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Website Login Accessibility: Where Sign-In Fails Blind Users

Editor’s note: Michael Taylor is a blind UsableNet contributor who has relied on a screen reader for almost twenty years, and he writes about what happens when he tries to ...

Web Accessibility, User Experience, Screen Reader Accessibility

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WCAG 3.0 Is Coming. Here’s Why Your WCAG 2.2 Work Still Matters Most

In September 2026, the W3C published a new Working Draft of WCAG 3.0 (which the W3C generally calls WCAG 3), the next generation of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. A ...

Web Accessibility, WCAG 2.2, WCAG 3

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Don't Trust The Number, Understand the Number: Lessons from 100 Audits

If you spend any time around digital accessibility, you have seen the various numbers around how much accessibility can be covered by an automated scan.

Web Accessibility, User Experience, WCAG Audits, Audit, Automation

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Event Ticket Website Accessibility: At the Event

Editor's note: Michael Taylor looks at three things he ran into inside the venue (the digital ticket, a QR-code program, and an in-seat ordering app), and each one is something ...
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When Accessibility Issues Stop Me and When I Can Work Around Them

Editor's note: Michael Taylor sorts the screen reader barriers he runs into by how badly they hurt him, from unlabeled checkout fields that end a purchase outright to keyboard ...

Web Accessibility, User Experience, Ecommerce, Screen Reader Accessibility

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A Perfect Accessibility Scan Score Isn’t the Goal for an E-commerce Site: AI Makes That Easy to Forget

Here’s a common accessibility scenario for a team working on an e-commerce site:

Web Accessibility, Accessibility Testing, AI

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What I Wish Developers and QA Teams Understood About Screen Readers

Editor's note: Michael Taylor describes the barriers that clear an automated scan and still stop him cold, which is the category of problem most likely to be sitting on your site ...

Web Accessibility, User Experience, Screen Reader Accessibility

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Cognitive Accessibility: What Ecommerce Teams Can Overlook

Cognitive accessibility is a WCAG category that can create friction if you leave it unnamed in your WCAG accessibility audit. In this blog, we'll define cognitive accessibility ...

Web Accessibility, ADA Website Compliance, Accessibility Testing, WCAG 2.2

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How I Shop an Unfamiliar Website With a Screen Reader

In today’s post, I am going back to basics. Every interaction I have on the internet happens without a mouse, so the way I navigate an unfamiliar website looks nothing like how a ...

Web Accessibility, Accessibility Testing, User Experience, Ecommerce, Screen Reader

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