September 2025 Digital Accessibility Updates, Trainings, and Guides

A monthly email with the latest updates on Digital Accessibility and additional information and training relevant to digital accessibility.

Resources & Trainings

These are external resources you might find beneficial.

New Resources

• 5 heading accessibility issues and how to fix them
  Source: Pope Tech

  Learn what a heading structure is, how to help accessibility, and the 5 accessibility issues to avoid.

  Categories: Core Concepts, Headings, Resource Tags: Article, Sept-2025
• How Designing for Disability Benefits Everyone
  Source: Vision Australia

  The curb-cut effect demonstrates how solutions designed for people with disabilities often benefit everyone, revealing a powerful design principle.

  Categories: Benefits & ROI, Resource Tags: Article, Sept-2025
• How your colorblind and colorweak readers see your colors
  Source: Datawrapper

  When visualizing data, you always use colors. But if you don’t know any colorblind people, it’s easy to forget that your charts have readers who can’t tell colors apart as well as you do.

  Categories: Color & Color Contrast, Core Concepts, Resource Tags: Article, Sept-2025
• Introduction to the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template
  Source: TPGi
  Categories: ARC & VPAT, Procurement, Resource Tags: Sept-2025, Video
• What to consider when visualizing data for colorblind readers
  Source: Datawrapper

  Choosing colors for your visualizations is hard, choosing colorblind-safe colors is harder. This article tries to help by including ideas to design colorblind-safe data visualizations.

  Categories: Color & Color Contrast, Data Visualization, Resource Tags: Article, Sept-2025
• What’s it like to be colorblind
  Source: Datawrapper

  This article is about giving you somebody to think about when you use the accessibility checklist.

  Categories: Color & Color Contrast, Data Visualization, Documents & Presentations, Resource Tags: Article, Sept-2025

Trainings

Trainings from around the web that may be of interest. These trainings are free unless noted. See the event’s information page about registration, changes, or cancellation.