Weekly Reading List
January 26 2026

• Catching Up with ADA Title II for Web and Mobile Accessibility
  Vispero: Understanding the new requirements, what they apply to, and where compliance gaps exist can help organizations respond.
• Podcast: Jaws, Zoomtext, and something new
  Talking Technology: A chat with the CEO of Vispero, Rhonda Bassett-Spiers.
• Webinar: Multiline Braille with the Dot Pad X and JAWS
  Freedom Scientific: a powerful combination that puts multiline Braille at your fingertips. Tuesday, January 20 at noon ET.
• Group Note Drafts
  W3C: Threat Modeling Guide and Threat Model for Decentralized Credentials.
• Updated Candidate Recommendation
  W3C: Web Neural Network (WebNN) API.
• Strengthening Community Engagement at TPAC 2025
  W3C: looking back at the IE & inclusion Funds.
• Barriers from Links with ARIA
  Adrian Roselli: I knew there were issues, but couldn’t rattle them off from the top of my head. So I built some examples.
• Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design
  Amit Sheen: Accessibility Is The Real Perfection.
• Podcast: How to Price Accessibility Services
  Colleen Gratzer: A Complete Guide for Consultants.
• Video: Accessibility checklist for websites with heavy animations
  Diana Khalipina: without clear rules, they can become a serious accessibility barrier.
• When representation changes the way we see accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: Highlights that accessibility isn’t extra work – it’s dignity, independence, and belonging.
• When “well-written” AI content becomes an accessibility barrier
  Diana Khalipina: texts often look professional and well-structured, yet reading them requires more effort than it should.
• Floating Action Buttons are bad, and what to do instead
  Erik Kroes: as I always run into them, their inefficiency and inaccessible design.
• I Learned The First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way
  Hashim Quraishi: I had to delete the ARIA role attribute that I had added with the best intentions.
• Touch Targets and Web Accessibility
  Ilknur Eren: small touch targets can make a website difficult or even impossible to use.
• How Professionals With Disabilities Use AI Tools at Work: 5 Practical Applications
  Jeffrey Howard: practical guidance for HR leaders and employees on implementing accessible AI tools.
• My Calendar 3.7.0 & My Calendar Pro 3.3.0 released
  Joe Dolson: The most significant user-facing change is the switch from using a elements for navigation to using button elements for navigation.
• Making the Web More Inclusive with WCAG Standards
  Lacey Gerard: To illustrate some of these new guidelines, meet Henry.
• Preserve Accessibility Expertise: DHS Trusted Tester Study Group
  Laura Wissiak: A collaborative effort to keep Section 508 training alive amid shifting DEI landscapes.
• My favourite front-end and web development conferences
  Manuel Matuzović: As someone who enjoys attending conferences, I thought it might be helpful to share a list.
• Lowering the specificity of multiple rules at once
  Manuel Matuzović: You probably already knew that you can use :where() to lower the specificity of a single selector.
• Sharing Accessibility As A Competitive Advantage on The CTO Show
  Maxwell Ivey: a masterclass for founders, product leaders, designers, and executives.
• Opening and Closing Dialogs Without JavaScript Using HTML Invoker Commands
  Schalk Neethling: When you use command="show-modal", the browser handles managing the accessibility tree
• The Accessibility Manager Moment No One Warns You About
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: “Why didn’t anyone tell me?” one or more of the CEO / COO / CFO / Corporate Counsel asks.
• Tips on How to Pick the Right Icons for Your Website
  Stéphanie Walter: And if you use icons alone, don’t forget about accessibility Alternative text.
• Webinar: Chatting Fireside with Bruce Lawson
  Steve Faulkner: Today we spoke on various topics for an hour.
• the Accessibility story of Apple Creator Studio
  Steven Aquino: accessibility’s strong link to Apple Creator Studio should thus be unsurprising.
• AIMAC Founders Joe Devon, Eamon McErlean Talk first round of results in new interview
  Steven Aquino: co-founders of the AI Model Accessibility Checker (AIMAC).
• Accessibility Testing on Windows on Mac
  Tatyana Bayramova: A quick guide to Accessibility Testing using Windows-only tools on a modern Mac.
• Using Maturity Models to Build Accessibility That Lasts
  Ted Drake: how maturity models help organizations build accessibility over time instead of relying on one-off fixes or a few experts.
• Names Are Hard But They Don’t Have To Be
  Todd Libby: Every day, millions of people around the world encounter forms that reject their names.
• There is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element
  Zell Liew: the focus-trapping is deprecated advice if you use <dialog>.
• Drinking Our Own Champagne
  Acquia: How Acquia’s Marketing Team is Leveraging Drupal AI to Scale.
• Making an iOS E-Commerce Product List Accessible to VoiceOver and Beyond
  Axess Lab: I wanted to show how I code and test iOS apps using VoiceOver as a blind developer.
• Podcast: Christopher Patnoe
  AXSChat: Christopher Patnoe is the Lead for EMEA Accessibility and Disability Innovation at Google.
• Newsletter: Weekly Innovation in Assistive Tech
  The AT Pulse: Google accessibility, coding framework, tactile graphics, more.
• Podcast: The Real Cost of Accessibility: Tools, Time, and ROI
  Chax Chat: Dax Castro and Chad Chelius break down the real-world value of accessibility tools.
• Be part of the Luxembourgish screen reader adventure
  Digital accessibility portal: two new voices to reproduce texts in Luxembourgish as faithfully as possible.
• Podcast: eSight Updates with Roland Mattern
  Easterseals Crossroads: Special Guest is Director of Sales – eSight.
• Webinar: When design kills usability – meet the custom cursor
  Funka: Join us for a journey through the wildest custom cursors on the web – and discover why they are a nightmare for accessibility.
• 2025 Web Almanac – Accessibility
  HTTP Archive: In 2025, web accessibility matters more than ever as mainstream technologies increasingly rely on inclusive features.
• 2025 Year in Review
  IAAP: Reflecting on our progress | Moving forward into 2026.
• Webinar: Creating Accessible PDF Forms
  Knowbility: part of the Be a Digital Ally series.
• The Future of Accessibility Is Hybrid Intelligence
  Level Access: how the Hybrid Intelligence model emerged, what it means in practice, and why it’s a critical differentiator.
• Accessibility Program Strategy
  Level Access: Turning This Year’s Budget into Measurable Impact.
• Streamlining Document Accessibility
  Level Access: How to Save Time and Reduce Risk by Working Smarter.
• Accessibility Team Meeting Notes
  Make WordPress Accessible: WP A11y Meetup call for speakers; Working Group Updates.
• Podcast: How Accessibility Boosts SEO & UX
  Page 2: Amber Hinds of Equalize Digital.
• Canvas Accessibility Dashboard Product updates
  Pope Tech: New Detail View in Canvas Dashboards.
• How UX personas made our AI training data more inclusive
  Chinwe Uzegbu: we’ve long recognized the danger of designing for an “ideal user”.
• Data visualization. How to make it understandable
  Erik Messaki: When data visualization becomes a puzzle instead of a tool.
• Please Tell Me if This is a Bad Idea
  Leah Reich: one of the things that about mutual aid is that the inefficiency keeps people safe.
• Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
  Maggie Appleton: speculative design fiction that asks provocative questions and reveals the shape of constraints we’ll face as agentic coding systems mature.
• Supporting Open Source in 2026
  Marc Grabanski: Why It Matters More Than Ever ($50,000).
• Some Thoughts on the Open Web
  Mark Nottingham: The Open Web is an amazing public good, both for those who consume information and those who produce it.
• AI tribalism
  Nolan Lawson: if you say the magic word “accessibility,” … then suddenly they’re doing a better job than the median web dev.
• Beyond Generative: The Rise Of Agentic AI And User-Centric Design
  Victor Yocco: When systems plan, decide, and act on our behalf, UX moves beyond usability testing.
• The Most Annoying UX Patterns of the Modern Web. Part 2
  Zarina Majidova: Once you start noticing these patterns, they appear everywhere.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-january-26-2026/.