Weekly Reading List November 24 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.
• From Compliance to Competitive Advantage
  Vispero: How Digital Accessibility Drives Enterprise Growth
• How a Leading U.S. Airline Transformed Self-Service Travel
  Vispero: with 700 Accessible Kiosks Powered by JAWS.
• Webinar: An Introduction to Copilot: Crafting Confidence and Capability
  Freedom Scientific: boost your productivity when using JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion with AI built in. 12noon ET, Dec 5, 2025.
• Video: How to Create and Sign In to Your Vispero Account in JAWS 2026
  Freedom Scientific: from navigating the initial sign-in screen to registering a new account, verifying your email, and logging in to start using JAWS.
• Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group
  W3C: Matthew Atkinson, Christian Liebel, Jeffrey Yasskin, and Sen Yu join Hadley Beeman, Marcos Cáceres, Sarven Capadisli, Xiaocheng Hu and Lola Odelola.
• Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51
  NPR: Alice Wong, an author and activist who fought for disability rights and justice, has died. Wong was 51 years old.
• In Memory of Alice Wong (1974 – 2025)
  DREDF: By now, many of you know that Alice Wong is now a disabled ancestor.
• Mourning Alice Wong
  ASAN: We are missing our friend Alice Wong. Alice died on November 14.
• The Value of Selecting Selects by Value
  Adrian Roselli: This is meant to use voice control to test select menus … by their value because their accessible names are hidden.
• Flexible Menu Animation with Anchored Container Queries
  Alexander Lehner: The CSS Anchor Positioning Module Level 2 document introduces the new anchored value for the container-type property.
• Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects
  Amit Sheen: One of the biggest advantages of using keyframes tokens is that accessibility can be baked in, and it is actually quite easy to do.
• AI will soon deliver code that will pass automatic testing by default
  Bogdan Cerovac: we now have some accessibility benchmarks for a selected range of AI models.
• Testing Methods: Focus Visible
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that every interactive element shows a clear, visible indicator when it receives keyboard focus.
• Testing Methods: Headings and Labels
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that every heading and label clearly communicates the topic or purpose of the content it introduces.
• Testing Methods: Multiple Ways
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that users can reach content through more than one pathway.
• Testing Methods: Link Purpose (In Context)
  Dennis Deacon: ensures every link clearly communicates its destination.
• Selfish Post on ARC Toolkit
  Dennis Deacon: Maybe this will help others, as well as myself, locate information on ARC Toolkit.
• Testing Methods: Focus Order
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that users navigating with a keyboard, or any non-pointer input, can move through a web page in a way that feels logical, consistent, and predictable.
• Testing Methods: Page Titled
  Dennis Deacon: Every page needs a clear, descriptive title that accurately reflects its purpose and content.
• Testing Methods: Bypass Blocks
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that users can skip repetitive content … to reach the main page content quickly.
• 10 unexpected facts about web accessibility
  Diana Khalipina: one of them isn’t entirely correct. Could you guess which one?
• Case study: why Microsoft is still one of the most exciting accessibility innovators
  Diana Khalipina: in accessibility, their journey is bold, experimental, and deeply human-centered, full of surprising moves that go beyond compliance.
• How to build a meaningful accessibility roadmap?
  Diana Khalipina: Without structure, even the best intentions fade and accessibility is often the first thing to slip away.
• Web accessibility & mental health: why we need to talk about it
  Diana Khalipina: mental-health issues and cognitive differences often sit in the shadows of our accessibility discussions.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 1.4.10: Reflow (Level AA)
  Gian Wild: ensure that content remains readable and accessible on mobile devices.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 1.3.5: Identify Input Purpose (Level AA)
  Gian Wild: The purpose of each input field is to clearly define its intended function.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 1.3.4: Orientation (Level AA)
  Gian Wild: Mobile content should be usable in any orientation.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 2.5.4: Motion Actuation (Level A)
  Gian Wild: remove the need for users to manually move their mobile devices.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 2.5.3: Label in Name (Level A)
  Gian Wild: it is important that the accessible name of controls matches their visual label.
• Aria-labels and Privacy: A Word of Caution
  Homer Gaines: Using aria-labels can expose sensitive data to tracking software.
• Accessibility Improvements in WordPress 6.9
  Joe Dolson: extensive accessibility improvements across WordPress Core and Gutenberg.
• Don’t be afraid to read JIS X8341-3 (WCAG)
  Kazuhiko Tsuchiya: We often hear that the JIS standard for web accessibility, JIS-X8341-3 and WCAG, on which it is based, are difficult to read.
• Give Accessibility a Seat at the Notepad Table Please
  Kelly Ford: Why is something this basic once again left out for accessibility?
• Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna: Lights, Camera, Mobility, Action!
  Laura Wissiak: Vienna is leaning into its livable city image, and a big part of this is accessibility.
• An accessible pagination pattern (or two)
  Martin Underhill: I’ve always found the standard pagination pattern a bit too minimal.
• Democratising Digital Accessibility
  Matthew Deeprose: AI-Enabled Tool Development for Barrier-Free Content Creation.
• Slides: W3C TPAC Sustainable Web Guidelines Breakout Discussion (Slides)
  Mike Gifford: W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group met on November 12, 2025.
• A11y 101: 2.4.7 Focus Visible
  Nat Tarnoff: Since we want all our user interfaces keyboard operable (Yes, phones too), we need to show where the user focus is placed.
• Video Course: Practical Accessibility
  Sara Soueidan: 40+ Lessons, 15hr+ of Video with Text Adaptations, and One Structured Curriculum. 30% off for Black Friday until December 4.
• When Accessibility Progress Plateaus
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: How to Regain Momentum.
• Belonging Is the Secret to Success
  Stephanie Cawthon: Revisiting a keynote at The Ohio State University that explored how an accessibility mindset connects to student belonging, retention, and lasting change.
• Last Week in WAI #2
  Steve Faulkner: issues and discussions going in the W3C Web Standards Cauldron of words (AKA Web Accessibility Initiative).
• AI and Accessibility, Transforming Digital Access for People with Disabilities
  Todd Libby: The Promise of AI-Powered Accessibility (12 October, 2023).
• A University Guide to Budgeting and Auditing for ADA Video Compliance
  3Play Media: video content plays a central role in modern learning and can be challenging to make accessible.
• BT Group and AbilityNet partnership
  AbilityNet: the partnership is expanding its reach across new regions in the UK, including Northern Ireland.
• Podcast: A Better, More Accessible Media Player
  Accessibility Craft: 144 – Amber and Steve interview special guest Joe Dolson about Able Player.
• Ads and accessibility mismatch
  Axess Lab: Ads online today are not built with accessibility in mind.
• Podcast: Erika Hall
  AXSChat: The co-founder and Director of Strategy at Mule advocates for evidence-based design and clear language.
• Be My Eyes Partners with Guide Dogs NSW/ACT
  Be My Eyes: Connecting Blind and Low Vision Australians with expert visual assistance through a new digital partnership.
• Microsoft will not release a 2025 diversity report
  Beta News: Microsoft says “we’ve evolved beyond that to formats that are more dynamic and accessible.”
• Free Wi-Fi for Remote Communities
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: Boosting Disability Inclusion.
• Testing HTML Light DOM Web Components: Easier Than Expected
  Cloud Four: modernizing a large, decades-old legacy web application, keeping accessibility front and center.
• Axe-con 2026: Full agenda reveal
  Deque: We’ve got experts from Adobe to Zendesk, and all points in between.
• Preety Kumar at Microsoft Ignite
  Deque: How Accessibility is Shaping the Future of AI
• RGAA Compliance: The Complete Guide to French Digital Accessibility (2025 Edition)
  DigitalA11y: Understanding RGAA is essential because France takes digital accessibility very seriously.
• European Accessibility summit: accessibility driving innovation
  EDF: main conclusions of the first sessions, including the Keynote and the session on the EAA.
• Understanding WCAG 1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded) (Level A) for WordPress
  Equalize Digital: If your WordPress site features videos with spoken content … captions are essential.
• State of Digital Accessibility Report: 2025-2026
  Level Access: Exploring our findings.
• 9 startups changing disability tech
  Mashable: From making brain-computer interfaces affordable to enabling people with low vision to follow live sports.
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7262
  Microsoft: Improvements in in Narrator and Magnifier.
• Video: Building for Everyone: How Accessibility is Shaping the Future of AI
  Microsoft Ignite: Preety Kumar (Deque), Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft), Ed Summers (GitHub).
• When is an accessibility review required?
  Minnesota News: It’s not always obvious, particularly for back-end technology.
• 40 years of progress
  Minnesota News: Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind & Hard of Hearing.
• National Federation of the Blind Partners with ElevenLabs to Transform Accessible Reading
  NFB: Empowering Choice in How Stories Are Heard.
• Federal Pro Se ADA Title III and FHA Lawsuit Numbers Surge, Likely Powered by AI
  Seyfarth Shaw: plaintiffs are filing more ADA Title III and FHA complaints using AI tools that enable harassing litigation tactics.
• How Disability-Affirming Language Builds Connection, Confidence and Customers
  PWD Australia: Megan Spindler-Smith, Acting CEO of the national cross-disability rights and advocacy organization.
• HHS Section 504 Digital Accessibility FAQ for Healthcare Providers
  UsableNet: HHS has made it explicit that web content and mobile apps used in health and human service programs must be accessible for people with disabilities
• Screen Reader Accessibility Q&A
  UsableNet: from October 2025 Webinar.
• AI will be a Big Win for Blind Users, Not a Shield From ADA Lawsuits
  UsableNet: the latest announcements from JAWS underscore just how significant that shift may be.
• Video: Past, Present & Future of Accessibility in WordPress
  WP Accessibility Meetup: Amber Hinds (Equalize Digital) chats with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg.
• Video: Integrated Accessibility Testing Tools in WordPress
  WP Campus: A conversation with developers and creators behind integrated accessibility testing plugins.
• The 2025 Guide to Accessible Gifts
  Easter Seals Crossroads: here is a preview of a few products featured on the INDATA Black Friday podcast.
• My CSS layout strategy
  Andy Clarke: It isn’t really about grids; it’s about a repeatable way to make layout decisions.
• The dichotomy of print versus the web
  Baldur Bjarnason: I’ve been thinking about print versus the web (and digital in general) as society-wide media systems.
• “A.I.” browsers: the price of admission is too high
  Bruce Lawson: Over the weekend, I tried two of the new “A.I.” browsers.
• Safari strikes again
  Chris Ferdinandi: In Safari, buttons don’t get focused when clicked.
• You Don’t Need Animations
  Emil Kowalski: They can make an interface feel unpredictable, slow, and annoying.
• Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
  Matthew Prince: an in-depth recount of exactly what happened and what systems and processes failed.
• Gemini 3 For UI Design
  Nick Babich: Gemini 3 is the latest state-of-the-art LLM from Google.
• Gemini 3 for Web Design
  Nick Babich: I want to show you how to make the most of this tool for web design.

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