Creating Accessible Websites

Further Information

 

Web Accessibility Initiative (World Wide Web Consortium - W3C)

WAI Home Page can be found at:
http://www.w3.org/WAI

On-line training from the WAI is available at:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/wcag-curric/

35 ways to browse the web - information about assistive technology: http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Browsing.html

HTML validator. Check that your code is standards compliant. Type URL into field and receive report. Also validates CSS.
http://validator.w3.org/

WAI ‘Quick Tips’ card:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/QuickTips/

Other Organisations

Royal National Institute for the Blind - collection of information and resources including a useful summary on creating accessible websites.
Report: Get the message online (Word format)
Report: Web site design and the DDA (Word format)

TecDis - a Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded service supporting the further and higher education community in all aspects of technology and disabilities and/or learning difficulties.
http://www.techdis.ac.uk
Accessible Curricula: Good Practice For All (PDF) Easy reading - see parts 7 & 9.



CAST - Validator - use with caution, as manual checking is required.
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp

BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/betsie - produces text only pages on the fly with 95% accuracy.

British Computer Association for the Blind
http://www.bcab.org.uk/

Campaign for Plain English
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk

Software Companies

Adobe - advice on making PDF files accessible
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html

Macromedia
http://www.macromedia.com
Look for their "LIFT" validator and Macromedia 508 accessibility suite extensions. Site license is coming to this University shortly. In the meantime check 5 pages free online at: http://www.usablenet.com Dreamweaver users can download free accessibility extensions from this website.

Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/

IBM
http://www-3.ibm.com/able

Delorie - dowload Lynx text browser:
http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html

Usability
Jakob Nielsen's site:
http://www.usabilitynews.com
http://useit.com

 

Other Links

http://www.icdri.org/section508/section_508_resource_page.htm http://www.genasys.usm.maine.edu/index.htm
http://www.webaim.org/standards/508/excerpts
http://www.section508.gov/

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