Here, Aaron Di Blasi, a lifetime engineer and Publisher of the Access Information News weekly newsletter, reviews The Disability Dividend, the new 2026 book by Dr. Kirk Adams, the former President and CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind. Rather than hand a colleague a glowing blurb, Di Blasi does something rarer, and discloses exactly why up front: because Adams is a Top Tech Tidbits editor, an Access Information News sponsor, and his own co-founder in the PWD Media Distribution Co-op, he doesn’t endorse the book, he audits it. Reading all 182 pages as three people at once, the computer engineer who wants to see the math, the publisher who reaches more than 89,000 disabled professionals every week, and the advocate whose company exists to make information accessible, he puts Adams’s central claim, that hiring people with disabilities isn’t charity but a measurable competitive advantage, on the bench and pulls it apart.
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Both Access Information News Sponsors and Content Contributors alike can now connect their very own Google Analytics account to the AI assistant they already use, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other, and simply ask, in plain English, how much traffic we send them. It all starts from a single link on our analytics page. Your assistant reads that link, walks you through a one-time setup of about five minutes on a computer using a free, no-code connector, and from that point on you can ask from any device, including your phone. The numbers stay entirely inside your own analytics: we grant access to nothing, and we see none of your data. Claude works on every plan, including the free tier; the other assistants offer a fuller path on their paid plans. No spreadsheets, no dashboards, and no analytics degree required. What follows is the story of why this matters so much to me, and exactly how to put it to work.
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Here, Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Access Information News 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 across both Top Tech Tidbits (founded 2004) and its sibling publication Access Information News (spun off in November 2022): who, exactly, reads these publications each week? On May 15, 2026, the publication uploaded a hashed copy of its email list to LinkedIn Matched Audiences. LinkedIn matched 38,123 of approximately 44,851 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.
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Here, Aaron Di Blasi announces that the Access Information News website redesign is complete, thanks to funding from Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. He explains that while the original site served its purpose for several years and was built with accessibility and future remediation in mind, it had a major limitation: it was not mobile-friendly. The new version fixes that issue by moving to WordPress.com and creating a mobile-first experience that works across devices while remaining accessible to assistive technologies, with testing done using JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.
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