Information Technology Systems & Services
Accessibility
(Skip Page Index) Page Index:
- Abbreviations & Acronyms
- Accessibility Statements
- Accesskeys
- Alt and Alt Attributes and Alt Text
- Assistive Technology
- Baseline
- Benefits
- Captcha
- Check Lists
- Cognitive Disabilities
- Color Accessibility
- Device Independence and and Graceful Degradation
- Definitions and Overviews
- Deprecated Features
- Flicker
- Forms:
- Language
- Law, Lawsuits, Policies
- Mailto
- Multimedia:
- Open Source
- Plugins, PDF, PowerPoint, etc
- Relative Sizing
- Scripts
- Skip Links
- Structure
- Style Sheets
- Tables
- Testing, Checking, Validating
- Text Links
- Text Only Versions
- Tools (Accessibility)
- Usability and Accessibility
- W3C Guidelines
- Zoom Layouts
- Articles & Related Links
Abbreviations & Acronyms
- 3.2 Acronyms and abbreviations
- 4.2 Specify the expansion of each abbreviation or acronym
- 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
- Too Much Accessibility - Double Expanded Acronyms - Bim Egan
- Why Use the Acronym and Abbr Tags? - Ian Lloyd
Accessibility Statements
- Accessibility or Help Links? - Alastair Campbell
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Initial Focus to a Text Field - Good or Bad? - Robert Nyman
- Setting and Retrieving Accesskeys with JavaScript and DOM - Ian Lloyd
- 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
Alt Attributes , Alt Text, Long Descriptions
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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 Larger Discussion (was RE: Inline Images and ALT text) - WebAIM Thread initiated by John Foliot.
- Accessible Alternatives - Andy (Malarkey) Clarke
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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
- 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
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Can the alt Attribute Be Omitted Without Hurting Accessibility? - Roger Johansson
- The Price of Omitting the alt - Mike Davies
- 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
- 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 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
- IE 8: Alt Change and Longdesc Weirdness - Steve Faulkner
- 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
- Maps and Virtual Tours
- A More Accessible Map - Seth Duffey
- 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
- 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
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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
- Requiring the alt Attribute in HTML5 - Gez Lemon
- Reviving Anorexic Web Writing - Amber Simmons
- Should alt Text Be Used To Paint A Thousand Words? - Sharon Perry
- Speaking ALT Text - Bob Easton
- 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
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The longdesc Lottery - Mark
Pilgrim
- The longdesc Lottery Comment - Steve Faulkner
- Too Much Accessibility - The Rise and Fall of the LONGDESC - Bim Egan
- Thinking About Accessibility - Equivalent Content - Mike Davies
- Writing Good alt Text - Roger Johansson
- Writing good ALT text - Simon Willison
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
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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
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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
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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
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Mouth Sticks
- Mouth stick - WebAIM
- New Browser For Web Video - Mel Pedley
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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
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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
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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 Readers Suck! - Dave Child
- Screen Reader Survey Results - Jared Smith
- Screen Reader
User Survey Results2 - Jared Smith New!
- Screen Reader Software Usage Shifts on Desktop and Mobile - Henny Swan New!
- 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
- What Do Screen Readers Really Say? - Bob Easton
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Single-Switch Access
- Single-Switch Access - WebAIM
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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: 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 WCAG 2 Presentation - W3C
- Business Reasons for Web Accessibility - Dennis Lembree
- Connection - William Loughborough
- Corporate Websites and the Case for Accessibility - Helen Baker
- 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
- 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
- Selfish Reasons for Accessible Web Authoring - Kynn Bartlett
- Selling Accessibility to Programmers - Joe Clark
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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 Electronic Curb-Cut Effect - Steve Jacobs.
- The Financial Benefits of Web Accessibility - Mel Pedley
- The Secret Benefit of Accessibility: Increased Usability - 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
- 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 New!
- Why Bother? - Joe Clark
- Why Bother With Web Accessibility? - Accessites.org
Captcha (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart).
- 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
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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 - if you're name's not down you're not coming in. - Henny Swan
- 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
- 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
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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
- Making CAPTCHAs Less Evil? - Paul Crichton
- 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
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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
- 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
- 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
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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
- 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
- Icons, Symbols and Cognitive Disabilities - Christopher Phillips
- Inclusion Of Cognitive Disabilities in the Web Accessibility Movement - Lisa Seeman
- Lower-Literacy Users - Jakob Nielsen
- More On Dyslexia - Mel Pedley
- Overview of WebAIM Cognitive Research - WebAIM
- 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
- 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 Design for Dyslexic Users - dyslexia.com
Color: Accessibility
Definitions and Overviews
- 25: Accessibility Basics - Tom Hughes-Croucher
- Accessibility - W3C Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) New!
- 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
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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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Animated images - Web Access Centre, Royal National Institute of the Blind
- Avoid Specific Frequencies for Flickering Content - Skills for Access
- Blinking Page Elements and Marquees - University of Minnesota Standard
- 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
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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
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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
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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
- How to use tables to structurize forms in HTML and about alternatives, like fieldset - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
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Labels
- 10.2 ensure that the label is properly positioned - W3C
- 11.3 Labeling form controls - WAI Coding Technique
- 12.4 Associate labels explicitly with their controls - W3C
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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
- The <label> tag
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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
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Making Accessible
Forms, Part 1 - Trenton Moss
- Making Accessible Forms, Part 2 - Trenton Moss
- Making Compact Forms More Accessible - Mike Brittain
- Making Forms Accessible - Adrian Rayfield
- 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
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Tab Index
- 9.4 Create a logical tab order through links, form controls, and objects
- 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
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4.3 Identify the primary
natural language of a document
- Example for Checkpoint 4.3 - W3C.
- The Barrier of Foreign Words - Mike Davies
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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
- Why use the language attribute?
Law, Lawsuits, Policies
- 504
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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
- 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
- Using Section 508 to Improve Internet Access to Information for Everybody - Thomas Vander Wal
- WAI to Advise on 508 Standards Update - W3C
- Web Accessibility for Section 508 - Jim Thatcher
- WebAIM Hosting TEITAC Content - Jared Smith
- Accessible Information Technology and Web Bill in Minnesota with Implementation Funds Passed and Signed by the Governor - Gregg Vanderheiden
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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
- British Standard for Accessibility - Bruce Lawson
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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
- Companies, Courts Debate Whether ADA Applies to Web Sites - Sherry Karabin
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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
- 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
- Legislation Makes Texas Web Designers Do Due Diligence - Jordan FeRoss
- Let the Buyer be Aware: The Importance of Procurement in Accessibility Policy - Cyndi Rowland
- Letter to the MS Society on Accessibility - Bruce Lawson
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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)
- Mexico Signs First Manifesto on Usability and Accessibility for Mexican Government Websites - Luis Carlos Aceves
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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
- Number of Americans With a Disability Reaches 54.4 Million - U.S. Census Bureau
- Oracle Sued by Blind Workers in Texas - Dan Goodin
- Accessibility Issues On U.S. Senate Web Site Impact Constituents Who Are Blind - Darrell Shandrow
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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])
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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
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National
Federation of the Blind v. Target - Disability Rights Advocates
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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
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Target and NFB Final
Settlement
- 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)
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Ticketmaster
- Precedent - Joe Clark
- UK Government Accessibility Consultation - Bruce Lawson
- UK Resources for Web Accessibility and the Law - Martin Sloan
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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
- 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 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
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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
- 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
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Captioning
- A Gentle Introduction to Video Encoding, Part 4: Captioning - Mark Pilgrim
- Accessible Lecture Capture Workshop
- Accessible Media Player - Sean Hayes New!
- 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
- 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
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Captions for Video
with Flash CS3 - Tom Green
- Captions for Video with Flash CS3 (Part Two) - Tom Green.
- 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 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 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
- 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
- Internet Captioning and HR 3101 - Joe Santini
- Introduction to World Caption (video) - Universtity of Wisconsin
- 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
- Playing with YouTube Captions - Terrill Thompson
- Recruiting Participants for Captioning Study - David Fourney
- SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia)
- SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language - John Foliot
- 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 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
- 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
- Captioning Media for iTunes - Stanford Online Accessibility Program
- 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
- 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
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Media
Access Generator (MAGpie)
- Captioning with MAGpie 2 - Paul Bowman
- Creating Captions for Rich Media - National Center for Accessible Media
- Provide Text Equivalents For Audio In MAGpie - Skills for Access
- The Open and Closed Project - Joe Clark
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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
- Overcoming the Challenge of Podcast Transcription - Henny Swan
- 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
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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
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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
- Transcribing Podcasts - Jeremy Keith
- Provide Text Equivalents for Audio - General Advice on Transcripts - Skills For Access
- Using Accessible Video and Audio to Enhance e-Learning for Disabled Students - Ross Little
- Video Accessibility Problems - Joe Dolson
- 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 Document Format (ODF) Accessibility Evaluator - Jon Gunderson
- 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
- Accessible P.D.F. Files
- Accessible PDF - Revisited - John Eric Brandt
- 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
- 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
- Man With Small F (The Inaccessible PDF Song) - Terrill Thompson
- 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
- PDF - ISO Standard - Stephen Partridge
- PDF Accessibility - Paul Bohman
- PDF and Accessibility - Shirley Kaiser
- PDF and Accessibility By Roger Hudson
- PDF Forms and WCAG 2.0 - Mike Paciello
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Why PDFs Suck! - Henny Swan
Relative sizing
- 3.4: Use relative rather than absolute units - W3C
- 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
- 1.2.1 Section headings
- 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
- 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
- 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 Importance Of Headings In HTML - SAWSAG
- 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)
- 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
- 5.1.2 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.
- 5.3 Linearizing tables - W3C
- 5.4 If a table is used for layout, do not use any structural markup for the purpose of visual formatting - W3C
- 5.5 Provide summaries for tables - W3C
- 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
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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
- 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.
- 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 New!
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Accessibility Evaluation - The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
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
- Zoom Zoom, Layouts for Visual Impairment - Alastair Campbell and Leonie Watson
Articles & Related Links
- 5 Accessible and Pretty CSS Tips - Tim Nash
- A Checklist for Inclusive Teaching - Sheryl Burgstahler
- Academic Urges Shift From Accessibility To 'Adaptability' - Dan Jellinek
- Accessibility Allies Against A11y - Jack Pickard
- Accessibility Changes Lives - Ricky Buchanan
- Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com - Joseph C. Dolson
- 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
- Disability Style Guide - National Center on Disability and Journalism.
- Display Size and Resolution Accessibility - merttol
-
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
- Ableism Online: Analysis of Web Accessibility Policymaking and Implementation in Higher Education - Amit Schitai
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Factsheet on Persons with Disabilities - The United Nations New!
- Finite Incatatem - Accessibility is Not Black Magic - Christian Heilmann
- From Web Accessibility To Web Adaptability: A Summary - Brian Kelly
- Google Accessibility Resources
- Google Chrome Frame - Accessibility Black Hole - Steve Faulkner
- Learning Without Limits: Students with Disabilities at UW-Madison (video) - Universtity of Wisconsin
- Lightboxes and Keyboard Accessibility - Roger Johansson
- 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
- Relaunched Recovery.gov Fails Accessibility Standards - Seth Grimes
- Section 508 For Software Development - section508.gov
- Social Networking
- Accessible Twitter - Nick DeNardis
- Accessible Twitter, Accessible Tweets - Matthew Smith
- Facebook Accessibility - Project Possibility Wiki
- Social Accessibility Project - IBM
- Survey on Social Networking Sites - The American Foundation for the Blind
- Time To Be Flexible - Brian Kelly
- Title Attributes
- Avoiding Redundant title Attributes - Mike Davies
- Don't Neglect the title Attribute - Jon Christopher
- On Combining title and alt on Images - David Dorward
- 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
- Too Much Accessibility - Title Attributes - Bim Egan
- 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 Importance of Placement of HTML Elements in a Document - Marco Zehe
- The Inclusion Principle - Margit Link-Rodrigue
- Understanding Accessibility - Robert B. Yonaitis
- Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) Directory - Even Grounds
- WAI - W3C's section to check out for Web Content Accessibility
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 New) WCAG
2.0 Theme Song -
David MacDonald
- WCAG Theme Song Update - David MacDonald
- Understanding WCAG 2.0
- The Way We Use the Technology Determines its Accessibility Support - Olga Revilla
- 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 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 2.0 - The Difference - Rosemary Musachio
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview
- A
New Era for Web Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 is Finalized - Shawn
Henry
- Why Web Accessibility Efforts Fail - Kel Smith
- Yes We Need Accessibility Laws - Eric Eggert
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