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The year of the European Accessibility Act
Issues 1-25

Mit Domingos de Oliveira (netz-barrierefrei.de):

The year 2025 is dominated by the European Accessibility Act. In less than six months, online shops and online banking must be accessible. It's an exciting time for accessibility consultants: In fact, no one dares to predict what accessibility will look like on the day after, June 29, 2025. If we were in England, the bookmakers would be making a killing on this.

Interesting articles

The Federal Agency for Accessibility has updated its guidelines on accessible election venues.

Updated: Guidelines for accessible polling stations

A free eBook discusses the topic of digital accessibility in education.

Rethinking digital accessibility - PDF

The Universal Design for Learning Guidelines 3.0 are available in a German version.

The Universal Design for Learning guidelines

Moving on to English: The WAI has released a new draft of WCAG 3.0 for comment. However, it is clearly evident that there is still a long way to go before final publication.

W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0

A guideline is intended to make the topic of accessibility more understandable for people in management.

Introducing the Leader's Guide to Accessibility

An accessibility quiz helps combat boredom on cold evenings.

Accessibility Quiz [Beta]

Software as a Service (SaaS) is playing an increasingly important role. A toolkit is designed to help implement it in an accessible way.

SaaS Accessibility Toolkit

TechCheck is a collection of information to help design accessible workplaces.

TechCheckA study shows that the accessibility of scientific papers in PDF format is actually worsening.

Accessibility worsens for blind and low-vision readers of academic PDFs

A study shows that disabled people are heavily stigmatized in workplace negotiations.

Research: The Stigma Disabled People Face During Negotiations

A directory compiles research on the topic of digital inclusion.

Digital Equity Researcher Inventory

In a recent analysis, Deque demonstrates how expensive and time-consuming it is to consider accessibility only after the fact.

Doing the numbers: Digital accessibility and shifting left

Good news of the month

Electronic Arts has filed several patents for accessible gaming. These patents may be used free of charge by other providers.

EA adds more tech patents to its accessibility program

A guide explains the rights that disabled EU citizens have.

My Rights in the EU as a person with disabilities

Google is bringing emotions to subtitles: they should not only show what was said, but also how it was said.

Android's Expressive Captions uses AI to bring emotion to captions

The Business Disability Forum offers eligible individuals the free use of realistic images on the topic of disability.

Image gallery

The US city of Baltimore is investing $44 million to make sidewalks more accessible.

Baltimore City to invest $44 million to make sidewalks more accessible,

The free app Eyeware allows the simulation of various visual impairments.

EyewearThere's more good news from Deque.

Accessibility reads: Thursday, October 10 | Deque

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