TechShare Pro 2026 Curated Reading List

Every book here was written by someone joining us at AbilityNet TechShare Pro 2026 in London. Find the authors at the book club corner in the main hall at lunch on both days.

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    Accessibility: The Illustrated Guide book cover by Nandita Gupta and Rachel Grossman-Kahn

    Accessibility: The Illustrated Guide

    Making digital communication inclusive for everyone

    Nandita Gupta

    An illustrated introduction to inclusive digital communication, covering documents, email, social posts, and video for non-specialists.

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    Accessibility: The Illustrated Guide
    • Print length 148 pages
    • Publication date September 9, 2026
    • Published by Packt
    • Available in Paperback and eBook

    Nandita Gupta

    Accessibility Program Manager at Cisco, CPACC

    Nandita is a product and accessibility leader at Cisco and holds the CPACC credential. She was inducted into the Susan M. Daniels Disability Mentoring Hall of Fame and named to ADCOLOR in Tech in 2024.

    Rachel Grossman-Kahn

    Senior UX Designer, Audible at Amazon

    Rachel leads accessibility and inclusive design on Audible at Amazon. She spent a decade as a sign language interpreter for d/Deaf and DeafBlind communities and a few years at Walt Disney Animation Studios.

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    Accessibility: The Illustrated Guide
    Cover of 'Agile Accessibility Handbook' by Dylan Barrell, featuring a minimalist design with bold typography.

    Agile Accessibility Handbook

    A Practical Guide to Accessible Software Development at Scale

    Dylan Barrell

    The Agile Accessibility Handbook offers a practical roadmap for accessible software development on a large scale.

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    Agile Accessibility Handbook
    • Print length 160 pages
    • Publication date November 3, 2020
    • Available in Hardcover and eBook

    Dylan Barrell

    Chief Technology Officer

    Dylan is Chief Technology Officer at Deque. He brings about 20 years across technology development, product management and corporate development.

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    Agile Accessibility Handbook
    Creative Leadership book cover: a long yellow pencil runs diagonally across a white cover with the title in bold black letters along its length

    Creative Leadership

    How to Design the 21st-century Organisation

    Rama Gheerawo

    Rama Gheerawo shows how creativity, clarity and empathy can reshape leadership, drawing on more than 100 inclusive design projects.

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    Creative Leadership
    • Print length 176 pages
    • Publication date April 17, 2025 (UK), September 2, 2025 (US)
    • Available in Paperback, eBook and Audiobook read by the author

    Rama Gheerawo

    Former Director, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art

    Rama led the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art. His ideas come from more than 100 inclusive design projects with governments, businesses and charities.

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    Creative Leadership
    Designing Accessible Learning Content: A Practical Guide to Applying best-practice Accessibility Standards to L&D Resources book cover

    Designing Accessible Learning Content

    A Practical Guide to Applying best-practice Accessibility Standards to L&D Resources

    Susi Miller

    Design accessible L&D content with WCAG 2.2 best practices. A practical guide for inclusive digital learning, testing, and design.

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    Designing Accessible Learning Content
    • Print length 408 pages
    • Publication date January 28, 2025
    • Available in Paperback, Hardcover, and Kindle eBook

    Susi Miller

    eLearning Accessibility Expert

    Susi founded eLaHub and has more than 30 years in learning and development. Her accessible learning content was shortlisted for a Learning Technologies Award.

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    Designing Accessible Learning Content
    Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech Edited by Lainey Feingold, Regine Gilbert, Chancey Fleet

    Digital Accessibility Ethics

    Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech

    Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert and Chancey Fleet, editors (39 authors from 10 countries)

    Explore the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework and learn how to align products, AI and policy with disability rights and inclusion.

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    Digital Accessibility Ethics
    • Print length 368 pages
    • Release Day May 6th, 2026
    • Available in Hardcover, Paperback and eBook
    • 39 Total Authors

    Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert and Chancey Fleet, editors (39 authors from 10 countries)

    Editors of a collection by 39 authors

    Edited by Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert and Chancey Fleet, with 39 authors from 10 countries and one commonwealth, most of them disabled.

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    Digital Accessibility Ethics
    Inclusive Design for Accessibility: A practical guide to digital accessibility, UX, and inclusive web and app design book cover

    Inclusive Design for Accessibility

    A practical guide to digital accessibility, UX, and inclusive web and app design

    Dale Cruse, Denis Boudreau, Dr. Angela Young, Maya Sellon, Julianna Rowsell, Nandita Gupta, Jennifer Chadwick, Crystal Scott, Chris McMeeking, Dr. Keith Newton, Charlie Triplett and Kai Wong

    Explore practical strategies for inclusive design, accessibility, UX, and web development in this essential accessibility guide.

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    Inclusive Design for Accessibility
    • Print length 322 pages
    • Publication date August 7, 2025
    • Available in Paperback and Kindle eBook

    Dale Cruse, Denis Boudreau, Dr. Angela Young, Maya Sellon, Julianna Rowsell, Nandita Gupta, Jennifer Chadwick, Crystal Scott, Chris McMeeking, Dr. Keith Newton, Charlie Triplett and Kai Wong

    12 contributing authors, foreword by Glenda Sims

    Twelve accessibility educators, practitioners, researchers and advocates, each writing a chapter, with a foreword by Glenda Sims.

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    Inclusive Design for Accessibility

    Inclusive Design for a Digital World (2nd Edition)

    Designing with Accessibility in Mind (Design Thinking)

    Regine M. Gilbert

    A practical, globally focused guide to inclusive digital design that helps teams apply WCAG 2.2, navigate new regulations, and accessible design.

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    Inclusive Design for a Digital World (2nd Edition)

    Regine M. Gilbert

    User Experience Designer

    Reginé is an Industry Associate Professor and James Weldon Johnson Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Her work covers digital accessibility, inclusive design and immersive media.

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    Inclusive Design for a Digital World (2nd Edition)
    Inclusive Design for Organisations book cover: black title text above overlapping pink, teal, blue and purple circles behind a desktop monitor, tablet and phone, with small icons for alt text, hearing and dyslexia

    Inclusive Design for Organisations

    Including Your Missing 20% by Embedding Web and Mobile Accessibility

    Jonathan Hassell

    Jonathan Hassell's practical framework for embedding web and mobile accessibility across an organisation, aligned with ISO 30071-1.

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    Inclusive Design for Organisations
    • Print length 240 pages
    • Second edition, Rethink Press, 2019
    • Available in Paperback and a free audiobook

    Jonathan Hassell

    Accessibility strategist and lead author of ISO 30071-1

    Jonathan Hassell has spent more than 25 years embedding accessibility into digital teams, including setting standards and strategy at BBC Future Media. He wrote BS 8878 and its successor, ISO 30071-1.

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    Inclusive Design for Organisations
    Cover of 'Practical Web Accessibility: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Inclusion, Second Edition' by Ashley Firth, featuring a modern and inclusive design.

    Practical Web Accessibility

    A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Inclusion - Second Edition

    Ashley Firth

    Learn practical, modern techniques to build WCAG‑aligned websites that work for disabled people across devices, browsers and assistive tech.

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    Practical Web Accessibility
    • Print length 572 pages
    • Publication date April 18, 2024
    • Available in Paperback and Kindle eBook

    Ashley Firth

    Global Director of Engineering

    Ashley is Global Director of Engineering at Octopus Energy. His FAIR framework and ACCESS checklist grew out of years of accessibility consulting.

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    Practical Web Accessibility
    Strong Girls book cover: Jodie Ounsley roars with a raised fist against a vivid blue background, with the title in large white letters and stars

    Strong Girls

    Be Powerful, Be Positive, Be a Team Player

    Jodie Ounsley

    Jodie Ounsley's follow-up shows girls aged 8 and up that strength means mindset, resilience and lifting each other up.

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    Strong Girls
    • Print length 224 pages
    • Publication date April 9, 2026
    • Reading age 8 to 11
    • Available in Paperback, eBook and Audiobook read by the author

    Jodie Ounsley

    Former England rugby player and Gladiators' Fury

    Jodie is profoundly deaf, played rugby for England and is known to millions as Fury on Gladiators. She writes for young readers about confidence and turning differences into strengths.

    Becky Grey

    Sports journalist

    Becky Grey is a sports journalist and Jodie's co-writer on both of her books.

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    Strong Girls
    The Smart Marketer's Guide to Digital Accessibility book cover: an illustration of two people at a café table with a laptop, a phone, a white cane and a guide dog, on a pale lilac background

    The Smart Marketer's Guide to Digital Accessibility

    How to Make Inclusion Your Advantage

    Sassy Wyatt

    Sassy Wyatt gives marketers a practical framework for accessible content, from alt text to captions, that widens their reach.

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    The Smart Marketer's Guide to Digital Accessibility
    • Print length 356 pages (16pt large print)
    • Publication date June 28, 2025
    • Available in Large Print Paperback and Kindle eBook

    Sassy Wyatt

    Accessibility consultant, speaker and travel journalist

    Sassy lost her sight at 22 and went on to build Blind Girl Adventures and an award-winning career in accessible travel writing. She now consults and speaks on accessible marketing.

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    The Smart Marketer's Guide to Digital Accessibility

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