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Here, Aaron Di Blasi, publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits weekly newsletter, announces that the full Top Tech Tidbits newsletter archive is now publicly available on the redesigned WordPress.com website at https://toptechtidbits.com/newsletters/. Every weekly issue from January 2008 to today is live and browsable in one place, by year, a 19-year span that, until now, stopped at 2018 on the public-facing site. The newly restored 10 additional calendar years (about 520 weekly issues) cover access technology news, tips, walk-throughs, sponsor announcements, and industry coverage from 2008 through 2017.

Here Aaron Di Blasi, publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits weekly newsletter, takes readers inside Venngage, the Toronto-based, bootstrapped visual-communications SaaS that has spent over a decade building accessibility into the design canvas itself rather than bolting it on after export. Where Canva went mainstream and consumer, Venngage went deep on the business documents compliance teams actually procure, accessible PDFs, forms, infographics, reports, presentations, and white papers, built by people whose job title does not contain the word “designer.” The educational core of the piece is a five-feature walkthrough: a built-in WCAG 2.1 AA checker that runs mid-canvas rather than after export; PDF/UA export with semantic tag preservation, so JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver parse the file as authored; AI alt text and AI chart interpretation native to the editor; a color-blindness simulator with six deficiency filters; and published VPATs aligned to WCAG 2.1 AA, a combination most platforms in this category do not offer.

Top Tech Tidbits Publisher Aaron Di Blasi welcomes Accessible Data, the London-based, IDA-co-designed, UN-trusted survey platform led by co-founder and CEO Jerry Nicholson, to the Top Tech Tidbits Sponsor family. He walks readers through what makes their work different from every survey tool that has ever made you want to close the tab, who already trusts them with the data that shapes policy, and how Dr. Kirk Adams brought Jerry into the Top Tech Tidbits orbit.

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits weekly newsletter, announces the launch of independent, LinkedIn-verified Audience Insight reports, an answer to the question Sponsors have been asking him for nearly two decades: who, exactly, reads Top Tech Tidbits each week? On May 15, 2026, the publication uploaded a hashed copy of its email list to LinkedIn Matched Audiences. LinkedIn matched 38,910 of 45,776 subscribers against active member profiles, an 85% match rate well above LinkedIn’s published 30-60% B2B baseline. The new Audience Insights page publishes twelve full demographic panels (top job functions, seniority, industries, employers, geography, skills, and content interests) drawn from those verified profiles, with quarterly regenerations on the calendar to give Sponsors a continuing third-party view of audience composition over time.