- Understanding the Removal of 4.1.1 Parsing in WCAG 2.2
TPGi: Aditya Jainapur explains what SC 4.1.1 covered, why it was removed, how it affects accessibility in practice, and which criteria now address issues once covered by parsing. - Tables: Beyond Rows and Columns
TPGi: Akash Shukla explains the best way to use semantic table markup to present web content in accessible rows and columns. - Blindness Awareness Month: Focus on Education and Accessibility
Freedom Scientific: Each October, Blindness Awareness Month and World Sight Day invite us to reflect on the global impact of vision loss. - Use the Find and Replace Feature in Word with JAWS
Freedom Scientific: Learn how to save time and edit documents more efficiently using the Find and Replace feature in Microsoft Word with JAWS. - 5.15 Million Dollar Settlement in California Web Accessibility Class Action
Lainey Feingold: Fashion Nova website barriers spark lawsuit that should have settled. - Should you outsource accessibility or build it in-house?
Bogdan Lazar: What you’re really asking is you can just throw money at the problem. - Stop inviting overlay employees & bad actors into Accessibility spaces
Chris Yoong: It hands them blueprints for exploitation, legitimacy and control. - Testing Methods: Text Spacing
Dennis Deacon: ensure that content can adapt to user-defined text settings, making it easier to read. - Testing Methods: Content on Hover or Focus
Dennis Deacon: when content appears on hover or keyboard focus it must be dismissible, hoverable, and persistent. - a11y-tools bookmarklets
Ian Lloyd: All the bookmarklets from a11y-tools.com wrapped up and organised in one place for your convenience. - Why WordPress Themes Require Underlines on Links
Joe Dolson: what kinds of link decorations can pass the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and be fundamentally more interesting than an underline. - No Accessibility No UX
Julia Undeutsch: there is no such thing as user experience if not all users can experience it. - Podcast: Understanding the Tools Blind Users Rely on
Laura Wissiak: From Screen Readers to White Canes. - Rethinking Cookie Dialogs
Nat Tarnoff: Most cookie dialogs load at the bottom of the page. However, cookie banners tend to load after the main content of the page. - Keyboard Accessibility for Everyone!
Niq Bernadowitsch: Hear ye, hear ye, builders of the web. - Designing for Dyslexia: Accessibility Requirements and Best Practices
Sheri Byrne-Haber: Dyslexia impacts fluency, comprehension, and reading comfort, but careful accessibility practices can lower those barriers. - The Architecture of Anxiety and Shame, Part One
Todd Libby: The Scarcity and Pressure to Make Decisions and Placing Guilt in the Users Lap. - When to Use Modal vs Dialog Components
A11Y Collective: Discover implementation patterns, accessibility guidelines, and best practices for creating user-friendly interfaces. - Essential Visually Hidden CSS Techniques for Web Accessibility
A11Y Collective: Fix vanishing focus indicators & conflicting sr-only classes. - Your Guide to Writing Better Alt Text
Accessible Web: “Alt text,” meaning alternative text, concisely describes an image’s content on a website or in a digital environment. - Accessibility: defined
Atomic Accessibility: Are you designing a UI? Writing a new Web feature? Native app for iOS or Android? - The Importance of Digital Accessibility for Financial and Banking Websites
Be Accessible: Thanks to ADA, accessible banking is now made easier for the elderly, persons with disabilities, and the underserved. - Be My Eyes and Tesco team up on World Sight Day
Be My Eyes: to make in-store shopping more accessible across the UK. - Section 1557: Understanding Document Accessibility Requirements
BrailleWorks: The 2024 final rule updating Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has stirred up uncertainty in the healthcare world. - Finalists announced for the 2025 Australian Access Awards
Centre For Accessibility Australia: The judging for the 4th biennial Australian Access Awards has been completed. - 10 Easy Accessibility Tests Anyone Can Do
DigitalA11y: You don’t need to be an accessibility ninja to run the tests outlined in this article. - Accessibility Audits: Because Everyone Deserves to Stay in Focus
Equal Entry: Accessibility isn’t a one-and-done checklist. It’s a living commitment. - Accessible Reading and Assistive Tech for Visually Impaired Readers | A 2025 guide
Hable: we stand at an exciting moment for accessible reading and assistive technology for people who are blind or visually impaired. - Video: Now we’re past the EAA Deadline – What should you do now?
Hassell Inclusion: The EAA’s June 2025 deadline wasn’t the end of the accessibility work organisations need to do. - Level Access Launches New AI Agents to Pioneer the Next Wave of Digital Accessibility
Level Access: New AI agents will power the human side of digital accessibility, helping organizations find accessibility issues earlier. - Video: Building Digital Accessibility Excellence
Microassist: Essential Training for Government Teams - Co-Creating Mental Health Solutions
Microsoft: Mental health matters—everywhere, for everyone. - Digital Accessibility Quick Cards
Minnesota IT Services: We’ve updated most of our Accessibility Quick Cards with new tips based on WCAG 2.1, Level AA criteria. - Rethinking Cookie Dialogs
Nat Tarnoff: If you are anything like me, you don’t want your data sold to third parties. - Making a Case for Vision
Pedal Point: a Story of Inclusive Marketing for Assistive Tech. - Accessible form validation with examples and code
Pope Tech: When something goes wrong, and users can’t complete a form, that’s where error messages come in. - Website accessibility strategy
Pope Tech: These are tasks and examples to start building your website content accessibility strategy. - Video: How to test your form for accessibility issues with the WAVE extension
Pope Tech: we’ll use the WAVE extension to test an example form for accessibility issues. - Chasing the Sun
The Repository: Inside WP Accessibility Day’s 24-Hour Event & What to Expect in 2025 - Why the European Accessibility Act is a game-changer for businesses
Shaw Trust: is set to reward responsible businesses who embrace accessibility as a core value. - Eyeing accessibility deadline, states root out ancient web issues
Statescoop: One state official said his goal isn’t only to remove inaccessible content, but retrain staff so that old design mistakes don’t need to be revisited. - Guide to the Inclusive Design Principles
TetraLogical: who the principles are for, what they can be applied to, how they help people, and how you can integrate them into your own practices. - The Difference Between Alt Text and Image Captions
University of Colorado: Both describe images, but they serve very different purposes. - Restaurant App Accessibility
UsableNet: A Screen Reader Experience When Menus Won’t Scroll. - Podcast: Interview with Amber Hinds and Nathan Wrigley
WP Builds: Amber is the CEO of Equalize Digital, a company specialising in WordPress accessibility solutions. - Fluid Headings
Donnie D’Amato: What I set out to do is to have a rule that helps explain what the transition should be for heading font sizes between large and small screen sizes. - Simplify
Jeremy Keith: My old brain immediately thought this would be fairly complicated to do, but actually it’s ludicrously straightforward. - HTML—the Most Difficult Programming Language in the World
Jens Oliver Meiert: This is tongue-in-cheek, but the underlying point isn’t: If you’re a professional who puts HTML on your resume, ship valid HTML. - If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents
Sean Goedecke: The thing is, reviewing code is something a lot of developers aren’t particularly good at. - Hue shifting when you have to work in RGB
Jim Kang: How RGB is related to HSV, and how to implement hue shifting.
Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-october-13-2025/.