WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

November 2025 Newsletter

Feature

Animation and Carousels

Animated elements excel at capturing and directing user attention. They also excel at distracting and frustrating users when used incorrectly.

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Resources

Why accessibility breaks between design & development

Accessibility often starts strong in design — with thoughtful colour contrast, readable typography, and inclusive interaction flows. But somewhere between design sign-off and development, it starts to crumble.

ARIA and Real World Dangers

When applied correctly, ARIA is invaluable. The trouble begins when developers lean on ARIA as a crutch rather than a surgical solution.

How to Write an Accessibility Statement in 2025, with Examples

An effective accessibility statement is a critical tool for communicating your accessibility efforts to the public, and may even be legally required depending on numerous factors like geography, organization type, and funding sources.

A11y 101: 2.4.5 Multiple Ways

Reading the WCAG Quickref, this success criteria tells us: "More than one way is available to locate a web page within a set of web pages except where the web page is the result of, or a step in, a process."

Sometimes the Best Accessibility Fix is a Usability Fix

In practice, accessibility gains often come from fixing ordinary UX friction points that already frustrate people who don't have disabilities (yet).

Grayscale testing: The missing step in color accessibility

You ran your contrast check and got the green check, nice work! Checking contrast ratios is one part of color accessibility. The other part is that color can't be the only way information is conveyed.

AI will soon deliver code that will pass automatic testing by default

We now have some accessibility benchmarks for a selected range of AI models – where they were tested with automatic accessibility tools after generating sample code.

DOJ To Re-Examine All ADA Title II and III Regulations on a "TBD" Timetable

DOJ's regulatory agenda includes intent to conduct economic impact reviews of Title II and III 2010 regulations and re-examine the Title II website accessibility regulations.

Accessible Names and Labels: Understanding What Works and What Doesn't

Defining labels for user interface (UI) components may seem straightforward, but in practice, it's an area where accessibility issues frequently arise.

An accessible pagination pattern (or two)

At its simplest, pagination requires that the user has a mechanism to navigate from page to page and understands their current position within the pages.

November Accessibility Focus: Color Contrast

The articles and videos below introduce you to contrast accessibility requirements and tools, so you know how to fix and avoid low contrast errors on your own website.

Sustainable accessibility in complex organisations: external factors

Whether at the start of your accessibility journey or partway through it, complex organisations often face strategic, organisational, and external barriers that can make scaling accessibility difficult.

Quick Tip: Use prefers-reduced-motion Media Queries

Modern CSS includes a prefers-reduced-motion media query that detects user preferences for reduced motion and animation within web pages. This allows you to define different styles to stop or reduce motion that will be applied to content viewed by users with this setting enabled. This better supports an accessible experience for users that are highly distracted by movement in web pages.