Web Accessibility

Web Accessibility - Links

http://www.rochestergardening.com/iug/w-access.html
Duane Reid, June 1999 (originally compiled)
Oct 2000 - added links

What's it all about?
Description of types of disabilities: Disabled Users & the Web
www.sun.com/columns/alertbox/9610.html; Creating Accessible HTML
www.deaflibrary.org/accessibility.html
Discussion of the issues: Disability Design Helps Web Users
www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,370820,00.html; Making Your Web Site Accessible
www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,1600180,00.html; Harvey Bingham's Accessibility Page
www.tiac.net/users/bingham/accessbl/
Organizations
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
www.w3.org/WAI/
TRACE Research & Development Center (University of Wisconsin): Promoting Universal Design & Disability Access
http://198.202.75.150/enVision/v14.4/eot_udda.html; Designing More Usable Web Sites - links to Web access efforts
www.trace.wisc.edu/world/web/index.html
Center for Information Technology Accommodation (CITA): Web Page Accessibility Resources
www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/cita/wpa.htm; Writing Accessible HTML Documents
www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/cita/wwwcode.htm
Design approaches & standards
Case study - San Jose, CA: Cynthia Waddell and the Disability Access Design Standard
www.amcity.com/sanjose/stories/1997/10/27/focus3.html; City of San Jose Disability Access Standards Page
www.ci.san-jose.ca.us/oaacc/disacces.html
Other Guidelines & Checklists: AWARE Center -- HTML Writers Guild
http://aware.hwg.org/; Designing Accessible Websites
www.infouse.com/disabilitydata/guidelines98.html; Designing Access- Alliance for Technology Access
www.ataccess.org/ATResourceLibrary/WWW%20Access/default.html; Web Page Accessibility Checklist - handout
www.usdoj.gov/crt/508/webpage.html; W3C WAI Page Author Guidelines Working Group
www.w3.org/WAI/GL/; WAI Page Author Guidelines
www.w3.org/TR/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH; Webmonkey: design: Accessible HTML
www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/geektalk/97/11/index4a.html?tw=design; TABLEs on non-TABLE Browsers
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/tablejob.html; Electronic Curb Cuts: How to Build an Accessible Web Site
www.prodworks.com/ilf/ecc.htm; Web page design course
www.unh.edu/NIS/Courses/Access/
From the people who brought you Windows...: Internet Explorer 4.01 / Dealing with Disabilities
http://home.microsoft.com/reading/archives/reading-12-15.asp; Web Design
www.microsoft.com/enable/dev/web/default.htm
Website testing: CAST: Bobby; analyzes pages for accessibility
www.cast.org/bobby/
Testing for non-graphic browsers: What does your HTML look like without graphics?
www.slcc.edu/webguide/lynxit.html; lynx-me
http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Egerald/lynx-me.cgi
Websites that should be accessible...: Welcome To The White House
www.whitehouse.gov/; The White House Help Desk
www.whitehouse.gov/WH/html/helpdsk.html; Tips for Users of the White House Web Site
www.whitehouse.gov/WH/html/tips.html#accessibility; Social Security Online - left menu may be problem for text readers
www.ssa.gov/; SSA publications in various formats
www.ssa.gov/pubs/#Disability; HTML format of publication
www.ssa.gov/pubs/10029.html; ASCII TXT format (but lucky to find it...no link)
www.ssa.gov/pubs/10029.txt
Accessible Websites: Canadian National Institute for the Blind - example of accessible site
www.cnib.ca/; Disability Services Board: Access Tips - Virginia (offers 2x ENLARGE)
http://avenue.org/Community/DSB/; Access Instructions for Users with Disabilities- Washington state
www.aasa.dshs.wa.gov/Central/access.htm
Special needs considerations: Seniors and Technology - Web Design for Older Adults
www.microsoft.com/seniors/content/pr99/webdesign_doc.asp; Color Contrast and Partial Sight
www.lighthouse.org/color_contrast.htm; Colour Blind Design
www.cimmerii.demon.co.uk/colourblind/design.html; Colour Blind People and Link Colours
www4.gvsu.edu/~leahym/ColorBlindness.html
Disability Resources: Blindness Resource Center - including links to Webpages of the blind
www.nyise.org/blind.htm; WebABLE - disability-related internet resources
www.yuri.org/webable/index.html; Accessibility Resources - United Nations
www.un.org/esa/socdev/disacc00.htm
Meeting visual impairment with audio: Kansas Audio-Reader - Real Audio feeds of text (must register for use)
www.ukans.edu/~arnet/; Assistive Media - Real Audio feeds of magazine articles
www.assistivemedia.org/; Webpage Design and Technologies including audio in/out
www.comeunity.com/sndesign.html; IBM Special Needs Systems Home Page
www.austin.ibm.com/sns/
Misc...: Adaptive Living
http://home.earthlink.net/~adapt.living/about.htm
Added since 1999: Some sites don't help disabled people
http://freep.com/money/tech/step16_20001016.htm; Barrier-free Web Design Workshop
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/workshops/easiweb.htm

Duane Reid, June 1999 (originally compiled)
Oct 2000 - added links