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On June 28, 2025 the European Accessibility Act became enforceable across the EU, and the Netherlands became the most interesting place in Europe to have a broken checkout.
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Accessibility audits and usability testing get budgeted as separate line items, and it's rarely clear whether one already covers the other.
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Here are six questions to ask a vendor who hands you one of these reports, to check to see if they did the due diligence they’re claiming.
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This guide aims to show how different readability formulas work, which tools calculate them for free, and why the score matters for both SEO and accessibility.
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Every accessibility platform vendor now touts some form of AI-powered WCAG compliance, but many of them don’t go beyond the buzzwords.
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If you use a screen reader, rely on captions, or navigate by keyboard, the daily experience of social media in 2026 is still a frustrating one.
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The Federal Trade Commission's click-to-cancel rule was struck down in July 2025. That sentence is true. The conclusion some businesses have drawn from it – that making people fight to cancel is safe again – is not.
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A chatbot can pass every automated accessibility scan on the market and still be unusable for someone navigating it with a screen reader.
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The most disorienting thing about bad software isn't that it fails; it's that it fails in ways that make us feel like the problem.
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The Forbes Accessibility 200 measures a plausible proxy for accessibility, not accessibility itself.
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On 4 June 2026, the Tribunal judiciaire de Caen confirmed that the Auchan off-ramp was not available to everyone, and a self-declared accessibility percentage under 100% was not enough.
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