WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

January 2026 Newsletter

Feature

Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey #2

The results of the WebAIM / GAAD survey of accessibility professionals are available.

Upcoming WebAIM Events

Resources

Testing Methods: Focus Not Obscured (Minimum)

WCAG 2.4.11 Focus Not Obscured (Minimum) is a Level AA conformance level Success Criterion. It ensures one simple yet critical truth: users must always be able to see where they are on the screen.

The Anatomy of an Accessible Text Field

Let's find out what we can do to avoid issues with forms. We're going to dissect the most common form-specific element: the text field.

Web Almanac By HTTP Archive - Accessibility

Compared to 2024, the median Lighthouse Accessibility score improved by 1%, reaching over 85% in 2025. Since the first Web Almanac in 2019, we've seen steady and incremental progress.

Accessible faux-nested interactive controls

In web accessibility, a thing you absolutely cannot do is nest one interactive control inside another.

How to Tell Better Accessibility Stories with Data (and AI)

Learn how to turn accessibility data into clear stories using simple frameworks, real examples, and AI visuals—so progress is easy to see, teams stay aligned, and accessibility work feels meaningful.

Brief Note on Application Keyboard Shortcuts

Screen readers have pass-through commands, which tell the screen reader to ignore the next key or combo and pass it through to the application.

Did you know your browser has two accessibility trees?

Every time a screen reader announces something, it's the result of two accessibility trees working together behind the scenes.

How to Create Audio Description for YouTube Videos

While once only available for select creators, YouTube Audio Description is now available for any creator that has access to multi-language audio! This feature allows viewers to easily toggle the descriptive audio on and off.

Designing accessibility for real use, not dashboards

Accessibility isn't proven by a score, it's proven when people with disabilities can actually use the product.

Common misconceptions about testing accessibility

Testing for accessibility is often misunderstood. Teams either overestimate what tools can do, underestimate their own role, or assume testing is something that happens once only, at completion of the development process.

ADA reform and the path to a true win-win for businesses and people with disabilities

In this post, we'll look at the proposed changes, explore pros and cons on both sides of the argument, and highlight what needs to remain central to the conversation as this effort moves forward.

Five accessibility trends to watch in 2026

These are not speculative shifts. They are already underway and likely to become more visible and consequential over the next year.

A beginner's guide to link accessibility

Some best practices include underlining links that are in the page's content and opening links in the same tab. Some link accessibility issues include suspicious link text, empty links, broken same-page links, and redundant links.

Quick Tip: Timing isn't just about animations

Auto-dismiss alerts, session timeouts, or rotating content can create accessibility barriers even when there's no animation involved. Users with cognitive, motor, or screen reader needs may require more time to understand and respond. Provide ways to pause, extend, or manually control time-based changes.