Weekly Reading List September 1 2025

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Weekly Reading List

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.

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