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Abbreviations & Acronyms

• 3.2 Acronyms and abbreviations
• 4.2 Specify the expansion of each abbreviation or acronym
  • Example for Checkpoint 4.2
• 9.1. The abbr element XHTML 2.0 - The W3C has finally given up trying to distinguish between acronym and abbreviation. Acronym is out.
• abbr - W3C.
• Abbreviations & Acronyms (css)
• Acronym/Abbreviation Best Practice - WebAIM Thread
• Acronyms and Abbreviations - University of Minnesota Standard
• Dealing with Acronyms and Abbreviations - Mike Cherim
• Explaining abbreviations, acronyms and symbols on Web pages - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• The Accessibility Hat Trick: Getting Abbreviations Right - Colin Lieberman
• Why Use the Acronym and Abbr Tags? - Ian Lloyd

Accessibility Statements

• Accessibility or Help Links? - Alastair Campbell
• Accessibility Statement -What Is It and Who Uses It? - Tom Babinszki
• Accessibility Statements - Dennis E. Lembree
• Are Accessibility Statements Useful? - Leona Tomlinson
• Boiler-Plate Accessibility Statement - Thierry Koblentz et al.
• Certification and Testing - Joe Clark
• Create Your Own Accessibility Statement - Leonie Watson
• Creating an Accessibility Statement - Mark Pilgrim
• Defining A Good Accessibility Statement - John Rochford
• Don't Provide an Accessibility Statement - Peter Krantz
• Does Your Website Overstate Its Accessibility? - Out-Law News
• Logo Claims about Website Accessibility belie Reality - Fraser Hamilton
• New Accessible Web Site Agreement - Lainey Feingold
• The Surfer and The Accessibility Statement - Patrick Griffiths
• Web Accessibility Statements - The Best Of Intentions, Clearly Stated - headstar
• Web Accessibility Statements And User Support - Mel Pedley
• Writing a Good Accessibility Statement - Gez Lemon

Accesskeys

• 11.1 Keyboard access to forms - W3C
• Access Keys, Limited Practical Value - Alastair Campbell
• Accesskey Conflicts - Derek Featherstone
• Accesskeys and Reserved Keystroke Combinations - John Foliot
• Access Keys - Web Aim Thread
• Accesskeys: Where Are We Now? - Mel Pedley
• Example for Checkpoint 9.5
• Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys - Gez Lemon
• I Do Not Use Accesskeys - Dave Shea
  • I'm Still Off Accesskeys - Dave Shea
• If You Use the Accesskey Attribute, Specify Unique Values - Roger Johansson
• Initial Focus to a Text Field - Good or Bad? - Robert Nyman
• Problems with Dynamically Assigned Accesskeys - Terrill Thompson
• Setting and Retrieving Accesskeys with JavaScript and DOM - Ian Lloyd
• The accesskey Attribute - Do We Still Need It? - Emma Sax New!
• Using Accesskeys - Is it worth it? - John Foliot and Derek Featherstone. (Defining accesskeys seems to be a waste of time unless one is designing for a controlled environment such as an intranet.)
• User-Defined Access Keys - Gez Lemon
• XHTML2 Draft Backtracks on Accesskeys - Mel Pedley

Assistive Technology

• Assistive Technology - Access Technologists Higher Education Network (ATHENS)
• Assistive Technology: a Video Tour of Accessibility - Jon Gibbins
• Assistive Technology: Alternative Pointing Devices - Mel Pedley
• Assistive Technology: Braille and Low Vision Aids - Mel Pedley
• Alternative Web Browsing - Peter Bosher and Judy Brewer
• Beware the Kalends of November - Carroll Tech
• Braille
  • Refreshable Braille - Roger Hudson
  • Refreshable Braille and the Web - Roger Hudson
• Browse Assistive Technology - Department of Defense Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program
• Eye Tracking
  • Eye-tracking - WebAIM
  • Replace Your Mouse with Your Eye - Alfred Hermida
• Closing the Gap - User Agent Improvements - Alastair Campbell
• Current Browsers And The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - Patrick H. Lauke
• Five Assistive Technologies for the Web - Leonie Watson
• Head Wands
  • Head wand - WebAIM
  • Headwand in Action - Russ Weakley
• How Do Disabled People Use Computers? - Joe Clark
• How Do People With Different Disabilities Use The Computer - Tom Babinszki
• How People with Disabilities Use the Web - Web Accessibility Initiative
• IBM Tool 'Reads' Web Video for Blind - Candace Lombardi
• I Saw a Mouse! Where? - Mel Pedley
• Improving Accessibility for Motor Impaired Users - Trenton Moss
• Keyboard Access
  • Adaptive keyboard - WebAIM
  • Assistive Technology: Keyboards And Other Input Alternatives - Mel Pedley
  • Improve Your Keyboard Accessibility - Roger Johansson
  • Keyboard Accessibility in Web Applications, part 2 - Mihai Sucan
  • Keyboard Support: Mysteries Unveiled - Mike Cherim, edited by Tommy Olsson
  • Optimize for Keyboard Access (and other non-mouse input devices) - Skills For Access
• Mouth Sticks
  • Mouth stick - WebAIM
• New Browser For Web Video - Mel Pedley
• Screen Magnifiers
  • Web Accessibility for Screen Magnifier Users - Trenton Moss
  • Doing Web Accessibility for Screen Magnifier Users - Trenton Moss
  • Introduction to Screen Magnifiers - Karo Caran and Victor Tsaran
• Screen Readers
  • An Introduction to Screen Readers - Victor Tsaran
  • Browsing Habits of Screen Reader Users - Peter Krantz
  • Configuring Links in Screen Readers - Mike Davies
  • Empty Links and Screen Readers - Mike Davies
  • Open Source Screen Reader Gives Sighted Individuals a Glimpse into the Blind World - Glenda Watson Hyatt
  • Screen Readers Lack Emphasis - Steve Faulkner
  • display: none and Invisible Content
    • CSS in Action: Invisible Content Just for Screen Reader Users - WebAIM
    • Hiding Content for Screen Readers - Jared Smith
    • Hiding Content for Screen Reader Users - Mike Cherim
    • Screen Readers and display:none - Gez Lemon
    • Screenreader Visibility - Bob Easton
    • Quiz 2.4.1: On Being Heard But Not Seen - Bob Easton
    • Why 'left: -9999px;' is Better For Accessibility Than 'display: none;' - Nick Fitzsimons
  • Giving OS X a Voice - Christopher Breen
  • Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers - Mary Frances Theofanos and Janice (Ginny) Redish
  • IE7, Screen Readers And Screen Enlargers - Mel Pedley
  • Improving Usability for Screen Reader Users - Trenton Moss
  • Influence of Valid Code on Screen Readers - Joe Clark
  • Jaws Access of PDF - A Users Guide - Web Access Centre - Royal National Institute of the Blind
  • JAWS, Window-Eyes and Character References - Jason Kiss
  • Jaws, Window Eyes, Parallels, and Boot Camp - Jared Smith
  • Learning From Screen Readers - Jon Whiting
  • Open Source Screen Readers? - Chris Hofstater
  • Quiz 1.1.5: A Picture Requires a Thousand Words - Bob Easton
  • Poetry, Punctuation, Markup; Screen Readers - Jon Gibbins
  • Seven Screen Reader Usability Tips - Trenton Moss
  • Screen Readers and Abbreviations - Jon Gibbins
  • Screen Readers By Joe Clark
  • Screen Reader Simulation - WebAIM
  • Screen-Reader Usability Study - Joe Clark
  • Screen Readers: A Web Developer Failure - Mike Davies
  • Screen Readers and CSS Layout - Bob Easton
  • Screen Reader Survey Results - Jared Smith
  • Screen Reader User Survey Results2 - Jared Smith
    • Screen Reader Software Usage Shifts on Desktop and Mobile - Henny Swan
  • Surfing the Web with a Screen Reader - AccessIT
  • The DOM And Screen Readers - Gez Lemon
  • The Quagmire of Web Accessibility- Chris Hofstater
  • Three Things I Learned About Screen Reader Users - Joshua Kaufman
  • Turn Firefox into a Screen Reader with Fire Vox - Roger Johansson
  • Usability screening techniques: evaluating for a wider range of environments, circumstances and abilities - Shawn Lawton Henry
  • Understanding How JAWS Reads Text - Steve Faulkner
  • Video: YouTube and Easy YouTube with a Screen Reader - Christian Heilmann
  • Views From a Screen Reader User - Mike Cherim
• Single-Switch Access
  • Single-Switch Access - WebAIM
• Sip and Puff Switch
  • Sip and puff switch - WebAIM
• Top 8 Free Browsers for Visual Impairment and More - Debbie Marsh
• Video: Keeping Web Accessibility in Mind - WebAIM
• Videos on Computer Accessibility - AssistiveWare
• Voiceover
  • Apple Offers Universal Access with Leopard
  • Firefox and OS X's VoiceOver ... Reading the Magic 8 Ball - Aaron Leventhal
  • Manual for Apple VoiceOver in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard - Roger Johansson
  • Not What the Doctor Ordered: A Review of Apple's VoiceOver Screen Reader - Jay Leventhal
  • Voiceover 2 - A WebDev+s Guide - Alastair Campbell
• What Is Assistive Technology? - Public Broadcasting System

Baseline

• The Question of Baseline - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Working Group
• This is Accessible? - Gez Lemon
• Questions and Proposed Approaches for Baseline Specifics - Gregg Vanderheiden
• WCAG 2.0 Baseline Concept - Gez Lemon
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - comments on the 'Baseline Technology Assumption' - Tina Holmboe

Benefits (Why accessibility?)

• 10 Reasons Clients Don't Care About Accessibility - Christian Heilmann
• 100,000 Reasons to Design for Accessibility - Bruce Lawson
• Accessible Business Online - Alexandra Graham
• Accessibility and Business Value Study - The Customer Respect Group
• Accessibility: How Many Disabled Web Users Are There? - Joseph C. Dolson
• Accessibility: Making It All Worthwhile - Jack Pickard
• Accessibility and SEO - Bruce Lawson and Vasilis van Gemert
• Accessibility to the Face - Rob Foster
• Accessibility...Who Does It REALLY Help? - Darrel Austin
• Accessibility is Optimization - Matt Bailey
• Auxiliary Benefits of Accessible Web Design - W3C
• Benefits and Challenges of Web Accessibility - Pat Byrne
• Benefits of an Accessible Website - part 1: Increase in Reach - Trenton Moss
  • Benefits of an Accessible Website - part 2: The Business Case - Trenton Moss
• Benefits of WCAG 2 Presentation - W3C
• Business Reasons for Web Accessibility - Dennis Lembree
• Connection - William Loughborough
• Corporate Websites and the Case for Accessibility - Helen Baker
• Dear Taylor Swift - Andy Clark
• Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization - Web Accessibility Initiative
• Don't Use the Statistics Defense as a Reason to Exclude People From Your Content - Jim Byrne
• Does Your Grandfather Surf the Web? - William Loughborough
• Expand the Awesome: Design for a Wider Audience - Ann McMeekin
• High Accessibility Is Effective Search Engine Optimization - Andy Hagans
• How Do You Get Your Client to Pay For Accessibility? - Gez Lemon
• How To Sell Accessibility - Trenton Moss
• It Pays to Play by the Rules - Compliance, Accessibility and SEO - Mark Jackson
• Is Web Accessibility a Human Rights Issue? - Wendy Chisholm
• Legal Reasons to Make Intranets, Extranets and Software Accessible - Struan Robertson
• Leveling the Playing Field: We're all Differently Abled - Joseph C. Dolson
• Massive Business Case for Accessibility - Peter Abrahams
• New Research Study Shows 57 Percent of Adult Computer Users Can Benefit From Accessible Technology - Microsoft
• Overcoming Objections to Accessibility - Mike Cherim
• Perspectives on Web Accessibility - W3C
• Presenting the Case for Web Accessibility - W3C Draft
• Putting the User at the Heart of the W3C Process - Jonathan Chetwynd
• Resources for Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization - The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
  • Share Resources Supporting the Web Accessibility Business Case - Shawn Henry
• Selfish Reasons for Accessible Web Authoring - Kynn Bartlett
• Selling Accessibility to Programmers - Joe Clark
• The Benefit of Accessible Design for Able-Bodied Users of the World Wide Web - Denis Anson, Ronni Marangoni, Karyn Mills, Lalit Shah
  • Usability Benefits of Web Accessibility - Joe Clark
• The Business Rationale for Virtual Accessibility - Kel Smith
• The Electronic Curb-Cut Effect - Steve Jacobs.
• The Financial Benefits of Web Accessibility - Mel Pedley
• The Secret Benefit of Accessibility: Increased Usability - Trenton Moss
  • The Secret Benefits of Accessibility Part 2: Better Search Ranking - Trenton Moss
• The Need for Accessibility - Dan Johnson
• Understanding the Impact of Accessibility - Glenda Sims
• Universal Design and Web Accessibility: Unexpected Beneficiaries - Terry Thompson
• Usability and Accessibility Market Worth £115m in 2005 - E-consultancy.com
• Web Accessibility Benefits Persons with Disabilities and ... Who Else? - Tom Babinszki
• Why Accessibility? - Robert Nyman
• Why Accessibility is Important to You - John S. Britsios
• Why Accessibility? Motivating Learners To Bring About Change - WebAIM
• Why Accessibility? Because It's Our Job! - James Edwards
• Why Universal Design is Important - Kel Smith
• Why Bother? - Joe Clark
• Why Bother With Web Accessibility? - Accessites.org
• Why Web Accessibility is More Than a Legal Obligation - Glenda Watson Hyatt

CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart).

• A Sliding Alternative to CAPTCHA? - Luke Wroblewski
• Accessibility of CAPTCHA - Gez Lemon
• Accessibility of Visual and Auditory Captchas - Web In Sight
• Glenda Watson Hyatt: Do It - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• Auditory Captchas Web Survey - University of Washington
• Are Social Networking Sites Accessible to People with Vision Loss? - American Foundation for the Blind
  • CAPTCHAs on Social Networking Sites Shut Out Blind Users - American Foundation for the Blind
• Beyond CAPTCHA: No Bots Allowed! - James Edwards
• Breaking CAPTCHAs - Mel Pedley
• CAPTCHA and Accessibility - John Foliot
• Captcha Cracking in JavaScript with Canvas and Neural Nets - Ajaxian
• CAPTCHA is Dead - Matt May
• CAPTCHA Update 2008 - ESW Wiki
• CAPTCHA Usability: Humane Alternative to CAPTCHA - Jesper Ronn-Jensen
• CAPTCHAs, CAPTCHAs Everywhere - Jim Thatcher
• Captcha Usability Revisited: Google Inaccessible to Blind People - Jesper Ronn-Jensen
• Codes on Sites 'Captcha' Anger of Web Users - David Kesmodel
• Does WCAG 2.0 Allow CAPTCHA? - Tom Babinszki
• Escape From CAPTCHA - Matt May
• Google Acquires reCAPTCHA: Potential Boost for Web Accessibility - Lainey Feingold
• Google's Doors Still Shut to Blind - Susan Kuchinskas
• Google Releases Audio CAPTCHA - Matt Bailey
• How Captcha Kills the Romance of the WWW (except spammer wins) - Cathy P.S. Ma
• How Captcha was Foiled: Are You a Man or a Mouse? - Tim Anderson
• Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA - W3C
  • CAPTCHA Paper Updated - Matt May
• Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests Problems and Alternatives - Matt May
• Is Google Shutting Out The Blind? - Susan Kuchinskas
• Introducing DISTCHA* - Samuel Sirois and Denis Boudreau
• Making CAPTCHAs Less Evil? - Paul Crichton
• Problems with CAPTCHA and Audio CAPTCHA Alternative - Gregory J. Rosmaita
• Provide an Accessible Alternative if You Must Use a CAPTCHA - Roger Johansson
• Proposal for an Accessible Captcha Test - Peter Krantz
• The Problem With Captchas - Mel Pedley

Checklists

• Accessibility Quick Checks (Part 1 of 3: Coding) - Jack Pickard
  • Accessibility Quick Checks (Part 2 of 3: Content) - Jack Pickard
  • Accessibility Quick Checks (Part 3 of 3: Function) - Jack Pickard
• Accessibility Quick Tips - webdevtips.com
• Can Checklist Accessibility be Harmful? - Vlad Alexander
• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility
• Practical Accessibility Tips - Mike Davies
• Section 508 Checklist - Jonathan Whiting
• The Accessibility Checklist I Vowed I'd Never Write - Aaron Cannon
• WAI Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Cognitive Disabilities

• A Conceptual Framework for Accessibility Tools to Benefit Users with Cognitive Disabilities - Paul R. Bohman and Shane Anderson
• A Dyslexic Perspective on e-Content Accessibility - Peter Rainger and EA Draffan
• An Accessibility Frontier: Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties - Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley and Peter Firminger
• All Caps: A Dyslexics Plea - LaFeminista
• Assistive Technology with Cognitive Disability Emphasis - Mark Dubin
• Chunking
• Cognitive Accessibility Survey - Jared Smith
• Cognitive Disabilities Part 1 - Paul R. Bohman
• Cognitive Disabilities Part 2 - Cyndi Rowland
• Cognitive load and the rule of seven (or how many is too many) - Nick Finck
• Cognitive Disability - Alan Dix
• Cognitive Web Accessibility Assessment: First Attempt, Part 1 of 3 - John Rochford
  • Cognitive Web Accessibility Assessment: First Attempt, Part 2 of 3 - John Rochford
  • Cognitive Web Accessibility Assessment: First Attempt, Part 3 of 3 - John Rochford
  • Cognitive Web Accessibility Assessment, Second Attempt: Site Failure - John Rochford
  • Cognitive Web Accessibility Assessments: Lessons Learned So Far - John Rochford
  • Cognitive Web Accessibility Assessments - Detailed Results By Site - John Rochford
• Creating Sites Accessible to People with Cognitive Disabilities - Gian Wild New!
• Definitions of 'Cognitive Disability' - John Rochford
• Designing for Dyslexics: Part 1 of 3 - Mel Pedley
  • Designing for Dyslexics: Part 2 of 3 - Mel Pedley
  • Designing for Dyslexics: Part 3 of 3 - Mel Pedley
• Designing for Users With Cognitive Disabilities - Erica Kolatch
• Designing Web Pages for Dyslexic Readers - John Bradford
• Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties - Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley, and Peter Firminger
• Draft Database of Results from Cognitive Web Accessibility Assessments - John Rochford
• Dyslexia, Disability and Teaching Accessibility - Jack Pickard
• Dyslexia List Launches with Major Research Programme into Accessibility Guidance - Ann Light
• Easy Read and Other Advice About Writing for People with Learning Disabilities - Caroline Jarrett
• Easy YouTube and Learning Disabilities - Christian Heilmann
• Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility with WAVE - WebAIM
• Features of a Cognitively Accessible Web Site - John Rochford
• Icons, Symbols and Cognitive Disabilities - Christopher Phillips
• Inclusion Of Cognitive Disabilities in the Web Accessibility Movement - Lisa Seeman
• Lower-Literacy Users - Jakob Nielsen
• Maximum Accessibility - Inclusive New Media Design (INMD)
• More On Dyslexia - Mel Pedley
• Overview of WebAIM Cognitive Research - WebAIM
• Plan to Assess Web Accessibility of 100 Cognitive Disability Organizations - John Rochford
• Standards.Next: Cognition and Accessibility - Bruce Lawson
• Standards.Next Rocking Cognition and Accessibility - Henny Swan
• Start with the assumption that you cannot predict the access needs of your audience - Jim Byrne
• The Effects of Lower-literacy on Mental Models to Support Website Navigation - Celeste Lyn Paul
• Understanding the Effects of Cognitive Disorders: Part 1 - Kyle Lamson
  • Understanding the Effects of Cognitive Disorders: Part 2
  • Understanding the Effects of Cognitive Disorders: Part 3
• Video: Antonia Hyde on Learning Disabilities (Scripting Enabled London) - Christian Heilmann
• WCAG 2 Activity on Cognitive Disability - Joe Clark
• Web Accessibility and Learning Difficulties - Tim Fidgeon
• Web Accessibility for Cognitive Disabilities and Learning Difficulties - Ian Pouncey
• Web Design for Dyslexic Users - dyslexia.com
• Web Site Designed For People With Cognitive Disabilities But Inaccessible To Them - John Rochford
• Web Site Design Suggestions for People with Dyslexia - John Rochford

Color: Accessibility

Definitions and Overviews

• 25: Accessibility Basics - Tom Hughes-Croucher
• Accessibility - W3C Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG)
• Accessibility and Availability - Derek Featherstone
• Accessibility, Availability and Affordability - Christopher Phillips
• Accessibility as a Platform to Build Upon - Emil Stenstrom
• Accessibility Basics - Tom Hughes-Croucher
• Accessibility for All vs. for People with Disabilities - Roger Johansson
• Accessibility In Trouble 2: Standards - Mike Davies
  • Accessibility In Trouble 3: Universality - Mike Davies
  • Accessibility In Trouble 4: Dehumanisation - Mike Davies
  • Accessibility In Trouble 5: Deterioration- Mike Davies
  • Accessibility In Trouble 6: Misrepresentation - Mike Davies
• Accessibility Is More Than 'Possible to Access' - Roger Johansson
• Accessibility Only For Disabilities? - Tommy Olsson
• Accessibility vs Universality - Implications - Alastair Campbell
• Accessibility (Web) - Laura Carlson
• ADA Changes: The New Definition of Disability - Tim Moore
• BarCamp London 2: Accessibility Panel Thoughts - Mike Davies
• Barrier-Free Web Design, a.k.a. Web Accessibility 2.0 - Roger Johansson and Tommy Olsson
• Definitions of Digital Inclusion - Accessibility News International
• Definitions of Web Accessibility - Mel Pedley
• Et Tu, Joe? - Tommy Olsson
• Essential Components of Web Accessibility - W3C
• Failed and Flawed Accessibility Organizations - Ian Lloyd
• Failed? Fundamentally Flawed? - Mike Cherim
• Future of Web Accessibility - Alastair Campbell
• How Accessible is 'Accessible'? - Chris Hofstater
• In Defense Of Accessibility - Jack Pickard
• Lack of Access = Barrier to Access - Joe Dolson
• Levels of Accessibility - Mike Cherim
• On Accessibility - Catherine Roy
• The Flip Side of the Coin - Miraz Jordan
• The Great Accessibility Camp-Out - Gez Lemon and Mike Cherim
• Trying to Define Web Accessibility - Joe Dolson
• Understanding Web Accessibility - Shawn Lawton Henry
• Universality and Accessibility - Gez Lemon
• Web Accessibility - What is It? What are the Benefits? - Paul Walsh
• What Accessibility Means in 25 Words - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• What is Accessibility? - Robert Nyman
• What Is Web Accessibility? - Trenton Moss
• What is an accessible website? Attempting a definition - Jim Byrne
• What is an accessible website? - an answer in the form of a diagram. - Jim Byrne
• What is media access? - Joe Clark

Device Independence and Graceful Degradation

• Click Versus Activate - Gregory J. Rosmaita
• Device independent definition - W3C
• Device Independence- W3C
• Device-Independent or Accessible? - Dominique Hazael-Massieux
• Device Independence Principles - W3C
• Fluid Thinking - Peter-Paul Koch
• Graceful Degradation - Daniel R. Tobias
• Guideline 9. Design for Device-Independence - W3C
• Living Without Mice - Charles McCathieNevile
• Unobtrusive Javascript / Progressive Enhancement / Graceful Degradation / Best Practices

Deprecated Features

• 11.2 Avoid deprecated features of W3C technologies - W3C
• Beyond the FONT tag: Practical HTML text styling -Todd Fahrner
• Index of Elements (See deprecated column)
• "The following HTML elements specify font information. Although they are not all deprecated, their use is discouraged in favor of style sheet" - 15.2.1
• The FONT tag is deprecated in current HTML standards, and should be avoided if at all possible. Use CSS for font sizes, and make sure they're a relative size, not an absolute one. Then they'll "adapt" whether the viewer is applying a custom stylesheet, or simply using the "increase font size" menu option.
• Guidelines for authoring - W3C . Including "FONT tag considered harmful!"

Flicker

• Flicker and Strobe - WebAIM
• Avoid Specific Frequencies for Flickering Content - Skills for Access
• Blinking Page Elements and Marquees - University of Minnesota Standard
• Do Your Flashing Ads Cause Seizures? - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• Guideline 2.3: Be Careful With Flashing Visual Content - Olga Revilla
• London 2012 Olympics Branding Film Causes Epileptic Seizures - Roger Johansson
• Photosensitive Epilepsy - Gez Lemon
• Screen Flicker - 508
• Screen Refresh - University of Minnesota Standard
• Web Content Accessibility Guideline 2.3 - W3C

Forms

• 11 Forms - W3C.
• 508(n) - When electronic forms are designed to be completed on-line, the form shall allow people using assistive technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues.
• Accessible and Usable Forms - Mike Foskett
• Accessible Forms by Jim Thatcher
• Accessible Forms - John Slatin
• Accessible Forms - Ted Page
• Accessible Forms- Roger Hudson
• Accessible Forms: Radio Buttons with <fieldset>, <legend>, and <label> - University of Texas
  • Accessible Forms: Buttons Using <input> elements of type = "button" and <button> elements - University of Texas
  • Accessible Forms: Graphical buttons - University of Texas
• Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0 - Roger Hudson
• Accessible HTML/XHTML Forms - Ian Lloyd
• Accessible Matrix Forms - WebAIM Thread
• Accessibility and the Label Tag - Adrian Senior
• Accessibility Issues of Checkboxes and Radio Buttons - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• Alternatives to Forms - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• Better Accessible Forms - Ian Lloyd
• Building Accessible Web Forms - Alejandro Gervasio
• Communicating Error Messages Accessibly - Peter Krantz
• Creating Accessible Forms - WebAIM
• Creating Accessible Forms by Stanford University
• Default Place-Holding Characters
  • 10.4 Until user agents handle empty controls correctly, include default, place-holding characters
  • Braille Displays and Web Forms - David Poehlman
  • Default Place-Holding Characters - Gez Lemon
  • Place-holding characters in edit/text boxes - Patrick H. Lauke
  • Re: WCAG 1.0 checkpoint 10.4 - David Poehlman
  • Use Javascript to add default text to input fields - Jim Byrne
• Designing Simple, Accessible Forms - John Oxton
• Fieldset
  • Fieldsets, Legends and Screen Readers - Steve Faulkner
  • Fieldset - www.w3schools.com
  • FIELDSET - Form Control Group
  • Filedset/Legend in XHTML vs. HTML - Kevin C Smith
  • Use the Fieldset and Legend Elements to Group HTML Form Controls - Roger Johansson
• FORMS: Friends, Not Foes! - Meryl K. Evans
• Form Help Without Popups - Gez Lemon
• Forms: University of Minnesota Standards
• Forms and Fields - Peter Rainger
• Forms and Interaction - Joe Clark
• Forms By Dan Cederholm
• Form Help Without Popups - Gez Lemon
• Forms Usability
• Future Web Accessibility: HTML5 <input> Extensions - Aaron Andersen
• How to use tables to structurize forms in HTML and about alternatives, like fieldset - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• Keeping an Aging Population Online - DIADEM (Delivering Inclusive Access to Disabled and Elderly Members) - Nick Higgs
• Labels
  • 10.2 ensure that the label is properly positioned - W3C
    • Example for Checkpoint 10.2
  • 11.3 Labeling form controls - WAI Coding Technique
  • 12.4 Associate labels explicitly with their controls - W3C
    • Example for Checkpoint 12.4
  • Accessible Forms: Labeling Input Fields - University of Texas
    • Accessible Forms: Labeling Pulldown Menus - University of Texas
  • Associate Form Fields Explicitly with Their Labels - Jim Byrne
  • Inaccessible Label-Wrapped Form Inputs - Mike Cherim
  • LABEL - Form Field Label
  • Label Positioning - Gez Lemon
  • Labels for Form Controls Overview - Illinois Center for Information Technology and Web Accessibility
  • "<label>" for Search Field - Web Aim Thread
  • The <label> tag
  • Quiz 5.2.13: Speaking Form Labels - Bob Easton
    • Speaking Form Labels - Summary - Bob Easton
  • Use the Label Element to Make Your HTML Forms Accessible - Roger Johansson
• Make forms accessible - WAI Coding Technique
• Making Accessible Forms, Part 1 - Trenton Moss
  • Making Accessible Forms, Part 2 - Trenton Moss
• Making Compact Forms More Accessible - Mike Brittain
• Multiple Form Labels and Screen Readers - Roger Johansson
• Optgroup
  • Accessible Forms: Grouping Related Items on a Form - University of Texas
  • OPTGROUP - Option Group - htmlhelp
  • Use the optgroup Element to Group Select Options - Roger Johansson
  • The <optgroup> tag
• Prettier Accessible Forms - Nick Rigby
• Provide Access to Forms for Users who are Blind or Visually Impaired - Geoff Freed and Madeleine Rothberg
• Reset and Cancel Buttons - Jakob Nielsen
• Simply Accessible - Derek Featherstone
• Spam-Free Accessible Forms - Jared Smith
• Tab Index
  • 9.4 Create a logical tab order through links, form controls, and objects
    • Example for Checkpoint 9.4
  • Avoid Frustrating Users With tabindex - Nick DeNardis
  • Initial Focus to a Text Field - Good or Bad? - Robert Nyman
  • Make forms easier to use by creating a logical tab order - Jim Byrne
  • More Fun With The tabindex Attribute - Becky Gibson
  • Staying Positive About Tabindex - Joe Clark
  • Tabindex At Your Peril - Mel Pedley
• Tips for Keeping Forms Accessible - Mike Cherim
• Usable and Accessible Form Validation and Error Recovery - Jared Smith
• Using Title in Basic Form Elements - Ken Nakata
• Using titles on Form Fields - Mike Davies
• Writing Accessible Forms - The University of Durham

Language

• 2.2 Identifying the primary language - W3C
• 4.3 Identify the primary natural language of a document
  • Example for Checkpoint 4.3 - W3C.
• The Barrier of Foreign Words - Mike Davies
• Accessibility In My Own (Foreign) Words - Jack Pickard
  • The Barrier of Foreign Words - Mike Davies
  • Be Accessible, Don't Meet Guidelines - Mel Pedley
• Defining Content Language - Karl Dawson
• Indicating Language Choice: Flags, Text, Both, Neither? - Roger Johansson
• Internationalization Primer - Jonathan Snook
• Language Codes - Joe Clark
• The Inaccessibility of Jargon - Steve Grobschmidt
• Why use the language attribute?

Law, Lawsuits, Policies

• 504
  • Section 504 vs. Section 508 - Wayne Dick
  • Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973
  • Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
  • Section 504 and IDEA: Basic Similarities and Differences - S. James Rosenfeld
• 508
  • 1194.22 Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications - The Access Board
  • 508 and Higher Ed - Jon Whiting
  • 508 Standards
  • Accessible Electronic and& Information Technology: Legal Obligations of Higher Education and Section 508 - Cynthia D. Waddell
  • ADA Restoration Act of 2007 - American Association of People with Disabilities
  • Board Names Advisory Committee for 508 Standards Update - The Access Board
  • Board to Create Advisory Committee for Refresh of 508 Standards - The Access Board
  • Forthcoming Updates on Federal Section 508 Rules - Joe Dolson
  • Future Web Accessibility Updates - Aaron Andersen
  • GSA to Grade Agencies on 508 Compliance - Jason Miller
  • NFB Files Section 508 Complaint Against Small Business Administration - 508portal
  • One Reason Why Section 508 Isn't Working - Mike Paciello
  • Presentation of the TEITAC report to the U.S. Access Board - Peter Korn
  • Refreshed Accessibility Standards and Guidelines in Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology - Advisory Committee to the Access Board
  • Section508.gov
  • Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - Wikipedia.
  • Section 508 Checklist - Jonathan Whiting
  • Section 508: Uncle Sam's Guide To Web Accessibility - Rob Ballou
  • Section 508 Technical Assistance page - access-board.gov
  • Section 508 to be Updated - Jared Smith
  • Section 508 Wiki - Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee
  • Section 508: WCAG 1.0 or WCAG 2.0? - Michael Gaigg.
  • Standards for Electronic and Information Technology: An Overview
  • Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee
  • Updating the 508 Web Accessibility Tutorial - Jim Thatcher
  • Update on the Section 508 / Section 255 Guidelines - Mike Paciello
  • Using Section 508 to Improve Internet Access to Information for Everybody - Thomas Vander Wal
  • WAI to Advise on 508 Standards Update - W3C
  • WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 Refresh Side-by-Side - uiAccess
  • Web Accessibility for Section 508 - Jim Thatcher
  • WebAIM Hosting TEITAC Content - Jared Smith
• A Letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary - John Foliot
• Americans with Disabilties Act
  • The ADA and the Web: Concerns and Misconceptions - Jared Smith
  • Department of Justice Considers Web for ADA - Cyndi Rowland
• Accessible Information Technology and Web Bill in Minnesota with Implementation Funds Passed and Signed by the Governor - Gregg Vanderheiden
• Accessible UK Government Website E-Petition - Ian Fenn
  • The Petition, the 'Prat' and a Political Ideal - Tom Geoghegan
• Accessibility and the Law - Joe Clark
• Accessibility and the Law By Andy Budd
• Accessibility: it's not just a good idea, it's the law - Mark Pilgrim
• Accessibility Legislation - an Insight (Summary of accessibility policies by country) - Urte Meinhardt
• Advocates for the Blind Sue Arizona State U. Over Kindle Use - Marc Beja
• And Access for All - Penny Reeder
• Blind Students Sue Over Online Law School Applications - Adrian Rosell
• Blind Students Sue Law Schools Over Online Applications - Sophia Li
• British Standard for Accessibility - Bruce Lawson
• Capella University/WebCT (La Marca v. Capella University)
  • Capella University (La Marca vs. Capella University) - WebAIM Thread
  • Lawsuit Charges Online University Does Not Accommodate Learning-Disabled Students - Dan Carnevale
  • Web CT Criticisms - wikipedia
• All UK Government Web Sites Must Be WCAG AA Compliant - Brian Kelly
• Call for Law to Improve Websites for Disabled - Tom Espiner
• Civil Rights Division Pushes for Internet Accessibility - Leah Nylen
• Companies, Courts Debate Whether ADA Applies to Web Sites - Sherry Karabin
• Computer-Based Exam Discriminated Against Blind Candidate - out-law.com
  • Accessibility and International Law - Joe Dolson
• Crying Foul on Accessibility Claims - Ian Lloyd
• CVS.com To Meet Web Accessibility Standards - Mel Pedley
• Defining 'Accessibility' and Texas House Bill 2819 - Jim Thatcher
• Development of the Accessible Information and Communications Standard: Where We Are Now - Government of Ontario
• Disabled Seek Equal Unlimited Web Access - Adam Phillips.
• Federal Sites Rapped over Accessibility Problems - Alice Lipowicz
• Global Accessibility Policy – Technology Changes, Civil Rights Do Not - Cynthia Waddell
• Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act - Marucco, Stoddard, Ferenbach, and Walsh
• Is Legally Mandated Accessibility a Benefit? - Joe Dolson
• Is Your Site ADA -Compliant ... or a Lawsuit-in-Waiting? - Cynthia D. Waddell and Kevin Lee Thomason
• ICDRI Update On Global Accessible Web Policy And Law - Cynthia D. Waddell
• ITU-T Accessibility Resource - International Telecommunication Union
• Justice Department Advances Update of ADA Regulations - John Eric Brandt
• Let the Buyer be Aware: The Importance of Procurement in Accessibility Policy - Cyndi Rowland
• Letter to the MS Society on Accessibility - Bruce Lawson
• LSAC
  • LSAC Discriminates Against Blind Law School Applicants - Chris Danielsen, National Federation of the Blind
  • LSAC Inaccessible Web Lawsuit - Cynthia Waddell
  • Spreading the Word: NFB v. LSAC - Sean Zdenek
• Manifesto - Web Standards Project's Accessibility Task Force
• Martin v. MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority)
  • ADA Transit Case Seeks Accessible Web Remedy  - Cynthia D. Waddell
  • Judge Rules That Inaccessible Website Violates ADA
• Mexico Signs First Manifesto on Usability and Accessibility for Mexican Government Websites - Luis Carlos Aceves
• National Federation of the Blind v. America Online (AOL)
  • The National Federation of the Blind Sues AOL - Cynthia D. Waddell
• National Federation of the Blind Files Complaint with United States Department of Education - Reuters
• National Federation of the Blind and American Council of the Blind File Discrimination Suit Against Arizona State University
  • Interesting Legal Challenge - Kelly Ford
• New York Attorney General Announces Comprehensive Web Access Settlement - Lainey Feingold
  • WCAG 2.0 Part of New York State Attorney General Settlement Agreement - Ken Nakata
• Number of Americans With a Disability Reaches 54.4 Million - U.S. Census Bureau
• Oracle Sued by Blind Workers in Texas - Dan Goodin
• Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 78
  • A Critique of P.A.S. 78 - Joe Clark
  • BS 8878: Draft British Accessibility Standard for Public Comment - Bruce Lawson
  • Fisking PAS 78 - Joe Clark
  • How to commission an accessible website - out-law
  • New standards for website access - BBC
  • PAS 78 Download - Developed by The British Standards Institution
  • PAS 78: Guide to Good Practice in Commissioning Accessible Websites - Bruce Lawson
  • PAS 78 Launch - Mike Davies
  • Raising the Standard
  • Usability Exchange
• State and Federal E-Government in the United States, 2003 - Brown University
• Southwest Airlines (Robert Gumson v. Southwest Airlines and Access Now v. Southwest Airlines)
  • ADA doesn't extend to the Internet - Eric Bangeman
  • No decision from the Appeals Court - Jim Thatcher
  • Do Disability Laws Apply to the Web? - Patrick Thibodeau
  • Judge: Disabilities Act doesn't cover Web - Declan McCullagh
  • Man Sues Airlines for Fare Access - Kendra Mayfield
• Suing Companies Over Inaccessible Websites - Christian Montoya
• Sydney Olympics (Bruce Maguire v. Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games [SOCOG])
  • Bruce Lindsay Maguire v Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games
  • Olympic Failure: A Case for Making the Web Accessible - Tom Worthington
  • Reader’s Guide to Sydney Olympics Accessibility Complaint - Joe Clark
• Target (National Federation of the Blind v. Target)
  • Accessibility, Law and Target.com - Jim Thatcher
  • Analysis - Target Web Lawsuit: The Six Million Dollar Question - Majeed Saleh and Dan Jellinek
  • Blind Cal Student Sues Target - Henry K. Lee
  • Blind Customer Applauds Court Ruling on Target Web Site - John Croman
  • Blind Patrons' Lawsuit Against Target Proceeds - Josh Richman
  • Blind Patrons Sue Target for Site Inaccessibility - Michelle Meyers
  • Court Rules Against Target in Web Site Accessibility Lawsuits - Evan Schuman
  • Good Accessibility Web Governance (Part 1 of 4) - Ken Nakata
  • Expert Declaration of Dr. James W. Thatcher in NFB V. Target - James W. Thatcher
  • Is This the Test Case We've All Been Waiting For? - Ian Lloyd
  • Is the Target Lawsuit Frivolous? - Mike Cherim
  • Is Your Web Site Handicap-Accessible? - Karen E. Klein
  • National Federation of the Blind v. Target - Disability Rights Advocates
    • Target and NFB Final Settlement
      • Does Target Settlement Really Hit the Target? - Ian Lloyd
      • NFB and Target Settle - $6 Million in Damages - Jim Thatcher
      • Targeting Accessibility - Glenda Sims
      • Target Acquired: Four Cheers! - Jack Pickard
      • Target Lawsuit Settled - Jared Smith.
      • Target Lawsuit Settled - Exactly As It Should Be - Bob Easton
      • Target Settles Accessibility Lawsuit for $6 Million - Matthew Magain
      • What The Target Settlement Should Mean To You - Matt May
  • National Federation of the Blind Lawsuit Addressing Web Accessibility Will Proceed - National Federation of the Blind
  • National Federation of the Blind vs. Target - An Important Decision - Jim Thatcher
  • NFB, Target, Amazon - Joe Clark
  • NFB vs. Target in Perspective - Matt May
  • On Handicapped Access, Target Fights the Wrong Fight for the Wrong Reason - Evan Schuman
  • Suit Against Target Over Access - Kevin Kingsbury
  • Taking Aim at Target(.com) - Derek Featherstone
  • Target Accessibility Case Will Go Forward! - Joe Dolson
  • Target Accessibility Lawsuit Falls on Deaf Ears - Kim Krause Berg
  • Target Hit - But is it a Bullseye? - Ian Lloyd
  • Target in the Sights of Accessibility Advocates - Karl Dawson
  • Target Lawsuit Goes Ahead - Mel Pedley
  • Target Sued Over Web Accessibility - Out-law News
  • Target Sued: Website Not Accessible to Blind - Overlawyered
  • Target.com's Accessibility Lawsuit - Karl Dawson
  • Tarzhay - Joe Clark
  • The Webdev Community's Response to the Target Lawsuit - Bruce Lawson
  • Staying on Target - Derek Featherstone
  • Update on the Target Accessibility Lawsuit - Roger Johansson
  • Web Accessibility Now Because Nationwide Class Action Suits are Bad for You - Karcher Group
• Ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Peter Korn
• Representative Markey Introduces 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act of 2009 to Make Broadband More Accessible - Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COATS)
• Ticketmaster
  • Precedent - Joe Clark
• UK Government Accessibility Consultation - Bruce Lawson
• UK Resources for Web Accessibility and the Law - Martin Sloan
• University of California UC Davis and UC Berkeley Settlement
  • UC Settles Case on Hearing Disabilities - Amelia Heagerty
• UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People - Article 9: Accessibility
• US Organizations Liable Under UK Law? - Mel Pedley
• Web Accessibility and the Law - Joseph C. Dolson
• Web Accessibility and the Law: Recent Legal Developments and Advocacy Strategies - Lainey Feingold  and Crista Earl
• Web Accessibility and UK Law: Telling It Like It Is - Trenton Moss
• Web Accessibility and the Law - India - Ajay Kolhatkar
• Website Accessibility and The Private Sector: Disability Stakeholders Cannot Tolerate 2% Access! - Ronald E. Milliman
• Web Accessibility Soon Mandatory in Europe? - Jo Best
• Website Accommodation Rules on the Horizon - Jim Evans
• When The Americans With Disabilities Act Goes Online: Application of the ADA to the Internet and the Worldwide Web - Position Paper National Council on Disability

Lists

• List Tags - University of Minnesota Standard
• Unordered Lists: More Than Just Bullets - Brian Huisman

Mailto

• Mailto Links - University of Minnesota Standard.

Multimedia

• 1.2: Time-based Media: Provide alternatives for time-based media. - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
  • Guideline 1.2: Time-based Media (part 2) - Olga Revilla
• 1.3 "Until user agents can automatically read aloud the text equivalent of a visual track, provide an auditory description of the important information of the visual track of a multimedia presentation." -
• 1.4 "For any time-based multimedia presentation (e.g., a movie or animation), synchronize equivalent alternatives (e.g., captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track) with the presentation" - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
• 508 (b) Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation. 
• Accessible Digital Media - Geoff Freed and Madeleine Rothberg
• Accessible Multimedia - DoIT
• Accessible Multimedia - John Slatin
• Accessible Online Video for Keyboard-Only Users - Trenton Moss
• Accessible Video In A Diverging Web Environment - David Klein and Kenneth "Fritz" Thompson
• Accessible Web 2.0 Applications with WAI-ARIA - Martin Kliehm
• Acknowledging the Elephant in the Room - Moving Toward Media Accessibility - Rahul Gonsalves
• Adding Multimedia in Web Documents (part 2) - WaSP Asks the W3C
• Allow User Control Over Animated Content - Skills For Access
• Audio and Multimedia - Jim Thatcher
• Audio Description
  • A Day in the Life of an Audio Describer - Paul Crichton
  • Audio Description and the JW FLV Player - Terrill Thompson
  • Description Key
  • Guidelines for the Description of Educational Media
  • LiveDescribe Audio Description Work - Katerina
  • Provide Audio Descriptions for Video or Animated Content - General Advise - Skills For Access
  • Try Audio Describing a Painting - Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
  • What is Audio Description? - Leonie Watson
  • What is Audio Description? - National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education
• Autoplay is Bad for All Users - Emma Sax
• Embedding Time-Aligned Text into Ogg - Silvia Pfeiffer
• How to Incorporate Stunning Multimedia Into Your Accessible Site - Joe Clark
• Captioning
  • A Gentle Introduction to Video Encoding, Part 4: Captioning - Mark Pilgrim
  • Accessible Lecture Capture Workshop
  • Accessible Media Player - Sean Hayes
  • Accessibility/Caption Formats - Mozilla
  • Accessibility/Video Accessibility - Mozilla
  • Accessible Implementation of Video and Audio on Websites - Eric Velleman
  • Adding Captions to YouTube: Resource Links - Bill Creswell
  • Alt Attributes - Ian Pouncey
  • Are All Video Captions Equally Accessible? - Glenda Watson Hyatt
  • Auto-Garbled Captioning - Sarah E. Bourne
  • Best Practices in Online Captioning - Joe Clark
  • Bull in a Caption Shop - Joe Clark
  • CC for Flash - National Center for Accessible Media
  • Captions - Jared Smith
  • Captions for Video with Flash CS3 - Tom Green
    • Captions for Video with Flash CS3 (Part Two) - Tom Green.
  • Captions Need a Push in Congress - Suzanne Robitaille
  • Captions vs. Subtitles - AMAC Wiki.
  • Captions vs subtitles - Alastair Campbell
  • Captioning and Audio Description - Alternate Media Thread
  • Captioning FAQ - Media Access Group
  • Captioning for Quicktime - Paul Bowman
  • Captioning for RealPlayer - Paul Bowman
  • Captioning for Windows Media - Paul Bowman
  • Captioning - It's Easier Than You Sync, Ahem, Think. - Liz Giorgi
  • Captioning Key - Described and Captioned Media Program
  • Captioning Media for iTunes - Stanford Online Accessibility Program
  • Captioning Sucks! - Joe Clark, Open and Closed Project
  • Captioning, Transcripts and a Teachable Moment - John Foliot
  • Captioning Video Gets Easier - Paul Crichton
  • Captioning in Flash CS3 - Andrew Kirkpatrick
  • Captioning YouTube Video and Providing Accessible Controls - Ohio State
  • Captioning Web Multimedia: An Overview Of Technologies, Resources, And Tools - Jared Smith
  • Captioning with QuickTime SMIL - Patrick H. Lauke
  • Captioning Video with 'World Caption' - University of Wisconsin
  • Captioning Videos Does Matter - Meryl Evans.
  • Closed Captioning Resources - High Tech Center Training Unit
  • Crowd-Sourced Twitter Captioning of Videos - Brian Kelley
  • CC for Flash - National Center for Accessible Media
  • Error Correction - Joe Clark
  • Find Out How Closed Captioning Can Make a Big Difference for Your Online Videos - Karine Joly
  • Free Tools for Captioning YouTube Videos - Terrill Thompson
  • Finally, Caption Playback - Ken Harrenstien
  • Google's Smart Captioning Move - Suzanne Robitaille
  • How to Caption Videos in YouTube - Tom Babinszki
  • H.R. 3101 Takes a Step Forward - The National Association of the Deaf
  • Internet Captioning and HR 3101 - Joe Santini
  • Internet Captions Mean Better Access for WA Deaf Community - Chris Thomas
  • Introduction to World Caption (video) - Universtity of Wisconsin
  • Ken Harrenstein Helps Bring Captions to Online Video - Marc Hertz
  • Live Radio Captioning for the Deaf - Claude Almansi
  • New Captions Feature For Videos - youtube
  • Opencast Project Open House at UC Berkeley - UC Berkeley
  • Online Video Captioning - Jen Rohrig
  • On Web Video, Captions Are Coming Slowly - Brian Stelter
  • Playing with YouTube Captions - Terrill Thompson
  • Recruiting Participants for Captioning Study - David Fourney
  • SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia)
  • SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language - John Foliot
  • Stanford Captioning System: A Workflow Model for Producing Captioned Media - John Foliot and Sean Keegan
  • The Future Will Be Captioned: Improving Accessibility on YouTube - youtube
  • The Stanford Captioning Project - John Foliot and Sean Keegan
  • Tips and Tools: Web Captioning - National Center on Disability and Access to Education
  • Two Tracks O' Text - Joe Clark
  • The Caption Conundrum: Problem and Solution - deaftechnyc
  • Provide Text Equivalents for Audio - General Advice on Captions - Skills For Access
  • Understanding Captions and Subtitles - Joe Clark
  • YouTube Auto-Captioning - Meryl Evans
  • YouTube Launches CaptionTube: A Caption Editor - Josh Lowensohn
  • Video Accessibility, Closed Captions, and Video SEO - Mark Robertson
  • Web Accessibility For Deaf People: Adding captions or providing transcripts isn't always enough - Jim Byrne
  • Web Captioning and Education - Jared Smith
  • Web Captioning in Education WebCast - National Center on Disability and Access to Education
  • Web Captioning Overview - WebAIM
  • Working with Captions - Mamta H. Tandel
  • What is Unclear About Captioning? - kmardahl
  • Who is Required to Close-Caption? - closedcaptioning.
  • Why Captioning? - John Foliot and Sean Keegan
  • Why I Hate Online Captioning - Joe Clark
  • YouTube Captioning - Meryl K. Evans
  • YouTube Offers Captioning for Increased Accessibility and Indexing - Mark Robertson
  • Voice Your Support for HR 3101: Make Online Video Accessible - Terrill Thompson
  • Will Mozilla Blow it on Captioning? - Joe Clark
• CBC Online Video: Shall We Do This Properly? - Joe Clark
• Guideline 1.2: Time-based Media (part 1) - Olga Revilla
• IBM Helps Blind 'See' Web Video - Geoff Adams-Spink
• iTunes and iTunesU
  • A Costly Gamble - Suzanne Robitaille
  • Apple Publishes Accessible iTunes U Guidelines - Larry Goldberg.
  • Captioning Media for iTunes - Stanford Online Accessibility Program
  • Creating Accessible iTunes U Content - Mary Watkins
  • iTunes: Easy on the Ears, Hard on the Eyes - Tim O'Brien
  • iTunes U and Accessibility - Altmedia Thread
  • iTunes and iTunesU Adds VoiceOver - Cory Bohon
  • iTunes U Accessibility Working Group - Athen (Access Technologists in Higher Education Network)
  • National Federation of the Blind and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Announce Agreement with Apple to Make iTunes Fully Accessible - Chris Danielsen
  • SJSU Becomes First School in CSU to Use iTunes U - Chris Cur
• New Technology Translates Lectures into Sign Language - Stephanie Steinberg
• Macromedia Breeze - National Center on Disability and Access to Education
• Make Video Accessible, Localized, Mobile and Searchable by Captioning - Henny Swan
• Making Video and Audio Usable For The Deaf - Joseph C. Dolson
• Mozilla Launches Video Accessibility Drive - Nathan Willis
• Multimedia by Joe Clark
• Multimedia: Enhancing Ability - Leonie Watson
• Multimedia Accessibility FAQ - Shawn Lawton Henry, editor
• Multimedia - University of Minnesota Web Accessibility Standards
• Multimedia: Web Checkpoint 4 - IBM
• Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
  • Captioning with MAGpie 2 - Paul Bowman
  • Provide Text Equivalents For Audio In MAGpie - Skills for Access
• The Open and Closed Project - Joe Clark
• Podcasting
  • Adding Value: Providing Transcripts for Podcasts - Sharon Perry
  • Audio Transcription For Podcasts: JC Human vs. CastingWords.com - Robin Good
  • Transcribing Podcasts - Jeremy Keith
  • Jeffrey Frey on Accessible Podcasts - Dennis Lembree
  • Podcasting and Accessibility - WebAIM list Thread
  • Podcasts and Accessibility in Education Part 1: Identifying the issue - Jesse Rodgers
  • Podcast Captions - Automatic Sync
  • Podcasts Part 2 - Accessibility
  • Transcribe Your Podcasts - Christopher Schmitt
  • Ways To Create Transcript Of Your Podcast Episodes - Podcaster Tips
• Provide Access to Multimedia Presentations for Users with Sensory Disabilities - Geoff Freed and Madeleine Rothberg
• Provide Accessible Multimedia in Digital Talking Books (DTBs) - Geoff Freed and Madeleine Rothberg
• Provide Accessible Multimedia in E-books - Geoff Freed and Madeleine Rothberg
• Standards Compliant method to add Quicktime movies to pages - Anne van Kesteren
• Streaming (live or real-time)
  • A Promising Practice in Streaming Captioned Educational Video - Access it
  • Accessibility of Live/Real-Time Web-Based Multimedia For the Deaf And Hard of Hearing - Jared Smith
  • Captioning live streaming video - WebAIM Discussion
  • Real-time captioning - Media Access Group
• Transcripts
  • Adding Value: Providing Transcripts for Podcasts - Sharon Perry
  • Audio Transcription For Podcasts: JC Human vs. CastingWords.com - Robin Good
  • G158: Providing an alternative for time-based media for audio-only content
  • G159: Providing an alternative for time-based media for video-only content
  • Obtaining Transcripts (transcribing) Videos and Podcasts - University of Wisconsin
  • Transcripts on the Web - Shawn Lawton Henry
  • Transcribing Podcasts - Jeremy Keith
  • Provide Text Equivalents for Audio - General Advice on Transcripts - Skills For Access
  • What are Transcripts? - Leonie Watson
  • When Should You Provide Transcription? - Tom Babinszki
• Using Accessible Video and Audio to Enhance e-Learning for Disabled Students - Ross Little
• YouTube
  • A Behind-the-Scenes Peek at Automatic Captions on YouTube - Terrill Thompson
  • Automatic Captions in YouTube - Google
  • Captioning and YouTube - John Eric Brandt
  • Captioning YouTube Videos - John E. Brandt
  • YouTube Introduces Automatic Captions for Deaf Viewers - BBC
  • YouTube Will Automatically Caption Your Video - Adrian A. Roselli
• Video Accessibility Problems - Joe Dolson
• WCAG 2.0 Audio Audio Contrast Tool Help For Success Criteria 1.4.7. - eramp
• Web Application Accessibility (video) - Universtity of Wisconsin
• What is Media Access? - Joe Clark

Open Source

• DeJa Vu All Over Again - Carroll Tech Blog
• Lynx Browser and Accessibility - Steve Grobschmidt
• Massachusetts Grapples with Open Source's Cost to the Disabled - Lisa Vaas
• Massachusetts, Open Document, and Accessibility - Peter Korn
• OATS (Open Source Assistive Technology Software)
• ODF Subpar for the Disabled? Not so Fast says Google Researcher - David Berlind
• OpenOffice.org and Accessibility Part 1: Writer - WebAIM
• Open Source Accessibility - Making Programs and Content Available to Everyone - Steve Lee
• Open Source Screen Readers? - Chris Hofstater
• Visually Impaired User Weighs In on Assistive Technology Debate - Scott Sede
• Thoughts on the 'Joint Statement on OpenSource and OpenDocuments in Massachusetts' - Peter Korn
• Why Won't Microsoft Join Existing Standards Efforts? - Peter Korn

Plugins, PDF, PowerPoint, etc.

• 2.3 Content Versus Navigation - Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
• A Few Problems with the Concept of Accessible PDFs - Gian Wild
  • A Few Problems With the Concept of Accessible PDFs, Part Two - Gian Wild
• Accessibility - Adobe Videos
• Accessible P.D.F. Files
• Accessible PowerPoint on The Web: Tools That Can Help - Richard Banks, Elizabeth Coombs, and Norman Coombs
• Accessibility Features in Adobe Reader 7 - Jon Whiting
• Accessibility Testing PDF Creation Tools - Ted Page
• Adding Structure to PDFs - Adobe
• Adobe Acrobat 7.0: First Look from Planet PDF
• Adding Tags to PDF improves accessible - Jim Byrne
• Are PDF documents really accessible to all - Paul R. Bohman
• Are PDFs More Important Than Web Accessibility? - Mark Magennis
• Are They Really Accessible PDFs? - Julian Rickards
• Automated PDF Accessibility Testing - Alastair Campbell
• Checking Your PDF for Accessibility - Lori Bailey
• Cherished Lies of the Blind - Joe Clark
• Creating Accessible Links in PDFs - Ted Page
• Comparing Tagged PDFs from Office and Acrobat - Alistair Campbell
• Creating Accessible PDF Forms using Adobe Acrobat Professional - Sean Keegan
• Creating Accessible PDFs from Word 2007 - Ability Net
• Creating Accessible PDF Documents with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 - Sean Keegan
• Defining Acrobat PDF Accessibility - Paul R. Bohman
• Downloads - University of Minnesota Standard
• Facts and Opinions About PDF Accessibility - Joe Clark
• Flash
• Guide to Editors of Accessible PDFs (1.1 MB Zipped PDF format) - Julian Rickards
• Guidelines to Authors of Accessible PDFs (1.4 MB Zipped PDF format) - Julian Rickards
• Here We Go Again With Untagged PDFs - Joe Clark
• How Do I Make My Online PowerPoint Presentation Accessible? - Access it
• How to Create Accessible Adobe PDF Files
• I'm Not Blind. Why Should I Tag? - Adobe
• 'International Perspective' - Joe Clark
• Is PDF Accessible?
• Lawyer Warns that PDFs Fail on Accessibility - David Meyer
• Making and Generating Accessible PDF - Bruce Lawson
• Making Applets and Plug-ins Accessible - University of Massachusetts Boston
• Making Footnotes Accessible in PDFs (and other PDF Accessibility Fixes) - Ted Page
• Microsoft Office 2010 and Accessibility - John Eric Brandt
• NCDAE Tips and Tools: Adobe Acrobat and PDF - National Center on Disability and Access to Education
• No Fuss Accessibility - Antonio DaSilva
• No 'PDF Only' or 'Word Only' Content - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• Office 2007 PDFs - Not Accessible - Alastair Campbell
• Office 2010: Accessibility Investments and Document Accessibility - Larry Waldman
• PDF - ISO Standard - Stephen Partridge
• PDF Accessibility - Paul Bohman
• PDF and Accessibility - Shirley Kaiser
• PDF Accessibility and Usability Issues - Adnan Ansari
• PDF and Accessibility By Roger Hudson
• PDF Accessibility Presentations - AcrobatUsers
• PDF Forms and WCAG 2.0 - Mike Paciello
• PDF is Only Partially Accessible - WebAIM Thread
• PDF is Overused - Joe Clark
• PDF Post to the WebAIM list - Wayne Dick
• PDF tagging for the blind - electricnews.net
• PDF Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and 2.0. W3C
• PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption - Jakob Nielsen
• PDF vs. HTML - WebAIM Forum
• PDF/A: PDF for Archiving - Adobe
• PDF Web Cast (Window Media doc 54 minutes) - Brad Kadel and Andrea Olson
• PDFs Don't Have to Be an Internet Blight - Don Fluckinger
• PDF will be Legally Accessible with the New 508 - WebAIM Discussion Thread
• PowerPoint Accessibility - Paul R. Bohman
• PR: PDFAloud - Accessibility Breakthrough for Adobe Acrobat, PDFs - Planet PDF
• Reference Card for Accessible PDF Creation from Word - Andrew Kirkpatrick
• RNIB Media Briefing on Accessible PDFs - Mike Davies
• Section 508 and PDF: The Facts - Duff Johnson
• Short notes on the accessibility of PDF documents - Jim Byrne
• Strategies for PDF Accessibility - Comparing 'Tagged PDF' approach to 'Accessibility for the Masses' - Duff Johnson
• Ten Tips for Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• Testing Adobe's Online PDF to HTML Conversion Tool - Ted Page
• Tips and Tools: Adobe Acrobat and PDF - Jonathan Whitiing
• The Conundrum of PDF Accessibility - Annemarie Cooke
• The Four Levels of PDF Accessibility - Alastair Campbell
• Using the Accessibility Checker in Acrobat 9 Pro - Adobe Systems
• What is Tagged PDF? - Duff Johnson
• When to Use PDF - F. Rainne
• Word Doesn't Do Section 508, PDF Gets the Blame - Duff Johnson

Relative sizing

• 3.4: Use relative rather than absolute units - W3C
  • Example for Checkpoint 3.4
  • Techniques for checkpoint 3.4
• Accessible Layouts - Alastair Campbell
• Font Sizing
• Liquid Design
• Line Length
• Relative Sizing and Images - John Foliot

Scripts

• Javascript Accessibility
• Scripts: University of Minnesota Standard
• Scripts and Applets by Peter Rainger
• Scripts and Applets - Jim Thatcher
• Testing Script Generated Pages - Cari Burstein

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Structure & Semantics

• 3.5 Use header elements to convey document structure - W3C
  • Example for Checkpoint 3.5
• 1.2.1 Section headings
• Accessibility Hack Number 2: Using Headings to Improve Navigation - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• Categories of Semantics - Joe Clark
• Design for Machines First, People Second! - Jim Byrne
• General Mark-up - Peter Rainge
• Guideline 3. Use markup and style sheets and do so properly
• Heading Navigation in Web Browsers - Roger Johansson
• Headings - WebAIM Thread
• Headings and Document Structure Conclusions - Roger Johansson
• Headings and Lists - Are You Using Them Correctly? - Alastair Campbell
• Headings, Heading Hierarchy, and Document Outlines - Roger Johansson
• Headings in HTML 5 and Accessibility - Bruce Lawson
• Importance of HTML Headings for Accessibility - Raymond Selda
• Optimize Your Writing for Users with Impaired Vision - Virginia DeBolt
• Page Should Contain No More Than Two h1 Elements - WebAIM Thread
• SimpleQuizzes - Dan Cederholm
• Semantic Structure - Paul R. Bohman
• Separation: The Web Designer's Dilemma - Michael Cohen
• Use Structural Markup - Andrew B. King
• The Hard Facts About Heading Structure - Kevin Yank
• The Structure of Accessible Pages - Joe Clark
• Use <h1> for top-level heading - W3C
• Use headings to structure your document - W3C
• Using Real Headers - Mark Pilgrim
• Using Structural Markup - The University of Durham

Style Sheets (Accessibility)

• 6.1 Organize documents so they may be read without style sheets - W3C
• Accessibility and Cascading Style Sheets - Kynn Bartlett
• Accessibility Features of CSS
• Cascading Style Sheets And Accessibility - Marco Bertoni
• Creating Accessible CSS - WebAIM
• CSS Accessibility Problems: Is Markup Dead? - Jim Byrne
• CSS and Accessibility - Richard Rutter
• CSS Does Not Guarantee Accessibility - Mark Pilgrim
• CSS for Accessibility - Ann McMeekin
• CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
• CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - (Current Document)
  • CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - (30 June 2005)
• Example for Checkpoint 3.3 - W3C
• Misunderstanding Accessible Design - Joe Dolson
• Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours - Kynn Bartlett. Chapter 21 "Accessibility and Internationalization" from Kynn's book
• Use Alternative Style Sheets To Give Users Control Of Critical Elements Such As Text Size Or Colour On Your Web Pages - Jim Byrne
• Use markup and style sheets and do so properly - W3C
• Using Cascading Stylesheets to Give Web Visitors More Choices - Crista Earl And Elizabeth Neal
• Why CSS is Important for Accessibility - Alastair Campbell

Tables

• 5.1 Tables of data - W3C
  • 5.1 For data tables, identify row and column headers - W3C
    • Example for Checkpoint 5.1
• 5.1.2 Identifying rows and column information - W3C.
• 5.2 For data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers, use markup to associate data cells and header cells - W3C.
  • Example for Checkpoint 5.2
• 5.3 Linearizing tables - W3C
  • 5.3 Do not use tables for layout unless the table makes sense when linearized - W3C
  • Example for Checkpoint 5.3
• 5.4 If a table is used for layout, do not use any structural markup for the purpose of visual formatting - W3C
  • Example for Checkpoint 5.4
• 5.5 Provide summaries for tables - W3C
  • Example for Checkpoint 5.5
• 5.6 Provide abbreviations for header labels - W3C
• 508(g) - Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables
• 508(h) - Markup shall be used to associate data cells and header cells for data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers. 
• Accessible Data Tables - Roger Hudson and Russ Weakley
• Accessible Tables - Jim Thatcher
• Accessible Tables - Tom Babinszki
• Accessible Tables: A Data Table with a <caption> element and a summary Attribute - University of Texas
  • Accessible Tables: A Data Table with a summary Attribute - University of Texas
  • Accessible Tables: Associating Data Cells and Header Cells in a Complex Table - University of Texas
  • Accessible Tables: Identifying Column and Row Headers - University of Texas
• Associating header information with data cells - W3C.
• axis- W3C
• Bring on the Tables - Roger Johansson
• COL - Table Column - Web Design Group
• COLGROUP - Table Column Group - Web Design Group
• Create tables that transform gracefully - W3C
• Creating Accessible Tables - Paul R. Bohman
• Creating Structured Tables - Isofarro
• Creating Accessible Tables for Both Layout and Data - Jim Byrne
• Data Tables - Peter Rainger
• Do You Find Table Summaries Helpful? - Roger Johansson
• Guidelines for Nested Data Tables? - WebAIM Thread
• Headers - W3C
• Help Screen Reader Users by Giving Data Tables a Summary - Roger Johansson
• HTML, CSS and Tables: The Beauty of Data - Chris Heilmann
• id - W3C.
• JAWS Ate My Tables - Jared Smith
• Making Tables Accessible - starlingweb.com
• Provide Access to Data in Tables for Blind Users - Geoff Freed and Madeleine Rothberg
• Scope - W3C.
• Semantic (X)HTML Markup: Using Tables Appropriately - Zoe Gillenwater
• Purpose of the summary Attribute - Gez Lemon.
• Tables and Frames - Joe Clark
• Table Captions - W3C
• Tables in HTML Documents - W3C.
• Tablin: an HTML Table linearizer - W3C.
• tbody
  • Accessibility Series: tbody - Sandra Clark
  • TBODY - Table Body - Web Design Group
• TFOOT - Table Foot - Web Design Group
• thead
  • THEAD - W3C.
  • THEAD - Table Head - Web Design Group
• Use the th element to Specify Row and Column Headers in Data Tables - Roger Johansson
• Writing Accessible Data Tables - The University of Durham

Testing, Checking, Validating

• 12 Tools To Check Your Site's Accessibility - Sean P Aune
• 26: Accessibility Testing - Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
• A Principled Argument - Matt May
• A Sighted Person Testing a Website With a Screen Reader (Tweet) - Lisa Herrod (scenariogirl)
• An Example of Automated Accessibility Testing - Joe Dolson
• Accessibility Audit vs. Accessibility Testing - Trenton Moss
• Accessibility Evaluators Aren't Worthless - Mike Cherim
• Accessibility...Can't We All Just Get Along (Documentation of a Panel Discussion) - Panel: Derek Featherstone, Ian Lloyd and James Craig
• Accessibility Checking... With Just A Browser! - Ian Lloyd
• Accessibility Lifecycle - Alastair Campbell
• Accessibility: Panning for Gold - Andy (Malarkey) Clarke
• Accessibility: Standards Versus Testing - Jonathan Kahn
• Accessibility Testing> - Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
• Accessibility Testing - John S. Britsios
• Accessibility Testing and Reporting with TAW3 - Patrick H. Lauke
• Accessibility Testing In Web Browsers - Brian Kelly
• Accessibility Testing Log - Jack Pickard
• Accessibility Testing Methodology - Sandra Clark
• Accessibility Testing Software Compared - Steve Faulkner
• Accessibility Testing Tips and Tools Presentation - Henny Swan
• Accessibility Tools for Quality Assurance: Color Contrast - Martin Kliehm
• Assessing Usability for People with Disabilities through Remote Evaluation and Critical Incident Reporting - Mike Paciello
• Accessibility - WCAG20 Validation Rules - Open Ajax Wiki
• An Exploding Myth - James W. Thatcher
• Are Accessibility Evaluation Tools Useless? - Roger Johansson
• Automated Accessibility Testing - Mel Pedley
• Automated Testing - How useful is it? - Grant Broome
• Beware the Automated Accessibility Tool Trap - Trenton Moss
• Bobby is Gone - Mike Cherim
• Certification and Testing - Joe Clark
• Checklists Are Useless. Really? - UsabilityOne
• Conducting User Evaluations with People with Disabilities - IBM
• Confirming a Web Site's Accessibility - Mike Cherim
• Disadvantages or Testing with Screen Readers Alone - Rosemary Musachio
• Don't Just Tick Boxes - Mel Pedley
• Don't Rely on Automated Tools for Checking Web Accessibility - Jim Byrne
• Enable User Customization - Skills For Access
• Evaluating for Accessibility - Shawn Lawton Henry and Mary Grossnickle
• Evaluating Web Site Accessibility: A Seven Step Process - Jared Smith and Paul Bohman
• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility -Web Accessibility Initiative
• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox - Patrick H. Lauke
• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar - Patrick H. Lauke
• Evaluating Website Accessibility Part 1, Background and Preparation - Roger Johansson
  • Evaluating Website Accessibility Part 2, Basic Checkpoints - Roger Johansson
  • Evaluating Website Accessibility: Part 3, Digging Deeper - Roger Johansson
• Evaluating Web Site Accessibility with WAVE - Jared Smith.
• Four Different Ways To Test Web Accessibility - Joe Clark
• Getting Started with Accessibility Assessments - Andrew Arch, Sofia Celic, Steve Faulkner, and Brian Hardy
• Government Sites Fail Web Tests - BBC
• Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers - Mary Frances Theofanos and Janice (Ginny) Redish
• How To Evaluate A Web Site's Accessibility Level - David Sloan
• How to Use Accessibility Guidelines, Standards and Testing - Joe Clark
• How to Use NVDA and Firefox to Test Your Web Pages for Accessibility - Marco Zehe
• How Useful are Accessibility Evaluation Tools? - Karl Dawson
• Influence of Valid Code on Screen Readers - Joe Clark
• Improving the Accessibility of Your Web Site - The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility - The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Learning Not to See - Sarah Bourne
• Making Accessibility More Real - Roger Johansson
• New Research for Socitm Insight Shows Even the Best Websites Can Cause Problems For Disabled Users - egovmonitor
• On Accessibility and Validity - Matt May
• Pitfalls of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools - Peter Krantz
• Positive Steps To Assessing, Monitoring and Comparing the Accessibility of Public Websites: Introducing The European Internet Accessibility Observatory By Jenny Craven and Mikael Snaprud
• Project GOALS Evaluates 100 Pages in Higher Education for Accessibility against Section 508 Standard - National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE) and WebAIM
• Pretending To Be The Blind Guy/Does It Work? - Niels Matthijs
• Remaining Challenges of Measuring the Accessibility of Web Sites According to WCAG 2.0 - egovernments New!
• Quick Accessibility Testing - Emil Stenstrom
• Screen Reader Testing is Back in Style - Jon Whiting
• Setting Up a Screen Reader Test Environment - Henny Swan
• Summer Internship at Google: Accessibility Experiences - A.D. Shaikh and P. Strain
• Stop Using JAWS for Web Accessibility Testing? - John Rochford
• Ten Quick Tests To Check Your Website For Accessibility - Trenton Moss
• Test the accessibility of your web page with your own web browser - Jim Byrne
• Testability Costs Too Much - Gian Sampson-Wild
• Testing for Accessibility: Techniques, Headaches and The Future - Derek Featherstone
• Testing Invalid Content with Accessibility Validators - Gez Lemon
• Testing with Screen Readers: A Hypothetical Conversation - Paul R. Bohman
• Testing Web Content for Accessibility - WebAIM
• The Effectiveness of the Web Accessibility Audit as a Motivational and Educational Tool in Inclusive Web Design - David Sloan
• The Importance of Human Evaluation - WebAIM
• The Lifecycle of Web Accessibility - Antonio Volpon
• The Problem With Automated Accessibility Testing Tools - Trenton Moss
• The Ultimate Testing Checklist - Shirley Kaiser
• The Usefulness of Accessibility Audits - Jack Pickard
• Testing for Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• Three Things I Learned About Screen Reader Users - Joshua Kaufman
• Tools for Conducting an Accessibility Review - Angela Colter
• Tools of Inspiration - Ann Light
• UN Survey
  • Accessibility Matters to Me - Does It Matter to the UN? - Brian Teeman
  • 97 Percent of Websites Still Inaccessible - Roger Johansson
  • First Ever Global Accessibility Survey Reveals Only 3 Percent of Websites Tested Reach Minimum Levels - Nomensa
  • Making the Internet More Disability-Friendly is Good Business, Experts Tell UN Panel - United Nations News Center
  • Most Websites Flunk Basic Standards for Disability Accessibility, Says UN survey - United Nations News Center
  • Quarter of Web Sites Investigated Could be Made Accessible Quickly, Says Expert - Government Technology
• Unified Web Evaluation Methodology (UWEM0.5)
  • Unified Web Evaluation Methodology version 1.2 - wabcluster
• University of Wisconsin Researchers Develop Tool to Prevent Seizures - Erica Hendry
• Usability Exchange
• Use of Automated Tools For Testing Web Site Accessibility - Marieke Guy
• User Testing with Intellectually Disabled Users - George Ornbo
• Using Combined Expertise to Evaluate Web Accessibility - The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Using NVDA to Evaluate Web Accessibility - Jared Smith
• Using Opera 10 With the Mac Screen Reader VoiceOver - Henny Swan
• Using the Accessible Information Solutions (AIS) Web Accessibility Toolbar - Steven Faulkner
• Using JAWS to Evaluate Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• Using Opera to Check for Accessibility - Paul R. Bohman
• Using the Web Accessibility Toolbar - Trenton Moss
• Validation
• WCAG 2.0 And Testability - Mel Pedley
• Web Accessibility Checklist - University of Texas
• Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools Need People - Shawn Lawton Henry
• Web Accessibility Testing - Jim Thatcher et al.
• Website Evaluation Rubric - Denny Lancaster
• What is an Accessibility Audit? - Leonie Watson

Text Alternatives

• 1.1 Provide a text equivalent for every non-text element - W3C
  • Example for Checkpoint 1.1a - a text equivalent for images and graphical buttons - W3C
• 508 (a) - A text equivalent for every non-text element shall be provided (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content).
• A Call for Consistent Display of alt text Across Browsers - Roger Johansson.
• A Larger Discussion (was RE: Inline Images and ALT text) - WebAIM Thread initiated by John Foliot.
• Accessible Alternatives - Andy (Malarkey) Clarke
• Accessible Graphics: A Graph with a Description in a Separate, Linked File - University of Texas
  • Accessible Graphics: alt Text for Decorative Images and Spacers - University of Texas
  • Accessible Graphics: alt Text for a Functional Graphics - University of Texas
  • Accessible Graphics: alt Text for a Link that contains both Graphics and Text - University of Texas
  • Accessible Graphics: alt Text for a Logo - University of Texas
  • Accessible Graphics: Including a Graph and Its Description on the Same Page - University of Texas
• Accessibility Footnotes - Andy (Malarkey) Clarke
• Action 54: First Draft - Steven Faulkner, Joshue O Connor, and Laura Carlson
• Add alt Attributes to Spacer Images - Jim Byrne
• alt and the Flickr Defense - Matt May
• alt and title Content Display in Popular Browsers - Steve Faulkner
• Alternative Content for Graphics - Jim Thatcher
• Alternative Text for Images: the ALT attribute - Estelle Weyl
• Alt in HTML5 Required? - To Be or Not to Be - Steve Faulkner
• ALT Attributes for Images - Matt Cutts
• alt in HTML5 - Moving Forward - Steve Faulkner
• Alt Survey via Twitter - Gez Lemon
• Alt Text is an Alternative, Not a Tooltip - Roger Johansson
• Alt Texts - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• Alternative Text for Complex Graphics - Zoe Gillenwater
• Appropriate Use of Alternative Text - Jared Smith
• Associating a Graph and its Description with the longdesc Attribute - University of Texas
• Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities - Nielsen Norman Group
• Can the alt Attribute Be Omitted Without Hurting Accessibility? - Roger Johansson
  • The Price of Omitting the alt - Mike Davies
• Can Visual Art Be Made Accessible? - Tom Babinszki
• Clarifying ALT Text for WordPress Bloggers and Developers - Bob Easton
• Creating Accessible Images - WebAIM
• CSS Background Images Cannot and Should Not Have Alternate Text - Roger Johansson
• Demonstration of the LONGDESC Attribute and the "d" link - John Foliot
• Designing Accessible Icons (Part 1 of 2) - Tom Waterhouse
• Effective Practices for Description of Science Content within Digital Talking Books - National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
• Got Alt? - Eric Tribou
• Guideline 1.1. Provide Text Alternatives - Olga Revilla
• Guidelines on alt Texts in img Elements - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• How Do Web Browsers Perform When Copying and Pasting Alternate Text? - Vlad Alexander
• How Should Web Browsers Render Alternative Text? - Vlad Alexander
• How To Make Non-text Elements Accessible - Some Notes - Jim Byrne
• How to Provide Alternatives to Non Text Content on a Website - Virginia DeBolt
• How to Write Good Alt Text for the Images on Your Web Page - Virginia DeBolt
• HTML5 Working Group Decision on ISSUE-30 longdesc - Sam Ruby, Maciej Stachowiak, and Paul Cotton New!
  • Notice of impending Formal Objection to HTML5 Issue 30 Decision (@longdesc) - John Foliot. New!
• HTML5: Techniques for Providing Useful Text Alternatives - Editor Steve Faulkner
• IE 8: Alt Change and Longdesc Weirdness - Steve Faulkner
• Image Replacement and WCAG2.0 - WebAIM Thread.
• Internet Explorer 7 and Various Screen Readers and Screen Enlargers - Kelly Ford
• Is alt Text Necessary for Photo Sharing Sites? - Bruce Lawson
• Long Descriptions of Images - Terrill Thompson
• Long Text Alternative: Why Describe a Graph? - Rachel McAlpine
• Maps and Virtual Tours
  • A More Accessible Map - Seth Duffey
  • Making Maps Accessible - Sarah Bourne New!
  • Maps - Joe Clark
  • Maps That Are Accessible - Web Accessiblity Initiative Interest Group Thread.
  • SVG Maps for People with Visual Impairment - Benjamin Campin et. al.
  • Virtual Tours & Accessibility - Darrel Austin
• Mini FAQ About The Alternate Text Of Images - Ian Hickson
• New Years Eve, Prince (The Artist), and Alternate Text - Terrill Thompson
• Naughty or Nice? CSS Background Images - Derek Featherstone
• Null alt Text - Web Accessibility Initiative Educational Outreach Thread initiated by William Loughborough.
• Now You See It, Now You Don't - E-Access Bulletin
• On Combining title and alt on Images - David Dorward
• Online Galleries
  • Dayton Art Institute
  • i-Map: The Every Day Transformed, - Tate Modern
• Promote and Make Your Site Sticky With HTML ALT TEXT TAGS - Kevin Onesko
• Parroting Pareto - Jeremy Keith
• Provide Access to Graphs for Users Who are Blind or Visually Impaired - Geoff Freed and Madeleine Rothberg
• Provide Access to Images for Users Who are Blind or Visually Impaired - Geoff Freed and Madeleine Rothberg
• Provide Text Equivalents For Graphics In HTML - Skills for Access
• Punctuating Text-Equivalents - Mike Davies
• Researchers Plan To Automate Web Image Description - Tristan Parker
• Requiring the alt Attribute in HTML5 - Gez Lemon
• Reviving Anorexic Web Writing - Amber Simmons
• Safari, WebKit and alt Text for Missing Images - Roger Johansson
• Should alt Text Be Used To Paint A Thousand Words? - Sharon Perry
• Should Photos in Photo-Sharing Sites Have Alternate Text? - Vlad Alexander
• Speaking ALT Text - Bob Easton
• Testing aria-labelledby and aria-describedby Support in Popular Browsers on Windows - By Steve Faulkner
• Text Alternatives: WCAG 2.0 for Content Writer - Rachel McAlpine
• Text and Links - Joe Clark
• Text Descriptions for Images - Peter Rainger
• Text Equivalents Overview - Jon Gunderson
• The Alt and Accessibility - Mike Cherim
• The Alt and Title Attributes - Roger Johansson
• The ALT Attribute in HTML - Stephen Poley
• The alt Attribute is NOT for Tooltips - Robert Nyman
• The Image Problem - Joe Clark
• The longdesc Lottery - Mark Pilgrim
  • The longdesc Lottery Comment - Steve Faulkner
• Thinking About Accessibility - Equivalent Content - Mike Davies
• What Should be the Minimum / Maximum Length of Alternate Text? - Vlad Alexander
• Writing Good alt Text - Roger Johansson
• Writing good ALT text - Simon Willison
• Writing Text Alternatives for Maps - Dey Alexander

Text Links: "Click Here" don't use it

Text Only Versions

• 11.4 -" If, after best efforts, you cannot create an accessible page, provide a link to an alternative page that uses W3C technologies, is accessible, has equivalent information (or functionality), and is updated as often as the inaccessible (original) page. -W3C"
• 508 (k) - "A text-only page, with equivalent information or functionality, shall be provided to make a web site comply with the provisions of these standards, when compliance cannot be accomplished in any other way. The content of the text-only page shall be updated whenever the primary page changes"
• LIFT Text Transcoder - WebAIM Thread
• Myth: Text-Only Versions - Shawn Lawton Henry
• One Page to Rule Them All - Mark Plilgrim
• Separate text-only version? No thanks! - Trenton Moss
• Text-Only Pages are Possibly Not So Bad - Joe Clark
• Text-Only Versions - Tommy Olsson
• "Text Only" Versions Considered Harmful - Jon Hanna

Tools: Accessibility

Usability and Accessibility

• A Comparative: Accessibility and Usability - Mike Cherim
• Accessible and Usable Web Design - Joshua Kaufman
• Accessibility in Web Design Provides a High Degree of Usability - Atil
• Accessibility in the User-Centered Design Process - Shawn Lawton Henry and Mary Grossnickle Martinson
• Accountability of Accessibility and Usability - Anitra Pavka
• Web Accessibility Now Because Nationwide Class Action Suits are Bad for You - Karcher Group
• Is an Accessible Website Always Usable? - Leona Tomlinson
• Let Them Eat Cake: Accessibility and Usability, Brought Together Through the DOM and CSS - Aaron Gustafson
• The Secret Benefit of Accessibility: Increased Usability - Trenton Moss
• Usable Accessibility: Making Web Sites Work Well for People with Disabilities - Whitney Quesenbery
• Usability and Accessibility in 2006 - Peter Abrahams
• User-Center, Standards-Driven Web Accessibility - Jared Smith
• W3C Recently Posts Updated Docs on Relationship Between Usability and Accessibility - Shawn M. Lauriat
• Web Usability and Accessibility Are As Important As Search Engine Prominence - Eugene Mulligan

W3C Guidelines

Zoom Layouts

• A Hack for Implementing Zoom Layouts - Joe Clark
• Big, Stark and Chunky - Joe Clark
• Inverted Zoom: Designing for Low Vsion - Roger Johansson
• Zoom for Low Vision - Gez Lemon
• Zoom Layouts (references) - Joe Clark
• Zoom Layout Starter Kit - Alessandro Fulciniti
• ZoomLayouts by css-discuss Wiki
• Zoom layout by Douglas Bowman
• Zoom Layouts Update - Joe Clark
• Zooming the Web - Jeremy Keith

Articles & Related Links

• 12 Tips For a More Accessible Website - Tom Walker
• Accessible Documents in HTML, Word, and PDF - Terrill Thompson
• Accessibility is a Human Right - Ian Pouncey
• Adaptable Content. WCAG 2.0 for Content Authors - Rachel McAlpine
• Blog Mastermind: Combining Two Passions to Create an Accessible Blogosphere - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites - Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Critique - New Section 508 Web Site - Dennis Lembree
• Digital Divide
  • Digital Discrimination - Jim Blansett
  • Digital Divide - wikipedia
  • Digital Divide Initiatives: Are They Accessible to People with Disabilities? - Lisa LaNell Mauldin and Kelly Ford
  • Digital Divide: The Three Stages - Jakob Nielsen
  • Digital Divide: Mobile Elite Emerges as Ruling Class in Business - Joanna Bawa
  • Mobile Web May Help Bridge the Digital Divide: Workshop Report - W3C
  • The Growing Digital Divide in Access for People with Disabilities - Cynthia D. Waddell
  • WebAIM's response to the National Education Technology Plan and Call for Action - Cyndi Rowland
• E-Learning
  • AccessForAll Meta-data Specification (ISO/IEC 24751) - Innovation Adoption Learning (ISM)
  • AccessForAll to eLearning - Martyn Cooper
  • accesselearning - Georgia Tech Research on Accessible Distance Education (GRADE) project at
  • Accessibility and Learning Theories - Martyn Cooper.
  • Accessibility and Pedagogy in eLearning - Martyn Cooper
  • Accessibility in Online Teaching
  • Future Web Accessibility: canvas - Aaron Andersen
  • Ableism Online: Analysis of Web Accessibility Policymaking and Implementation in Higher Education - Amit Schitai
  • Confidence in eAssessment - Martyn Cooper
  • e-Assessment and Accessibility - David Sloan
  • First Three Parts of ISO Multipart Accessibility in e-Learning Standard Published - Sharon Perry
  • Gaining Online Accessible Learning through Self-Study GOALS By National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE) and WebAIM
  • Holistic Approaches to E-learning Accessibility - Lawrie Phipps and Brian Kelly
  • How-To Guide for Creating Accessible Online Learning Content - Hadi Rangin
  • Implementing a Holistic Approach to E-learning Accessibility - Brian Kelly and Cora How
  • Inovation Adoption Learning (ISM) Consortium AccessForAll Meta-data Specification - Inovation Adoption Learning (ISM) Consortium
  • New Standards to Facilitate eLearning
  • The Barrierfree Learning Environment - Barrier Free
  • The Evolution towards a Personalised Web and the Impact on Education - Martyn Cooper
  • Rethinking Web Accessibility for E-Learning - Brian Kelly
  • Using Accessible Video and Audio to Enhance e-Learning for Disabled Students - Ross Little
  • Web Accessibility 3.0: Learning From The Past, Planning For The Future - Brian Kelly and Liddy Nevile
• From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability - Brian Kelly, Liddy Nevile, David Sloan, Sotiris Fanou, Ruth Ellison, and Lisa Herrod
• Future Web Accessibility: canvas - Aaron Andersen
• Future Web Accessibility - HTML5 Semantic Elements - Aaron Andersen
• Do We Need a New Game Plan to Make the Web Accessible? - Vlad Alexander
• How Do Blind People Read a Web Page? - Tom Babinszki
• HTML Validation with ARIA - Michael Cooper
• HTML5, ARIA Roles, and Screen Readers in May 2010 - Jason Kiss
• Is Web Accessibility a Human Right? - Vlad Alexander
• Kill Accessibility - Gary Barber
• Mind of the Blind - Betsi Robinson and Lanita Withers Goins
• Mobile
  • Accessimobility - Jeremy Keith
  • Digital Divide: Mobile Elite Emerges as Ruling Class in Business - Joanna Bawa
  • Forget the mobile web: One site should work for all - Bruce Lawson
  • From WCAG 1.0 to MWBP: Making content that meets Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 also meet Mobile Web Best Practices
  • Let the Mobile Web Learn From and Not Repeat the Mistakes of Desktop Development - Henny Swan
  • Mobile Accessibly - Mobile Manufacturers Forum
  • Mobile Devices
  • Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
  • Mobile Web 2009 = Desktop Web 1998 - Jakob Nielsen.
  • One Web: Going Mobile - Steve Bratt
  • Relationship Between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) - Alan Chuter and Yeliz Yesilada, Editors
  • Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities
  • Table of Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities - Web Accessibility Initiative
  • Thoughts Around Universal Access on Mobile from Accessibility 2.0 - Henny Swan
  • Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices
  • Why the Mobile Web Must Mirror the Desktop - techradar
• Personas - AEGIS project New!
• Real World Approaches to Accessibility - Brian Kelly
• Research Proposal: Accessibility Support for Non-HTML Web Technologies - Mark Magennis
• Social Networking
  • Accessible Twitter - Nick DeNardis
  • Accessible Twitter, Accessible Tweets - Matthew Smith
  • Facebook Accessibility - Project Possibility Wiki
  • Social Accessibility Project - IBM
  • Social Inclusion for the Web - Roger Hudson
  • Survey on Social Networking Sites - The American Foundation for the Blind
• Ten Common Accessibility Problems - Roger Hudson.
• Testing Moodle for Accessibility - Randall Hansen
• Title Attributes
  • Avoiding Redundant title Attributes - Mike Davies
  • Don't Neglect the title Attribute - Jon Christopher
  • Title Attributes - Ian Pouncey
  • The Alt and Title Attributes - Roger Johansson
  • The title Attribute - What is it Good For? (resurrected) - Steve Faulkner
  • Title Attribute -- Your Take - D. Keith Robinson
  • Using the Title Attribute - Gez Lemon
• Title Elements
  • Document Titles and Title Separators - Roger Johansson
  • Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines - Jacob Nielsen
  • Page Titles on News Article Pages - Adrian Holovaty
  • The Sound of the Accessible Title Tag Separator - Peter Krantz
  • Your Page Title Matters More Than You Think - Skye
• The Challenges of Deaf Blind Internet Users - Tom Babinszki
• The Accessibility Verdict: HoustonTx.gov - Jim Thatcher
• The Challenges of Deaf Internet Users - Tom Babinszki
• Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) Directory - Even Grounds
• WAI - W3C's section to check out for Web Content Accessibility
• Web Accessibility Myths - Ian Pouncey
• Web Accessibility Principles - WebAIM
• Web Accessibility Standard - University of Minnesota
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - W3C
  • A New Era for Web Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 is Finalized - Shawn Henry
    • A New Era for Accessibility - Paul Harris
  • Accessibility Comparisons - Douglas T
  • Accessibility Supported? - Roger Hudson
    • Accessibility Supported Question Thread
  • Accessibility Supported Web Content Technologies in WCAG 2.0 - Henny Swan
  • Accessibility Support (II) - Olga Revilla
  • Adopting WCAG 2 - Roger Hudson
  • All Change for WCAG 2.0 Presentation - Patrick H. Lauke
  • Four WCAG 2.0 Guidelines That Could Improve Readability For All Audiences - Mary Donnelly
  • Guideline 2.1 Don't Forget Users Without a Pointer - Olga Revilla
  • Guideline 3.1 Easy to Read, Please - Olga Revilla
  • Hey Apple, What About iPad's Accessibility? - Suzanne Robitaille
  • How Can I Determine If a Web Technology is 'Accessibility Supported'? - Olga Revilla
  • How to Meet WCAG 2.0
  • How POUR is Your Blog - Glenda Watson Hyatt
  • Mapping Section 508 1194.22 to WCAG 2.0 Level A - Wayne Dick
  • New Accessibility Guidelines A 'Welcomed Update' - Joseph C. Dolson
    • New Accessibility Guidelines Part II: Operability - Joseph C. Dolson
    • New Accessibility Guidelines Part III: Understandability - Joseph C. Dolson
  • Practical Accessibility Tips with WCAG 2.0 - Andrew Tetlaw
  • Techniques for WCAG 2.0
  • The Challenges of Internet Users with Low or Limited Vision - Tom Babinszki
  • (The New) WCAG 2.0 Theme Song - David MacDonald
    • WCAG Theme Song Update - David MacDonald
    (WCAG) - Alan Chuter and Yeliz Yesilada, Editor
  • Understanding WCAG 2.0
  • The Way We Use the Technology Determines its Accessibility Support - Olga Revilla
  • WCAG Tutorial - Tom Babinszki
  • WCAG 2.0: Accessibility Standards Reach Beyond HTML - Bart Eisenberg
  • WCAG 2.0 and Accessibility Supported - Roger Hudson
  • WCAG 2.0 and the Future of Web Accessibility: Q and A Part 1- Judy Brewer
    • WCAG 2.0 and the Future of Web Accessibility: Q and A Part 2 - Judy Brewer
  • WCAG 2.0 and the Visual Design - Karl Dawson
  • WCAG 2.0 Checklist - Jared Smith
  • WCAG 2.0 is Official - But is That All You Need to Make a Site Accessible? - Henny Swan
  • WCAG 2.0 Made Easy. One Guideline a Day. - Olga Revilla
  • WCAG Rethink? - Roger Hudson
  • WCAG 2.0 - The Difference - Rosemary Musachio
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview
  • Why, Why, Why? WCAG 2.0 for Content Writers - Rachel McAlpine
• Why Should My Website Be Accessible? - John Eric Brandt