Digital AccessibilityAnnouncementsDecember 2025 Digital Accessibility Updates, Trainings, and Guides

December 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.

What’s New at Digital Accessibility

Core Concepts

From the Content Inventory, Audit & Accessibility Deadline Trainings

  • Headings and Accessibility: A review of 7 types of heading accessibility errors and alerts with best practice information, tools for checking, and additional resources about headings.
  • Links and Accessibility: A review of 5 types of link accessibility errors and alerts with best practice information, tools for checking, and additional resources about links.
  • Lists and Accessibility: Creating lists with application tools yields accessible, easy-to-scan content.
  • Images and Accessibility: A review of alt text and images accessibility errors and alerts with best practice information, tools for checking, and additional resources about alt text and images.
  • Audio, Video, and Accessibility: A review of captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions for audio, videos, and multimedia.

Resources & Trainings

These are external resources you might find beneficial.

New Resources

  • How to check and fix PDF accessibility issues: To check and fix PDF accessibility issues, you’ll need certain knowledge and tools. A common software is Adobe Acrobat Pro, which has all the tools needed to make a PDF accessible. In this article, we’ll review the tools and steps you can take with Adobe Acrobat Pro to check and fix PDF accessibility issues.
    Source: PopeTech
  • How to make videos and audio accessible: Learn what accessible audio and video need to be accessible plus our suggestion for the easiest way to make accessible videos.
    Source: Pope Tech
  • Inaccessible PDFs? How to know when to use HTML webpages instead of PDFs: Learn the six pros of HTML webpage and when to use PDFs. Plus, four examples going through the thought process of whether it should be a PDF or HTML webpage.
    Source: Pope Tech
  • Making Audio and Video Media Accessible: This resource explains how to make media accessible, whether you develop it yourself or outsource it. It helps you figure out which accessibility aspects your specific audio or video needs, provides project management guidance, and includes requirements from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standard.
    Source: W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative
  • PDFs, non-HTML documents, and accessibility: Learn what PDF and non-HTML documents are, how they effect assistive technology users, alternatives to PDFs, and how to test PDFs for accessibility.
    Source: Pope Tech
  • Planning Audio and Video Media: Figure out which accessibility aspects your specific audio or video needs (captions, description, a transcript, etc.).
    Source: W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative
  • How to check and fix PDF accessibility issues: To check and fix PDF accessibility issues, you’ll need certain knowledge and tools. A common software is Adobe Acrobat Pro, which has all the tools needed to make a PDF accessible. In this article, we’ll review the tools and steps you can take with Adobe Acrobat Pro to check and fix PDF accessibility issues.
    Source: PopeTech
  • How to make videos and audio accessible: Learn what accessible audio and video need to be accessible plus our suggestion for the easiest way to make accessible videos.
    Source: Pope Tech
  • Inaccessible PDFs? How to know when to use HTML webpages instead of PDFs: Learn the six pros of HTML webpage and when to use PDFs. Plus, four examples going through the thought process of whether it should be a PDF or HTML webpage.
    Source: Pope Tech
  • Making Audio and Video Media Accessible: This resource explains how to make media accessible, whether you develop it yourself or outsource it. It helps you figure out which accessibility aspects your specific audio or video needs, provides project management guidance, and includes requirements from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standard.
    Source: W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative
  • PDFs, non-HTML documents, and accessibility: Learn what PDF and non-HTML documents are, how they effect assistive technology users, alternatives to PDFs, and how to test PDFs for accessibility.
    Source: Pope Tech
  • Planning Audio and Video Media:
    Source: W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative
  • Tables: Beyond Rows and ColumnsSource: TPGiThe best way to use semantic table markup is to present web content in accessible rows and columns.
    Source: W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative
  • Tables: Beyond Rows and Columns: The best way to use semantic table markup is to present web content in accessible rows and columns.
    Source: TPGi

Trainings

Trainings from around the web that may be of interest. These trainings are free unless noted.

Refer to the event’s information page for details on registration, changes, and cancellation policies.

By Lesa McPeak