Dark blue backdrop behind the 2026 M-Enabling Summit logo (Connecting Visionaries. Driving Innovation.) above an image that shows a seated audience in the main plenary hall at the 2025 M-Enabling Summit smiling and clapping. A green button reads, Register Now! at the bottom is a multi-colored interconnected globe and a green shoosh.

Registration Is Open For #mEnabling26

Meet us in Arlington, Virginia, or online from Oct. 5-7, to celebrate this year's theme of "Connecting Visionaries. Driving Innovation."

Early bird prices end July 15.

Register now: https://shorturl.at/MFGqE
#GlobalAccessibility #a11y

Screenshot of a self-built alt text review tool for qualle-augsburg.de: photos from the Quallenfest 2023 street festival are shown as full-width cards, each with a thumbnail, a proposed German image description in an editable text field, and Save / Approve buttons.

I’m adding alt text to all images on https://www.qualle-augsburg.de/ I asked claude to put everything into an sqlite db, then generate a python server with web interface, and spawn subagents to pre-populate the alt text for all images.

Now I can use the web […]

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Who Is Caring for Whom? Rethinking Care Work and Disability An autistic writer explores masking and the hidden emotional labor of managing others’ comfort in everyday social situations.

Who Is Caring for Whom? Rethinking Care Work and Disability autismspectrumnews.org/who-is-carin... #a11y

#4 Meetup A11Y chez CACD2, Tue, Apr 7, 2026, 6:40 PM | Meetup Rejoignez-nous dans les locaux de CACD2 pour notre quatrième meetup accessibilité ! Rendez vous pour un nouvel événement régulier dédié à l’accessibilité. L'objectif ? Par

Aujourd'hui, notre Mozillien @hellosct1.bsky.social présente l'accessibilité ouverte dans Firefox orientée développeur•se lors du Meetup #A11Y #lutece www.meetup.com/a11y-lutece/... @mozilla.org @webdevs.firefox.com

#4 Meetup A11Y chez CACD2, Tue, Apr 7, 2026, 6:40 PM | Meetup Rejoignez-nous dans les locaux de CACD2 pour notre quatrième meetup accessibilité ! Rendez vous pour un nouvel événement régulier dédié à l’accessibilité. L'objectif ? Par

Today, I speak developer-focused open accessibility in Firefox at the #A11Y #lutece Meetup www.meetup.com/a11y-lutece/... @mozilla.org @firefox.com @webdevs.firefox.com @mozilla-fr.bsky.social @marcozehe.eurosky.social

This week's schedule, UK date format, times BST:
07/04, 19-22:00: Resident Evil Requiem continued! W/DB
I do have an idea or two for an audiogame stream as well, for those that might be interested in that, but it might not be this week.
#accessibility #A11Y

Blue toned gradient text on medium blue background: old advice – Hiding Content Has No Effect on Accessible Name or Description Calculation

💎 old advice – Hiding Content Has No Effect on Accessible Name or Description Calculation
by @stevefaulkner.bsky.social

#A11y #html #aria #accessibility

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

old advice – Hiding Content Has No Effect on Accessible Name or Description Calculation – HTML Accessibility

Hiding Content Has No Effect on Accessible Name or Description Calculation

"This information (I wrote) originally appeared in Using ARIA I am re-upping and updating it here as the Using ARIA has now been updated and the content removed."

#a11y #HTML #ARIA

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

Dark blue backdrop with a dotted pattern behind text, Webinar Bundles. Build inclusive workplaces that scale accessibility. Webinar Bundles: Building Inclusive Workplaces. Scaling & Sustaining Accessibility. At the top right is a vertical IAAP International Association of Accessibility Professionals logo.

IAAP webinar bundles are available & provide curated content to advance accessibility practice.

IAAP Members: Access via the Education Portal for $25
Non-members: Purchase the bundles for $99

About IAAP Courses & Training: https://f.mtr.cool/oleqldqgmo

#AccessibilityTraining #a11y

Pfizer Fails to Escape Warehouse Worker’s Disability Bias Suit Pfizer Inc. must face claims that it fired a warehouse associate for taking prescription oxycodone in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Pfizer Fails to Escape Warehouse Worker’s Disability Bias Suit news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/p... #a11y

Man using a screen reader on a laptop

3 accessibility fixes you can ship today:

♿ Alt text on every image
🎨 Check colour contrast (aim for 4.5:1)
⌨️ Tab through your site — can you reach everything?

1 in 4 people lives with a disability. Small changes, big impact.

#A11y #WebAccessibility #InclusiveDesign

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a dog pissing in mouth of a poster of an open mouthed trump
#a11y is #political, #dogs are too

Quick Tip: Dialog Focus The specifications for dialogs and modals recommend placing focus on the first focusable item in the dialog. The vast majority of the time this is a close button. this means that a screen reader us…

Dialogs fail when focus fails. Move it in, keep it contained, return it correctly. Anything less breaks the experience. A crisp reminder from Nat Tarnoff.

tarnoff.info/2026/03/10/q...

#DigitalAccessibility #A11y #UX #InclusiveDesign #WCAG #WebDevelopment

white text on blue background: 51* *that's on average how many accessibility errors each homepage contains. Building for inclusivity shouldn't be a challenge. (blue on white text): Let's unlock a path to better practices. Logo of umbraad, May 21st, 2026

A user with a disability hits on average 51 accessibility barriers on a homepage. Each of them a closed door to a world that has never been more digitalized. Join the Umbraad Accessibility chat on May 21st. Let's make the web accessible, for real and for all. #Umbraad #A11y #WebDev #InclusiveDesign

The In-House Illusion: Why Trying To Manage Accessibility Isn't The Same As Solving It The organizations most confident in their accessibility programs are often the ones with the most significant gaps.

Many organisations that are most confident in their #accessibility programs often are the ones with the most significant gaps.

This article looks into the best approaches to take close the gap with #DigitalAccessibility: zurl.co/u6YeF

#A11y #Business #Leadership #UX

Lately, I’ve noticed "accessibility experts" appearing like snails after the rain. Fear-invoking experts, "Avoid lawsuits!", "EAA is HERE" or my favorite "Only a few days until the ADA deadline. Are you compliant?"

Are we building for the law, or for the human?
#a11y #EAA #ADA #WebAccessibility

As usual transcript and subtitles are included #a11y

screenshot of me and Gerard chatting

What better way to have spent easter monday arvo than chatting fireside with @gerardkcohen.me
#a11y

Creating high-contrast visuals? ♿

Using an image inverter can help you inspect contrast, readability, and alternative visual states before shipping a design.

https://imageinverter.app

#Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign #DesignTools #UXDesign

Formation Design UX et UI accessible : créer des interfaces pour l’accessibilité numérique – Access42 Formations Cette formation propose une approche inclusive du design web, en abordant l’accessibilité numérique par le prisme de la conception fonctionnelle et graphique.

Apprenez à créer des interfaces accessibles avec Access42 !

Du 27 au 28 mai, rejoignez formation au design UX et UI accessible.

Venez vérifier que vos choix fonctionnels et graphiques tiennent bien compte des besoins des personnes handicapées :

a42.fr/formation-de...

#a11y #graphisme #UX #UI

OZeWAI - Abra Accessibility App Training - 16 April 2026 OZeWAI hosts an Abra training session on testing accessibility of apps.

@bsky.app Register for the OZeWAI and Abra 90-min free training session on testing accessibility of mobile apps and learn more about how to build inclusive apps from the start. #A11y #accessibility #mobileapp
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the more I listen to the #Artemis team describe the moon, the more I wish I could clip sections of it as a way to teach people how to write image descriptions #A11y #accessibility

Adobe InDesign’s AI Alt-Text Generator: What Designers Need to Know | Design Domination The 2026 release of Adobe InDesign includes a new feature, the AI Alt-text generator, which automatically generates Alt-text for images for accessibility. Should designers who create accessible PDFs…

AI alt text in InDesign speeds things up, but accuracy still needs human judgment. Automation helps, it does not replace accessibility expertise.

creative-boost.com/adobe-indesi...

#Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #WCAG #AdobeInDesign #AI #DigitalAccessibility #UXDesign #ContentDesign #A11y

Disability hasn't stopped Colorado Rockies fan from attending games for three decades Spend any time with Randy Milliken and most likely he'll talk baseball, and more notably, his love for the Colorado Rockies.

Disability hasn't stopped Colorado Rockies fan from attending games for three decades www.cbsnews.com/colorado/vid... #a11y

Opinion | It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling

“It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o... (gift link)

Some of us have warned about LLM-generated disability personas for a couple years now. This is the next step when corps don’t listen.

#accessibility #a11y

Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist…

Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #a11y

A11y 101: 2.5.8 Target Size Here's a scenario I see all the time. A designer hands me a mockup with these elegant, tiny icons in a row; maybe a toolbar with edit, delete, and share buttons, each one maybe 16 pixels square. Looks clean. Minimal. Modern. Then I put my thumb on it. And I miss. Every. Single. Time.

Here's a scenario I see all the time. A designer hands me a mockup with these elegant, tiny icons in a row; maybe a toolbar with edit, delete, and share buttons, each one maybe 16 pixels square. Looks clean. Minimal. Modern.

Then I put my thumb on it. And I miss. Every. Single. Time. #a11y #target

Weekly Reading List April 6 2026 - TPGi — a Vispero company A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

Ricky Onsman presents this week's Weekly Reading List April 6 2026, with all things, digital accessibility, UX, development and more.

www.tpgi.com/weekly-readi...

#DigitalAccessibility #A11y #WebDev #UX #Compliance #Mobile

Resources - Vispero

‪Ricky Onsman‬

Weekly Reading List

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#accessibility #a11y #web #design #development #news