Weekly Reading List
1 September 2025

• Join Vispero at the 2025 Future Travel Experience (FTE) Global Conference
  The FTE Global is the largest and most influential gathering of air transport executives in North America.
• JAWS for Kiosk Now Makes LG’s Kiosks Accessible
  Gen 2 Self-Ordering Kiosks are built with accessibility in mind from the outset.
• Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 13
  Mark Miller and David Sloan explore Inclusive Design 24 (ID24) on September 23 at 10:30 AM EST.
• Podcast: FSCast #261
  Freedom Scientific: An in-depth look at multiline Braille support in JAWS, and an AI user survey by the AFB
• 26 awardees in W3C’s TPAC Inclusion and Invited Expert Support funds
  W3C: The goal is to reduce barriers for participants who are contributing positively to the work of W3C groups, but who require financial support to be more actively involved.
• IMPROVING OUR NATION THROUGH BETTER DESIGN
  Donald J. Trump: I am announcing “America by Design,” a national initiative to improve experiences for Americans.
• Trump’s new chief design officer aims to make federal websites ‘satisfying’
  MSN: Joe Gebbia’s directive is to “update today’s government services to be as satisfying to use as the Apple Store”.
• A notional design studio
  Ethan Marcotte: I read through the “America by Design” web page. And I have some thoughts.
• America by Design is Deplorable for All
  Frank Taylor: Not by any meaningful measure is this site accessible.
• Review of the Disability Discrimination Act
  Australian government reviews legislation for first time in over 15 years.
• Comments Needed to Stop republican Attack on Section 503
  Lainey Feingold: Proposal will gut rules about federal contractors hiring disabled workers.
• The 7% Betrayal
  Grace Dow: Federal officials are moving to dismantle a key policy aimed at increasing employment opportunities for disabled people.
• Focus on the people that make things happen
  Martin Underhill: Broadly speaking, there are two ways to do it.
• Podcast: Designing for Everyone
  United in Accessibility E58: Sam Evans, IAAP, interviews Stéphanie Walter on Enterprise UX and Digital Accessibility.
• Character count accessibility tests
  U.S. Web Design System: Any USWDS character count component should pass these manual accessibility tests.
• WP Accessibility 2.2.0 Released
  Joe Dolson: includes one major new feature and one substantial change.
• Introducing Baby Steps Accessibility
  Dennis Deacon: laser-focused on a particular task that will improve your digital product’s level of accessibility.
• Testing Methods: Contrast (Enhanced)
  Dennis Deacon: ensure that text and images of text have a contrast ratio of at least 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text.
• How to Create an Accessible Table with Clickable Rows
  Alexander Lehner: A table row with a click event handler doesn’t magically turn into an accessible control.
• New bookmarklet: WCAG SCs Lookup tool
  Ian Lloyd: I made a tool to look up WCAG SCs and copy the links.
• Accessible Authentication
  Karl Groves: what we know, what we don’t, and what to do next.
• A11y 101: 2.4.3 Focus Order
  Nat Tarnoff: The vast majority of the complaints I’ve seen claiming focus order issues are problematic, really aren’t.
• Exploring grid-aware websites
  Nic Chan: a grid-aware website responds to the cleanliness or dirtiness of a user’s electricity grid.
• Nested Scroll Bars Are the One of the Biggest Accessibility Evils, Ever
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: I’m a little salty about this topic because it frequently severely impacts me.
• 5 simple fixes that make digital spaces calmer—for neurodivergent and all users.
  Lē Silveus: reduce barriers for neurodivergent users but also create calmer, more usable experiences for everyone.
• Podcast: Amy Low – CEO of AbilityNet
  Joe James is joined for The Digital Accessibility Podcast by the head a UK charity that has been transforming lives through technology for over 25 years.
• Why inclusive products are green products
  Tetralogical: While we are not experts on the subject, we can still contribute to sustainability goals by helping create inclusive products.
• Preparation for the update to ADA’s Title II Series: Implementation
  Minnesota IT Services: Get some tips on strategies and tactics to prepare your organization.
• Video: “Accessibility Life Hacks” Series
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: How to use AI to add alt text to images on mobile devices.
• Unlock the potential of the EAA
  Fable: The European Accessibility Act (EAA) deadline on June 28, 2025 was a rest stop, not the final stop.
• Unlock the potential of the EAA
  Fable: The European Accessibility Act (EAA) deadline on June 28, 2025 was a rest stop, not the final stop.
• How Designing for Disability Benefits Everyone
  Vision Australia: The curb-cut effect demonstrates how solutions designed for people with disabilities often benefit everyone.
• How To Check That Your Colour Meaning Is Accessible
  Vision Australia: three practical testing methods to test colour meaning for accessibility before publication.
• Why Your Word Lists Might Be Excluding Readers (And How to Fix Them)
  Vision Australia: demonstrates practical techniques using Word’s ribbon tools to build lists that communicate effectively for all users.
• Digital Accessibility in Hospitality
  UsableNet: What I Learned as a Blind Guest.
• Video: Don’t Expect a Winner in the Game if There Isn’t a Scoreboard
  Knowbility: Sharron Rush with Chris Law, Executive Director, Standards Accessibility Reporting.
• Ableism
  a11yblog: generalization about someone who has a disability is known as ableism.
• Video: Bundles of enthusiasm
  In this episode of Unfinished Business, Andy Clarke and Richard Rutter are joined by Léonie Watson.
• How to Scope Accessibility Remediation
  Equalize Digital: It’s almost never as simple as counting pages and multiplying by a flat fee.
• Accessibility Statements are not Legal Contracts. They’re Value Signals.
  Pedal Point: Accessibility statements must match reality.
• Time to Prepare for Apple’s Accessibility Nutrition Labels
  Access Armada: For developers of accessible apps, these labels are an opportunity to distinguish themselves.
• Video: Tackling Tricky Accessibility Challenges
  Suzanne Dergacheva, Co-Founder of Evolving Web, is joined by Janell Sims, Manager of Digital Accessibility Services at Harvard University Information Technology.
• Web Accessibility in Government
  Lullabot: Common Misses and Practical Fixes.
• Narrator Gets On-screen Braille Viewer in Windows 11 With Latest Dev & Beta Update
  Accessibility boost arrives to Windows 11.
• BrowserStack Accessibility Design Toolkit
  Figma layouts for contrast, spacing, focus order and tap targets.
• Tactile Maps Automated Production (TMAP)
  An accessible web-app that quickly generates tactile street maps.
• Seeing a New Future
  ATB: How Smart Glasses Are Unlocking Independence For Visually Impaired Individuals
• Web Accessibility in CoFa
  Code Factory: Once upon a future time, there will be a fully accessible banking product at DKB.
• When design doesn’t land (and what we can do about it)
  Sash Milne: When design doesn’t land, it’s rarely because the design was weak. More often, the system wasn’t ready to hold it.
• The AI age is the “age of no consent”
  Pavel Samsonov: design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed.
• Are AI-Generated Synthetic Users Replacing Personas?
  James Newhook: What UX Designers Need to Know.
• The case of the white favicon
  Tevin Steinke: Hopefully I can save some time for somebody who runs into the same thing.
• CSS Elevator: A Pure CSS State Machine With Floor Navigation
  Christian Sabourin: complete with direction indicators, animated transitions, counters, and even accessibility features.
• A Radio Button Shopping Cart Trick
  Preethi: comes with accessibility drawbacks because it uses duplicated interactive elements.
• Making Sense of CSS Length Units
  Oded Sharon: the user might decide to change it in the user-settings for accessibility reasons.
• The -path of Least Resistance (Part 2)
  Amit Sheen: offset-path animations should respect user preferences and accessibility guidelines.
• Why “Good UX” Isn’t Enough
  Jon Daiello: Accessibility needs both design and engineering partnership.
• “Your” vs “My” in user interfaces
  Adam Silver: It’s a trick question because often you don’t need any prefix.
• The Basics of Anchor Positioning
  Ahmad Shadeed: What’s better than facing an actual problem and trying to solve it with position: absolute?
• How to dismiss native HTML dialog elements when the backdrop is clicked
  Chris Ferdinandi: The [closedby] attribute tells browsers what methods of closing a
  should be used/supported.
• Visualizing Responsive Typography
  Miriam Suzanne: Utopia helpfully provides a warning when we create scales that are inaccessible.

Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-september-1-2025/.