- Video: How to Create and Sign In to Your Vispero Account in JAWS 2026
Freedom Scientific: step-by-step tutorial. - Podcast: FSCast #263
Freedom Scientific: Introducing the 2026 software updates, and a potential opportunity to start your own business. - What’s New in JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026
Freedom Scientific: JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026 are now available, bringing powerful new features. - Employee Spotlight: Justin Fegel’s Story
Freedom Scientific: Justin Fegel, Technical Writer, User Education and Outreach at Vispero. - Webinar: Gemini Jumpstart: An Introduction to Google’s Generative AI
Freedom Scientific: using Gemini with JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion. Nov 7, 2025, 12noon ET. - Confidence Method v1.0 and Verifiable Credential Rendering Methods v1.0
W3C: First Public Working Drafts - Workshop on Smart Voice Agents
W3C: to be held virtually on Zoom from 25 to 27 February 2026. - Last Call for Review of Proposed Corrections and Additions to Geolocation
W3C: welcome via GitHub through 28 December 2025. - A Message from Canada’s Chief Accessibility Officer
Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians: I am pleased to reach out to you today and introduce myself and my office. - Design and Delivery of Accessible Programs and Services, Including Customer Services
Government of Canada: technical guide to support organizations on their accessibility journey. - PMs, It’s Time to Audit Your TV Login Experience
Alicia Jarvis: Logging in should be simple — but on TV, it’s often where accessibility breaks down. - Better accessibility context for your artificial intelligence agents – help them help you
Bogdan Cerovac: Model Context Protocol (MCP) is not perfect, but it is a good start – as it can provide reality for Artificial Intelligence (AI). - Alternative to the New Page Explorer Feature in JAWS 2026
Brian Hartgen: I want people to understand that while Page Explorer is very good at what it does, it is not the only game in town. - Your accessibility score is lying to you
Chris Yoong: Automation misses most issues, and can make teams think they’re done. - WordPress Discovery: Obtaining Published URL before Publishing
Dennis Deacon: You know … there’s times when technology can make you feel real stupid. - Testing Methods: Keyboard (No Exception)
Dennis Deacon: ensures that all content is operable from the keyboard. - Halloween 2025 … and yes, it’s genuinely scary out there
Dennis Deacon: Digital accessibility isn’t a seasonal project or a compliance checkbox. - Why the European Accessibility Act could help you win more customers this Christmas
Jonathan Hassell: What we’ve found is that many organizations were not ready for the June 28 accessibility deadline. - Image Description Toolkit 3.5 Beta
Kelly Ford: Featuring Geolocation Data and Web Image Downloads. - Beyond Digital Accessibility
Lainey Feingold: An Australian Reader Takes Deep Dive into Structured Negotiation Book. - The return of the heading group
Martin Underhill: So if we shouldn’t use headers for headings, what should we use instead? - A11y 101: 2.4.5 Multiple Ways
Nat Tarnoff: Buildings … include ramps and elevators to access areas that someone might not be able to climb stairs. Let’s review how that translates to digital spaces. - WP A11y Docs update October 2025
Rian Rietveld: publishing of new documentation has started; the accessibility of wpaccessibility.org itself; presentations at WP Meetups about the project; how you can help. - Rethinking Dark Mode Image Strategies with Media Queries in HTML
Sara Soueidan: Dimming all content images … is not an inclusive design strategy. - Sometimes the Best Accessibility Fix is a Usability Fix
Sheri Byrne-Haber: In practice, accessibility gains often come from fixing ordinary UX friction points. - a brief professional history of me
Steve Faulkner: 1996-2025. - ChatGPT sez Build with semantics first
Steve Faulkner: One of the issues that I found most perturbing from the Atlas browser FAQ’s for front end developers was the advice to use ARIA. - Everyone’s talking to ChatGPT – so let’s make it accessible
AbilityNet: Whether we’re quite ready for it or not, artificial intelligence is already shaping how we live, work and learn. - Podcast: Gina Bhawalkar
AXSChat: Gina established and now leads Forrester’s coverage of the digital accessibility space. - ARIA Isn’t A Solution for Every Digital Accessibility Issue
BOIA: when you treat ARIA as a “quick fix,” you’re setting yourself up for serious accessibility issues. - What Is ISO/IEC 40500, And Why Is It Important for Web Accessibility?
BOIA: If WCAG is exactly the same as ISO/IEC 40500, why have separate standards? - Canberra’s wake-up call on accessible ticketing
CANAXESS: Shipping while “accessibility is in delivery” is a go or no-go failure that excludes people with disabilities. - Legal Update: October 2025
Converge: SDNY Back to Rejecting Online-Only Title III Claims; A More Careful Reading of Calcano and Intent to Return; H.R. 5605 Medical Device Nonvisual Accessibility Act of 2025; Bill Tracker. - Podcast: Tag, You’re It: Google Docs Joins the Accessibility Game
Chax Chat: Chad and Dax are exploring recent updates to Google Docs’ PDF export capabilities. - India’s proposed new accessibility standards
Deque: What businesses can do today. - India’s OTT Accessibility Revolution
DigitA11y: New Guidelines to Make Streaming Inclusive for Everyone. - A New Era of Digital Accessibility
Drupal: he EAA and its Implications for Drupal - How to Use ChatGPT to Fix Website Accessibility Problems
Equalize Digital: how you can use ChatGPT to help write code that remediates accessibility problems found during manual testing or by using tools like Accessibility Checker. - AI Prompts For Web Accessibility Testing
Forbes: simplifying web accessibility to ensure compliance with ADA, EAA and WCAG standards. - The Great PDF Reckoning
GovTech: A Wake-Up Call for ADA Compliance. - The AI Digital Accessibility Playbook
GrackleDocs: Work Smarter Without Losing the Human Touch. - Adobe InDesign 21.0—EPUB Accessibility Updates
Inclusive Publishing: Our collaboration with Adobe’s InDesign team continues to reap rewards. - Inclusive by design
Microsoft: How technology is shaping the future of accessibility in Europe - Top Accessibility Extensions for Web Testing
NorthFortyNews: what to look for, which tools are worth installing, and how platforms like LambdaTest help fill gaps that extensions alone cannot cover. - Video: Get started with manual testing webinar
Pope Tech: we define what manual testing is, demonstrate four basic manual tests, and show how to incorporate sampling strategies into your accessibility workflow. - Halloween Accessibility Nightmares
UsableNet: 3 Real Barriers a Blind Shopper Faced in October. - The Microsoft 365 Features for Creating Accessible Content
Vision Australia: the built-in accessibility features in Microsoft 365 that enable content creators to produce accessible workplace communications. - Word and PowerPoint Alt Text Roundup
WebAIM: We tested the alternative text of everything that we could think of in Word and PowerPoint and then converted these files to PDFs. - Conference Videos
WebAIM: The recordings for this year’s WebAIM conference have been published to YouTube. - ChatGPT’s Atlas
Anil Dash: The Browser That’s Anti-Web. - Canva Launches AI-powered Creative Operating System
Beta News: to connect design, content, and marketing.. - Just use a button
Chris Ferdinandi: One of the weirdest “debates” I seem to perpetually have with framework-enthusiastic developers is whether or not a<div>is “just as good” as a<button>. - Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and Subgrid
CSS Tricks: Making a tab interface with CSS … could they be accessible? - Better Alt Text
David Bushell: How to add visible alt text? I decided to use declarative popover. - Springs and Bounces in Native CSS
Josh Comeau: Like with all animations, we should make sure to respect user motion preferences. - Tab stops on the web
Thomas Günther: I want to explore this ancient typographic concept and see how it can be used on the web.
Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-november-3-2025/.