Weekly Reading List November 10 2025

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

• The Challenge of Choice
  Vispero: A Guided Path Through Vispero’s Assistive Technologies.
• Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 14
  TPGi: CAO David Sloan and Principal Accessibility Engineer John Lilly discuss how you can create more accessible mobile app user experiences. November 12 at 10:30am EST.
• Link vs Button: Choosing the Right Element for the Right Job
  TPGi: Deeksha Yadav explains how and why to use semantic links and buttons so the correct actions are conveyed to assistive technologies.
• Webinar: New Features of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2026
  Freedom Scientific: an overview of the software, plus demos of features that will help you work more efficiently and independently.
• Updated Candidate Recommendation: Pointer Events Level 3
  W3C: extends or modifies a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware-agnostic pointer input.
• Group Note Draft: Self-Review Questionnaire: Societal Impact
  W3C: questions for specification authors, reviewers, and implementors of new web platform technologies to answer.
• First Public Working Draft: Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description 2.0
  W3C: formal information model and a common representation for a Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description (TD), Version 2.0.
• PTS begins supervision of e-commerce services
  PTS: The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency, PTS, has now begun its first inspection to check that operators are complying with the new Accessibility Act.
• Measuring Australia’s digital divide
  The Australian Digital Inclusion Index tracks and reports on digital inclusion in Australia. 2025 Report (pdf)
• The Past, Present, and Future of Accessibility in WordPress
  WordPress Accessibility Meetup: Chat with Matt Mullenweg
• What testing with TV watchers can teach you about ‘keyboard-only’ design
  Alicia Jarvis: When you build for connected TVs, “keyboard-only” isn’t just an accessibility edge case.
• Shopify Needs a Mirrorfy
  Adrian Roselli: Shopify is legitimately angry at drive-by ADA lawsuits, but …
• 100, 150, or 200? Debunking the Alt text character limit
  Chris Yoong: The arbitrary limit can be built into input fields and automated tooling.
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  David Bushell: I’ve seen noble attempts to make a more accessible date picker. I want to push developers away from the classic date picker entirely.
• Testing Methods: Pause, Stop, Hide
  Dennis Deacon: moving, blinking, or auto-updating content, elements that can distract, overwhelm, or even disorient, must offer users the ability to pause, stop, or hide it.
• Testing Methods: Timing Adjustable
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that users are not unfairly constrained by time limits.
• Testing Methods: Character Key Shortcuts
  Dennis Deacon: a subtle but critical accessibility concern: keyboard shortcuts triggered by single character keys.
• RGAA vs WCAG
  Diana Khalipina: these two standards are like two different languages describing the same idea.
• Writing good alt text sounds simple until you actually try
  Diana Khalipina: it’s not just about describing an image, it’s about communicating its purpose and meaning.
• Evaluating Fable’s pay-per-project offering
  Eric Bailey: option for accessibility practitioners, champions, and product teams that delivers quick feedback from disabled people who use assistive technology.
• Explaining the Accessible Benefits of Using Semantic HTML Elements
  Geoff Graham: I’m getting a much clearer picture of why <button> is a best practice.
• The Loneliest Lessons I Learned Growing Up Disabled
  Grace Dow: Disabled people are much more likely to feel chronic loneliness, which is associated with serious health risks.
• Windows Copilot Serves At Best Half an Answer to Screen Reading Users
  Kelly Ford: text communicated for accessibility purposes is clipped such that when reviewing answers with Copilot, the answers you receive are incomplete.
• Quick Tip: Use More Than Tab in Screen Readers
  Nat Tarnoff: One of the issues I often see flagged by other accessibility testers is that something doesn’t work with keyboard navigation.
• Why Separate Guest and Logged In States Create Accessibility Barriers
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: If a person starts a task while logged out and that work disappears after logging in, or if the user is moved somewhere unexpected without a clear indication of what happened, your software has an accessibility barrier.
• Rambling Fireside with Pat
  Steve Faulkner: conversations with some of the people of accessibility – Patrick Lauke.
• Perspective Studio: The Easy, Accessible Way to Use AI on Your Computer
  Taylor Arndt: a simple, fully accessible app that lets you chat with AI models locally on your device.
• Video: Fixing Accessibility Issues Live: A Real-World Remediation Demo
  Aaardvark: recording of a hands-on livestream where we roll up our sleeves and fix real accessibility issues.
• New ISO Standards, WCAG 2.2 Conformance, and Their Impact
  Accessible Web: ISO/IEC 40500:2025 signals a new bridge, establishing accessibility as a global benchmark rather than a regional obligation.
• A CMO’s Playbook: Reframing AI from Cost-Cutting to Strategic Growth
  Acquia: AI is no longer a side project or a budget-trimming tool.
• Accessible iOS Design
  Axess Lab: how Forza Football included blind users.
• Podcast: Gail Ramster
  AXSChat: Senior Research Associate in inclusive design, co-author of Designing Inclusive Public Toilets.
• How to Write Content That Follows Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  Be Accessible: Accessible content is a must for everyone, regardless of ability, to easily browse, comprehend, and interact with the information.
• Recapping our inaugural Axe-con Mini event
  Deque: Deque’s global community recently came together for the debut of a brand new type of event: an Axe-con Mini.
• Podcast: David Sloan
  Digital Accessibility Podcast: Joe James interviews the Chief Accessibility Officer at TPGi/Vispero.
• Beyond the Page
  Equal Entry: How an Inclusive Library Model Is Redefining Accessible Literacy.
• Should I Add an Accessibility Toolbar to My Website?
  Equalize Digital: TL;DR: Don’t Add an Accessibility Toolbar/Widget to Your Website.
• Toasts
  GitHub: no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.
• Optimizing GitHub Copilot for Accessibility with Custom Instructions
  GitHub: Custom instructions empower you to optimize accessibility by shaping how GitHub Copilot behaves.
• How to Choose and Set Up an Accessible TV
  Hable: when you choose a TV with inclusive design you open up entertainment, social time and independence.
• Colleges Are Running Out of Time on Digital Accessibility
  Inside Higher Ed: New federal rules require all college web content to be accessible by spring 2026. Most institutions are far from ready.
• Why Accessibility Belongs in Your CI/CD Pipeline
  Level Access: what product and development leaders stand to gain by adopting a proactive approach to accessibility.
• How a 3-Minute A11y Snapshot Helps Me Turn Curiosity into Connection
  Pedal Point: a new approach to sparking accessibility conversations, something I’m calling the a11y snapshot.
• Two tools for testing use of color
  Pope Tech: Free WAVE extension and Chrome developer tool.
• Grayscale testing: The missing step in color accessibility
  Pope Tech: removing color by desaturating your website to see if form states, charts, infographics, and links still make sense.
• Formidable Forms: Where Accessibility Claims Unravel
  Tab-able: a widely used WordPress plugin promoted as accessible. Our testing shows otherwise.
• Sustainable accessibility in complex organisations: strategic foundations
  TetraLogical: how clear leadership, defined accountability, and effective governance turns intention into lasting change.
• Sustainable accessibility in complex organisations: organisational realities
  TetraLogical: what it takes to build a culture of inclusion, open communication, and collaboration across teams and processes.
• Sustainable accessibility in complex organisations: external factors
  TetraLogical: how anticipating changes in the accessibility landscape and wider economic environment can help you sustain progress through change.
• After NDEAM: Building an Inclusive Corporate Culture
  UsableNet: how culture and accessibility intersect in three key areas of work life.
• Podcast: Natalie MacLees
  WP Builds: Nathan Wrigley interviews Natalie to discuss her latest project, Aaardvark Accessibility.
• Apple Releases iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1 with accessibility enhancements
  Apple Vis: Plus new language support for Live Translation, and more.
• Accessible Palette Creator
  InclusiveColors: A tool for making custom branded color palettes for web and UI design built from the ground up to meet accessible contrast requirements for WCAG, ADA and Section 508.
• Netflix introduces color-coded subtitles in ‘Physical: Asia’ to boost accessibility
  Korea Times: applies distinct colors to subtitles in each language, allowing viewers to easily distinguish who is speaking.
• BBC’s AI Leap: Revolutionizing Audio Accessibility
  WebProNews: The BBC is revolutionizing audio content with generative AI, automating real-time subtitles and transcripts for podcasts on BBC Sounds.
• Use Cases for Field Sizing
  Ahmad Shadeed: A quick look at field-sizing and where it can be used.
• The Fundamentals Problem
  Chris Butler: Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened.
• Escape Velocity: Break Free from Framework Gravity
  Den Odell: The problem isn’t React itself, nor any other framework for that matter.
• A (kind of) farewell to the web
  John Allsopp: Front-end engineering is at a crossroads, and right now I’m not optimistic about it.
• 4 Proven Methods to Get the Most Out of ChatGPT-5
  Nick Babich: despite all the advantages of this new model, it has one significant drawback — it’s not very effective at processing vague prompts.
• Fixing Baselines
  Roma Komarov : I share a technique I have already used for twelve years.
• Perfectly Pointed Tooltips: A Foundation
  Temani Afif: There is a lot that can go into making sure a tooltip is placed well.
• Six Key Components of UX Strategy
  Vitaly Friedman: create user value while achieving company goals.
• The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign
  BBC: If you set aside the symbols for currency, there is perhaps no character that holds more cultural weight than @.

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