A coffeeshot of digital accessibility for business leaders and practitioners, every two weeks
On 27 September the EU bans the claim that a widget makes a site compliant - no transition period, no case-by-case review. Six jurisdictions, one standard underneath them all. And a button rebuilt from scratch costs 500 lines of JavaScript.
"image001.jpg" passes the scan like a real description - percentage scores mislead. For AI agents the accessibility tree beats screenshots outright: structure instead of pixels, an order of magnitude cheaper. Plus ten gaps axe cannot close.
The ninth Accessibility Day in Stuttgart asked whether AI can match expert accessibility. Intopia's Global Accessibility Pulse 2026 finds more awareness but barely better outcomes. And one AI-generated 29-line sidebar hides 10 accessibility failures.
A Book Apart's 'Accessibility for Everyone' by Laura Kalbag - a paid book since 2017, now completely free. Anna E. Cook explains why AI depends on accessible systems instead of fixing them. Eric Eggert: screen readers aren't testing tools.
Recommending Podcast '13 Letters': Mike Shebanek tells how he got Apple to ship the screen reader now known as VoiceOver. Bogdan Cerovac on WebMCP: 'not a replacement for accessibility.' Russ Weakley explains the click to screen-reader announcement.
The WebAIM Million 2026 reverses years of gradual improvement - 95.9% of pages fail WCAG. Steve Frenzel names four roles for sneaking accessibility into resistant organisations. And why the ARIA APG is not a pattern library.
The Web Almanac 2025 reports data from 17.2 million websites, Bogdan Cerovac argues accessibility must be trained into AI models - not bolted on after, and a WCAG checklist finally sorted by what designers actually deliver.
Axe-con sessions distilled into one blog post. Karl Groves calculates $347,060 in disruption costs per audit cycle. And Hashim Quraishi learns why adding role="link" to a button broke everything.
1,031 experts sign the Overlay Fact Sheet, Eric Bailey predicts EAA compliance theater, and how AI changes the way we write alt text.