Weekly Reading List September 8 2025

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Weekly Reading List

Top 3 Risks of a Poorly Created VPAT
TPGi: Why VPATs Matter More Than You Think.
Webinar: AI Tips, Tools, and Techniques – Where to Begin
Freedom Scientific: Recorded Thursday, September 4
Enhancements in JAWS 2025.2508.120 (September 2025)
Freedom Scientific: Support for Multi-Line Braille Displays, AI Features, Aria and Web, Google Suite, Office Apps, Zoom, Braille, Other.
Video: ADA Title II: What Public Entities Need to Know in 2025
3Play Media: David Sloan from TPGi on what Title II entails, what digital content is covered, and the steps your organization can take.
For Review: WCAG 3 Working Draft
W3C: W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 Working Draft is updated. For review questions and how to comment, please see the WCAG 3 section ‘About this draft’. The starting place for background, timeline, and up-to-date information is the WCAG 3 Introduction.
For Wide Review: Accessibility Maturity Model — Updated Draft Note
W3C: Accessibility Maturity Model Updated Draft Note is ready for review. Please comment by 30 September 2025.
The Socioeconomic Impact of Digital Transition
BBC: closing the digital divide could unlock billions of pounds in economic and social value for the UK.
CSUN General Call for Presentations
Opens on September 4 and concludes September 23. The 41st conference will be held March 9 through 13, 2026, at the Anaheim Marriott.
H.R.3417 – Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act of 2025
US Congress: To establish uniform accessibility standards for websites and applications of employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, joint labor-management committees, public entities, public accommodations, testing entities, and commercial providers, and for other purposes.
Legal Update: August 2025
Converge Accessibility: Southern District of NY cases, Nexus Still Required in Third Circuit, Federal versus State Court in CA, Eighth Circuit, Bill Tracker.
Rising tide of ADA website lawsuits targets Missouri small businesses
Kansas City Business Journal: The Growing Trend
The National Design Studio is a Scam
Christopher Butler: Joe Gebbia has no business designing government services.
Level Access Accelerates Investment in AI Innovation
Level Access: AI-powered accessibility agents will to redefine scalable digital accessibility.
TetraLogical launches accessible self-led training courses
TetraLogical: to help digital teams build confidence in accessibility. Course list.
Testing Methods: Low or No Background Audio
Dennis Deacon: audio content (like speech or dialogue) must not have background sounds that make the speech hard to hear.
Baby Steps Accessibility – Color Contrast of Text
Dennis Deacon: I thought we’d start with the #1 accessibility problem impacting the digital world: color contrast.
Sneak accessibility
Chris Ferdinandi: the most effective way to fix accessibility issues in the sites and apps that we build is just do it.
Quick Tip: Stop Gate Keeping Tech
Nat Tarnoff: I despise AI, but I will never stop someone from using any tech to make their quality of life better.
How to Minimize Legal Risks in Accessibility Compliance
Nat Tarnoff: you cannot avoid lawsuits about accessibility. What you can do is minimize your risk.
Quick accessibility analysis of Norwegian party websites just before election
Bogdan Cerovac: Long story short – all political party websites have issues.
Do you know your ADA Digital Accessibility Risk?
Sheri Byrne-Haber: What many decision-makers miss, however, is that risk is not evenly distributed across the marketplace.
Screenreader HTML support look up app
Steve Faulkner: a way to contrast and compare support across screen readers in the HTML support tables.
active-descendant console debugger
Steve Faulkner: I asked ChatGPT to help create a script to help debug aria-activedescendant.
OKLCH color picker, generator and converter
Jakub Krehel: Because OKLCH’s lightness ties directly to contrast, it’s easier to make color palettes that are readable and accessible.
10 Life Lessons on Accessibility
Christiane Link: here are some lessons and thoughts I had.
A Requiem for My Dignity, Sacrificed at the Altar of AI
Robert Kingett: I decided to try an “AI” screen reader. It was a Category 5 hurricane of humiliation.
ARIA-live cheatsheet: announcing stuff without annoying your users
James Sheasby Thomas: As with any ARIA role or attribute, there’s always a risk that inappropriate use will annoy, confuse or block assistive technology users.
The Accessibility Paradox
Aparajita Marathe & Anne Marie Piper: How Blind and Low Vision Employees Experience and Negotiate Accessibility in the Technology Industry
Podcast: Accessible Numbers
Laura Parker: about presenting numbers clearly for anyone who designs services.
AI1y (AI and A11y) – Part III
NirA11y: Can I Trust AI to Be Right 100% of the Time for Accessibility?
Podcast: The Most Misunderstood Accessibility Features in Acrobat
Chax Chat: Chad Chelius and Dax Castro bust myths about tag trees, reading order, and common mistakes.
WCAG 2.2: Where to Begin
Accessible Web: start with smaller tasks instead of trying to understand the full scope of WCAG.
Assistive Technologies for People with Disabilities
Be Accessible: Assistive technology aims to eliminate barriers among people with disabilities.
Digital accessibility in a post-EAA deadline world
Deque: Actionable advice for developments in the Netherlands and France.
How to make the leap to paid accessibility tools when you need to accelerate progress
Deque: making the leap from free to paid can be tricky.
Summer 2025 Digital Accessibility
UsableNet: A Screen Reader’s Review.
What’s Next in Digital Accessibility
UsableNet: 5 Takeaways You Can Use Now.
How to Perform a Comprehensive WCAG Audit
A11y Collective: Discover pro tips for efficient testing, result interpretation, and ongoing accessibility maintenance.
Accessible Writing Techniques for Web Content
A11y Collective: Transform your writing workflow with actionable tips for reaching every reader.
A Web Developer’s Guide to Buttons vs Links
A11y Collective: Get clear guidance on proper usage, accessibility requirements, and UX best practices for your web development projects.
An Accessible Guide to WCAG 3.3.8: Authentication Without Frustration
auth0: Logging in can be tough for users with cognitive disabilities.
Video: Everything you wanted to know about Accessibility
Hassell Inclusion: Live Q&A with Jonathan Hassell.
Using AI To Redefine Software Accessibility Testing
Forbes: the AI’s behavior created entirely new accessibility barriers that traditional testing had never evaluated.
Podcast: Why Digital Accessibility Starts Within: Lessons from Crystal Preston-Watson
AXSChat interview with the Senior Digital Accessibility Analyst at Salesforce.
You Don’t Have to Be Blind to Use a Screen Reader
Pedal Point: For me—and for many others—screen readers aren’t about replacing sight, but about expanding options.
The latest Kindle update is a good step toward accessibility
Android Authority: Key refinements upgrade the Kindle experience for some users.
BITS, Microsoft, and the American Council of the Blind Launch Groundbreaking Accessibility Partnership
Press Release: to directly influence the future of accessibility across Microsoft Narrator and M365 apps such as Word and Outlook.
JAWS Tips: Windows UAC Fix
Easterseals Crossroads: When Windows User Account Control is not spoken by JAWS.
Accessible Telegram
Mahmood: Script to Enhance Telegram Web Accessibility for VoiceOver Users on iOS.
This Emerging Technology Can Keep Screens Steady in an Always-Moving World
Honeywell: Learn about a new system being developed to improve user experience of everyday touchpoints.
Web development without limits part 3: Practical guide for accessible design
Heise: In order to develop accessible websites, it is helpful to take user needs into account.
Designing for Autonomy: UX Principles for Agentic AI Systems
UX Magazine: How do we craft interfaces that support trust, transparency, and control in systems we don’t fully script?
You no longer need JavaScript
Lyra Rebane: I think a lot of things are just plain nicer to make in HTML/CSS.
The Good, the Bad, and the Iffy: is there such a thing as an ethical designer?
Elizabeth Goodspeed: Unfortunately, once people knew how to build accessible, user-friendly apps, they also knew they didn’t have to.
The melancholy of history rhyming
Baldur Bjarnason: I worry what will happen when the “AI” Bubble pops.
The web behind glass
Medienbäcker Thomas Günther: advice for designing and developing websites for the delightful and elegant new design language, Liquid Glass.
The Lifespan Gap
Grace Dow: Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are dying nearly 20 years earlier than the general population.

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