ACCESSIBILITY
- Adaptive Technologies
- JAWS - http://www.hj.com/
- IBM Home Page Reader - http://www-3.ibm.com/able/hpr.html
- Articles and Papers
- Accessible Web design - a definition - http://www.starlingweb.com/webac.htm
- Applying the ADA to the Internet: A Web Accessibility Standard (Presented at the American Bar Association Conference June 1998) http://www.rit.edu/~easi/law/weblaw1.htm
- Books
- Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity - Jakob Nielson - http://www.useit.com/jakob/webusability/
- Universal Web Design - Creating Accessible Web Sites - Crystal Walters
- Color
- Safe Web Colors for color deficient vision - http://innovate.bt.com/people/rigdence/colours/
- Color Vision Simluator - http://vischeck.com/showme.shtml - run your Web page through this simulator to see how it looks to people with various types of color deficiencies.
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets: The definitive Guide - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/css/chapter/ch01.html
- HTML & XML
- Top 10 Accessible Web Authoring Practices - http://www.websavvy-access.org/resources/top_ten.html
- W3C HTML page - http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
- W3C XHTML page - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
- W3C How XHTML differs from HTML4.0 - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#diffs
- W3C XML page - http://www.w3.org/XML/
- JavaScript and Accessibility
- JavaScript accessibility issues - http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/java/jseval.htm
- Guidelines for creating accessible scripts - http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/java/jseval.htm#Guidelines
- Using JavaScript to increase accessibility - http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/webaccess/magindex.html
- Multimedia
- WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) Web Access Project - http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/webaccess/index.html
- NCAM Media Access Generator (MAGpie) - http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/webaccess/magindex.html
- SMIL Files
- W3C - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/#SMIL
- SMIL Tutorial Integration Language (SMIL) http://www.helio.org/products/smil/tutorial/
- Tips
- Effective Color Contrast - http://www.lighthouse.org/color_contrast.htm
- Web Authoring Strategies for Voice Browsers http://www.hwg.org/opcenter/w3c/voicebrowsers.html
- Tools
- Lynx text browser (Good for checking if your pages make sense without graphics; Unix, Windows 95/98/NT, VMS, OS2 EMX). -http://lynx.browser.org/
- Lynx Emulator - text based browser emulation. http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html
- TIDY- Cleans HTML code; converts HTML to XHTML http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
- W3C Slidemaker Tool (W3C tool that made these web slides) http://www.w3.org/Talks/slidemaker/YYMMsub/
- Media Access Generator (WGBH/NCAM MAGpie) http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/webaccess/magindex.html
- Universal Design Resources
- Trace Research Center - Universal Design, Principles, and Guidelines http://trace.wisc.edu/world/web/index.html
- Validators and Checkers
- W3C Validator Service http://validator.w3.org/
- Bobby Accessibility Checker http://www.cast.org/bobby/
- CSS Validator http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html
- Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer http://www.delorie.com/web/wpbcv.html
- Web Accessibility
- The Access Board Proposed Standards for Electronic and
Information Technology http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/nprm.htm
- - The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board released this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for public comment on March 31, 2000. These are rules that government agencies must follow to comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
- CAST - Center for Applied Special Technology (Universal Design) http://www.cast.org/
- Equal Access to Software and Information (E A S I ) http://www.rit.edu:80/%7Eeasi/
- HTML Writer's Guild (HWG) http://www.hwg.org/
- AWARE Center site http://aware.hwg.org/
- HWG online course on Web Accessibility Lighthouse International http://www.lighthouse.org/
- World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) http://www.w3.org/
- Initiative (WAI) http://www.w3.org/WAI/
- - Guidelines http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
- - List of Checkpoints http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990324/full-checklist.html
- WebABLE - Extensive listing of disability and accessibility web sites http://www.webable.com/
- The Access Board Proposed Standards for Electronic and
Information Technology http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/nprm.htm