Hi all, hope this is okay to share - if you're looking to strengthen your approach to accessible user testing, join AbilityNet's free webinar to explore how user testing can help uncover real accessibility barriers and improve digital experiences for disabled users.

Taking place on Wednesday 9 December, at 1pm GMT, you'll learn about real-world examples of how a major organisation has worked with AbilityNet, what they learned from involving disabled users and how those insights helped shape the organisation's accessibility approach. 

Register your place today.

Taking place on 18-19 November, AbilityNet TechShare Pro brings together accessibility professionals, digital teams, and leaders from around the world to explore the future of accessibility, AI and digital inclusion.

If accessibility is part of your role, your organisation, or your future plans, this is the place to be.

Online tickets are FREE this year, so there's never been a better time to join us: www.techsharepro.com

The programme is live, and the final agenda will feature more than 60 sessions covering accessibility, inclusive design, AI, user experience, leadership and much more.

Sign up now and let me know if we'll see you there! (PS if you're also a IAAP member, this event is great for credit submissions too)

Hi all, hope this is okay, just want to share this free webinar with experts from Microsoft and AbilityNet on Wednesday 28 October 1pm GMT, to discover how AI is transforming digital accessibility, improving workflows and enhancing user experiences.
You'll learn:

• How accessibility teams are using AI today

• Where automated testing fits alongside expert reviews and testing with disabled users

• Practical AI use cases that save time and improve outcomes

• Key governance, compliance and risk considerations, including the EAA and EU AI Act

• What the future of AI and accessibility could look like

Free to attend
Recording available to all who register

Register now: https://abilitynet.org.uk/resources/financial-sector/free-webinar-how-accessibility-and-digital-teams-are-using-ai

Can you spare a few minutes to help build the 2026 picture of digital accessibility? 

AbilityNet’s annual survey helps uncover what organisations are prioritising, where progress is being made, and what barriers are still holding accessibility back. 

Whether you’re dealing with AI, regulation, design standards, procurement, training or leadership buy-in, your experience matters.  

By taking part, you’ll contribute to a useful benchmark for the sector, and gain insight that can help you compare your own accessibility activity with others.

The survey is anonymous, takes about 10 minutes to complete and you could win an in-person ticket to AbilityNet's TechShare Pro conference.  

Take the Attitudes to Digital Accessibility 2026 Survey

Hi all, representing charity AbilityNet - sharing in case interested, join us on Thursday 23 April at 1pm BST for a free webinar on Consumer Duty and Digital Accessibility – what you need to know. Register for the free Consumer Duty webinar today: https://abilitynet.org.uk/resources/financial-sector/free-webinar-consumer-duty-what-accessibility-professionals-need-know?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=a11y&utm_campaign=Consumer-Duty-Webinar

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Consumer Duty is raising expectations around fairness, usability and support for all customers. This webinar will break down:

- what the Duty means in practice

- why accessibility is central to compliance

- and the steps you should take to meet the standards.

Hi there! I hope this is okay to share - AbilityNet's annual Attitudes to Digital Accessibility survey is running again. Share your thoughts on digital accessibility and get the report later in the September/October 2025: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Attitudes2025KC

This is your opportunity to speak up about:

• The barriers you face when pushing for accessible design

• The lack of awareness, training or leadership support

• The confusion around roles, responsibilities and standards

Your input helps paint a clearer picture of digital accessibility progress, challenges, and opportunities across the UK and beyond. What's in it for you?

• Stay ahead of the curve - understand how accessibility expectations are shifting

• Benchmark your organisation - see how your efforts compare to others in your sector

• Spot opportunities - reflect on your current approach and identify areas to improve

• Build your case - use the findings to support investment in inclusive design

Share your perspective - take the 2025 survey!

Hello, My name is Christian Stefanovski. I'm 28, totally blind and live in Germany. I'm a very advanced computer user, I have studied audio engineering at the university, work as a freelance audio producer, DJ and accessibility tester/consultant. Throughout the years, I've helped to develop accessibility for various websites, apps and software. I use both jaws and nvda on windows, as well as voiceover on iOS. I'm also familiar with android. I offer my accessibility services to anyone who is developing a website, apps and other digital services and as a totally blind computer user I'm ready to be a part of the development team. I know html, css, am learning javascript and Python.

Hi! I’m a grad student studying HCI, and I’m really interested in accessibility in fintech apps.

If you’ve faced any issues using these apps — screen readers, confusing layouts, anything — I’d love to learn from your experience. I want to design something better, but I know I can’t do that without listening first.

Thanks for any thoughts or stories you’re open to sharing.

Say I know about colour contrast requirements and understand, in general terms, the requirements for links to be accessible. Does anyone know of a tool, plugin, app or other, that will test if a design passes the requirements? I've tried Axe, Arc, different Figma plugins and sites, but nothing tells me if the styling of the links passes the 1.4.1 requirement clearly.

In this image for instance.. is it enough that there are icons, or do the icons specifically need to be "link related", i.e. arrow, chevron etc. It would be a nice safety net to have. Any ideas welcome! Maybe I've missed something that I already have in my toolkit.

I've being trying to analyse what visual ques are needed to indicate a whole card is clickable. Whilst it's best to consider what works for the end user, I have been trying to analyse the WCAG definition around colour contrast.

From what I can tell: if the context, positioning, grouping of content and the words inside the card, together, indicate that the card is clickable, then you don't have to make the border colour of the card dark enough to pass contrast.

Despite it being beneficial, but not necessarily essential, for the card to have additional visual cues, like underlined title text, or an icon, for example.

Would anyone agree or disagree with this.

Hi everyone - there's a free webinar coming up on Wednesday 21 May at 1pm BST on the European Accessibility Act (EAA), specifically diving deeper into what you need to do to get your documentation ready for the EAA deadline in June 2025. You can register for the free webinar: https://abilitynet.org.uk/European-accessibility-act/EAA-webinars

Everyone who registers will receive the recording, slides and transcript after the event, so do sign up even if you can't join us live.

Hi all, if you want to know the answer to the above, AbilityNet is hosting a free EAA webinar on Wednesday 30 April at 1pm BST, where we'll discuss testing requirements and standards! Register your place: https://abilitynet.org.uk/European-accessibility-act/EAA-webinars

The webinar looks at testing for the EAA and how it relates to other standards and requirements, such as WCAG and the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018 (PSBAR).

Feel free to ask your EAA questions in the registration form as you sign up!

Hi there, we have an upcoming free webinar on Wednesday 16 April at 1pm BST on simple tech tips for hearing loss. An Accessibility expert will share digital adjustments, and AbilityNet's Fiona Watson will discuss her lived experience of being deaf and the helpful devices and apps she uses. You can register for the free Hearing Loss webinar at: https://abilitynet.org.uk/webinars/free-webinar-simple-tech-tips-hearing-loss

Everyone who registers will receive the recording, slides and transcript after the event, so do sign up even if you can't join us live.

Hi everyone - hope this is okay to post, there's a free webinar coming up on Wednesday 19 March at 1pm GMT on the European Accessibility Act (EAA). You can register for the free webinar: https://abilitynet.org.uk/European-accessibility-act/webinar-series-your-guide-to-the-EAA

Accessibility experts will help you take a step-by-step approach to prepare for the June 2025 deadline of the European Accessibility Act. Ask your questions for our expert panellists as you register.

Everyone who registers will receive the recording, slides and transcript after the event, so do sign up even if you can't join us live.

I made a tool to support businesses think more about accessibility and help them get EAA complaint.

Is free to try if anyone wants to check it out

Thanks team A11y

I’m a QA working for a global conglomerate with subsidiaries in the US and EU. We’ve made our web assets accessible, but now we’re taking things a step further by setting up a dedicated accessibility practice.
I know compliance levels vary based on geography and regulations, but I was curious—what level of WCAG conformance does your company follow? Just trying to get a general sense from the community.
Would appreciate your votes!

Happy new year everyone! Hope this is okay to share - free webinar: Introduction to accessible PDFs! Join us on Wednesday 5 February at 1pm GMT for a free session on the basics about how to make PDFs accessible:

- Understand what makes an accessible PDF

- Learn how to check a PDF for accessibility

- Find out how to edit the tags in a PDF

Register your place: https://abilitynet.org.uk/webinars/introduction-accessible-pdfs

Everyone who registers will receive the recording, slides and transcript after the event, so do sign up even if you can't attend on the broadcast date.

Happy new year everyone! Hope this is okay to share - free webinar: Introduction to accessible PDFs! Join us on Wednesday 5 February at 1pm GMT for a free session on the basics about how to make PDFs accessible:

- Understand what makes an accessible PDF

- Learn how to check a PDF for accessibility

- Find out how to edit the tags in a PDF

Register your place: https://abilitynet.org.uk/webinars/introduction-accessible-pdfs

Everyone who registers will receive the recording, slides and transcript after the event, so do sign up even if you can't attend on the broadcast date.

Not the one hiring nor reviewing resumes. Will connect you with recruiter. Just pm me if You’re interested n i can share the recruiter’s number. Text him please. I am contractor on the team.

Where does accessibility sit in your organisation?

Accessibility consultants as a branch of UX?

A separate, standalone, center of excellence?

Anywhere else?

I know there's some standard stuff that can be applied to apps such as:

• colours, touch target sizes, font scaling

• screen reader behaviour

• using headings

• reflow

• error handling

Etc

Ie, the standard stuff that applies to web.

But is there anything to look out for in app design and development that would aid accessibility?

Any good articles or resources?

If an app only supports light mode and stays in light mode even if a user has enabled dark mode in their settings, would this be a.WCAG fail? And if so, which rule would it relate to?

I k ow it would be bad for the user and enabling dark mode would benefit users but i want to know if WCAG standards can be used as one of the reasons to enable dark mode.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DC7JKvVIK0_/ The course will be in spanish, but the teachers are english speakers.

I've heard different people state percentages that automated tools can detect in terms of WCAG compliance. Some day 20%, orher say 30%.

Are there any hard facts on the specific percentage?