- Beyond Sight: What a Blind Traveler’s Journey to Antarctica Reveals About Accessibility Design
Melissa Morse: Isabel Holdsworth, a blind assistive technology engineer at TPGi, shared her experience traveling to Antarctica. - Webinar: VPAT® 101: Introduction to the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template
Presenter: Brian Elton. Presented on August 21, 2025 at 12pm ET. - How Semantics and ARIA Attributes Support Accessible Design
Melissa Morse: why semantics, design patterns, and attributes matter so much and how they shape the effectiveness of any accessibility audit. - New 2025 Jaws Licensing and Pricing Explained
Jim Barbour and Curtis Chong: Vispero has introduced new licensing options and prices for its JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion software. - Celebrating 35 Years of the ADA
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990. Resource for events, reflections. - News Flash: Alcazar v. Fashion Nova
Ken Nakata: 5.15 million reasons to settle web accessibility lawsuits quickly. - First Public Working Draft: CSS Borders and Box Decorations Module Level 4
This module contains the features of CSS relating to the borders and decorations of boxes on the page. - First Public Working Draft: IMSC Text Profile 1.3
This specification defines a text-only profile of Timed Text Markup Language 2 intended for subtitle and caption delivery applications worldwide. - Axe-core at 3 billion: A milestone in the movement for digital accessibility
Preety Kumar: A milestone in the movement for digital accessibility. - State of HTML 2025 now open!
Lea Verou: After two weeks of hard work from a small team spanning three continents, we are finally ready to launch! - Help Ensure That Streaming Services, Video Conferencing, and Emergency Services are Accessible!
The Communications, Video, and Technology Accessibility Act (CVTA) would bring telecommunications accessibility standards up to date with current advances in technology. - The Rise of the Chief Accessibility Officer
Ensuring digital accessibility should not simply be tacked onto other leaders’ duties. - Video: Advancing Digital Accessibility with W3C WAI
Shawn Lawton Henry & Kevin White at John Slatin AccessU, 31 May 2025. - Don’t Change the Company—Reflect It
To make accessibility last, connect it to what your company already cares about—like speed, trust, or great design. - Testing Methods: Use of Color
Dennis Deacon: if you’re using color to indicate meaning, state, or action, like red text to indicate an error or green to show success, you must provide another visual cue as well. - How to Create Audio Description VTT Files for Free
Meryl Evans: No fancy tools needed. - Quick tip: Use fewer links
Nat Tarnoff: The overall product card has gotten cluttered with too many calls to action. - A modern approach to font fallbacks with font property adjustments
Nic Chan: improve accessibility for those who struggled with reading pixel fonts. - Disability Pride Month 2025
Sharon Morrow: Despite the grim state of things in the US, it is still Disability Pride Month. - super short note: placeholder perfidy
Steve Faulkner: It’s a hint not a label. - A Primer on Focus Trapping
Zell Liew: This whole focus trap thing is used to create accessible modal dialogs since it’s a whole ‘nother trouble toinerteverything else. - The Figcaption Problem
Chris Coyier: The problem is when the image is less wide than the container and we want the figcaption to only be as wide as the image is. - Embedding Accessibility SMEs in Remote Teams
Sheri Byrne-Haber: Organizational structure is what determines whether accessibility efforts succeed or stall. - The ‘Accessibility’ link is a Lie: My Adventures in Weaponizing Corporate Virtue Signaling
Robert Kingett: The Accessibility Statement [ … ] is, in my experience, often the most cynical lie on the entire internet. - Level Access Appoints Tresilian Segal as New Chief Marketing Officer
Segal will help shape Level Access’s global strategy, as the company empowers organizations around the world to navigate AI advancements and a tightening regulatory landscape. - Creating Accessible Navigation Menus: Challenges and Best Practices
Some of the most common accessibility issues associated with navigation menus. - Scaling Enterprise Accessibility with AI Agents
The common challenges that limit the success of enterprise accessibility programs. - Scale Your Impact with AI Advancements: Summer ’25 Release Recap
We introduced a powerful set of AI-driven features designed to reduce manual effort, streamline workflows, and empower accessibility champions. - How to Make Your Learning Management Systems Accessible: A Five-Step Roadmap
The connection between LMS accessibility and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance. - Digital Accessibility in 2025: A Screen Reader User’s Honest Take
Michael Taylor: areas that have improved—such as online shopping, banking, and social media—and the ones that still make it challenging to perform basic tasks, including travel, healthcare, and mobile apps. - The Accessibility Show #7
Joe Dolson: Looking deeper after automated testing. - WCAG in Plain English
Making accessibility standards easy to understand, one success criterion at a time. - Make Your Website Talk with The JavaScript Web Speech API
Andrew Magill: Help make your site more accessible and ready for the future of AI-driven web experiences. - Designing Better UX For Left-Handed People
Vitaly Friedman: roughly 10% of people are left-handed. Yet most products — digital and physical — aren’t designed with it in mind. - What is assistive technology?
David Redmond: How we define assistive technology is important for a few reasons. - Fast, Simple, High Impact: DIY Accessibility Testing for Any Team
Accessibility doesn’t have to be overwhelming or expensive. - How to Integrate Automated Accessibility Testing into Your Mobile App Dev Cycle
Leeanna Marshall: Automated Accessibility Testing in Mobile Apps. - The Ultimate Guide to the European Accessibility Act for WordPress
Amber Hinds: practical guidance tailored for website owners, web developers, and WordPress plugin/theme developers. - 5 simple fixes that make digital spaces calmer—for neurodivergent and all users
Lē Silveus: support people whose minds process information differently—people who are autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, or otherwise neurodivergent. - Podcast: Web Accessibility with Mike Gifford
Oliver Davies with Senior Strategist at CivicActions, W3C Invited Expert and Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer. - Few Guesses, More Success: 4 Principles to Reduce Cognitive Load in Forms
Huei-Hsin Wang: structure, transparency, clarity, and support — minimize users’ cognitive load and improve usability. - ZP for Zoom
An app that enhances your VRS calls on Zoom with real-time sign language interpretation. - Podcast: Flipping the Script on Audio Description: AD as a Tool For Creation
The creative possibilities of audio description (AD) with Blind Composer , Kemal Gorey. - Video: What’s New in Google Accessibility | Episode 9
Latest product and feature updates that help make Google more accessible - This built-in Windows 11 app can pull the text in any image with one click
Roland Freist: Using the OCR feature in the Windows Photos app, you can instantly extract the text inside any image with one click. - Designing for User Font-size and Zoom
Miriam Suzanne: Using modern CSS units and math functions. - The MIT study that could change how UX researchers use AI
Lawton Pybus: Studies are finally starting to reveal patterns in how human cognition and artificial intelligence interact. - An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership
Michel Ferreira: The magic happens when you embrace the overlap instead of fighting it—when you start thinking of your design org as a design organism. - How to Discover a CSS Trick
Lee Meyer: my work on CSS-Tricks feels like “discovering,” not “inventing,” secret synergies between CSS features. - A Friendly Introduction to SVG
Josh Comeau: We can do so many cool things with SVG. It’s an absolutely critical part of my toolkit. - Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML
Jens Oliver Meiert: a link guide. - Celebrating 20 years of MDN
Joe Walker: MDN started as a community-driven wiki, helping developers navigate that rapidly-evolving web with an emphasis on web standards.
Originally published: https://www.tpgi.com/weekly-reading-list-28-july-2025/.