Blind and Locked Out: Three Halloween 2026 Accessibility Scares
Oct 30, 2026
Michael Taylor has used a screen reader for almost twenty years, and in this series he writes firsthand about what websites and apps sound like when he cannot rely on what is on ...
Blind Users And Payment Forms: Where Adding A Card Breaks Down
Oct 27, 2026
Editor’s note: Michael Taylor, who is blind and navigates the web with a screen reader, walks through the barriers he hits when adding a payment method (the expiration date, the ...
Website Login Accessibility: Where Sign-In Fails Blind Users
Oct 21, 2026
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
WCAG 3.0 Is Coming. Here’s Why Your WCAG 2.2 Work Still Matters Most
Oct 14, 2026
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 ...
Don't Trust The Number, Understand the Number: Lessons from 100 Audits
Oct 8, 2026
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
When Accessibility Issues Stop Me and When I Can Work Around Them
Sep 29, 2026
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
A Perfect Accessibility Scan Score Isn’t the Goal for an E-commerce Site: AI Makes That Easy to Forget
Sep 24, 2026
Here’s a common accessibility scenario for a team working on an e-commerce site:
What I Wish Developers and QA Teams Understood About Screen Readers
Sep 21, 2026
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
Cognitive Accessibility: What Ecommerce Teams Can Overlook
Sep 16, 2026
Cognitive accessibility covers the WCAG requirements that decide whether people can understand, remember, and complete a task on your site, and it is easy to leave unnamed in an ...
Web Accessibility, ADA Website Compliance, Accessibility Testing, WCAG 2.2
