Weekly Reading List December 1 2025

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

• Vispero Accounts: An Explanation, an Apology, and a Path Forward
  Rhonda Bassett-Spiers: We want to begin by acknowledging something important: we should have communicated these changes earlier, more clearly, and with greater transparency.
• Podcast: Discovering an unfamiliar territory with Page Explorer, and a chat with Andrés felipe Pulgarín from Colombia
  Freedom Scientific: FSCast #264.
• Employee Spotlight: Ricky Onsman’s Story
  Freedom Scientific: This month we are shining the spotlight on Ricky Onsman, Principal Technical Writer.
• Cognitive Accessibility Research Modules and Issue Papers
  W3C: Editor’s Draft 30 November 2025. Looks at different Web technologies and provides a detailed analysis of accessibility issues for people with disabilities that may require cognitive accessibility supports; user needs; areas for further research, and directions for solutions.
• Group Note Draft: Web User Agents
  W3C: Feedback and comments on this document are welcome.
• First Public Working Draft: CSS Backgrounds Module Level 4
  W3C: contains the features of CSS relating to the backgrounds of boxes on the page.
• Creating a more accessible web with ARIA Notify
  Aaron Gustafson: an ergonomic and predictable way to tell assistive technologies (ATs), such as screen readers, exactly what to announce to users and when.
• Can toast messages be accessible?
  Adam Silver: If you mean you can make toast messages work well for everyone then the answer is obviously no.
• Video: AI for good accessibility
  Alastair Campbell: This is a post for the presentation I gave at Virta11y 2025.
• Tools won’t solve it entirely for you
  Anselm Hannemann: I’ve tested Lighthouse, Claude, ARCToolkit, axe DevTools and did a quick manual check myself.
• 5 reasons why WCAG AA compliance does not mean your website is accessible
  Craig Abbott: There’s a common misconception that if you meet the WCAG 2.2 to level AA, then your website is accessible.
• Black Friday and Cyber Monday: why accessibility could be your biggest sales advantage
  Dave Davies: shoppers using assistive technology abandon websites that don’t work for them.
• Testing Methods: Pointer Gestures
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that all users, regardless of dexterity, motor ability, or input method, can fully engage with a website or application.
• Testing Methods: Focus Appearance
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that users can clearly perceive which element currently holds keyboard focus.
• Testing Methods: Focus Not Obscured (Enhanced)
  Dennis Deacon: ensures that when an element receives keyboard focus, it remains entirely visible within the viewport.
• Testing Methods: Focus Not Obscured (Minimum)
  Dennis Deacon: users must always be able to see where they are on the screen.
• Testing Methods: Section Headings
  Dennis Deacon: Content must be organized with descriptive section headings that clearly communicate structure, relationships, and hierarchy.
• Testing Methods: Link Purpose (Link Only)
  Dennis Deacon: Every link should communicate its purpose through its text alone
• Testing Methods: Location
  Dennis Deacon: every user can orient themselves within a website or application through clear navigational context.
• First french lawsuits: when grocery e-commerce meets accessibility law
  Diana Khalipina: first major collective legal case targeting several large private e-commerce retailers for digital inaccessibility in France.
• Why web accessibility is a women’s rights issue?
  Diana Khalipina: Web accessibility isn’t a niche issue, mostly it is a women’s rights issue.
• Accessibility ≠ Usability ≠ Universal Design
  Diana Khalipina: the difference between being able to access something and being able to actually use it with dignity.
• wc-pagination
  Dominic Myers: This web component creates a mostly accessible (please see note) pagination element (GitHub).
• The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA
  Eleanor Hecks: CAPTCHAs were meant to keep bots out, but too often, they lock people with disabilities out, too.
• From Jokes to Jabs: Everyday Ableism
  Grace Dow: ableist framing that uses disability or health as a political tool.
• Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?
  Hidde de Vries: One of the busiest breakout sessions I attended at this year’s TPAC was the one about the open web and what threats to consider.
• Blue Beanie Day 2025: Standards, Accessibility, Action
  Laura Wissiak: The web was designed with accessibility in mind.
• My Favorite Accessibility Wins This Year
  Natalie MacLees: I’ll be honest – accessibility work can feel like shouting into the void sometimes.
• Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days
  Nic Chan: I got into an argument with my own brain while trying to create a meaningful distinction between newsletters and blogs.
• “Self-advocacy is hard work”
  Peter Torres Fremlin: I bring together my favourite quotes from recent reading.
• WP A11y Docs update November 2025
  Rian Rietveld: new design and a better search option; feedback on WordCamp Netherlands; new and updated documentation; accessibility audit.
• Accessibility and Usability: Inline Field Validation vs. Constantly Active Submit Button
  Sheri Byrne-Haber: Opinions on this topic often depend on the specific context of use and user experience goals.
• Happy Thanksgiving: A Reflection on Gratitude
  Taylor Arndt: Accessibility still has a long way to go, but progress is being made
• Introducing Perspective Intelligence
  Taylor Arndt: As a blind developer, accessibility is a core part of the design process.
• EAA monitoring: the story so far
  AbilityNet: we outline the experiences so far of how the Act is being monitored.
• Bridging the Digital Divide
  AbilityNet: KeyRing’s Journey with BT and AbilityNet.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 4.1.3: Status Messages (Level AA)
  AccessibilityOz: Status messages should be programmatically determinable through appropriate roles or properties.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 1.4.13: Content on Hover and Focus (Level AA)
  AccessibilityOz: When additional content becomes visible upon receiving pointer hover or keyboard focus it should be dismissible
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 1.4.12: Text Spacing (Level AA)
  AccessibilityOz: allow users to adjust text spacing to improve readability.
• WCAG2.1 Addition – Success Criterion 1.4.11: Non-Text Contrast (Level AA)
  AccessibilityOz: user interface components are required to meet colour contrast requirements.
• Accessibility Should Be Free: Why HoverSpeak is the “Anti-Subscription” Tool We’ve Been Waiting For
  AT Blog: It isn’t trying to sell you an audiobook experience; it is trying to solve a usability problem, for free.
• EAA deadlines, why you probably can’t wait another 5 years
  Axess Lab: Deadlines for companies can be hard to grasp because … it depends!
• Mastering ARIA
  Be Accessible: Writing Clearer Code for Enhanced Web Accessibility
• ADA Requirements for Retail Stores
  Be My Eyes: How to Offer More for Blind and Low Vision Customers.
• Digital Accessibility in 2025: A Year in Review
  Centre for Accessibility Australia: Digital accessibility is evolving rapidly, and 2025 is shaping up to be a landmark year.
• Podcast: Accessible and Amazing! An Author’s Journey
  Chax Chat: Chad and Dax talk to Matisse Hamel-Nelis about her new book, Accessible Communications: Create Impact, Avoid Missteps and Build Trust.
• Video: Beyond Automation
  GrackleDocs: Dr. Ann Knettler on AI-Enhanced Workflows for PDF/UA Remediation.
• Video: What you need to know about the links between AI and Accessibility for 2026
  Hassell: This webinar recording will tell you what you need to know in advance of 2026
• Podcast: Accessibility in Practice
  IAAP: Teaching, Testing, and Leadership with Radek Pavlíček, CPWA.
• Video: WCAG 3 Status and Review
  Knowbility: Rachael Bradley-Montgomery, Ph.D, Co-chair of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group.
• In-Process 27th November 2025
  NVDA: We have another new release! But that’s not all.
• Video: Accessibility ‘not a checkbox’
  Shaw Trust: our collaboration spotlights inclusive design
• Meet the team: Grace
  TetraLogical: an Accessibility Specialist with a love of inclusive design, a passion for mentoring, and two extremely fluffy cats.
• Retail Homepage Accessibility and the European Accessibility Act
  UsableNet: Modern retail websites have many parts and sections that contribute to the overall experience. One of the most important is the homepage.
• Animation and Carousels
  WebAIM: For people with cognitive and learning disabilities, animation can make task completion difficult or even impossible.
• The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026
  Alex Russell: Have we finally rounded the corner? A look at the device and network landscape.
• Use overscroll-behavior: contain to prevent a page from scrolling while a
  is open
  
  Bramus van Damme: fixes an issue developers have been dealing with for ages.
• Responsive Letter Spacing
  CloudFour: What we really wanted was a gradual transition.
• The only frontend stack we should talk about
  Jan Deppisch: we engineers very often neglect real-world constraints — accessibility, slow connections, older devices.
• Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid
  Josh Comeau: a newer addition to CSS Grid which allows us to extend the grid layout down through the DOM tree.
• Cross-Browser Anchor Positioning
  Miriam Suzanne: With the release of Firefox 145, CSS anchor positioning is available in all browsers.

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