- April 2026 Training Events
Vispero: AI Training, Software, Insert J Club, JAWS 30th Anniversary. - Advisory Board publishes Position Statement on AI in Standards Work
W3C: the AB’s current thinking on using Large Language Models (LLMs) in the standards process. - First Public Working Draft: Linked Web Storage Protocol 1.0
W3C: provide applications with secure and permissioned access to externally stored data in an interoperable way. - W3C Workshop Report: Smart Voice Agents
W3C: advance interoperability and user empowerment in voice-enabled systems. - The W3C TAG Meeting in London, March 2026
W3C: the group reviews emerging technologies, produces design principles and findings, and helps ensure that new work aligns with the long-term health of the platform. - The WebAIM Million
WebAIM: The 2026 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages. - The Unfinished Legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Aubrey Nelsen: current executive choices introduced by the Trump administration put disabled people’s autonomy and ability for a relatively ‘normal’ life at risk. - Inside the government website accessibility lobbying push
Route Fifty: The proposed rule is under review and could be delayed or scrapped. - In the Wake of the 2025 Font Wars, Accessibility Is Still an Afterthought
Rochelle Ratkaj Moser: People need to read what the government sends. Plain and simple. - The invisible layer of UX most designers ignore
Allie Paschal: how the interface is announced by a screen reader. - Digital Accessibility Series. Ep1: Understanding What Users Face
Andrew Nevins: This talk was delivered on 7 April 2026 as an introduction to digital accessibility. - The AI Design Gap
Darrell Hilliker: A Student’s Journey in Accessifying Visual Layouts. - What the new WebAIM Million report tells us?
Diana Khalipina: several underlying trends are worth paying attention to. - Who is responsible for web accessibility in a company?
Diana Khalipina: If you want accessibility to actually work, it needs to be organized across the whole company. - How to organize a testing with users
Diana Khalipina: If you want to run meaningful accessibility tests with users, here is a practical approach. - If you care about accessibility, your links matter more than you think
Diana Khalipina: links must make sense out of context. - Did you ever think about how the stereotypes you grew up with shaped your mindset?
Diana Khalipina: Web accessibility taught me something different: many “personal limitations” are actually design problems - How California’s Court System Automated PDF Accessibility
Diana Kosovac: When California’s judicial department faced a tidal wave of inaccessible PDFs, manual remediation wasn’t just slow — it was impossible. - Presence vs Participation
Elin Williams: why there’s such a stark difference between the two. - Screen readers are not testing tools
Eric Eggert: they should not be the primary tools to use for testing. Here’s why. - Visually label your colours
Floris Jansen: On a webshop, use a list of links with visual labels to link to the other colours of the same product. - Notes from “AI & the Future of Sustainability Reporting”
Hidde de Vries: I don’t know a lot about sustainability reporting, so was keen to learn. - Designing beyond the checklist
Jeff Guerrero: It’s a mindset. And that mindset deepened for me on the Firefox UX team. - The Easiest Web Accessibility Textbook
Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: While the title suggests it’s an introductory guide to web accessibility, it goes far beyond basic knowledge. - A newbie’s guide to designing good web forms: the design part
Kim Grey: The second in my mini series about web form design. - Have you ever been personally victimized by an inaccessible form?
Laura Wissiak: Forms are where users give us their data, and where failures can block entire user journeys. - A bugbear about aria-label
Martin Underhill: allow me to dig into why the ‘label’ bit of aria-label gets on my nerves. - No, SwiftUI is not “Accessible by default”
Rob Whitaker: things are more nuanced than saying that everything is now fixed. - Semantic HTML Just Might Make Your CSS Less Fragile
Schalk Neethling: a solution that is semantic, accessible, and robust against CMS editor whoopsies. - Aligning Variable Content Across Columns. It Seems Impossible Until You Discover Subgrid
Schalk Neethling: This layout approach has a meaningful accessibility advantage over hack-based alternatives. - Locked Out: Why OTP and 2FA Often Fail Users with Disabilities
Sheri Byrne-Haber: Two-factor authentication (2FA) and one-time passwords (OTPs). - Amazon Adds Sign Language to Prime Video
Steven Aquino: Prime Video now offers sign language interpretation in American Sign Language (ASL) and British Sign Language (BSL). - Apple At 50: Accessibility is innovation too
Steven Aquino: the company’s history is inextricably tied with the disability community and accessibility. - Video: Dreaming of Accessible Development
A11yTalks: Annotated Wishes for Designers & Devs with Hector Osborne Rodriguez. - Accessibility Testing for iOS Apps Is No Longer Optional, and AI Is Making It Easier
Apple Magazine: Let’s look at how AI is changing accessibility testing for iOS apps. - Video: The WebAIM report says accessibility is getting worse
CANAXESS: it’s the same 6 failures driving most of the problem. Only this time the numbers are increasing. - Podcast: The Hidden Trouble with Tables
Chax Chat: While they may seem simple to build, the real challenge is designing them in a way that works for assistive technology. - Axe Platform now supports France’s RGAA accessibility standard
Deque: the Référentiel Général d’Amélioration de l’Accessibilité (RGAA), France’s official accessibility framework. - Totally Listening: Using a Total Communication Approach
Equal Entry: how to support people who communicate in diverse ways. - Design leaders unpack how accessibility unlocks business value
Fable: original research, insider frameworks, and practical advice from seven senior design executives. - Video: InDesign styles, unlock the accessibility potential
Funka: Malin Hammarberg, Senior UX Designer and Accessibility Specialist. - April 24th Is Closer Than You Think
GrackleDocs: What State and Local Governments Need to Know About ADA Web Accessibility - Podcast: Leadership, Practice, and Global Impact
IAAP: Christopher Michael Lee, CEO and President of G3ict and IAAP. - Dev-First Accessibility
Level Access: How to Fix Issues In-Flow. - Contribute to Accessibility at WordCamp Asia 2026 Contributor Day
Make WordPress Accessible: WCAsia will take place in Mumbai, India, from April 9 to 11, 2026. - Video: Focus indicators 101
Pope Tech: A simple guide for developers. - Making emojis and icons screen reader accessible
Pope Tech: there are specific strategies and considerations for making emojis and icons accessible. - Thinking differently
Shaw Trust: Why neurodiversity should shape digital accessibility. - Perspective Transcribe Does What Other Transcription Apps Won’t
Techopolis: audio recording and transcription app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch that processes everything on the device. - Designing for people who are blind
TetraLogical: some people use digital content without being able to see it. - Ask AIMee: An accessible accessibility-focused AI chatbot
WebAIM: AI-powered conversational chatbot focused on accessibility, designed to be highly accessible to users with disabilities. - Video: Scaling Accessibility
WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Frontend Accessibility Architecture & Leadership with Niharika Pujari. - The Web Is An Antitrust Wedge
Alex Russell: antitrust bodies around the world are struggling to find their footing, and an incurious tech press is letting it pass with nary a nod. - What To Know in JavaScript (2026 Edition)
Chris Coyier: We’ve done posts like this for CSS, but JavaScript deserves the same dangnabit! - You’re Looking at the Wrong Pretext Demo
Den Odell: The important thing Pretext does is predict the height of a block of text without ever reading from the DOM. - Pretext review
Donnie D’Amato: This weekend a project called pretext started making waves by Cheng Lou. - Form Automation Tips for Happier User and Clients
Iqra Naaem: That gap between “the form works” and “the business works” is something we don’t really tend to discuss much - Bayes’ Law in UX Research: The Power and Perils of Priors
Jeff Sauro: we explore the consequences of manipulating prior probabilities in different ways. - Front-End Fools
Lee Meyer: Top 10 April Fools’ UI Pranks of All Time. - A Practical Guide To Design Principles
Vitaly Friedman: Design principles with references, examples, and methods for quick look-up.
