The court did not find that Auchan's site was accessible. It found that one specific French law didn't reach the specific corporate entity that got sued. That is a much narrower finding than "the defendant won" makes it sound, and the part everyone will skip is the part that should worry you.
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Google recently announced what they called "Modern Web Guidance" (MWG) at Google I/O, pitching it as an expert-vetted framework to help AI coding agents build accessible, secure, and performant web experiences. And how great it would be if it worked.
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Screen reader users can reliably identify AI-generated alt text, and they abandon navigation tasks more frequently compared to when human-written alt text is used.
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day comes around every year, and every year the same question follows: Okay, but what do I actually do? Here are some quick fixes you can implement today.
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Carousels exist because teams avoid priority decisions. Unfortunately, users ignore them anyway. Here's the research behind that, and a better alternative.
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On May 11, 2026, the Department of Health and Human Services quietly dropped an Interim Final Rule (IFR) extending the web accessibility compliance dates under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
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Every few years, Congress reintroduces the same bill to “fix” the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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The internet was built before anyone made rules about who it had to work for.
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Courts are starting to distinguish between real accessibility work and quick fixes, meaning legal risk depends on whether you can show ongoing effort and not just intent.
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The ADA Title II deadline shifted, but the obligation didn't. Accessibility has been required for decades. Start with your key user journeys and fix what matters.
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When you work in design long enough, there’s always that moment – the one where a project looks beautiful, you’re feeling smug, and someone casually says: “Can we make the PDF accessible?”
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