- Building a Complete Accessibility Program
Vispero: From an Audit to Long-Term Inclusion - Defining a Digital Accessibility Roadmap
Vispero: East Bay Municipal Utility District. - Cvent: Making Accessibility a Standard Part of Product Quality
Vispero: Cvent recognized that accessibility had become a critical factor in customer trust, procurement decisions, and enterprise adoption. - IGT: Turning Accessibility into a Key Brand Differentiator
Vispero: IGT recognized accessibility as more than a compliance requirement, it saw an opportunity. - Employee Spotlight
Vispero: Olga Espínola’s Story. - Webinar: Learn How to Research, Organize, and Manage Data with Claude Using JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion
Freedom Scientific: Thursday, February 5 at noon ET on the Zoom conferencing platform. - Group Note Draft
W3C: W3C Accessibility Guidelines Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0. - Group Note Drafts
W3C: Cognitive Accessibility Research Modules. - Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1 is now a W3C Recommendation
W3C: ACT Rules Format defines a format for writing accessibility test rules. - W3C Team appointment to the TAG
W3C: appointment to the TAG for the 2026-2028 term: Brian Kardell, Igalia. - Department of Justice Opposes Unfair Class Action Settlement Involving Accessibility of Website under the ADA
DoJ: The settlement agreement does not have strong enough enforcement mechanisms and compliance monitoring and too much of the money is going to attorneys fees and costs. - NASCIO Releases Digital Accessibility Guidance for Governments
Government Technology: assistance to the public sector around complying with federal digital accessibility requirements. - Trump Wanted To Cut Disability Programs. Congress Just Said No
Disability Scoop: federal lawmakers approved a spending package that rejects Trump administration efforts to alter the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. - Microsoft accessibility chief takes new role
GeekWire: Jenny Lay-Flurrie is taking a new role at Microsoft, moving from Chief Accessibility Officer to head of the company’s Trusted Technology Group. - Some blind fans to experience Super Bowl with tactile device that tracks ball
Aaron Gustafson: a haptic feedback device that could allow someone who is Blind or low vision to follow a game. - Nice Select
Adam Argyle: Accessibility is built-in with proper focus indicators, keyboard navigation, and semantic markup. - The problem with GroupCollect’s announcement form (perhaps you can redesign it?)
Adam Silver: take a look at the radio buttons for “Communication method”. - You Know What? Just Don’t Split Words into Letters
Adrian Roselli: The title reflects my exasperation because this isn’t new. - Honoring Mobile OS Text Size
Adrian Roselli: If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. - Accessible design is digital infrastructure
Anna E. Cook: What America by Design reveals about how public platforms fail when maintenance, governance, and accountability are treated as optional. - Accessibility Testing for Websites
Asheem Shrestha: A Practical WCAG 2.2 Checklist - alt text selfies
Bojana Coklyat et al: takes a well-known practice—the selfie—and approaches it through a disability lens. - Podcast: How to Show Accessibility Work in Your Portfolio (Even If You Didn’t Design It)
Colleen Gratzer: Find out how to present your accessible design, PDF remediation, website audits and collaborative work. - How do you implement accessible linear design across light and dark modes?
Daniel Schwarz: Practical implementation in Linear-style systems. - Building Accessible WordPress Sites – A Practical Article Series
Dennis Deacon: I have long believed that digital accessibility and WordPress belong together. - White Cane Week: 10 ways to truly understand accessibility and how a white cane works
Diana Khalipina: an international initiative highlighting the independence and daily realities of people who are blind or visually impaired. - 10 unexpected facts about web accessibility
Diana Khalipina: insights about web accessibility that I hope you’ll find surprising, but here’s a twist: one of them isn’t entirely correct. - What streaming platforms get right (and wrong) about accessibility
Diana Khalipina: Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max from an accessibility and UX perspective - Some CSS only contrast options until contrast-color() is Baseline widely available
Donnie D’Amato: getting a foreground color to “just work” with any given background color has been a persistent wish of mine. - You probably shouldn’t be annotating focus order
Eric Bailey: you’ll actually want to suppress that urge and just let things be. - Fashioning an identity
Elin Williams: On style, vision impairment and belonging. - Accessible inline collapsible
Erik Kroes: What is phrasing content, well supported, and interactive by default? - Visually label your colours
Floris Jansen: This makes it more usable and accessible than tooltips or no labels at all. - Life advice to a graduating student
Frank Erlavsky: if I could travel back in time, this is what I’d say to a student like me. - The Assistive Tech Crisis
Grace Dow: Schools across the United States are finding it increasingly difficult to provide assistive technology - Accessibility progress and healthy engineering teams
Heather Buchel: halted accessibility progress is often the result of technical debt and a floundering team. - Why real-time form validation can become an accessibility issue
Helena Ferry: unless handled with care, real-time validation can become an annoyance or even a complete blocker for certain user groups. - WCAG-EM 2.0 lets you report on accessibility of more than just websites
Hidde de Vries: More than 10 years after it first came out, WCAG-EM 2.0 was just published as a draft. We’d like your feedback! - Able Player 4.8.0 and Able Player for WordPress 2.3.0 Released
Joe Dolson: most importantly, it’s my first steps towards removing the jQuery dependency. - Why Your Lighthouse Score of 100 Means Almost Nothing
Karl Groves: The unfortunate truth is they’re fundamentally limited by what can be measured programmatically. - trauma-informed design
Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: I found the perspective of considering design from the perspective of people’s trauma intriguing. - A Story About a Lifetime of Breaking Molds
Kelly Mack: Or: Evading Limited Life Paths Expected by Others. - Introduction to the new HTML element
<geolocation>
Manuel Matuzović: provides a button that, when activated, prompts the user for permission to access their location. - A new meta tag for respecting text scaling on mobile
Manuel Matuzović: that, in the future, may enable us to instruct browsers to respect text size settings on websites. - The Ultimate Mobile Accessibility Resource Guide
Mark Steadman: updated for 2026 – new resources have been added, and some minor tweaks have been made for ease of reading to the article. - Economics of Accessibility in Consumption
Matthew Thomas: Markets tend not to accommodate disabled workers and consumers without outside intervention. - Podcast: How Content First Design And Accessibility Go Hand In Hand
Maxwell Ivey: I am blessed to speak with Sarah Johnson Founder and director of Content First Design. - Quick Tip: Do Not Replicate OS Behavior
Nat Tarnoff: Those who need the tools have them, and those who don’t have them need to learn how to use the correct tools in their devices. - Announcing my new newsletter
Nic Steenhout: I’ve never had a newsletter. And I’ve been writing and blogging for a long time! - Openclaw Is More Fun to Fiddle With Than To Use
Samuel Proulx: Of course I have to write about openclaw. - AI will Eliminate the Need for Accessibility Professionals? I think not.
Sheri Byrne-Haber: Every day, there are more articles about AI replacing people in tech. - Video: A word with the accessibility egg
Steve Faulkner: Fireside Chat with Eric Eggert 22nd January 2026 - Searching for silence
Tharā Gabriel: When tinnitus affects a person who is hard of hearing. - Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One
Vitaly Friedman: dual listbox is often faster, more accurate, and more accessible than drag-and-drop. - Is Your Content Invisible?
Acquia: Why the WordPress “Architectural Debt” is Killing Your AI Strategy. - System Generated PDF Accessibility
Axess Lab: How do you make sure documents generated by systems are accessible to users and comply with accessibility legislation? - Link Accessibility for Modern Websites
Be Accessible: Link accessibility determines whether visitors can find what they’re looking for or struggle to find important information. - Video: Australia’s spy agency built a brilliant page… then broke It
CANAXESS: a stalearia-hiddenattribute undermined the whole experience. - Video: Is Vibe coding the worst idea for accessibility?
CANAXESS: It doesn’t just allow you to ship code faster. It can also ship inaccessible code, faster, and at scale. - Podcast: What 2025 Taught Us About Accessibility – and What Comes Next
Chax Chat: Dax Castro and Chad Chelius take a thoughtful look back at the accessibility lessons that defined 2025. - Legal Update: January 2026
Converge: The year is already off to a quick start, but from some unusual places like Utah, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Washington state. - Accessibility frameworks: spring cleaning before the big facelift
Digital accessibility portal: 2026 will be a pivotal year for our accessibility assessment frameworks. - Morphic Makes Accessibility Easier to Find
Easterseals Crossroads: puts accessibility features front and center with a large, easy-to-use toolbar. - Understanding WCAG 1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded) for WordPress
Equalize Digital: requires that important visual information in prerecorded videos is conveyed through spoken narration. - How Salesforce uses real-world accessibility feedback to shape AI UX design
Fable: it’s time to test AI utility at scale in real-world products. - Introducing Page Audits
Fable: the new request type behind Fable Compliance Insights. - Custom Web Development Trends Shaping Business Growth In 2026
GeekVibesNation: Trend 4: Accessibility and Inclusive Design. - Natively Adaptive Interfaces: A new framework for AI accessibility
Google: Disability communities are using the NAI framework to build AI that adapts to everyone. - How To Create More Accessible Presentations
Intopia: A practical guide to inclusive slides, language and delivery. - Video: Including People with Disabilities in Usability Testing
Knowbility: the practical and ethical necessity of including people with disabilities in usability studies. - Web Accessibility Platform Product Updates – 2026
Pope Tech: Product updates include details on all major feature releases. - Accessible building blocks for the web videos
TetraLogical: introduces key accessibility considerations for some of the most widely used elements on websites. - Why digital accessibility is now a leadership issue for universities
Times Higher Education: whether to settle for the minimum accessibility required by international regulation or to embed it as a marker of institutional excellence. - Canada’s ACA Digital Accessibility Deadlines
UsableNet: What to Do Now - Ecommerce Website Accessibility Guide
UsableNet: ADA, WCAG & Best Practices. - Mobile Banking Accessibility Failure
UsableNet: A Screen Reader User’s Online Banking Disaster. - 6 ways to set better content accessibility goals in 2026
Vision Australia: using motivation researcher Ayelet Fishbach’s evidence-based principles. - There is no spoon
John Allsopp: The capabilities of these agents now are such that there are very few things you might want to achieve that they can’t at least help you get a long way toward. - How to Improve Your HTML Game
Jens Oliver Meiert: do you opt for the valid, semantic, accessible, and/or required-only way? - On affordances
Karl Koch: In the end, prioritising affordances is about more than just usability; it is about respect for the individual. - Create Beautiful Charts and Graphs Online
Make Graph: Make your charts accessible to everyone with visual pattern textures that help distinguish data series. - Sounds on The Web
Raphael Salaja: Users who can’t hear, or choose not to, should lose nothing functional. - Stop generating, start thinking
Sophie Koonin: But, you may argue, human developers today write inaccessible, unperformant, JavaScript-heavy code! What’s the difference? - Is Learning CSS a Waste of Time in 2026?
Sylwia Laskowska: accessibility forced me back into it. - The Psychology of Color in UI/UX Design
Upeksha Sandeepani: Inclusive color design not only improves accessibility but also makes products more professional and user-friendly.
Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-february-9-2026/.