Weekly Reading List
8 September 2025

• 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 debug aria-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.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-september-8-2025/.