Learn more about disability and accessibility in the business and educational settings from the expert in the field - Sheri Byrne Haber.

You've got your permissions elements, custom element registries, a potential future for HTML includes, HTML-in-Canvas, and a bunch more.

What happens when a long-time accessibility expert leaves big tech, moves to a different country, and founds a family-business accessibility consultancy? We have some funny stories, but we also have a serious subject - how to retain the digital accessibility knowledge built over the last 30 years, a

Every web page exists for a purpose, but whether a user can fulfill it depends on how the interface is designed. For people with cognitive differences, that decision means the difference between access and exclusion. According to Northwestern Medicine, 15–20% of the world's population shows signs o

What makes a game blind-accessible and fun for everyone? The Games for Blind Gamers Jam is an annual event hosted on itch.io since 2021 with a mission: to grow awareness about blind accessibility in gaming and to support developers in making them. With a supportive community where blind and sighted

This talk shares insights from Kroglabbet, a design research project on accessibility in restaurant environments in Gothenburg, Sweden, developed through co-design with people with visual impairments and collaboration with local restaurants. Through interviews and workshops based on shared meals, th

Accessibility is often discussed through the lens of Western, alphabetic scripts. But what happens when a single character can have five different meanings and three different pronunciations depending on its neighbor? In the Japanese digital landscape, Kanji (logographic characters) present a unique

Creating accessible documents isn’t just a technical requirement—it’s a fundamental part of inclusive design. Yet many everyday documents—reports, PDFs, forms, and presentations—still create unnecessary barriers for people with disabilities, often without their creators even realising it. When acces

WCAG is a standard most digital accessibility professionals will have used in one way or another. Many have thoughts on how to make it better. The good news is: a new version is in progress. In this talk, you'll hear more about the transition from WCAG 2 to WCAG 3, and find out what's not working to

The promises of Silicon Valley, to innovate for a better future have failed. Let’s discuss the state of current tech and design best practices and take a look at more inclusive and pluriveral viewpoints, inspired by practitioners outside of the dominant western paradigm. About the speaker Christop

Here's another single-article newsletter. The topic matters, and there was no way I was going to do it justice in a few hundred words. I first heard about...

A 500-line code block costs a sighted keyboard user nothing. They scroll past it same as anyone reading with their eyes. It costs a screen reader user 500 stops in browse mode, arrowed through one line at a time, whether or not any of it matters to them.

WordPress Accessibility Day is a free 24-hour global event dedicated to addressing website accessibility in WordPress. October 7-8, 2026.

What makes a video element accessible is captions, descriptions, and a transcript. When those are out of reach, what are the remaining options for giving a video element an accessible name?

Many simplified, intro, or “plain-English” WCAG re-interpretations frame Success Criterion 2.1.1 Keyboard as ensuring a control or widget or thing can be operated with a keyboard. Some go further and also ask you to consider keyboard-like devices. Very few (I counted 1 out of 10) pay attention to the part…

Imagine buying a car. You sign a contract. Then you discover the dealership changed the interest rate after you clicked “Accept.” Or you transfer money to a bank account. You confirm th…

A real accessibility mistake taught this meetup organizer a powerful lesson on inclusive design, and led to a lasting leadership gift.

This newsletter is a bit different than previous ones. Rather than my usual collection of shorter articles and updates, it’s devoted to one longer piece. The...

People with limited or no mobility use a wide range of assistive technology, alternative input devices, and accessibility settings to interact with digital content. As you design your websites and mobile apps, how can you ensure they work well for them? This post explores important considerations for designing for people with moving disabilities.

The promises of Silicon Valley, to innovate for a better future have failed. Let’s discuss the state of current tech and design best practices and take a look at more inclusive and pluriveral viewpoints, inspired by practitioners outside of the dominant western paradigm. About the speaker Christop

Manuel skips the "Alt Text" lectures and dives straight into the deep end, exploring the hidden mechanics of the Popover API, keyboard navigation, and ARIA. About the speaker Manuel is a freelance frontend developer, accessibility auditor, teacher, author, and consultant who’s passionate about the

Principles for voice based and conversational UX design are lacking. Fluency disorders such as stuttering mean a users speech can sometimes be different or disjointed and unless this is understood and supported, UX interfaces where speech is the primary method of interaction will become an additiona

Accessibility doesn’t stop at code. You can meet every technical standard and still leave people confused. This session explores why unclear language is one of the most overlooked accessibility barriers. Through practical examples and real-world insights, we’ll show how plain language improves under

Intopia's Assistive Technology Survey 2025 captured a snapshot of assistive tech use across Australia and New Zealand. Join Jacinta Gregory as she walks through the research process and explores the results. About the speaker Jacinta Gregory is an Inclusive Research Consultant at Intopia, speciali

This session will introduce the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework and show how it is applied to several aspects of tech and accessibility. These include procurement, development, leadership, speech to text, and more. The Framework is a 3-part actionable strategy made up of values, actions, and

Annotating designs is a common practice for designers and developers to make experiences accessible for people with disabilities. But these libraries and plugins aren't one size fits all tools. In this session, two of the creators of the CVS Annotation Kits take you on a tour of how teams around the

Design systems help teams make more accessible products and services. How do we ensure the components in our design system are as accessible as possible? We'll use an example to show what "Accessibility Ready" means for components in a design system. * What makes a good "Accessibility Ready" guida

In the Sherlock Holmes story “Silver Blaze,” the key clue is that a dog did nothing. The dog didn’t bark when an intruder entered. That silence was the evidence. Your website has …

Easily access my 3-part LinkedIn series on ARC Toolkit. This post brings all articles together for quick reference and easier discovery.

Article series offering 24 days of digital accessibility gifts of wisdom and insight from a wide array of knowledge experts throughout the world.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now used by many teams, in many organisations. With its promise of improved efficiency and speed, it's easy to see why. But what does the widespread adoption of AI mean for accessibility?

Ecommerce Accessibility Foundations: WCAG principles, user tasks, reusable components, and release ownership. Covers decisions, risks, evidence, and acceptance checks.

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to explain complicated things in writing, and how to help people actually understand them. Two people have inspired that reflection: Ylva Bjelle and Randall Munroe. They come from very different backgrounds, but both emphasize that writing too often relies on overly technical or specialized vocabulary. I first...

Yes, the underlying model must have three states, but one is always irrelevant to the actual user goal. Users do not seek out solutions to problems they don’t currently have. A lot of the hate towards two-state toggles is based on poor implementations.

Following my previous post about color contrast, here’s the practical question that comes next: so how do we check color contrast properly?

Most screen readers never look at the rendered screen. Instead, they get information from the browser in two ways.

One of the simplest accessibility checks when landing on a website is to Tab through and see if the website works with keyboard. Let’s look at some major brands and see which ones pass this simple test just for their main menu. Why does it need to work with keyboard? Not all people navigate with mouse,...

Why your confidence in accessibility could be a sign of how little you know

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

The Teach Access Alumni Network hosted a moderated panel discussion on Accessibility, Ethics, & AI on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. The panel featured Ariana Aboulafia, Disability Rights in Technology Policy Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology; Jutta Treviranus, Director of the Inclusive