Website Accessibility Resources
Getting Started
- WebAIM: Introduction to Web Accessibility
- Shawn Lawton Henry: Understanding Web Accessibility
- Joe Clark: Understanding Web Accessibility
- Wikipedia: Web accessibility
Organizations
- U-M Web Accessibility Working Group
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation (C.I.C.): IT Accessibility and Usability
- Guild of Accessible Web Designers
- WebAIM Web Accessibility E-mail Discussion List
Websites
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (W.A.I.)
- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
- W3C Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (Working Draft)
- Section 508
- Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM)
- Usability.gov
- DO IT: Technology and Universal Design
- Access-I.T.: The National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education
- National Centre for Accessible Media (NCAM)
- The Web Standards Project
Accessibility Evaluators and Tools
- Functional Accessibility Evaluator
- WAVE Accessibility Checker
- Toronto Accessibility Checker
- W3C HTML Validator
- W3C CSS Validtator
- Web-Anywhere web-based screen reader (beta release)
- Juicy Studio: Colour Contrast Analyser
- Colorblind Web Page Filter
- Firefox Accessibility Extension
- MAGpie video captioning
- Adobe Flash CS3 accessibility
- W3C: Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
Articles
- Evaluating website accessibility: part 1, Background and Preparation
- Evaluating website accessibility: part 2, Basic Checkpoints
- Evaluating website accessibility: part 3, Digging Deeper
- Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox
- Using JAWS to Evaluate Web Accessibility
- Which set of web accessibility standards or guidelines should I comply with?
- Could Helen Keller Read Your Page?
- Creating Accessible PDF Documents with Adobe Acrobat
- Accessible Data Tables
- Web Captioning Overview
- Juicy Studio
- A List Apart: Accessibility Articles
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