Weekly Reading List October 20 2025

This content originally appeared on TPGi — a Vispero company and was authored by Ricky Onsman

Case Study: Adyen
Vispero: How Adyen is Leading the Future of Accessible Payments with JAWS® for Kiosk.
Vispero and Aira Announce Strategic Partnership
Vispero: to Increase Awareness and Promote Equal Access for Online Communities.
Case Study: Practising Law Institute
Vispero: how TPGi helped PLI significantly reduce their legal risk and improve accessibility across their digital assets
What State ARIA Inj?
TPGi: Aditya Jainapur explains how to use ARIA to indicate the difference between selected, pressed, current, and checked states of elements..
Webinar: Understanding ADA Title II: Accessibility Auditing, Compliance, and Prioritization
TPGi: David Sloan, Chief Accessibility Officer, presented on October 28, 2025 at 12pm ET.
Webinar: User Centered Testing with User Journeys
TPGi: Charlie Pike, Director of Platform Success, presented on October 30, 2025 at 10am ET.
October 2025 Student of the Month
Freedom Scientific: Ollie is a ninth grader from Texas.
The Forrester Wave: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2025
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up (Deque, Level Access, Siteimprove, UsableNet, Evinced, Allyant, Crownpeak, Acquia, Silktide)
W3C logo refresh
W3C: more than a cosmetic change, a small step towards durable and sustainable success.
DOJ shelves ADA rulemaking on digital accessibility
NE Biz Law: In a surprising regulatory rollback, the Department of Justice has withdrawn two key rulemaking efforts under the Americans with Disabilities Act, including long-awaited rules on digital accessibility.
Identifying Accessibility Data Gaps in CodeGen Models
Aaron Gustafson: We’re facing a looming wave of inaccessible code that will be extremely difficult to remediate later.
Talkin’ Tables at A11yTO Conf
Adrian Roselli: which I presented in place of another speaker who had to back out the day before.
Quick fix for focus trapping on Android TV
Alicia Jarvis: Ever tried to back out of a submenu on your TV app only to find the focus won’t move?
How I fixed my Reduced Motion Broke My Layout problem
Andy Clarke: it took me all morning to realise the issue wasn’t the grid, but how I’d structured my media queries.
A11Y Linting HTML with CSS
Chris Coyier: Will Mendes has a bit of CSS to highlight accessibility issues on HTML elements.
Implicit labels aren’t
Chris Ferdinandi: As James Edwards documents and Adrian Roselli reiterates, some voice command software will not navigate to implicitly labelled fields.
30 Days With Dolphin Screen Reader
David Goldfield: Dolphin Computer Access is offering a 50% discount on their Supernova products for users who have a JAWS, Zoomtext or Fusion license who are willing to switch.
Testing Methods: Keyboard
Dennis Deacon: content is operable via a keyboard or alternate keyboard interface whenever possible.
“AI is inevitable” is bullshit
Eric Eggert: “AI” investors can’t acknowledge the limitation of the technology because they are all-in on it.
I can’t read (but I’d like to)
Erik Kroes: Reading is challenging for me, mostly because of my traumatic brain injury.
Time saving / time wasting
Hidde de Vries: LLM vendors promise huge time savings, while many people experience these tools cost them time.
AI has an accessibility problem
Jemima Abu: What devs can do about it.
Implementing a focus indicator with :focus
Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: a visual focus indicator must be displayed when a user moves the focus to a focusable object … using the keyboard.
Headers, headings, and titles
Martin Underhill: use the terminology defined by the super smart people who wrote HTML and ARIA.
Page headings don’t belong in the header
Martin Underhill: having thought about this, I don’t think headings are much use here.
YouTube Studio Update
Meryl Evans: Where to Find Captions and Add Audio Description.
Lies by AI
Niq Bernadowitsch: Disinformation as a service, brought to you by LLMs.
For Your Convenience, This CSS Will Self-Destruct
Scott Jehl: what could go wrong here if JavaScript fails to fully load, or has a runtime error, or merely takes a while to load?
Why Every Search Needs an Announced Empty State
Sheri Byrne-Haber: Inaccessible empty states are one of those subtle failures that make an interface feel broken to some users but not others.
What Is Dubbing?
3Play Media: Everything You Need to Know About Dubbing Videos.
Beyond Compliance
Acquia: Why Accessibility Is the Key to Digital Trust and Brand Loyalty
Accessibility as a Promise, not a Pitch
Allyant: Inside Vaan Group’s Contractual Commitment to Accessibility.
Why Accessibility Matters—And Why It Matters Now
Allyant: delaying or deprioritizing accessibility is a costly, brand-damaging decision—now more than ever.
Podcast: AXSChat with Laura Wissiak
AXSChat: Chief Research Officer at Hope Tech, she leads the development of assistive tech hardware for mobility.
Digital innovation, emerging technology and accessibility with Léonie Watson
Calvium: we interviewed Léonie Watson, co-founder and Director of accessibility consultancy TetraLogical.
Podcast: Microsoft – Accessibility for Word and PPT
Chax Chat: Chad Chelius and Dax Castro welcome Microsoft’s Shireen Salma and Ylva Kravis to unpack new accessibility features in Word and PowerPoint.
Deque named a leader in The Forrester Wave: Digital Accessibility Platforms
Deque: In this report, we received the top score in the Strategy category.
Star raters are more challenging to make accessible than you might think
Eleven Ways: beneath that simple surface lie a couple of tricky accessibility questions that are crucial for making sure everyone can use them effectively.
Video: Tools and Techniques of a Blind Accessibility Auditor
Knowbility: Be a Digital Ally with Janine Leinbeck, NFB.
Eight Steps to Achieve ADA Title II Compliance in Higher Education
Level Access: a practical roadmap to help your institution meet ADA Title II requirements.
Celebrating Our Recognition as a Leader in the Forrester Wave
Level Access: What It Means for You.
How Accessibility Supercharges GEO and Future-Proofs Your Brand
Level Access: Generative engine optimization (GEO), also called generative AI SEO.
Accessibility in an AI World
Onward Accessibility: AI Tips for A11Y Work.
Common misconceptions about screen readers
TetraLogical: Screen readers are familiar to many in digital, but how they work in practice can be less clear.
Video: ADA Title II Digital Accessibility
UsableNet: Requirements, Exceptions, and Next Steps.
This digital hand enables hands-free virtual reality
University of Michigan: the AI-powered agent can complete tasks by following simple voice commands .
New iOS App: SonifEye
Marshall Walters: An App to Hear Color; Request for Use & Feedback.
The thing about contrast-color
Andy Clarke: The contrast-color() function chooses either white for dark backgrounds or black for light ones.
Quiet UI is Now Open Source
Cory LaViska: Sorry, but I’m not solving everyone’s problems for free anymore.
Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve
CSS Tricks: The two competing proposals are interesting in their own right.
Many years on the job and I still don’t get it.
Dave Rupert: aspects of becoming a better web developer. It’s not always about lines-of-code or hours-in-chair.
The Grayscale Problem
Frederick O’Brien: Vibrant and accessible aren’t mutually exclusive.
The “£532,000” dot job: Why small design changes cost big
Ian Batterbee: Why did a tiny logo change cost GOV.UK so much?
Common UX mistakes everyone still makes 2.0
Jason Teunissen: Standardized, semantic HTML is a huge win.
Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna
Mark Bernstein: If we are providing support and advice to customers, we don’t want those customers to wrangle with each other.
Instant snapport
Matthias Zöchling: scroll padding can be of great help when it comes to accessibility.
AI In UX: Achieve More With Less
Paul Boag: Treat AI like an intern with zero experience.
How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore
Vitaly Friedman: Here’s how to turn your research into narratives that inspire trust and influence decisions.
Anchor Positioning Updates for Fall 2025
James Stuckey Weber: Let’s take a look at the current state of anchor positioning.

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