estimated 2.5tn PDFs in existence, accessibility in PDFs should come as standard. - Testing the Foundation: What ‘Working’ Actually Means
Julia Solórzano: I built this site to be accessible, bilingual, and thoughtfully designed. Now I have a way to make sure it stays that way. - Beware of “AI” accessibility audits
Karl Groves: And, even more so: beware of companies who sell them. - Fidelity and Elan Show Zero Accountability for Accessibility
Kelly Ford: a textbook example of a complete lack of accountability from both Fidelity Investments and Elan Financial Services for a fundamental accessibility failure. - Highlighting Footnotes
Kitty Giraudel: if you like footnotes as much as I do, there are no excuses for not making them accessible. - Accessibility & Inclusion Events in April 2026
Laura Wissiak: a curated look at the most impactful accessibility and disability‑inclusion events. - Stuff Everybody Knows: Accessibility
Laurie Voss: A guide to the rest of your web development career. - Accessibility Snapshot Testing in iOS
Mark Steadman: developers can catch issues early and maintain a consistent, inclusive experience for all users. - There’s no need to include ‘navigation’ in your navigation labels
Martin Underhill: If we did, we’d hear something like “Navigation, Primary navigation”. - Video: Roadmap checkups: Ensure resiliency
Matthew Luken: SVP & Chief Architect, Deque’s keynote at IAAP Dublin. - Constraints Are Always Present
Michael Harshbarger: accessibility and security belong in the team’s definition of done from day one. - A11y 101: 2.5.7 Dragging Movements
Nat Tarnoff: If you can do it by dragging, you should also be able to do it by clicking, tapping, or using buttons. - The Accessibility Conversation You’re Avoiding With Your Clients
Natalie MacLees: How to bring up accessibility, frame the value, and handle the pushback. - WCAG A vs AA, outdated accessibility statements, and more
Nic Steenhout: another compilation of a few of my thoughts. New and old content. - EAA Enforcement: What We Learned at IAAP Dublin
Patrick Cullen: Day 1: Diving into EN 301 549; Day 2: Putting regulation into practice. - Bad example: Timesheet submit button
Rachele DiTullio: Please, just use a<button>for submitting forms. - WP A11y Docs update March 2026
Rian Rietveld: new and updated documentation on wpaccessibility.org and work in progress. - Shadow DOM Focus Delegation: Getting
delegatesFocusRight
Rob Levin: It ensures accessibility by eliminating “dead focus” zones. - The ‘Paperwork Flood’: How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner
Robert Kingett: This week, I received The Letter. It demanded “updated medical evidence” to prove that I—a man who has been blind since birth—am, in fact, still blind. - Understanding F*****g WCAG
Robert McCaffery: A sweary summary of Success Criteria. - Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
Ruben Ferreira Duarte: Accessibility works best when it blends into everyday design workflows. - Why you shouldn’t trust the people who built your inaccessible site to fix it
Sheri Byrne-Haber: why didn’t they tell you those barriers were there or that the law requires equal access? - Mike [TM] Smith AKA Sideshowbarker – fireside
Steve Faulkner: Mike works at the W3C and has done as long as I have known him. - I can’t help myself
Steve Frenzel: I don’t want to come across as one of those accessibility guys who consistently reject AI. - Applying accessibility fixes with stealth for the greater good
Steve Frenzel: This article shouldn’t exist. Accessibility should be as normal in conversation as performance, security, SEO, and “AI”. - Using AI to automate more Accessible Alt-Text
Steven Aquino: providing image descriptions, or alt-text, is one task where leaning on artificial intelligence is savvy. - Mobile app accessibility under EN 301 549 v4.1.0
Abra: A new version of the standard, EN 301 549 v4.1.0, is currently in the approval process. - Podcast: ChatGPT Wrote My Accessibility Lawsuit
Accessibility Craft: legal filings against businesses for ADA Title III violations, often with hallucinated case citations and “legal slop”. - The Call for Proposals for AHG 2026 is Now Open
Accessing Higher Ground: Use the online proposal form to submit your proposal. The deadline to submit proposals is April 29, 2026. - What to Watch for at DrupalCon Chicago 2026
Acquia: CMS Rebrand, Canvas AI, 22 AI Agents + 48 AI Providers + MCP, Structured Content. - Unexpected Positive Outcome Of The 2026 ADA Countdown
Assistive Technology Blog: A Universal Blueprint for Digital Equity. - Podcast: Jeff Szmanda
AXSChat: Jeff is an inventor, or co-inventor, on seven issued patents that utilize ergonomic design and universal design. - Why the ACT Government accessibility policy starts behind
CANAXESS: An accessibility policy is not just about intent. It’s also where the minimum bar is set. - Video: Understanding Australia’s Digital Inclusion Standard
CANAXESS: one of the key requirements agencies need to follow when building and delivering digital services for the Australian Government. - ADA Title II update
Deque: What we know, what we don’t, and what to do now. - Combatting Misinformation: Understanding the Facts About Tourette Syndrome
Disability Belongs: It is a disability that is often misunderstood and misrepresented, especially in the media and popular culture. - What We All Pay When Access Is an Afterthought
Disability Belongs: Treating accessibility as a low-priority issue to fix later is a costly and preventable mistake. - Songs in Sign Language
Disney: On Monday, April 27, Disney+ will debut three animated musical sequences in American Sign Language (ASL). - Busting Myths About Down Syndrome
Easterseals Crossroads: a few of the major misconceptions still floating around about Down syndrome. - Video: Steadi-3 Anti-Tremor Glove
Easterseals Crossroads: 2026 ATIA Conference demo of a hand-stabilizing device. - What Is a Digital Accessibility Audit?
Equal Entry: how well your product works for people with disabilities and anyone using accessibility tools. - Understanding WCAG 1.2.7 Extended Audio Description (Prerecorded) for WordPress
Equalize Digital: how extended audio description for prerecorded media helps ensure that even the most visually complex content is fully understood by everyone. - ‘We’re Not Done Yet’
Forbes: Apple’s Head Of Accessibility On 50 Years Of Making Technology For Everyone. - Assessment of newly designed fonts for visual accessibility
Gordon E. Legge et al: we compare behavioral and automated methods for evaluating the accessibility of a font for both normal and simulated low vision. - The Illusion of Automation
GrackleDocs: Why “Good Enough” is the Greatest Risk in Digital Accessibility - The Line in the Sand
GrackleDocs: Why the April 24th WCAG Deadline Must Hold. - Slouching Towards WCAG 2.1
Minnesota IT: The updated rule to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act becomes effective April 24. What then? - Editing for clarity
Minnesota IT: How plain language principles support editing practices as well as the use of AI. - More than one million people get online through the Digital Inclusion Action Plan
Open Access Government: Across the UK over one million people have been helped to get online over the past year. - Call For Presentations Open
Inclusive Design 24: Free global online event #ID24 returns 24 September 2026. The CFP closes on 31 May 2026. - Designing for people with low vision
TetraLogical: Low vision affects millions of people worldwide, yet it’s often overlooked in the design process. - What Happens After You Buy
UsableNet: Post-Order Accessibility Barriers. - Design Systems Report
Zeroheight: 5th annual report – specialized roles like DesignOps, accessibility, and content design are increasingly represented. - OpenAI Sora is gone. The artists are still working.
Ana-Maria Stanciuc: What it could not do was make people want to come back. - Apple confirms WWDC26 June 8–12 with major AI announcements expected
Beta News: with a weeklong online format alongside a limited in-person gathering at Apple Park. - Meta and Google found liable in historic social media addiction trial
Beta News: Jurors found that both companies acted negligently and failed to warn users about potential harms linked to prolonged use of their platforms. - Books and Screens
Carlo Iacono: Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time - Don’t Design for Average Users
Jakob Nielsen: The average user is a terrible design target for digital products. - Dine ‘n em-dash
Jeffrey Zeldman: The best defense is to write humanly. - The Web Development Glossary 4K
Jens Oliver Meiert: new edition – more than 4,000 terms and explanations to extend your web development and web platform knowledge. - Code as a Tool of Process
Jim Neilsen: Writing code is a process that confronts you with questions about the details. - JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring
Mat Marquis: sharpens all of our skills, from layout to accessibility to front-end performance to typography. - Do you need AI for that?
Rachel Andrew: I don’t think we can or should ignore AI, but overuse of this technology is incredibly wasteful. - A collection of small details that make big difference
Rene Wang: A curated, visual collection of user experience niceties (across design, type, motion, accessibility, interactivity, etc). - The Old Internet is Still Here
Tyler Gaw: Those things we’re missing aren’t gone. They’re still right here. - Your Browser Becomes Your WordPress
WordPress: With my.WordPress.net, WordPress runs entirely and persistently in your browser.
