- Webinar: ADA Title II: What Public Entities Need to Know About Digital Accessibility
Join David Sloan and Erik Ducker, Senior Director of Product Marketing at 3Play Media, August 26, 2025. 12:00 PM ET (9 AM PT). - Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 12
Mark Miller and David Sloan sit down with JAWS for Kiosk expert, Matt Ater, August 14 at 10:30 AM EST. - New Support Eligibility Policy for JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion
Beginning September 1, phone and email technical support will be available exclusively for customers with a current Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA), an active subscription, or customers licensed for the current version of JAWS, ZoomText, or Fusion. (FS link broken) - Join Us for An Introduction to Using AI with JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion
Elizabeth Whitaker: Learn AI with our new AI live webinar series and comprehensive online guide. First webinar: August 7 at Noon ET. - Employee Spotlight: Mohammed Laachir’s Story
Shelly Klure: We shine the spotlight on Mohammed Laachir, Product Owner at Vispero. - JAWS, ZoomText & Fusion Now Available in UK by Subscription
Sight and Sound: all three are now available through a flexible subscription model. - I Don’t Use Scripts: The Reality of a JAWS User
Accessibility4all: When we think of JAWS scripts, we think of scripts for Discord, Reaper, TeamTalk, and other programs. - How we work to make Amazon accessible for everyone
Amazon’s vision is to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, which means making our devices and services accessible to everyone. - Legal Update: July 2025
Ken Nakata: Unruh, Eastern District of New York, res judicata, Using the Discovery Process, Bill Tracker. - New Research Brief – Lingering Inequalities in the Information Age
Burton Blatt Institute: An Examination of Disparities in Internet Access Among People with Disabilities. - How States Are Using New Data to Boost Accessibility
GovTech: states are conducting surveys to better understand the experiences of people with disabilities. - The needs of people with mental health disabilities
Gian Wild: In fact, WCAG2 does not reference the needs of people with mental health disabilities at all. - Accessibility and the agentic web
Léonie Watson: even the most accessible retail websites don’t provide enough information. - Tone policing and respectability politics
Chris Yoong: How these techniques derail Accessibility work, and what to do about it. - Accessibility pushback
Chris Yoong: Stop the excuses, debunking some common pushback against Accessibility. - Testing Methods: Contrast (Minimum)
Dennis Deacon: ensures text and images of text have a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 against their background. - Update project WP A11y Docs July/August 2025
Rian Rietveld: This update informs you about how the documentation will be set up, the work we did up to now, what we are going to do next, how you can help. - Avoiding the word “help”
Eric Eggert: I frequently see the word “help” used in accessibility, and I don’t like it. - We should listen to the philosophers more
Hidde de Vries: in university, pretty much every course prepared me to be annoyingly critical of AI. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t aware of any of it. - Video: Built-in accessibility: blessing or curse?
Hidde de Vries at JSHeroes May 2025. - A11y 101: 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks
Nat Tarnoff: The standard take on the skip link is we include a visually-hidden link at the top of the page. - Accessibility Part Of The Tripod
Nicolas Steenhout: Accessibility, performance, and security are three critical parts of a good, quality site. - True Disability Inclusion Requires Planning for the Unexpected
Sheri Byrne-Haber: people often focus on the thing: the ramp, the captioning, the hearing device, the accessible stall, the screen reader. But … - When “Neutral” Isn’t Really Neutral
Sheri Byrne-Haber: 12 Everyday Practices That Disproportionately Impact People with Disabilities. - Why semantic HTML still matters
Jono Alderson: Somewhere along the way, we forgot how to write HTML – or why it mattered in the first place. - HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML
Steven Witterns: Only ARIA (accessibility) is notable, and only because this was what Semantic HTML was supposed to do and didn’t. - The Web Is About to Get Better for Everyone, Everywhere
Den Odell: the European Accessibility Act will require digital products provided in the EU to meet actual, enforceable accessibility standards. - What’s the European Accessibility Act got to do with my design system?
Geri Reid: Not sure whether it applies to your design system or if you’ve missed an important deadline? - Newsletter: Designing for Online Content
Dr. Nicole L’Etoile, CPACC: Your go-to resource for everything related to designing engaging and accessible online learning environments. - Cognitive Load and Web Accessibility: Quick Tips for Clearer Content
BOIA: It’s difficult to come up with simple rules that improve cognitive load. - Why WCAG Conformance Doesn’t Mean “Perfectly Accessible”
BOIA: While WCAG conformance is a worthy goal, it needs to be part of a broader commitment to your users. - Reframing the average user
Fable: A guide to inclusive product design - How to Implement a Digital Accessibility Policy in Higher Education
Level Access: why accessibility policies matter and how to build one that works in practice, not just on paper. - What Is Use Case Testing?
Level Access: Understanding Functional AT Testing and its Applications. - Meet the team: Craig Abbott
Tetralogical: Principal Accessibility Specialist focuses on embedding accessibility into organisational policies, processes, and culture. - Accessibility Guidelines
Vox Media: Use this checklist to help build accessibility into your process no matter your role or stage in a project. - Video: When and how to use tabindex for better accessibility
Pope Tech: Learn what tabindex is and three ways to use it to support keyboard accessibility. - Document Structure in Word: The Essentials
Vision Australia: This guide explains the invisible framework that makes documents truly accessible - WCAG vs EAA: Understanding where WCAG stops and where the EAA starts
Stark: what’s in and out of scope—and why organizations need to operationalize accessibility. - Accessibility Quick Start: High Impact Practices for Non-Frontend Devs
Hackernoon: practical, high-impact strategies to help you cover a lot of basic accessibility ground with minimal effort. - Designing for Intelligence, Efficiency, and Accessibility
Hackernoon: how AI is reshaping UX through three powerful lenses: intelligence, efficiency, and accessibility. - Understanding WCAG 1.1.1 Non-text Content for WordPress
Equalize Digital: why it’s important, common mistakes in WordPress, and how you can meet this success criterion. - Captions and Subtitles: What’s the Difference?
University of Colorado: These terms are often used interchangeably, but they serve distinct purposes. - Do-It-Yourself Accessibility Basics
NCADEMI: ensure that students with sensory, physical, and cognitive disabilities can effectively use the materials you create. - Don’t Lose Focus: Why Keyboard Focus Indicators Matter for Everyone
Pedal Point: Let’s talk about why visible focus indicators are so important. - Is Your Website Legally Compliant?
Tamman: Understanding ADA and WCAG accessibility requirements. - Video: That Doesn’t Need to Be a PDF
US Access Board: panel discussion with experts from FDIC, USAB, and GSA when a PDF document is the proper solution. - Synchron Uses New Apple Tech to Allow ALS Patient to Control an iPad With His Mind
Public footage of its work with Apple’s new BCI Human Interface Device (HID) protocol. - SA launches new assistive tech to empower people with disabilities
Locally developed technologies are designed to enhance the lives of people with disabilities in South Africa. - Video: Unboxing Dreame X40 Ultra
Lucy Greco unboxes the DREAME X40 Ultra Robotic Vacuum. - Amazon has quickly removed Assistive Reader from the Kindle
It was only available for a couple of days before Amazon removed it. - What’s New in Microsoft Teams | July 2025
Microsoft: Copilot, real-time voice interpretation in different languages, emoji stuff. - 4 Windows Accessibility Features to Improve Your Workflow
Improve the Cursor and Mouse, Live Captions, Scrollbars on All Apps, Voice Dictation. - GPT-5: Here’s What’s New in ChatGPT’s Big Update
CNET: OpenAI says its new generative AI model is a lot faster and smarter than its predecessor. - GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff
Ethan Mollick: the answer to the first question everyone will have is: Yes, this is a big deal. - Why Designers Sound Negative (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
Andy Budd: designers often fall into the role of the designated dissenter—not because they want to be contrarian, but because nobody else seems to be asking, “Will this actually work for the user?” - Interfaces That Augment or Replace?
Zeh Fernandes: The more familiar we are with a tool, the more fluent we become in using it to think. - A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known
Jim Nielsen: What are all the values you can put in an anchor tag’s href attribute? - The one-liner for max-width, centering, and margins
Chris Coyier: we can smash it all into a one-liner now if you’re feeling it. - The Power Of The Intl API
Smashing Magazine: A Definitive Guide To Browser-Native Internationalization. - We Keep Reinventing CSS, but Styling Was Never the Problem
Den Odell: it gets easier when we stop pretending there’s a perfect answer just one abstraction away. - Infinite Pixels
Eric Meyer: if I hand a browser values that are effectively infinite by way of theinfinitykeyword, it will necessarily end up clamping to something finite. - Staying relevant
Jeffrey Zeldman: Staying relevant in your profession as you age and technology changes. - My CSS Foundation
Mike Mai: Most people mistake a leading (line-height) of 1.5 as a standard or accessibility requirement. - All the concerns that make you a boring developer
Dave Rupert: Are you allowing people the dignity to use your product? No? Oof. - I’m Done with GitHub. Bye!
Jared White: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says, “The evidence is clear: Either you embrace AI, or get out of this career.”
Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-august-11-2025/.