accessibility

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• - Office buildings have wheelchair ramps and TV has closed captioning, but many Web sites are inaccessible to people with disabilities. Things don't have to be that way.
  
• - SightWeaver is a tool for repairing HTML tables, to make them more accessible.
  
• - Web accessibility and usability resources including articles, news, discussion, and research. Focuses on both theory and practice of user-centered design.
  
• - A guide designed to help webmasters comply with web accessibility guidelines, with special emphasis on HTML techniques.
  
• - Resource for universal interface design and accessibility that provides techniques to support developing and implementing strategies.
  
• - Research and links from the Trace Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  
• - Advice from one webmaster to any others working on accessibility issues with their own or their clients' websites.
  
• - Guides and resources to help build applications with accessibility and usability.
  
• - Information on IBM's 'accessible' products and services.
  
• - Discusses the invisible image techniques for text only browsers.
  
• - Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Section 508 Guidelines
  
• - Developers of tools for seeing or hearing content from your computer.
  
• - Special issue: Accessibility of web-based information resources for people with disabilities. Read abstracts online; pay for access to full articles.
  
• - Tools, links and resources on Website accessibility.
  
• - Remote captioning over the Internet of live events for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals or anyone requiring instantaneous voice-to-text conversion.
  
• - Web accessibility articles by various authors.
  
• - Detailed techniques for using the ALT tag.
  
• - Launched to foster European cooperation toward a harmonised methodology for evaluating the accessibility of web sites. Members, committees and task forces, working rules, objectives, and FAQ.
  
• - Helps you check if your page is accessible to people with disabilities. New version includes tests for section 508.
  
• - Accessible directory of links and resources to help Policy Makers and Web Designers make informed decisions about Web accessibility.
  
• - Some data collected on the accessibility of college and university web pages.
  
• - Articles with advice and tips on making website content universally accessible.
  
• - The ALFA Project is being developed to allow educational content providers to create eLearning on any subject and in any language.
  
• - Information about Microsoft accessibility products and services.
  
• - Listing of web companies that have been awarded a kite mark for considering the disabled user.
  
• - Outlines approaches for preliminary review web site accessibility and for evaluation of conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
  
• - The purpose of Webmates is to assist other webmasters in their personal efforts to comply with the current standards regarding coding, accessibility and usability.
  
• - The US Dept. of Justice's resource page for the ADA. Voluminous, and not limited to computer and Internet issues, but at least it should be fairly authoritative, if you're willing to wade through the material.
  
• - List of resources for building accessible websites.
  
• - Personal weblog with views on accessibility issues, news, and accessibility events.
  
• - Article by Sylvester Roque and Kimberly Nyles-Roque. Covers disabilities that can affect the internet experience, and gives advice on how to improve sites and avoid causing problems for users.
  
• - A comprehensive 30 day guide to making your website more accessible. Can be downloaded as a PDF.
  
• - Information about accessibility to the Internet. Points to many articles, websites and tools to help create and analyze digital documents.
  
• - The AWARE center is a resource developed by the HTML Writer's Guild to assist all web writers to create more accessible web sites.
  
• - Information on web accessibility, usability and web standards.
  
• - An overview of website access for people with disabilities, and an overview of UK law and the Disability Discrimination Act.
  
• - Official website for Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act.
  
• - Learn how to make your site more accessible when using Adobe software.
  
• - A collection of web standards compliant web sites and their designers.
  
• - Website evaluation/correction tool that checks your website code against accessibility standards and guides you through the repair of problems.
  
• - Matthew Drouin explains how web accessibility is similar to SEO along with the 5 essential actions to take to make a site accessible.
  
• - Site created to promote awareness about the need for accessible web design and to steer those who wish to learn more about the topic into the right direction.
  
• - Offers tips, tricks, tutorials, links and information about Web accessibility, including UK legal requirements.
  
• - An association of organisations and accessible web designers and developers promoting accessible web design standards.
  
• - Providing online disability awareness training.
  
• - Official standards and guidelines for Government of Canada Web sites, as part of the Treasury Board's "Common Look and Feel" initiative.
  
• - Article by Raena Armitage. Addresses why Web accessibility matters, and gives some practical tips to apply to your Web sites right now.
  
• - Campaign for an independent and accessible WWW for everyone regardless of the browser that they use.
  
• - Information, training, resources, guidelines and standards for Web accessibility and disability access to the Web.
  
• - Campaign for a Non-Browser Specific WWW. Resources, more information and links about this effort.
  
• - Information pertaining to the creation of accessible Web sites, evaluation tools, tutorials.
  
• - Article introducing accessible Web design and initiatives to improve accessibility.
  
• - Site created to offer free advice and information for webmasters who want to make their sites accessible to all.
  
• - Essay on the 'case for accessibility'.
  
• - Royal National Institute for the Blind's campaign for accessible web design.
  
• - Discussion forum regarding site building, news, and legal issues relating to accessibility.
  
• - Online tool to show what your site colors look like to color-blind people.
  
• - Includes background information on Accessibility and lists computer related accessibility aids according to types of disability.
  
• - Disability simulator software that helps Web designers ensure that their pages are accessible and usable by the visually impaired. (IBM ID required to download.)
  
• - A review of browsers, tools and design principles for creating user-sensitive, device-independent web pages. Finger-spelling and morse code are employed to argue for an internet on-ramp serving desktop, handheld and special surfers alike.
  
• - Provider of web accessibility technology, services and research.
  
• - Extensive articles with many links to resources to educate and help with planning and creating accessible web pages.
  
• - Provides information on the technical and practical aspects of accessibility (including usability issues) and its evaluation, and information on how disabled users access the Internet.
  
• - Developer of JAWS for Windows Screen Reader and MAGic Screen Magnification Software.
  
• - Bob Easton searches for accessibility best practices.
  
• - Article defining accessibility and arguing its importance from ethical and economic perspectives. Covers basic techniques for design and testing.
  
• - Short article by Bryan D. Caplovitz covering audience, guidelines, and validation.
  
• - Accessibility info and Weblogs from the writer Joe Clark
  
• - Technical tips on improving the accessibility of a web page.
  
• - Internet captioning of live audio and video webcasts for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals or anyone requiring instantaneous voice-to-text conversion.
  
• - Advice, guides and reviews from a web accessibility specialist.
  
• - Learn how to make your site more accessible when using Macromedia software.
  
• - A rapidly-growing annotated bibliography of reviewed and rated online resources in accessible and universally-usable design.
  
  

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