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AI-Generated Alt Text and Captions: Where Automation Helps, and Where It Still Needs a Human
AI-generated alt text and auto-captioning have made it realistic to address accessibility gaps at a scale manual authoring never could. They’ve also made it easy to ship confidently wrong descriptions at that same scale, which is the part teams adopting these tools tend to discover later than they’d like.
Read article →WCAG 2.2 to WCAG 3.0: What’s Already Required and What’s Coming Next
Teams planning accessibility work often ask whether to target WCAG 2.2 or wait for WCAG 3.0. The honest answer is that 2.2 is the enforceable standard today, 3.0 is a substantial, still-evolving rewrite years from being a legal benchmark anywhere, and conflating the two creates real risk of under-investing in what’s actually required now.
Read article →Accessible Document Remediation: Why PDFs Are Often Harder Than Web Accessibility
A company with a genuinely accessible website can still have years of inaccessible PDFs — annual reports, policy documents, forms, whitepapers — sitting behind that same site, invisible to a screen reader user in a way the website itself no longer is.
Read article →Accessibility Overlays Don’t Work: Why One-Line Widgets Fail WCAG and Legal Scrutiny
The pitch is seductive: add one line of JavaScript, get an accessibility widget, claim compliance. It’s also, by now, a well-documented way to get sued — and the reasons why are worth understanding before a procurement team or a plaintiff’s lawyer explains them to you.
Read article →The European Accessibility Act: What the June 2025 Deadline Means Going Into 2026
The European Accessibility Act’s compliance deadline — 28 June 2025 — has already passed. For the many companies still not fully compliant, the question now isn’t “when do we need to act” but “how exposed are we right now.”
Read article →WCAG 2.2 and the Business Case for Accessibility
Accessibility conversations usually start with risk — a lawsuit, an audit, a procurement requirement — but the stronger long-term argument is the one that rarely gets made: accessible products reach more people and cost less to maintain.
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