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- Join Vispero at the 2025 Future Travel Experience (FTE) Global Conference
The FTE Global is the largest and most influential gathering of air transport executives in North America. - JAWS for Kiosk Now Makes LG’s Kiosks Accessible
Gen 2 Self-Ordering Kiosks are built with accessibility in mind from the outset. - Podcast: The State of Accessibility – Episode 13
Mark Miller and David Sloan explore Inclusive Design 24 (ID24) on September 23 at 10:30 AM EST. - Podcast: FSCast #261
Freedom Scientific: An in-depth look at multiline Braille support in JAWS, and an AI user survey by the AFB - 26 awardees in W3C’s TPAC Inclusion and Invited Expert Support funds
W3C: The goal is to reduce barriers for participants who are contributing positively to the work of W3C groups, but who require financial support to be more actively involved. - IMPROVING OUR NATION THROUGH BETTER DESIGN
Donald J. Trump: I am announcing “America by Design,” a national initiative to improve experiences for Americans. - Trump’s new chief design officer aims to make federal websites ‘satisfying’
MSN: Joe Gebbia’s directive is to “update today’s government services to be as satisfying to use as the Apple Store”. - A notional design studio
Ethan Marcotte: I read through the “America by Design” web page. And I have some thoughts. - America by Design is Deplorable for All
Frank Taylor: Not by any meaningful measure is this site accessible. - Review of the Disability Discrimination Act
Australian government reviews legislation for first time in over 15 years. - Comments Needed to Stop republican Attack on Section 503
Lainey Feingold: Proposal will gut rules about federal contractors hiring disabled workers. - The 7% Betrayal
Grace Dow: Federal officials are moving to dismantle a key policy aimed at increasing employment opportunities for disabled people. - Focus on the people that make things happen
Martin Underhill: Broadly speaking, there are two ways to do it. - Podcast: Designing for Everyone
United in Accessibility E58: Sam Evans, IAAP, interviews Stéphanie Walter on Enterprise UX and Digital Accessibility. - Character count accessibility tests
U.S. Web Design System: Any USWDS character count component should pass these manual accessibility tests. - WP Accessibility 2.2.0 Released
Joe Dolson: includes one major new feature and one substantial change. - Introducing Baby Steps Accessibility
Dennis Deacon: laser-focused on a particular task that will improve your digital product’s level of accessibility. - Testing Methods: Contrast (Enhanced)
Dennis Deacon: ensure that text and images of text have a contrast ratio of at least 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. - How to Create an Accessible Table with Clickable Rows
Alexander Lehner: A table row with a click event handler doesn’t magically turn into an accessible control. - New bookmarklet: WCAG SCs Lookup tool
Ian Lloyd: I made a tool to look up WCAG SCs and copy the links. - Accessible Authentication
Karl Groves: what we know, what we don’t, and what to do next. - A11y 101: 2.4.3 Focus Order
Nat Tarnoff: The vast majority of the complaints I’ve seen claiming focus order issues are problematic, really aren’t. - Exploring grid-aware websites
Nic Chan: a grid-aware website responds to the cleanliness or dirtiness of a user’s electricity grid. - Nested Scroll Bars Are the One of the Biggest Accessibility Evils, Ever
Sheri Byrne-Haber: I’m a little salty about this topic because it frequently severely impacts me. - 5 simple fixes that make digital spaces calmer—for neurodivergent and all users.
Lē Silveus: reduce barriers for neurodivergent users but also create calmer, more usable experiences for everyone. - Podcast: Amy Low – CEO of AbilityNet
Joe James is joined for The Digital Accessibility Podcast by the head a UK charity that has been transforming lives through technology for over 25 years. - Why inclusive products are green products
Tetralogical: While we are not experts on the subject, we can still contribute to sustainability goals by helping create inclusive products. - Preparation for the update to ADA’s Title II Series: Implementation
Minnesota IT Services: Get some tips on strategies and tactics to prepare your organization. - Video: “Accessibility Life Hacks” Series
Centre for Accessibility Australia: How to use AI to add alt text to images on mobile devices. - Unlock the potential of the EAA
Fable: The European Accessibility Act (EAA) deadline on June 28, 2025 was a rest stop, not the final stop. - Unlock the potential of the EAA
Fable: The European Accessibility Act (EAA) deadline on June 28, 2025 was a rest stop, not the final stop. - How Designing for Disability Benefits Everyone
Vision Australia: The curb-cut effect demonstrates how solutions designed for people with disabilities often benefit everyone. - How To Check That Your Colour Meaning Is Accessible
Vision Australia: three practical testing methods to test colour meaning for accessibility before publication. - Why Your Word Lists Might Be Excluding Readers (And How to Fix Them)
Vision Australia: demonstrates practical techniques using Word’s ribbon tools to build lists that communicate effectively for all users. - Digital Accessibility in Hospitality
UsableNet: What I Learned as a Blind Guest. - Video: Don’t Expect a Winner in the Game if There Isn’t a Scoreboard
Knowbility: Sharron Rush with Chris Law, Executive Director, Standards Accessibility Reporting. - Ableism
a11yblog: generalization about someone who has a disability is known as ableism. - Video: Bundles of enthusiasm
In this episode of Unfinished Business, Andy Clarke and Richard Rutter are joined by Léonie Watson. - How to Scope Accessibility Remediation
Equalize Digital: It’s almost never as simple as counting pages and multiplying by a flat fee. - Accessibility Statements are not Legal Contracts. They’re Value Signals.
Pedal Point: Accessibility statements must match reality. - Time to Prepare for Apple’s Accessibility Nutrition Labels
Access Armada: For developers of accessible apps, these labels are an opportunity to distinguish themselves. - Video: Tackling Tricky Accessibility Challenges
Suzanne Dergacheva, Co-Founder of Evolving Web, is joined by Janell Sims, Manager of Digital Accessibility Services at Harvard University Information Technology. - Web Accessibility in Government
Lullabot: Common Misses and Practical Fixes. - Narrator Gets On-screen Braille Viewer in Windows 11 With Latest Dev & Beta Update
Accessibility boost arrives to Windows 11. - BrowserStack Accessibility Design Toolkit
Figma layouts for contrast, spacing, focus order and tap targets. - Tactile Maps Automated Production (TMAP)
An accessible web-app that quickly generates tactile street maps. - Seeing a New Future
ATB: How Smart Glasses Are Unlocking Independence For Visually Impaired Individuals - Web Accessibility in CoFa
Code Factory: Once upon a future time, there will be a fully accessible banking product at DKB. - When design doesn’t land (and what we can do about it)
Sash Milne: When design doesn’t land, it’s rarely because the design was weak. More often, the system wasn’t ready to hold it. - The AI age is the “age of no consent”
Pavel Samsonov: design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. - Are AI-Generated Synthetic Users Replacing Personas?
James Newhook: What UX Designers Need to Know. - The case of the white favicon
Tevin Steinke: Hopefully I can save some time for somebody who runs into the same thing. - CSS Elevator: A Pure CSS State Machine With Floor Navigation
Christian Sabourin: complete with direction indicators, animated transitions, counters, and even accessibility features. - A Radio Button Shopping Cart Trick
Preethi: comes with accessibility drawbacks because it uses duplicated interactive elements. - Making Sense of CSS Length Units
Oded Sharon: the user might decide to change it in the user-settings for accessibility reasons. - The
-pathof Least Resistance (Part 2)
Amit Sheen:offset-pathanimations should respect user preferences and accessibility guidelines. - Why “Good UX” Isn’t Enough
Jon Daiello: Accessibility needs both design and engineering partnership. - “Your” vs “My” in user interfaces
Adam Silver: It’s a trick question because often you don’t need any prefix. - The Basics of Anchor Positioning
Ahmad Shadeed: What’s better than facing an actual problem and trying to solve it withposition: absolute? - How to dismiss native HTML dialog elements when the backdrop is clicked
Chris Ferdinandi: The[closedby]attribute tells browsers what methods of closing ashould be used/supported. - Visualizing Responsive Typography
Miriam Suzanne: Utopia helpfully provides a warning when we create scales that are inaccessible.
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