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Abbreviations & Acronyms

• Abbreviations - Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 14 - Dey Alexander
• Explain all Abbreviations to Your Users - Luke McGrath
• Dealing with Acronyms and Abbreviations - Mike Cherim
• Define Abbreviations or Acronyms on their First Occurrence in Content - Denis Boudreau
• Explaining abbreviations, acronyms and symbols on Web pages - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• Programmatically Associate Abbreviations with Their Definitions - Denis Boudreau
• Using Acronyms Without First Expanding Them - Glenda Watson

Accessibility Statements

• Accessibility Information Pages Show Commitment to all Site Users - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
• Accessibility Statement -What Is It and Who Uses It? - Tom Babinszki
• Are Accessibility Statements Useful? - Leona Tomlinson
• Create Your Own Accessibility Statement - Leonie Watson
• Does Your Website Overstate Its Accessibility? - Out-Law News
• Include Accessibility in Your Company's Style Guide - Part 1 - Paul J. Adam
• Writing a Good Accessibility Statement - Gez Lemon

Accesskeys

• Accesskey Replacement Proposal - Chaals McCathie Nevile, editor
• Access Keys - WebAIM Thread
• Accessible Keyboard Shortcuts - Jon Gibbins
• Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys - Gez Lemon
• If You Use the Accesskey Attribute, Specify Unique Values - Roger Johansson
• Keyboard Accessibility - WebAIM
• Problems with Dynamically Assigned Accesskeys - Terrill Thompson
• The Accesskey Attribute - Do We Still Need It? - Emma Sax
• Time to Revisit accesskey? - Leonie Watson
• User-Defined Access Keys - Gez Lemon

Assistive Technology

• Assistive Technology: a Video Tour of Accessibility - Jon Gibbins
• Alternative Web Browsing - Peter Bosher and Judy Brewer
• Braille
  • Refreshable Braille - Roger Hudson
  • Refreshable Braille and the Web - Roger Hudson
• Eye Tracking
  • Eye-tracking - WebAIM
  • Replace Your Mouse with Your Eye - Alfred Hermida
• Closing the Gap - User Agent Improvements - Alastair Campbell
• 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
• Improving Accessibility for Motor Impaired Users - Trenton Moss
• Keyboard Access
  • 2.1.1 Keyboard - Rakesh Paladugula
  • 3.2.1 On Focus - Rakesh Paladugula
  • Adaptive keyboard - WebAIM
  • Improve Your Keyboard Accessibility - Roger Johansson
  • How to Be a Keyboard Accessibility Super Hero - Derek Featherstone
  • Keyboard and Overflow - Adrian Roselli New!
  • Keyboard-Only Navigation for Improved Accessibility - Marieke McCloskey
  • Keyboard Support: Mysteries Unveiled - Mike Cherim, edited by Tommy Olsson
  • Take the #NoMouse Challenge - Terrill Thompson, et al.
  • The Pointerless Web (Video) - Nicholas Zakas
  • When Will Keyboards Work on the Web? - Chaals McCathie Nevile
• Mouth Sticks
  • Mouth stick - WebAIM
• Screen Magnifiers
  • Introduction to Screen Magnifiers - Karo Caran and Victor Tsaran
  • Web Accessibility for Screen Magnifier UsersWebcredible
• Screen Readers
  • Accessibility - Beyond the Screen Reader - Denis Boudreau
  • Configuring Links in Screen Readers - Mike Davies
  • Empty Links and Screen Readers - Mike Davies
  • Developers Please Don't Detect my Screen Reader - Rakesh Paladugula
  • Demo of ChromeVox Screen Reader (Video) - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
  • Getting Started with OS X VoiceOver - A11Y Project
  • How Screen-Readers Access Web Content - Ade Hillier
  • Opera Doesn't Work with Screen Readers - Does It Matter? - Steve Faulkner
  • Open Source Screen Reader Gives Sighted Individuals a Glimpse into the Blind World - Glenda Watson Hyatt
  • Rough Guide - Browsers, Operating Systems and Screen Reader Support - Updated - Steve Faulkner
  • Screen Readers at a Crossroads - Greg Kraus
  • Screen Reader Detection
    • Assistive Technology Detection: It Can be Done Right - Dylan Barrell
    • Detecting Screen Readers - No - Dennis Lembree
    • How Do You Detect a Screen Reader? - Leonie Watson
    • On Detecting Assistive Technology - Joe Dolson
    • On Screen Reader Detection - Adrian Roselli
    • Screen Reader User Survey #5 Results - WebAIM
    • 'Should We Detect Screen Readers?' is the Wrong Question - Karl Groves
    • Thoughts on Screen Reader Detection - Leonie Watson
    • Why Screen Reader Detection on the Web is a Bad Thing - Marco Zehe
  • Screen Readers Lack Emphasis - Steve Faulkner
  • Screen Readers on Touchscreen Devices - Katie Sherwin
  • display: none and Invisible Content
    • CSS in Action: Invisible Content Just for Screen Reader Users - WebAIM
    • Do Not Use display:none to Visually Hide Content Intended for Screen Readers - Roger Johansson
    • Hiding Content for Screen Readers - Jared Smith
    • Hiding Content for Screen Reader Users - Mike Cherim
    • Screen Readers and display:none - Gez Lemon
    • The State of Hidden Content Support in 2016 - Steve Faulkner
    • Understanding How to Use CSS for Accessibility (Hiding Stuff) - Donald Evans
    • Why 'left: -9999px;' is Better For Accessibility Than 'display: none;' - Nick Fitzsimons
  • Improving Usability for Screen Reader Users - Trenton Moss
  • Influence of Valid Code on Screen Readers - Joe Clark
  • Learning From Screen Readers - Jon Whiting
  • Seven Screen Reader Usability Tips - Trenton Moss
  • Screen Readers, ARIA and HTML5 (Too Much Information) - Leonie Watson
  • Screen Readers By Joe Clark
  • Screen Reader Simulation - WebAIM
  • Screen-Reader Usability Study - Joe Clark
  • Screen Readers: A Web Developer Failure - Mike Davies
  • Screen Reader Survey Results - Jared Smith
  • Screen Reader User Survey Results2 - Jared Smith
  • Screen Reader User Survey #4 Results - Jared Smith
    • My Take on the WebAIM Survey - Terrill Thompson
  • The DOM and Screen Readers - Gez Lemon
  • The Resurgence of ZoomText and Window-Eyes - Jared Smith
  • Turn Firefox into a Screen Reader with Fire Vox - Roger Johansson
  • Understanding How JAWS Reads Text - Steve Faulkner
  • Understanding Screen Reader Interaction Modes - Leonie Watson
  • Video: YouTube and Easy YouTube with a Screen Reader - Christian Heilmann
  • Views From a Screen Reader User - Mike Cherim
  • Waiting for Screen Readers to Learn the Semantics of HTML5 - Virginia DeBolt
  • WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey #6 Results - WebAIM
  • Screen Reader Market Figures - My Analysis Of WebAIM Survey #6 - Chris Hofstader
  • Why Don't Screen Readers Always Read What's on the Screen? Part 1 - Punctuation and Typographic Symbols - Paul Bohman
• Single-Switch Access
  • Single-Switch Access - WebAIM
• Sip and Puff Switch
  • Sip and Puff Switch - WebAIM
• Video: Keeping Web Accessibility in Mind - WebAIM
• Voiceover
  • 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
  • VoiceOver iOS HTML4, HTML5, & WAI-ARIA Accessibility Support - Paul J. Adam
  • Voiceover 2 - A WebDev+s Guide - Alastair Campbell

Benefits (Why accessibility?)

• 3 Great Reasons to Make Your Website Accessible - Armando Roggio
• 5 Hidden Risks of Your Inaccessible Website - Deque Systems
• 7 Things You Should Know About IT Accessibility - Terrill Thompson and the EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Constituent Group
• A Case for Accessible, Usable and Universal Design for Learning - Romy Ruukel
• Accessibility for Business and Pleasure - Sarah Horton and David Sloan
• Accessibility: How Many Disabled Web Users Are There? - Joseph C. Dolson
• Accessibility is Good for the Planet - Olivier Nourry
• Accessibility, Usability and SEO Go Hand in Hand - Wojtek
• Chasing the Accessibility Business Case - Conclusion - Karl Groves
• Commercial Benefits of Accessibility - sebstefanov
• Design Like We Give a Damn! Accessibility @W3C - Steve Faulkner
• Did You Know? 80 Percent of People Who Use Closed Captions Are Not Hard of Hearing - Lily Bond
• Good Accessibility is Good Web Page Design - Chris Duckett
• How Do You Get Your Client to Pay For Accessibility? - Gez Lemon
• How Does Accessible Web Design Benefit All Web Users? - AccessibleTech
• How To Sell Accessibility - Trenton Moss
• How Website Accessibility can Boost your SEO - Kevin Rydberg
• Is Web Accessibility a Human Rights Issue? - Wendy Chisholm
• Leveling the Playing Field: We're all Differently Abled - Joseph C. Dolson
• Math is Hard. People with Disabilities Matter - Sarah Horton
• Overcoming Objections to Accessibility - Mike Cherim
• Perspectives on Web Accessibility - W3C
• 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 - Positive Factors (External) - Karl Groves
• The Business Rationale for Virtual Accessibility - Kel Smith
• The Case for Web Accessibility - Tim Lohman
• The Electronic Curb-Cut Effect - Steve Jacobs
• The Secret Benefit of Accessibility: Increased Usability - Trenton Moss
  • The Secret Benefits of Accessibility Part 2: Better Search Ranking - Trenton Moss
• Understanding the Impact of Accessibility - Glenda Sims
• Web Accessibility Benefits Persons with Disabilities and ... Who Else? - Tom Babinszki
• Web Accessibility and SEO - Jared Smith
• Why Accessibility is Key for Search and Visibility - Rebecca Sentance New!
• Web Accessibility - What is It? What are the Benefits? - Paul Walsh
• Why Accessibility? Because It's Our Job! - James Edwards
• Web Accessibility has Never Been More Affordable - Scott Hollier
• Web Accessibility - Why it's Great for your Bottom Line. - Carrie Dils
• Why Bother? - Joe Clark
• Why Bother With Accessibility? - Laura Kalbag
• Why Make a Web Site Accessible? - Laura Carlson
• Why Universal Design is Important - Kel Smith
• Who is Affected by the Accessibility of Web Sites? - Laura Carlson

Buttons

• Disclosure-Button Custom Control - Steve Faulkner
• Just Use a (Native HTML) Button - Steve Faulkner
• Links are Not Buttons. Neither are DIVs and SPANs - Karl Groves
• Make Links Focusable (or use real buttons) - Roger Johansson
• Making Accessible Icon Buttons - Nicholas C. Zakas
• Proper Use of Buttons and Links - Dennis Lembree
• The Little Button That Could - Karl Groves

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
• Advocacy Group Wants Google to Rethink CAPTCHA - Global Accessibility News
• 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
• Blind Federation Criticises Captcha Security Test - British Broadcasting Corporation
• Blocking Comment Spam Without Captchas - Daniel Davis
• Can CAPTCHAs Be Made Accessible? - Crista Earl
• CAPTCHA and Accessibility - John Foliot
• CAPTCHA, Cognitive Disabilities, v1 (W3C Task Force) - John Rochford
• CAPTCHAs - How Bad are They Really for User Experience? - Sabrina Mach
• CAPTCHA - Inaccessible to Everyone - Gian Wild
• CAPTCHA - How to Do It Right (ie. don't use CAPTCHA) - Gian Wild
• CAPTCHA is Dead - Matt May
• CAPTCHA-less Security - Karl Groves
• CAPTCHAs, CAPTCHAs Everywhere - Jim Thatcher
• CAPTCHAs Shown to Yet Again Impede Accessibility - Media Access Australia
• Death to Captchas - Tim Kadlec
  • Alternatives to Captcha - Tim Kadlec
• Do CAPTCHAs Block Spam or Your Readers? - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• Does WCAG 2.0 Allow CAPTCHA? - Tom Babinszki
• Facebook Needs Accessibility Help - Matt May
• Google Acquires reCAPTCHA: Potential Boost for Web Accessibility - Lainey Feingold
• Google CAPTCHAs Nearly Blocked Me from Completing Work - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• Google's No Captcha Shows Some Progress - Dennis Lembree
• Google's Recaptcha - Sina Bahram
• Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA - W3C
  • CAPTCHA Paper Updated - Matt May
• Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests Problems and Alternatives - Matt May
• Judge For Yourself, Is Ticketmaster Audio CAPTCHA Usable? - Kelly Ford
• Not The Blog Post I Was Going To Write Today - John Foliot
• On the Accessibility of Google's No CAPTCHA - Derek Featherstone
• Provide a Text Alternative Describing the Purpose of the CAPTCHA - Denis Boudreau
• Provide Alternate Audio CAPTCHAs to Support Visual CAPTCHA Tasks - Denis Boudreau
• Providing a text alternative that describes the purpose of the CAPTCHA - W3C
• Problems with CAPTCHA and Audio CAPTCHA Alternative - Gregory J. Rosmaita
• Provide an Accessible Alternative if You Must Use a CAPTCHA - Roger Johansson
• reCAPTCHA Accessibility reVISTED - Terrill Thompson
• ReCAPTCHA Reboot - Adrian Roselli
• ReCAPTCHA updated to no-CAPTCHA - Alastair Campbell
• Rock Bottom for Captcha, White House - Dennis E. Lembree
• Telstra Bans CAPTCHA Tests - Eliza Cussen
• The Evils of Captcha Explained by a Blind Person - Stefania Leone

Carousels

• Accessibility Expert Warns - Stop Using Carousels - Craig Grannell
• Auto-Forwarding Carousels and Accordions Annoy Users and Reduce Visibility - Jakob Nielsen
• Carousels and ARIA Tabs - Dennis Lembree
• Carousels and Slideshows - Accessibility for Developers - Accessiq
• Carousel Concepts - W3C WAI Education and Outreach Working Group
• Don't Use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels, Ignore the Fad - Brad Frost
• Should I Use A Carousel? - Jared Smith
• The Truth About Carousels - Michael Schofield
• The Unbearable Inaccessibility of Slideshows - Gian Wild

Check Lists

• 10 Accessibility Checks in 10 Minutes - Rakesh Paladugula
• 25 Ways to Make Your Website Accessible - Dennis Lembree
• Can Checklist Accessibility be Harmful? - Vlad Alexander
• Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility - W3C
• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility
• IT Accessibility Checklist - Terrill Thompson
• Practical Accessibility Tips - Mike Davies
• Video and Audio Accessibility Checklist - Accessiq
• WCAG 2.0 Checklist - Paul J Adam
• WCAG 2.0 Checklist - Carlin Scuderi
• WCAG 2.0 Checklist - WebAIM
• WCAG Cheat Sheets - Dennis Lembree
• Web Accessibility Checklist - A11Y Project

Cognitive Disabilities

• A Conceptual Framework for Accessibility Tools to Benefit Users with Cognitive Disabilities - WebAIM and Shane Anderson
• Accessibility Starts in the Style Guide - Kevin Potts
• Assistive Technology with Cognitive Disability Emphasis - Mark Dubin
• Chunking
• Cognitive Accessibility 101 - Part 1: What is Cognitive Accessibility - Jamie Knight
  • Cognitive Accessibility 101 - Part 2: How it Effects Me & the Tools I Use - Jamie Knight
• Cognitive Accessibility User Research - Lisa Seeman and Michael Cooper, Editors
• Cognitive Accessibility Survey - Jared Smith
• Cognitive Disabilities Part 1 - WebAIM
• Cognitive Disabilities Part 2 - Cyndi Rowland
• Accessibility is a Human Right - Ian Pouncey
• Designing for Dyslexia (Part 1) - Andrew Zusman
• Designing for Dyslexia (Part 2) - Andrew Zusman
• Design for Understanding - Ashley Nolan
• Designing Mobile Apps for Use by People with Cognitive Disabilities - Jonathan Avila
• Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties - Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley, and Peter Firminger
• Discussion of U.S. and Worldwide Issues of Cognitive Accessibility - John Rochford
• Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility with WAVE - WebAIM
• How to Design for Dyslexia - Usabilla
• Icons, Symbols and Cognitive Disabilities - Christopher Phillips
• Inclusion Of Cognitive Disabilities in the Web Accessibility Movement - Lisa Seeman
• Lower-Literacy Users - Jakob Nielsen
• Multi-Modal Content Delivery for People with Cognitive Disabilities - John Rochford
• Online Security and Privacy for People with Cognitive Disabilities - Challenges and Solutions - John Rochford
• Web Accessibility and Down Syndrome - Rakesh Paladugula
• Overview of WebAIM Cognitive Research - WebAIM
• Project Dyslexie - Christian Boer
• Standards.Next Rocking Cognition and Accessibility - Henny Swan
• Task Force for Inclusion of People with Cognitive Disabilities - Lisa Seeman
• The Struggle for Web eQuality by Persons with Cognitive Disabilities - Peter Blanck
• Those WCAG Forgot - Designing for the Cognitively Disabled - Allie Richardson
• Video: Antonia Hyde on Learning Disabilities (Scripting Enabled London) - Christian Heilmann
• Web Accessibility and Cognitive Disabilities - Tim Lohman
• Web Accessibility for Cognitive Disabilities and Learning Difficulties - Ian Pouncey
• Web Accessibility and Dyslexia - Rakesh Paladugula

Color: Accessibility

Definitions and Overviews

• Accessibility - W3C Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG)
• Accessibility, Availability and Affordability - Christopher Phillips
• Accessibility for All vs. for People with Disabilities - Roger Johansson
• Accessibility Is More Than 'Possible to Access' - Roger Johansson
• Accessibility is a Process, Not a Project - Jon Metz
• Accessibility vs Universality - Implications - Alastair Campbell
• Accessibility (Web) - Laura Carlson
• ADA Changes: The New Definition of Disability - Tim Moore
• Barrier-Free Web Design, a.k.a. Web Accessibility 2.0 - Roger Johansson and Tommy Olsson
• Constructing a POUR Website - WebAIM
• Essential Components of Web Accessibility - W3C
• On Accessibility - Catherine Roy
• The Difference Between Web Site Usability and Accessibility - Justin Mifsud
• The Flip Side of the Coin - Miraz Jordan
• The Great Accessibility Camp-Out - Gez Lemon and Mike Cherim
• Understanding Web Accessibility - Shawn Lawton Henry
• Universality and Accessibility - Gez Lemon
• What Accessibility Means in 25 Words - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• What is Web Accessibility? - Laura Carlson

Device Independence and Graceful Degradation

• Click Versus Activate - Gregory J. Rosmaita
• Cross-Device Website Accessibility - Colin Beckingham
• Device-Independent or Accessible? - Dominique Hazael-Massieux
• Fluid Thinking - Peter-Paul Koch
• Graceful Degradation - Daniel R. Tobias

E-Learning

• AccessForAll Meta-data Specification (ISO/IEC 24751) - Innovation Adoption Learning (ISM)
• AccessForAll to eLearning - Martyn Cooper
• Accessible E-Learning - W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
• Accessibility for E-Learning - Section 508 and WCAG - Tanya Seidel
• Accessible Online Learning Community Group - W3C
• accesselearning - Georgia Tech
• Accessibility and Pedagogy in eLearning - Martyn Cooper
• Accessibility Considerations for Online Courses - Janet Sylvia
• Accessibility in Online Teaching - Accredited Online College Degrees
• ADA Compliance Is a Major Vulnerability for Online Programs - Marc Parry
• Adapting Online Learning Resources For All: Planning for Professionalism in Accessibility - Patrick McAndrew, Robert Farrow and Martyn Cooper
• Campus Leaders Speak Out on Value of Keeping Tech Accessible - Alisha Azevedo
• e-Assessment and Accessibility - David Sloan
• Gaining Online Accessible Learning through Self-Study GOALS - National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE) and WebAIM
• Inovation Adoption Learning (ISM) Consortium AccessForAll Meta-data Specification - Inovation Adoption Learning (ISM) Consortium
• Leonie Watson on Giving a Damn About What You're Building - Martin Cooper
• Making Learning Technologies Accessible - Pearson
• North Carolina State University Moodle 2.1.1 Accessibility Evaluation - Greg Kraus (2011)
• Online Accessibility a Faculty Duty - Lauren Ingeno
• Personalisation Is Key To Draft E-Learning Standard - Tristan Parker
• The Barrierfree Learning Environment - Barrier Free
• Tips for Creating Accessible eLearning Resources - Adrienne Gross
• Web Accessibility 3.0: Learning From The Past, Planning For The Future - Brian Kelly and Liddy Nevile

Flicker

• 2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below Threshold - Rakesh Paladugula
• Do Your Flashing Ads Cause Seizures? - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• Don't Let Any Element Flash More Than Three Times Per Second - Denis Boudreau
• 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

Focus

• Avoid Triggering Unexpected Context Changes on Keyboard Focus - Denis Boudreau
• Focus Control and Mobile Accessibility - Ted Drake
• Use CSS to Change the Presentation of Elements on Keyboard Focus - Denis Boudreau
• Visually Highlight Interface Components When They Receive Focus - Denis Boudreau

Forms

• 3 Types of Relationships and What They Mean for Accessibility - Derek Featherstone
• 3.2.1 On Input - Rakesh Paladugula
• 3.3.1 Error Identification - Rakesh Paladugula
• 3.3.3 Error Suggestion - Rakesh Paladugula
• 3.3.4 Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data) - Rakesh Paladugula
• 10 Takeaways from Building Accessible Forms - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• Accessible and Usable Forms - Mike Foskett
• Accessible Custom Checkboxes and Radio Buttons - Roger Johansson
• Accessible Form Layout - Dylan Barrell
• Accessible Forms - Jim Thatcher
• Accessible Forms - John Slatin
• Accessible Forms - Ted Page
• Accessible Forms 2 - Required Fields and Extra Information - Roger Hudson
• Accessible Forms for Deaf People? - Sveta
• Accessible Forms Using WCAG 2.0 - Roger Hudson
• Accessible HTML/XHTML Forms - Ian Lloyd
• Accessible Website Forms and WCAG - Tim Lohman
• Accessibility Issues of Checkboxes and Radio Buttons - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• Alternatives to Forms - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• Aria-required=true: WCAG 2 Compliance versus Best Practice - Sailesh Panchang
• aria-labelledby (property) - Rakesh Paladugula
• Better Accessible Forms - Ian Lloyd
• Building Accessible Web Forms - Alejandro Gervasio
• Creating Accessible Forms - WebAIM
• Do Not Rely on Asterisks Alone to Define Required Fields - Denis Boudreau
• Fieldset
  • Fieldset Legend, Aria-describedby, and Radiogroup Role - Ted Drake
  • Fieldsets, Legends and Screen Readers - Steve Faulkner
  • FIELDSET - Form Control Group
  • Use the Fieldset and Legend Elements to Group HTML Form Controls - Roger Johansson
• Forms and Error Handling for Accessibility - Rakesh Paladugula
• Forms and Interaction - Joe Clark
• Form Elements and Accessibility - Rakesh Paladugula
• Form Help Without Popups - Gez Lemon
• Forms Usability
• Forms Within Tables - Doodle and Accessibility - Terrill Thompson
• Help Your Users Fill Out Forms Before They Need You - Luke McGrath
• HTML5 Caption Element and Headings - Gez Lemon
• How Can I Make My Forms A Little More Accessible? - Rob Copeland
• Indicate Required Form Controls Using the Required Attribute - Denis Boudreau
• Infinite Inputs - Welcome to the Party - Henny Swan
• Labels
  • 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions - Rakesh Paladugula
  • Accessible Form Labeling Basics - Dylan Barrell
  • Accessible Forms 1 - Labels and Identification - Roger Hudson
  • Accessible Names - Label All the Things, Part 2 - By Michelle Williamson
  • Advanced Form Labeling - Jared Smith
  • HTML5 Accessibility Chops - Form Control Labeling - Steve Faulkner
  • Inaccessible Label-Wrapped Form Inputs - Mike Cherim
  • LABEL - Form Field Label
  • Label Positioning - Gez Lemon
  • Labeled With Love - Aaron Gustafson
  • Labelling Forms, Images and Links - Screen Reader Compatibility - Mark Rogers
  • Labels for Form Controls Overview - Illinois Center for Information Technology and Web Accessibility
  • "<label>" for Search Field - Web Aim Thread
  • Techniques for Labeling Standard HTML Form Controls - Sailesh Panchang
  • Use the Label Element to Make Your HTML Forms Accessible - Roger Johansson
  • Why WCAG's H65 Technique is Invalid and Abused to Allow Disappearing Placeholders Over Visible Labels - Paul J. Adam
• Legend
  • Describe Groups of Form Controls Using the Legend Element - Denis Boudreau
• Let Your Users Check and Change Their Submissions - Luke McGrath
• Mandatory Fields and Accessibility - Rakesh Paladugula
• Making an Accessible Form with ARIA, Part 1 - Lisa Seeman
• Making an Accessible Form with ARIA, Part 2 - Lisa Seeman
• More Tips for Creating Accessible Forms - Kate Bradbury
• Multiple Form Labels and Screen Readers - Roger Johansson
• Notes on Applying Multiple Labels for a Control Using the Label Element - Steve Faulkner
• Optgroup
  • OPTGROUP - Option Group - htmlhelp
  • Use the optgroup Element to Group Select Options - Roger Johansson
• Prettier Accessible Forms - Nick Rigby
• Provide ALT attributes on Images Used as Submit Buttons - Denis Boudreau
• Provide Text Descriptions to Identify Required Fields Left Blank - Denis Boudreau
• Reset and Cancel Buttons - Jakob Nielsen
• Simply Accessible - Derek Featherstone
• Spam-Free Accessible Forms - Jared Smith
• Styling Forms Accessibly - Amanda Cheung
• Tab Index
  • Avoid Frustrating Users With tabindex - Nick DeNardis
  • Don't Use Tabindex Greater than 0 - Adrian Roselli
  • More Fun With The tabindex Attribute - Becky Gibson
  • Staying Positive About Tabindex - Joe Clark
  • Using the tabindex Attribute - Leonie Watson
  • When Should You Invite tabindex to the Accessibility Party? - Glenda Sims
• Testing Accessibility of Pre-populated Input Fields - Terrill Thompson
• Tips for Keeping Forms Accessible - Mike Cherim
• Three Rules for Creating Accessible Forms - Dan Stringer
• Usable and Accessible Form Validation and Error Recovery - Jared Smith
• Use a Button with Select Elements to Perform an Action - Denis Boudreau
• Using a Transparent Image as an Icon Fallback - Roger Johansson
• Using aria-describedby to Provide Helpful Form Hints - Leonie Watson
• Using Titles on Form Fields - Mike Davies
• Validation (Form)
  • Accessible Client-side Form Validation with HTML5 - Paul J. Adam
  • Accessible Client-side Form Validation with HTML5 & WAI-ARIA - Paul J. Adam
  • Accessible Client-side Form Validation with HTML5, WAI-ARIA, and the jQuery Validation Plugin - Paul J. Adam
  • Use the title Element to Notify Users of Required Fields Left Blank - Denis Boudreau
  • The Form Field Validation Trick They don't Want You to Know - Karl Groves
  • Using Aria-Invalid for Error Indication - Sailesh Panchang
• Web Accessibility 101 Video Series - Screen Magnification Challenges - Forms - Mike Schutte
• Where to Put Your Search Role - Adrian Roselli
• Will We Ever Get Required Fields Right? - Derek Featherstone

• Google Accessibility (also see Google Litigation)
  • Accessible Google Maps - Dylan Barrell
  • Report on the Accessibility of GMail and Google Calendar - Access Technology Higher Education Network (ATHEN)
  • Report on the Accessibility of Google Documents - Access Technology Higher Education Network (ATHEN)
  • Google Apps Accessibility - North Carolina State University
    • Google Docs Accessibility - Documents
      "As a general rule, the Google Docs: Documents (“Documents”) format is not accessible to many people with certain disabilities. This includes the editing view, the view-only view, and to a degree, the Publish to Web view."
    • Google Docs Accessibility - Google Sites
    • Google Docs Accessibility - Spreadsheets
      • Google Doc to Microsoft Office Bookmarklet
    • Google Docs Accessibility - Presentations
  • Google Docs - Penn State
  • Google Docs Accessibility and Export/Import Options - SSB BART Group
  • Google Launches Google+ Hangout Accessibility App - globalaccessibilitynews
  • Google Launches Sign Language Interpreter App For Hangouts, Adds Accessibility Features To Gmail, Drive And Chrome - Frederic Lardinois
  • Google on Google's Accessibility
    • Accessibility: A Progress Report (Google) - Naomi Black
    • Accessibility Group @ Google Groups
    • Accessibility Updates for Docs, Sites and Calendar - Google
    • Administrator Guide to Accessibility (PDF) - Google
    • Enhanced Accessibility in Docs, Sites and Calendar - T.V. Raman
    • Google Accessibility Feedback Form
    • Google Docs Accessibility with Shawn Lauriat - Elle Waters
    • Google Drive and the Docs Editors - Designed with Everyone in Mind - Google
    • Greater Accessibility for Google Apps - Google
    • Making Google Accessible - Google
    • Making the Cloud more Accessible with Chrome and Android - T.V. Raman
  • Renowned Futurist Ray Kurzweil Joins Google to Work on Machine Learning and Language Processing - thenextweb
  • University of Minnesota Google Apps Standard

Higher Ed

• A Comparison of Learning Management System Accessibility - Hadi Rangin
• A Personal Look at Accessibility in Higher Education (Video) - Gaining Online Accessible Learning through Self-study (GOALS)
• Accessibility of Information Technology Policy Frequently Asked Questions - University of Minnesota
• Accreditation and Web Accessibility - Why Should Accreditors Care? - The National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE)
• Assessing Your Institution's Web Accessibility Efforts: Part 1 - Cyndi Rowland
• Assessing Your Institution's Web Accessibility Efforts: Part 2 - Jon Whiting
• Building University-Wide IT Accessibility - David Raths
• Communities of Practice in Penn State's Web Accessibility Initiative - Christian Johansen
• Effective January 1 (2014) - New University Web Accessibility Standard - Information Technology Systems and Services, University of Minnesota Duluth
• Evaluating Web Accessibility Efforts-A Guide for Accreditation Review Teams - National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE)
• IT Accessibility Risk Statements and Evidence - IT Accessibility Constituent Group
• GOALS Blueprint for Institutional Web Accessibility - National Center on Disability and Access to Education
• GOALS Web Accessibility Cost Case Study - National Center on Disability and Access to Education
• Help Ensure Online Course Content is Accessible to Students With Disabilities - Disability Compliance for Higher Education
• Identifying Web Accessibility Issues - The National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE)
• Implementing an Accessibility Policy - An Insider's Guide - Lucy Greco and Anna Gazdowicz
• Guidelines for Evaluating Evidence for Indicator #1: Institutional Vision and Leadership Commitment - The National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE)
• Looking to the Work of Others as You Create Your Institution's Web Accessibility Policy - National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE)
• Making Real Progress in Digital Accessibility in Higher Education - David Sloan
• MOOCs for Everyone, But the Deaf - Howard A. Rosenblum
• NFB Proposes Bill on Accessibility Standards for Digital Instructional Materials - Jarret Cummings
• Online Accessibility a Faculty Duty - Lauren Ingeno
• Online Accessibility Program - Stanford Online Accessibility Program (SOAP)
• Presentation Template - Making the Case for Web Accessibility - Jonathan Chetwynd
• Reporting on Your Web Accessibility Findings: It Can Be Easy Using the GOALS Tool - National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE)
• Seeking Predictors of Web Accessibility in U.S. Higher Education Institutions - Terrill Thompson et. al.
• Study Ranks Accessibility of Top Learning Management Systems - Dian Schaffhauser
• Teaching Accessibility - teachingaccessibility.com
  • Silicon Valley Vows To Improve Tech For People With Disabilities - Lorenzo Ligato
• The Ultimate Section 508 Guide for Students - Kimberley Hagan
• Views of a Faculty Member - Accessibility From Where I Stand - Kimberly Snow
• Web Accessibility and Accreditation - A Blueprint for Regional Agencies - Belle Wheelan
• Why Inaccessibility is the Norm in Higher Ed - Laura Turgeo
• Your Computer School Sucks - Karl Groves
  • Effectively Including Accessibility into Web Developer Training - Karl Groves

Keyboard Accessibility

• Accessibility Advent: Support the Escape Key -James Aylett
• Keyboard Accessibility with the Space Bar - Ted Drake
• Create a Logical Tabbing Order Through Links, Form Controls and Objects - Denis Boudreau
• Keyboard Accessibility (again) - Roger Johansson
• Keyboard Accessibility Quick Tip - Emily Coward
• Keyboard Navigation in Mac Browsers - Becky Gibson
• Keyboard and Interaction Accessibility Techniques - Jared Smith
• Why Keyboard Usability Is More Important Than You Think - David Sloan and Sarah Horton
  • Designing Better Keyboard Experiences - David Sloan and Sarah Horton

Language

• 3.1.1 Language of Page - Rakesh Paladugula
• 3.1.2 Language of Parts - Rakesh Paladugula
• Don't Write for Professors (or, How Educated are Your Users?) - Luke McGrath
• Help Your Users with Unusual and Confusing Pronunciations - Luke McGrath
• Internationalization Primer - Jonathan Snook
• Language Codes - Joe Clark
• Language of Parts -Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 12 - Dey Alexander
• Present Definitions of Words or Phrases Using Definition Lists - Denis Boudreau
• The Barrier of Foreign Words - Mike Davies
• The Inaccessibility of Jargon - Steve Grobschmidt
• Why the WCAG 2.0 Reading Level Criterion is Doomed - Rachel McAlpine
• Why Plain Language is Vital for Website Usability - Whitney Quesenbery
• Why use the language attribute?

Law, Lawsuits, Policies

• 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act
  • 21st Century Communications and Video - National Association of the Deaf
  • CVAA for Fostering Innovation and Change - Sarah Horton
• 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
  • Section 504 vs. Section 508 - Wayne Dick
  • Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
  • 508 and Higher Ed - Jon Whiting
  • 508 Refresh May Have Passed Final Hurdle - John Eric Brandt
  • Accessible Electronic and & Information Technology: Legal Obligations of Higher Education and Section 508 - Cynthia D. Waddell
  • Board Names Advisory Committee for 508 Standards Update - The Access Board
  • Does Section 508 Apply to Freeware? - The Section 508 Blog
  • Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - Wikipedia.
  • Section 508 Checklist - Jonathan Whiting
  • Section 508 Accessibility Forum Notes - Accessibility at Google - Tim Springer
  • Testing HTML for 508 Compliance Course - Department of Veterans Affairs
  • The Access Board's Inability to Get Section 508 Refresh Finalized is Negligent and Counter to their Mission - Karl Groves
  • The Ultimate Section 508 Guide for Students - Kimberley Hagan
  • The Viking and the Lumberjack Go Looking for the 508 Refresh - Steve Faulkner
  • Understanding the Proposed Section 508 Refresh - Overview - Jonathan Avila
    • Understanding the Proposed Section 508 Refresh - Proposed Changes - Jonathan Avila
    • Understanding the Proposed Section 508 Refresh - Areas Requiring Clarification - Jonathan Avila
  • Waiting for Section 508 A Tragicomedy in 10 Acts - Heather Burns
  • Web Accessibility for Section 508 - Jim Thatcher
  • WebAIM Hosting TEITAC Content - Jared Smith
  • When the Refresh Comes - Steve Faulkner
• Accessibility and the Law - Joe Clark
• Accessibility Claims Expected Over Websites - Angus Loten
• Accessibility and Lawsuits - Steve Grobschmidt
• Accessibility Legislation - an Insight (Summary of accessibility policies by country) - Urte Meinhardt
• Accessibility Risks and Evidence - Laura Carlson, et al.
• Airlines and Web Accessibility Litigation - Deque Systems
• Amazon
  • Amazon Accused of Noncompliance With Video Captioning Rules - Phil Johnson
• American Cancer Society
  • American Cancer Society Information in Braille, Large Print, Audio Formats and Accessible On-Line - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
  • American Cancer Society Accessible Web and Alternative Formats Press Release - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
  • American Cancer Society Accessible Website and Alternative Formats Agreement - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
• America Online (AOL)
  • AOL Progress Report - Marc Maurer
  • AOL Sued by Federation of the Blind - Leslie Miller
• Americans with Disabilties Act (ADA)
  • ADA and the Web for Retailers - Technical Requirements - Tom Toombs
  • ADA Claims Coming for Retailers This Holiday Season for Inaccessible Websites - Selena J. Linde and Kimberly Reindl
  • ADA Defense Lawyer - New ADA Standards for Website Accessibility - Jim Butler
  • ADA Litigation Over Website Accessibility is Poised to Explode - Jim Butler
  • As the ADA Turns 25, Website Accessibility Issues Pose Legitimate Risks for the Financial Services Industry - Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
  • Department of Justice Considers Web for ADA - Cyndi Rowland
  • Is Your Site ADA - Compliant ... or a Lawsuit-in-Waiting? - Cynthia D. Waddell and Kevin Lee Thomason
  • Title III of the ADA
  • Website Accessibility and the ADA - An Update - Staff Reporter
• Another Employee Accessibility Lawsuit - What HR Staff Need To Know - Karl Groves
• Atlantic Cape Community College (ACCC)
  • Atlantic Cape Community College Consent Decree (PDF)
  • National Federation of the Blind and Two Blind Students Resolve Complaint Against Atlantic Cape Community College - National Federation of the Blind
  • ACCC Press Release (PDF) - Dan Goldstein and Trevor Coe
  • Blind Students' Lawsuit Leads to Big Changes at N.J. County College - Kelly Heyboer
• Arizona State University
  • Arizona State Settlement Agreement - A.D.A.
  • Advocates for the Blind Sue Arizona State U. Over Kindle Use - Marc Beja
  • Colleges Lock Out Blind Students Online - Marc Parry
  • Lawsuit Over Kindle Navigation by Visually Impaired Settled - Jacqui Cheng
• Attorney Sues Department of Homeland Security - Deque Systems
• Bank of America
  • Bank of America Credit Card Rewards Website Agreement - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
• Beall's Inc - United States Courts Archive
• California
  • California State Auditor Report Number: 2014-131 (June 2, 2015) - auditor.ca.gov
    • California Community Colleges State Audit (PDF)
  • Californian Government Websites Found to be Inaccessible - Tim Lohman
  • People with Disabilities Have Lousy Access at State Websites, Including Covered California - Ken Broder
• Canadian Government
  • Blind Woman Challenges Government Web Access - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News
  • Blind Woman Says Federal Websites Discriminate Against the Visually Impaired - Laurie Monsebraaten
  • Canadian Government Loses Milestone Web Access Case - Tristan Parker
• Capella University/WebCT (La Marca v. Capella University)
  • Capella U. Settles Lawsuit Against Former Student - Brock Read
  • Lawsuit Charges Online University Does Not Accommodate Learning-Disabled Students - Dan Carnevale
• Carnival
  • Justice Department Applies ADA Title III to Carnival's Cruise Ships, Website, and Mobile App in a Landmark Settlement - Seyfarth Shaw LLP
• Case Western Reserve University
  • Complaint Filed Against Case Western Reserve University - Reading Rights
• Cedar Rapids, Iowa Settlement Agreement
• Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania - United States Courts Archive
• Charles Schwab
  • Charles Schwab Website Accessibility Press Release - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
  • Charles Schwab Web Accessibility Agreement - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
• Chaves County, New Mexico Settlement Agreement
• Champaign County, Illinois Settlement Agreement
• Coles
• Blind Woman Gisele Mesnage Sues Coles Over Online Shopping Website - Rachel Browne
• Coles Web Accessibility Case Settled - Tim Lohman
• Legal Action Against Coles Over Website Accessibility - Chris Pycroft
• Denny's
  • Denny's Announces Digital Accessibility Initiative - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
• DeKalb, Illinois, Settlement Agreement
• Department of Justice
  • Fall 2015 Update - More Delay for DOJ Web Regulations - Lainey Feingold
  • Federal Disability Regulations Face Historic Delays - Lainey Feingold
  • DOJ Delays Web Accessibility Regulations - The Law Office of Lainey Feingold
    • More Delay for DOJ Web Regs - Does it Matter? - The Law Office of Lainey Feingold
  • DOJ May Apply ADA Accessibility Guidelines to Websites - Brian T. Horowitz
  • DOJ Shifts Position on Web Access: Stating In Court Filings That Public Accommodations Have a 'Pre-Existing' Obligation to Make Websites Accessible - Minh N. Vu
  • Justice Department Delays Web Accessibility Regulations For At Least Three More Years, Leaving Businesses in Turmoil - Seyfarth Shaw
  • The U.S. DOJ Made A Poor Decision To Delay Web Accessibility Guidelines - David Bolton
  • U.S. Department of Justice Further Delays ADA Title III Rulemaking on Website Accessibility - Kenneth J. Yerkes, et al.
• Digital Accessibility Legal Update (December 2014) - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
• Digital Accessibility Legal Update (CSUN 2015) - Lainey Feingold
• Digital Accessibility Legal Update (December 2015) - Lainey Feingold
• Disney
  • Class Action Lawsuit Against Disney Alleges Inaccessible Websites and Failure to Accommodate Blind Persons in Violation of ADA
• • Dickensian Disney: Not Down With the Kids - Henny Swan
  • Disney Web Access Case Settles Before Trial - Dan Jellinek
• Does Web Accessibility Really "place ruinous obligations on websites"? - Analysis of Internet Association Brief - Hassell Inclusion
• eHarmony Complaint (PDF)
  • eHarmony - United States Courts Archive
• Fallon, Nevada Settlement Agreement
• Finlandia University
  • Letter of Disposition to Rev. Dr. Philip Johnson President Finlandia University (PDF) - Office for Civil Rights
  • Resolution Agreement Finlandia University (PDF) - Office for Civil Rights
• Florida State University
  • $150,000 Settlement Reached in Blind Florida State Students’ E-Learning Suit - Marc Parry
  • Blind Florida State U. Students Sue Over E-Learning Systems - Jie Jenny Zou
  • Blind Students Sue Florida State University over Inaccessible Math Courses - Steve Noble
  • Florida State University Resolves Litigation with Students - National Federation of the Blind
  • Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Florida State University - Department of Justice
  • Settlement Agreement Between The United States Of America And Florida State University Dj No. 205-17-13 - ADA
• Foot Locker, Inc. - United States Courts Archive
• Galveston County, Texas Settlement Agreement
• General Services Administration (GSA)
  • Accessibility Suit Filed Against US General Services Administration - Tim Lohman
  • U.S. General Services Administration Settles Suit Alleging Inaccessibility of Its Website for Contractors - Kristina M. Launey and Minh Vu
  • Washington Lawyers' Committee (WLC) Reaches Landmark Settlement on Behalf of Blind Contractors - American Council of the Blind
• Global Accessibility Policy – Technology Changes, Civil Rights Do Not - Cynthia Waddell
• Google Litigation (also see Google Accessibility)
  • Adoption of Google Apps Program Discriminates Against the Blind - National Federation of the Blind of Greater Louisville
  • As Schools Shift to Google Apps, Blind Students Object - Mark Jaycox
  • Colleges Discriminate Against the Blind With Google Apps, Advocates Say - Marc Parry
  • CU-Boulder Student Seeks Accessibility Through Federal Complaint - Sarah Kuta
  • DOJ letter to CU-Boulder - Matt Sebastian
  • Google - Web Accessibility is NOT Just for Blind - Svetlana Kouznetsova
  • Google Apps Accessibility and Barriers - University of Minnesota Duluth
  • Google Apps Inaccessible To Blind Students
  • Google Has Not Met Accessibility Standards - Giacomo Bologna
  • How Accessible Are Google Apps? (Power Point) - Greg Kraus
  • National Federation of the Blind (NFB) Asks Department of Justice to Investigate Schools Across the Country - NFB
  • NFB: Google Apps Accessibility Not There Yet - Jarret Cummings
  • NFB Google Apps Concerns Continue - Jarret Cummings
    • Google Response on NFB Google Apps Concerns - Jarret Cummings
  • NFB Questions Google Apps Accessibility - John Eric Brandt
  • Report on the Accessibility of Google Apps Webinar Hosted by Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI) and presented by Greg Kraus and Scott Williams
  • Moving Ahead on ADA Technology Issues - University of Colorado
  • University of Minnesota Google Apps Standard
• GNC - United States Courts Archive
• Government Accessibility Standards and WCAG 2 - Mark Rogers
• Harvard
  • Complaint Against Harvard (PDF)
    • Report and Recommendation Denying MIT's Motion to Dismiss/Stay (PDF)
  • Statement of Interest of the United States of America (PDF) - Department of Justice
  • Deaf Advocates Sue Harvard, MIT For Better Webcast Captions - Kurt Orzeck
  • Harvard & MIT Sued Over Lack of Captions - Tim Lohman
  • Harvard and MIT Face Lawsuit for Lack of Online Captioning - Dian Schaffhauser
  • Harvard and M.I.T. Are Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Courses - Tamar Lewin
  • NAD Sues Harvard and MIT for Discrimination in Public Online Content - National Association of the Deaf
  • United States Reaches Settlement with Provider of Massive Open Online Courses to Make its Content Accessible to the Disabled - Department of Justice
    • edX to Improve Access to MOOCs for People With Disabilities (CHE) - Ryan C. Fowler
    • EdX Settles Inaccessible Online Courses Case - Tim Lohman
    • edX Settlement Agreement (PDF
• H&R Block
  • Consent Decree - National Federation of the Blind et al and the United States of America vs H&R Block (PDF) - ADA
  • DOJ Joins Suit Against H&R Block, Saying Website Violates ADA - Andrea Billups
  • National Federation of the Blind and Two Blind Taxpayers File Suit Against H&R Block - National Federation of the Blind
  • NFB and H&R Block Announce Agreement Assuring Accessibility - Global Accessibility News
  • Proposed Outcomes For NFB Versus H&R Block - Chris Hofstader
  • US Accessibility Court Case Against H&R Block Settled - Tim Lohman
  • USDOJ Seeks to Intervene in Lawsuit Alleging H&R Block's Tax Preparation Website is Inaccessible to Persons with Disabilities - Global Accessibility News
• Hobby Lobby Stores - United States Courts Archive
• Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act - Marucco, Stoddard, Ferenbach, and Walsh
• Isle of Palms, South Carolina Settlement Agreement
• IT Accessibility Risk Statements and Evidence by Topic - Laura Carlson
• ITU-T Accessibility Resource - International Telecommunication Union
• JetBlue
  • Accessibility Lawsuit Filed Against JetBlue Airways - The Law Office of Lainey Feingold
  • Curing the JetBlues - Derek Featherstone
  • Court to Hear Argument in JetBlue Accessibility Case - The Law Office of Lainey Feingold
  • Court Rules in Favor of JetBlue - Airline Websites and Kiosks Not Covered by State Law - The Office of Lainey Feingold
  • JetBlue Court Ruling Appealed - The Law Office of Lainey Feingold
  • Proposed Regulations Address Airline Websites and Kiosks - The Law Office of Lainey Feingold
• Legal Costs Can be Big to Defend Inaccessible Web Content in Postsecondary Education - Linda Goetze
• Legal Settlement Agreements that Reference WCAG 2.0 - Laura Carlson
• Louisiana Tech University
  • Justice Department Settles with Louisiana Tech University Over Inaccessible Course Materials - Department of Justice
  • Louisiana Tech U. Settles With U.S. Over Claims That It Violated Disabilities Act - Nick DeSantis
  • Louisiana Tech University Concerning Inaccessible Course Materials - Ahead.org
  • Settlement Agreement Between The United States Of America, Louisiana Tech University, And The Board Of Supervisors For The University Of Louisiana System Under The Americans With Disabilities Act DJ #204-33-116 - ADA
• Law School Admissions Council (LSAC)
  • Law School Admission Council Settlement Agreement
  • Blind Students Sue Over Online Law School Applications - Adrian Roselli
  • Blind Students Sue Law Schools Over Online Applications - Sophia Li
  • LSAC Agrees To Pay Over $9 Million To Settle Lawsuit Over Testing Accommodations And Commits To Substantial Injunctive Relief - Seyfarth Shaw
  • LSAC Inaccessible Web Lawsuit - Cynthia Waddell
• Lumpkin County, Georgia Settlement Agreement
• Madison County, New York Settlement Agreement
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Complaint Against MIT (PDF)
    • Report and Recommendation Denying MIT’s Motion to Dismiss/Stay (PDF)
  • Statement of Interest of the United States of America in MIT Case (PDF) - Department of Justice
  • Deaf Advocates Sue Harvard, MIT For Better Webcast Captions - Kurt Orzeck
  • Harvard & MIT Sued over Lack of Captions - Tim Lohman
  • Harvard and MIT Face Lawsuit for Lack of Online Captioning - Dian Schaffhauser
  • Harvard and M.I.T. Are Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Courses - Tamar Lewin
  • NAD Sues Harvard and MIT for Discrimination in Public Online Content - National Association of the Deaf
  • United States Reaches Settlement with Provider of Massive Open Online Courses to Make its Content Accessible to the Disabled - Department of Justice
    • edX to Improve Access to MOOCs for People With Disabilities (CHE) - Ryan C. Fowler
    • edX Settlement Agreement (PDF
• Mattress Firm - United States Courts Archive
• McLennan County
  • McLennan County, Texas Agrees to Website Accessibility - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
  • McLennan County, Texas Settlement Agreement
• McNeese State University
  • McNeese State University Settlement Agreement
• Mesa Community College and Maricopa
  • Mesa Community College and Maricopa Community Lawsuit (PDF)
• Merced County, California Settlement Agreement
• Miami University (Ohio)
  • Blind Student Settles Suit against Miami University - Associated Press
  • Complaint Against Miami U (PDF) - Department of Justice
  • Motion to Intervene: Miami U (PDF) - Department of Justice
  • Blind Student Files Discrimination Suit Against Miami University - National Federation of the Blind
  • Blind Student Sues Miami University over Alleged Discrimination - Maxim Alter
  • Complaint: Aleeha Dudley Plaintiff Miami University, And Dr. David C. Hodge, in his official capacity as President of Miami University, Defendant (PDF) - National Federation of the Blind
  • Justice Department Moves to Intervene in Disability Discrimination Lawsuit Alleging that Miami University Uses Inaccessible Educational Technologies and Course Materials - Department of Justice
• Major League Baseball (MLB)
  • Major League Baseball: All Star Ballot with Audio CAPTCHA - The Law Office of Lainey Feingold
  • MLB: On-Line Accessibility During the World Series - The Law Office of Lainey Feingold
  • MLB.com Opening Day Accessibility Update - The Law Office of Lainey Feingold
• Martin v. MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority)
  • ADA Transit Case Seeks Accessible Web Remedy  - Cynthia D. Waddell
• National Basketball Association
  • Legal Action Against the NBA Over Website Accessibility - Chris Pycroft
  • National Basketball Association Complaint (PDF)
• Netflix
  • Federal District Court in Massachusetts First in Country to Hold that the Americans with Disabilities Act Applies to Website-Only Businesses - National Association of the Deaf
  • Federal Judge Rules that ADA Covers Web-Only Businesses - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
  • Netflix and the National Association of the Deaf Reach Historic Agreement to Provide 100% Closed Captions in On-Demand Streaming Content Within Two Years - National Association of the Deaf
  • Ruling on Accessibility and the ADA - Andrew Kirkpatrick
• New York Attorney General Announces Comprehensive Web Access Settlement - Lainey Feingold
• Nueces County, Texas
  • Justice Department Reaches Agreement with Nueces County, Texas, to Improve Accessibility of Services and Programs - The Department of Justice
  • Nueces County, Texas Settlement Agreement
• New York University
  • Letter of Complaint to New York University (PDF) - National Federation of the Blind
  • Adoption of Google Apps Program Discriminates Against the Blind - National Federation of the Blind of Greater Louisville
  • As Schools Shift to Google Apps, Blind Students Object - Mark Jaycox
  • Colleges Discriminate Against the Blind With Google Apps, Advocates Say - Marc Parry
  • Google Apps Inaccessible To Blind Students
  • NFB: Google Apps Accessibility Not There Yet - Jarret Cummings
  • NFB Google Apps Concerns Continue - Jarret Cummings
    • Google Response on NFB Google Apps Concerns - Jarret Cummin
• Northwestern University
  • Letter of Complaint to Northwestern University (PDF) - National Federation of the Blind
  • Adoption of Google Apps Program Discriminates Against the Blind - National Federation of the Blind of Greater Louisville
  • As Schools Shift to Google Apps, Blind Students Object - Mark Jaycox
  • Colleges Discriminate Against the Blind With Google Apps, Advocates Say - Marc Parry
  • Exclusion of Google Docs Avoids ADA Challenges - Columbia Spectator
  • Google Apps Inaccessible To Blind Students
  • NFB: Google Apps Accessibility Not There Yet - Jarret Cummings
  • NFB Google Apps Concerns Continue - Jarret Cummings
    • Google Response on NFB Google Apps Concerns - Jarret Cumming
• Ohio Secretary of State
  • Advocates for Disabled Sue Husted Over Voting, Website Problems - Alan Johnson
  • Ohio Secretary of State Complaint (PDF)
• Ohio State
  • Ohio State University Consent Decree (PDF) - United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio
  • Deaf Sports Fan Files Complaint against Ohio State University - National Association of the Deaf
  • Deaf Fan Sues Ohio State University
  • Score for Accessibility: OSU to Provide In-Stadium Captions - National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
• Oracle
  • NFB Alleges Oracle Human Resources Software is not Blind-Friendly - Oracle
• Orange County
  • Justice Department Reaches Agreement with Orange County Clerk of Courts in Florida to Ensure Equal Access to Court Records for Blind Individuals - Department of Justice
• Peapod
  • DOJ Forces Online Grocer Peapod to Make Website Accessible for People with Disabilities - Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES)
  • Justice Department Enters into a Settlement Agreement with Peapod to Ensure that Peapod Grocery Delivery Website is Accessible to Individuals with Disabilities - The Department of Justice
  • Online Grocer Peapod Settles Web Accessibility Action - Tim Lohman
  • U.S. Department of Justice Continues Enforcement of Accessibility Requirements for Websites and Mobile Apps - But Its Rulemaking Still Awaits - Kenneth J. Yerkes
• Pace University
  • Pace University Complaint
  • Pace University Letter of Resolution - U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
• Patagonia
  • Lawsuits Rise: Blind Plaintiffs Sue Additional Retailers for Website Accessibility/ADA Claims - Fredrikson and Byron PA
• Parowan, Utah Settlement Agreement
• Princeton University
  • Princeton University Letter of Resolution - U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
  • Princeton University Complaint
• Pennington County, South Dakota Settlement Agreement
• Penn State University
  • National Federation of the Blind Files Complaint Against Penn State - National Federation of the Blind
  • Compliant Filed Against Penn State Regarding Web Accessibility - Michael Fiend
  • Penn State Accused of Discriminating Against Blind Students - Marc Parry
  • NFB and Penn State Resolve U.S. Dept. of Justice Civil Rights Complaint - Educause
  • Settlement Between Penn State University and National Federation of the Blind - Pennsylvania
• Pep Boys - United States Courts Archive
• Pollo - United States Courts Archive
• Reed College
  • Reed College Complaint
  • Reed College Letter of Resolution
• Red Box - United States Courts Archive
• Red Rood Inn
  • Blind Woman Sues Red Roof Inns, Alleging Inaccessible Website - Carol Ostrow
  • Red Roof Inns, Inc. - United States Courts Archive
• Renewed Push for Improved Web Accessibility Policy in the United States - Chris Pycroft
• Robeson County, North Carolina Settlement Agreement
• Ruidoso, New Mexico Settlement Agreement
• Seattle Public Schools
  • Ed-Tech Accessibility Lawsuit Settled By Seattle District, Advocates for Blind - Michele Molnar
  • National Federation of the Blind Supports Blind Mother's Suit Against Seattle Public Schools - National Federation of the Blind
  • Seattle School Distirct Consent Decree (PDF)
• South Carolina Technical College System
  • Civil Rights Agreement Reached with South Carolina Technical College System on Accessibility of Websites to People with Disabilities
  • Dear Colleague Letter - Department of Justice, Office of Civil Rights
  • Joint "Dear Colleague" Letter: Electronic Book Readers - Department of Justice and U. S. Department of Education
  • Compliance Review South Carolina Technical College System - U. S. Department of Education
  • Resolution Agreement South Carolina Technical College System OCR Compliance Review No. 11 - 11 - 6002 (PDF) - U. S. Department of Education
• Stop the ADA Trolls - Chris Hofstader
• Reebok
  • Class Action Lawsuit Against Reebok over Web Accessibility - Chris Pycroft
  • Reebok Class Action Complaint (PDF) - By Jose Del Orden et al.
  • Reebok Faces ADA Class Action Over Website Accessibility - Christina Davis
• Recent Legal Issues in Higher Education and Web Accessibility - Cyndi Rowland
• Safeway
  • Safeway Announces Website Accessibility Initiative - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
  • Safeway Web Accessibility Settlement Agreement - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
  • Separate is Not Equal - Good News for Grocery Delivery - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
• Screen-Reader Problems Uncovered In Olympics Ticket Site - Dan Jellinek
• Scribd
  • National Federation of the Blind and Scribd Agree to Collaborate and Make-Reading Subscription Service Accessible - National Federation of the Blind
  • Scribd Faces Setback in Lawsuit Over Accessibility - Nate Hoffelder
  • Scribd Must Comply With The Americans With Disabilities Act - Eric Goldman
  • Scribd Opinion and Order (PDF) - Judge William K. Sessions III
• Southwest Airlines (Robert Gumson v. Southwest Airlines and Access Now v. Southwest Airlines)
  • No decision from the Appeals Court - Jim Thatcher
• Sydney Olympics (Bruce Maguire v. Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games [SOCOG])
  • A Cautionary Tale of Inaccessibility: Sydney Olympics Website - Web Accessibility Initiative
  • Bruce Lindsay Maguire v Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games
  • Olympic Failure: A Case for Making the Web Accessible - Tom Worthington
  • Web Accessibility and the DDA - 4.1 Maguire Vs. SOCOG - M Sloan
• Sue Everyone - Karl Groves
• Target (National Federation of the Blind v. Target)
  • A Cautionary Tale of Inaccessibility: Target Corporation - Web Accessibility initiative
  • 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 Patrons' Lawsuit Against Target Proceeds - Josh Richman
  • Blind Patrons Sue Target for Site Inaccessibility - Michelle Meyers
  • 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
  • Missing the Target - Reynolds Holding
  • National Federation of the Blind v. Target
    • Does Target Settlement Really Hit the Target? - Ian Lloyd
    • National Federation of the Blind vs. Target - An Important Decision - Jim Thatcher
    • Targeting Accessibility - Glenda Sims
    • Target Lawsuit Settled - Jared Smith.
  • NFB, Target, Amazon - Joe Clark
  • NFB vs. Target in Perspective - Matt May
  • Target Accessibility Case Will Go Forward! - Joe Dolson
  • Target Hit - But is it a Bullseye? - Ian Lloyd
  • Target Lawsuit Settled - Jared Smith
  • Target Sued Over Web Accessibility - Out-law News
  • Tarzhay - Joe Clark
  • Staying on Target - Derek Featherstone
  • Update on the Target Accessibility Lawsuit - Roger Johansson
• Technology, Equality, and Accessibility in College and Higher Education Act (TEACH) Act
  • A Lesson on the TEACH Act (Video) - National Federation of the Blind
  • A Letter to the American Council on Education Regarding the State of Our Negotiations and NFB's Plans for Moving Forward - Molly Corbett
  • A New Obstacle for Students With Disabilities - Kyle Shachmut
  • Accessibility in Higher Education - The TEACH Act - Jenny Davis
  • Bill Would Require Instructional Technology to Be Accessible to All - Megan O'Neil
  • Fight Over Digital Accessibility - Michael Stratford
  • For Bill on Disabled Access to Online Teaching Materials, the Devils in the Details - Rebecca Koenig
  • Good Intentions, Bad Legislation - Terry W. Hartle and Jarret S. Cummings
  • Law, Policy -- and IT? - Tracy Mitrano
  • Organizations Have 'Serious Concerns' About the Teach Act - Terry W. Hartle
  • Progress on New Federal Electronic Instructional Materials Accessibility Legislation - Russ Poulin
  • Should TEACH Act Language Appear in the Higher Education Act? NCDAE and WebAIM Weigh In - Cyndi Rowland
  • The National Federation of The Blind And The Association of American Publishers Applaud Introduction of 'TEACH Act' - National Federation of the Blind
  • The TEACH Act - A Need for Clarification - AHEAD
• The Legal Ramifications of Inaccessible Websites - Beatrice Schmidt
• The Next Frontier in ADA Litigation - Website and App Access for the Disabled - Joe Liburt, Tim Long, Jill Rosenberg
• Ticketmaster
  • Precedent - Joe Clark
  • Settlement Agreement Between The United States of America and Ticketmaster L.L.C. - ADA
• Toys "R" Us
  • Blind Woman Sues Toys "R" Us, Alleging Violation of Federal Disabilities Act - Gene Johnson
  • Toys "R" Us Complaint (PDF)
    • Toys "R" Us - United States Courts Archive
• Troubling Web Accessibility Trends in the U.S. - Debra Ruh
• Uncle Sam Orders Airlines Make Websites Accessible To Disabled Passengers - Roberto Castiglioni
• United Kingdom
  • US Organizations Liable Under UK Law? - Mel Pedley
• University of Califorina (UC) Berkeley
  • Press Release from DRA Legal for Alternate Format Services - Disability Rights Advocates
  • UC Berkeley Settlement Sets Precedent - Mark Miller
  • Berkeley Settlement (PDF) - dralegal.org
• University of Cincinnati
  • Press Release from US Department of Education and University of Cincinnati
  • University of Cincinnati & OCR Resolution Letter (PDF)
  • University of Cincinnati & OCR Resolution Agreement (PDF)
• University of Colorado
  • Digital accessibility initiative update: Department of Justice inquiry closed - University of Colorado
  • DOJ letter closing its investigation of the University of Colorado at Boulder (PDF)
  • CU-Boulder Student Seeks Accessibility Through Federal Complaint - Sarah Kuta
  • DOJ letter to CU-Boulder - Matt Sebastian
  • Chancellor's Corner: Improving our Digital Technology Accessibility - University of Colorado
  • Moving Ahead on ADA Technology Issues - University of Colorado
  • Jones appointed Chief Digital Accessibility Officer - University of Colorado
  • Timeline - University of Colorado
• University of Kentucky
  • University of Kentucky Complaint (PDF)
  • University of Kentucky Settlement (AP Story)
• University of Maryland
  • Questionable Captions - Allie Grasgreen
  • National Association of the Deaf (NAD) lawsuit against the University of Maryland College Park
  • Caption lawsuit expands, plaintiffs file two additional complaints - "Along with failing to provide captioning for announcer’s comments on scoreboards and Jumbotrons, the university lacks captioning on media published on the athletic department’s website" - Annika McGinnis
• University of Montana
  • Agreement Requires UM to Improve Accessibility - Montana Kaimin
  • Disabled UM Students File Complaint Over Inaccessible Online Courses - Keula Spaller
  • University of Montana Reaches Agreement to Develop New Accessible Technology Policies - Global Accessibility News
  • UM Agreement to Improve Services to Students With Disabilities - University of Montana
  • UM Reaches Agreement to Develop New Accessibility Policies, Disability Training - The Missoulian
  • University of Montana Resolution Agreement (PDF) - U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
• University of Phoenix
  • University of Phoenix Letter (PDF)
  • University of Phoenix Settlement Agreement (PDF)
• University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
  • University of Virginia's Darden School of Business Letter of Resolution (PDF) - Office for Civil Rights
  • Darden School of Business Complaint
• Vero Beach, Florida Settlement Agreement
• Web Accessibility and the Law - Joseph C. Dolson
• Web Accessibility Law in Higher Education - Jonathan Whiting
• Web Accessibility, Structured Negotiations and DOJ Rulemaking - Lainey Feingold
• Web Accessibility Sues and Settlements in 2014 - Rakesh Paladugula
• Website Accessibility Laws Guide - International - Tim Lohman
• Websites Hit with Demand Letters on Accessibility Issues Despite Courts' Rejection of Claim - David McDowell
• Weight Watchers Print and Digital Accessibility Settlement Agreement - The Law Office of Lainey Feingold
• Wellpoint
  • New Accessibility Agreement - WCAG 2.0 AA Standard for Web and Mobile - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
• What Happens When You Get Sued for Your Inaccessible Website - Karl Groves
• What to do When You Get Sued... (revisited) - Karl Groves
• When the DOJ/OCR Makes a Visit - Lessons Learned in Resolving Complaints About Inaccessible IT (Video) - 3Play Media
• Yakima County, Washington Settlement Agreement
• Youngstown State University
  • Youngstown State University Gets Schooled by DOE for Non-Compliant Website - Bureau of Internet Accessibility
  • Youngstown State University Settles Federal Complaint Over Accessibility of Website for People with Disabilities - U.S. Department of Education
  • Youngstown State University Resolution Letter (PDF) - U.S. Department of Education
  • Youngstown State University Resolution Agreement (PDF) - U.S. Department of Education

Lists

• HTML Lists and Accessibility - Rakesh Paladugula
• Unordered Lists: More Than Just Bullets - Brian Huisman

Low Vision

• Access to Visual Flexibilty Including Word Wrapping - Wayne Dick
• Every Little Thing The Refresh Does For Low Vision Users... - Denis Boudreau
• Exclusion of Visual Readers with Low Vision form WCAG 2.0 and the 508 Revise - Wayne Dick
• Low Vision Proposal - Needs - Wayne Dick
• Low Vision Survey Results - Jared Smith
• The 508 Refresh Low Vision TimeBomb - Denis Boudreau
• The Low-Vision Experience with an iPad - Ted Drake
• Written Testimony to the US Access Board from the California Council of Citizens with Low Vision - Wayne E. Dick
  • Second Written Comment to the Access Board about the 508 Refresh - Wayne Dick

Mobile

• 10 Tips for Applying WCAG 2.0 to Mobile Sites (PDF) - Janet Sylvia
• 5 Tips to Improve the Web for Mobility/Dexterity Disabilities - Kathy Wahlbin
• Mobile Accessibility - How WCAG 2.0 and Other W3C/WAI Guidelines Apply to Mobile - W3C
• Accessible RWD - Alastair Campbell
• Accessimobility - Jeremy Keith
• Accessibility Summit - Integrating Accessibility Across Devices - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• Accessibility Three Ways - iOS Implementation Case Studies - Sommer Panage
• Android Accessibility - The Missing Manual - Ted Drake
• Call for Review: Mobile Accessibility - How WCAG 2.0 and Other W3C/WAI Guidelines Apply - Shawn Henry
• Crossing Over - Bringing Mobile Innovations to Accessibility - Derek Featherstone
• Five Fundamentals of Accessible Responsive Web Design - Anna Belle
• Focus Control and Mobile Accessibility - Ted Drake
• From WCAG 1.0 to MWBP: Making content that meets Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 also meet Mobile Web Best Practices
• Getting to Grips with a Mobile Accessibility Strategy - Henny Swan
• Hot New iPhone Apps by Irresponsible Developers - Joe Clark
• How Accessibility Impacts Responsive Design - Sailesh Panchang
• How Blind People Use The iPhone 4S - Accessibility, Twitter, You Tube, Siri - Tommy Edison
• Let the Mobile Web Learn From and Not Repeat the Mistakes of Desktop Development - Henny Swan
• Make Your iOS app Accessible with VoiceOver - Leonie Watson
  • Testing and Debugging iOS Accessibility for VoiceOver - Leonie Watson
• Matt May Talks About How Accessibility Has Influenced Mobile development and Design (Video) - Matt May
• Mobile Accessibility Guidelines - British Broadcasting Corporation
• Mobile Accessibility - infotech.NEWS
• Mobile Accessibility Fails: Do we need a WCAG3? - Gian Wild
• Mobile Assistive Technology Gesture References - Adrian Roselli New!
• Mobile Accessibility - Ted Drake
• Mobile Accessibility - W3C WAI Education and Outreach Working Group
• Mobile Accessibility and the Operable Principle - Virginia DeBolt
• Mobile Accessibility and the Perceivable Principle By Virginia DeBolt
• Mobile Accessibility and the Robust Principle - Virginia DeBolt
• Mobile Accessibility and the Understandable Principle - Virginia DeBolt
• Mobile Accessibility Examples from Implementing UAAG 2.0 - W3C
• Mobile Accessibility - How WCAG 2.0 and Other W3C-WAI Guidelines Apply to Mobile - Kim Patch, Jeanne Spellman, and Kathy Wahlbin Editors
• Mobile Accessibility - Indie UI, New Resources and Exciting Times Ahead - Scott Hollier
• Mobile Accessibility - Moving With the Times - Chris Bailey
• Mobile Accessibility Presentation at CSUN 2012 - Henny Swan
• Mobile Accessibility Survey - Kelly Ford
• Mobile Accessibility Tests - Henny Swan
• Mobile Accessibility Tip - Don't Suppress Pinch Zoom - Henny Swan
  • Don't Disable Pinch to Zoom - Jamie Knight
• Mobile Accessibility Survey - The Paciello Group
• Mobile Browser Support for ARIA Roles, States, and Properties - Jonathan Avila
• Mobile Devices
• Mobile APP-cessibility - A Holistic Approach - Digital Access Team
• Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
• Mobile Web 2009 = Desktop Web 1998 - Jakob Nielsen
• Podcast #97: Responsive Design and Accessibility - Dennis E. Lembree
• President Obama Orders Government Agencies To Optimize Websites For Mobile Web Accessibility - James Johnson
• Relationship Between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) - Alan Chuter and Yeliz Yesilada, Editors
• Resources for Mobile Accessibility Guidelines - Henny Swan
• Screen Reader Software Usage Shifts on Desktop and Mobile - Henny Swan
• Screen Reader Support for Abbr and Span on Mobile - Henny Swan
• Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities
• Supporting the Keyboard for Mobile - Devon Persing
• Table of Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities - Web Accessibility Initiative
• Takeaways From Mobile Accessibility 101 - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• Talk is Cheap - Screen Reader Testing on Mobile - Henny Swan
• Think Your Mobile App can Avoid the ADA? Well, Think Again... - Kelley Drye, et al.
• The Beginner's Guide to Accessible Mobile UI Design - Proto.io
• Trends in Mobile Device Use by People with Disabilities - Jonathan Avila
• Top Ten Tests for Alternatives on Mobile - Henny Swan
• Thoughts Around Universal Access on Mobile from Accessibility 2.0 - Henny Swan
• Touch
  • Blind People Using Touchscreens - The Issues - Incobs
  • Question About Touchscreens and Blind Users - Derek Featherstone
  • Touch Accessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired - University of Minnesota Duluth
  • (Touch) Test Results - Patrick H. Lauke
• Use Consistent Text Alternatives Across Desktop and Mobile - Henny Swan
• Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices
• What Accessibility Standards Apply to Mobile Applications? - Jonathan Avila
• What Does Responsive Web Design Have to do with Accessibility? - Jonathan Avila
• Why Do Native Mobile Apps Seem to Win All the Time? - Marco Zehe
• Why Mobile Web Accessibility Matters - Best Practices to Make Your Mobile Site Accessible - soederquist
• Why the Mobile Web Must Mirror the Desktop - techradar

Multimedia

• Media Accessibility User Requirements - W3C

Autoplay

• Autoplay is Bad for All Users - Emma Sax

Audio Description

• A Day in the Life of an Audio Describer - Paul Crichton
• A New Appreciation for Audio Description - Elizabeth Simister
• Accessible Audio Descriptions for HTML5 Video - James Edwards
• Audio Description in Safari and Yosemite? - Terrill Thompson
• Audio Description for Media and Live Performance (Video) - Martin Wilde
• Autistic Spectrum, Captions and Audio Description - Judith Garman
• Best Practices for the Audio Description of Live Events - Robert Pearson
• Description Key
• CVAA Video Programming Requirements - Video Description - Sam Joehl
• FCC Submits Report to Congress on Video Description - Netflix Project
• Guidelines for the Description of Educational Media
• Guidelines for Audio Description on Videos - accessiq
• How to Make Videos Accessible to the Blind by Adding Described Audio (Video) - ddblue0
• LiveDescribe Audio Description Work - Katerina
• Provide a Second Video Version Complete With Audio Description - Denis Boudreau
• Standards for Audio Description and Code of Professional Conduct for Describers (PDF) - Audio Description Coalition
• Using HTML5 and Javascript to Deliver Text-Based Audio Descriptions - IBM and The National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
• What is Audio Description? - Leonie Watson
• What is Audio Description? - National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education

Captioning

• 1.2.1 Audio-only and Video-only (Prerecorded) - Rakesh Paladugula
• Accessibility/Video Accessibility - Mozilla
• Are All Video Captions Equally Accessible? - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• Amara Makes Video More Accessible - Virginia DeBolt
• Between the Lines - Catherine Roy
• Caption Everything - Dave Rupert
• Caption It Yourself - Basic Guidelines for Busy Teachers, Families, and Others Who Shoot Their Own Video - Bill Stark
• Captions Improve Learning - Study - Jonathan Morales
• Capturing and Captioning a Screen Reader Demo - Becky Gibson.
• Captioning FAQ - Media Access Group
• Captioning Key - Described and Captioned Media Program
• Captioning Video Gets Easier - Paul Crichton
• Captioning Videos in Facebook - Facebook
• Captioning, Transcripts and a Teachable Moment - John Foliot
• Captions - Jared Smith
• Captions in Everyday Use - Aadrian Roselli
• Captions, Audio Descriptions and Transcripts (Video) - Gosia Mlynarczyk
• Closed Captioning of Internet Protocol-Delivered Video Programming: Implementation of the Twenty-First Century - The Federal Communications Commission
• Closed Captioning Resources - High Tech Center Training Unit
• Could Your Company's Videos Get You Sued for ADA Noncompliance? - Deque Systems
• Did You Know? 80 Percent of People Who Use Closed Captions Are Not Hard of Hearing - Lily Bond
• Do It Yourself Transcripts and Captions - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• Even More About Captioning Video - John Eric Brandt
• Facebook Rolls Out Video Captioning - Adrian Redden
• FCC - Online Video Caption Requirements Go Forward - Chris Tribbey
• Find Out How Closed Captioning Can Make a Big Difference for Your Online Videos - Karine Joly
• Google's Smart Captioning Move - Suzanne Robitaille
• Institutional Guidelines on Captioning - Cyndi Rowland
• No More Excuses - Subtitle Your YouTube Videos - Christian Heilmann
• My Captioning Workflow - Michael Lockrey
• On Adding Captions to Videos - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• Online Video Captioning - Jen Rohrig
• Stop Making Excuses and Start Captioning Your Videos - Lydia L. Callis
• Subtitle Quality - The British Broadcasting Corporation
• Video Captioning: Part 1 of 2 - Colleen Burns
  • Video Captioning: Part 2 of 2 - Colleen Burns
• Video Captions Improve Comprehension, Professor Finds - Eurek Alert
• WebVTT and Captioning on the Web - Silvia Pfeiffer
• Working with Captions - Mamta H. Tandel
• What Are Captions? - Leonie Watson
• Why Captioning? - John Foliot and Sean Keegan

Streaming (live or real-time)

• Real-time captioning - Media Access Group

Transcripts

• A Transcript Extension for HTML - Chaals McCathie Nevile, editor
• Aim For the Stars - Pragmatism and Transcripts - Derek Featherstone
• Amp Up Accessibility of Your Videos: Add Transcripts - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• Benefits of Transcripts and Captions for Your Videos and Podcasts - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• Crowdscribing - Jeremy Keith
• Do It Yourself Transcripts and Captions - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• G158: Providing an alternative for time-based media for audio-only content
• G159: Providing an alternative for time-based media for video-only content
• Tools and Tips for Creating Transcripts - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• Transcription Style Guide - Michael Lockrey
• Transcripts and Captions - Do-It-Yourself or Outsource? - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• Transcripts on the Web - Shawn Lawton Henry
• Transcribing Podcasts - Jeremy Keith
• What are Transcripts? - Leonie Watson
• When Should You Provide Transcription? - Tom Babinszki

YouTube

• Accessibility and the YouTube Players - Terrill Thompson
• Automatic Captions in YouTube - Google
• Captioning YouTube Videos - John E. Brandt
• Captions and YouTube - Dennis Lembree
• Craptions.To.Captions (Article) - Michael Lockrey a.k.a. @TheDeafGuy
  • Craptions.To.Captions (Tool)
• Edit (YouTube) Captions - Google
• How to Upload Transcripts to YouTube Videos - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• There's One Setting You Need to Change on Your YouTube Channel Right Now! - Michael Lockrey
  • Accessibility Advocacy and Pragmatism - Pratik Patel
• YouTube Accessibility - WebAIM Thread
• YouTube Launches CaptionTube: A Caption Editor - Josh Lowensohn
• YouTube Will Automatically Caption Your Video - Adrian A. Roselli
• YouTube's Automatic Captions Prove Insufficient for ADA Compliance - Courtney Duerig New!

Multimedia Related Info

• 1.2: Time-based Media: Provide alternatives for time-based media. - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
• 10 Things Everyone Can Do to Improve Access to Media - Media Access Australia
• Accessible Digital Media - Geoff Freed and Madeleine Rothberg
• Accessible and Responsive HTML5 Video Player - Laura Kalbag
• Accessible HTML5 Video with JW Player as Fallback - Terrill Thompson
• Accessible HTML5 Media Players and More - Dennis Lembree
• Accessible Media Player Resources and Demos - Henny Swan
• Accessible Online Video for Keyboard-Only Users - Trenton Moss
• Acknowledging the Elephant in the Room - Moving Toward Media Accessibility - Rahul Gonsalves
• Accessible Website Videos Remain a Work in Progress - Chris Mikul
• An Introduction to WebVTT and <track> - Ian Devlin
• Audio and Multimedia - Jim Thatcher
• Audio Control - Rakesh Paladugula Audio Control - Rakesh Paladugula
• Avoid Background Sounds When Sharing Audio Files - Denis Boudreau
• Comparison of Browsers on HTML5 Video Accessibility - 2015 Update - Terrill Thompson
• Creating Accessible Video - Gian Wild
• Creating Your Own Accessible HTML5 Media Player - Terrill Thompson
• HTML5 Video Accessibility: Updates, Features, & Guidelines (Video) - John Foliot
  • Key Takeaways from HTML5 Video Accessibility - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• How do You Solve the Accessible Video and Audio Challenge? - Glenda Sims
• Introducing an Accessible HTML5 Video Player - Dennis Lembree
• How to Make Videos Accessible for Blind, Disabled Users - Joseph C. Dolson New!
• I Will Tell You Later - Svetlana Kouznetsova
• Make Video Accessible, Localized, Mobile and Searchable by Captioning - Henny Swan
• Making Video and Audio Usable For The Deaf - Joseph C. Dolson
• Media Accessibility User Requirements - By Judy Brewer, John Foliot, Geoff Freed, Silvia Pfeiffer, and Janina Sajka
• Media Player Accessibility Comparison Chart - Ohio State University Web Accessibility Center
• Mix Audio so Foreground Speech is Louder than Background Sounds - Denis Boudreau
• Multimedia Accessibility FAQ - Shawn Lawton Henry, Editor
• Open University Media Player Passes Accessibility Test - Dan Jellinek
• Outsourcing Video Accessibility - The 5 Key Questions - Alex Varley
• Quick Tip - Don't Auto-Play Video, Music and More - A11Y Project
• Secret Life of an Accessible Media Player - Henny Swan
• Tips for Making Web Video and Audio Accessible - Emily Griffin
• The American Foundation for the Blind Launches an Accessible HTML5 Video Player - Jamie Pauls
• Two New Options for Creating Accessible Video Content - Luis Perez
• Using HTML5 and Javascript to Deliver Accessible Supplemental Materials - The National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
• WCAG 2.0 Audio Audio Contrast Tool Help For Success Criteria 1.4.7. - eramp

Open Source

• Lynx Browser and Accessibility - Steve Grobschmidt
• OpenOffice.org and Accessibility Part 1: Writer - WebAIM
• Why Open Source Needs Accessibility Standards - Shaun Gillies

Plugins, PDF, PowerPoint, Documents etc.

• 10 Short Videos to Improve Document Accessibility - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• A New Standard for PDF Accessibility: PDF/UA - Matt May
• Accessible PDFs and the Potential of PDF/UA - Tim Lohman
• Accessibility Cheat Sheets - Gaining Online Accessible Learning through Self-study (GOALS)
• Accessibility Improvements in Adobe Acrobat XI - Jonathan Whiting
• Accessibility Testing PDF Creation Tools - Ted Page
• Accessibility Requirements for eDMs: Part 1 - accessiq
• Acrobat DC and Reader DC Accessibility Update - Matt May
• Acrobat XI Accessibility - Matt May
• Are These PDFs Accessible? - Roger Hudson
• Automated PDF Accessibility Testing - Alastair Campbell
• Cherished Lies of the Blind - Joe Clark
• CommonLook PDF GlobalAccess - Jared Smith
• Converting Word to PDF or HTML - Options for Accessibility - Terrill Thompson
• Cleaning up Word HTML with Regular Expressions - Terrill Thompson
• Create Bookmarks from the Content Structure in PDF Documents - Denis Boudreau
• Creating Accessible Links in PDFs - Ted Page
• Creating Accessible PDF Documents In Adobe Acrobat XI - National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE)
• Creating Accessible Microsoft Office 2010 Documents - The Texas Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities
• Comparing Tagged PDFs from Office and Acrobat - Alistair Campbell
• Creating Accessible PDF Forms using Adobe Acrobat Professional - Sean Keegan
• Creating Accessible PDF Documents with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 - Sean Keegan
• Defining Acrobat PDF Accessibility - WebAIM
• Each PDF Page is a Painting - Why PDF 'Reading Order' is Irrelevant to Accessibility - Duff Johnson
• Faculty Member Says "HELP - I can't tag my PDF articles" - Cyndi Rowland
• Flash
• Here We Go Again With Untagged PDFs - Joe Clark
• How to Convert Word Documents to HTML - DeborahEdwards-Onoro
• Implementing a PDF Reduction Strategy - Dey Alexander
• Inaccessible by Choice - PDF on MacOS - Duff Johnson
• 'International Perspective' - Joe Clark
• Is PDF Accessible?
• Is PDF Accessible in Australia? - Roger Hudson
• Learning to Love Headings in Microsoft Word - Jonathan Whiting
• No 'PDF Only' or 'Word Only' Content - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• NVDA and PDF Table Accessibility - Ted Page
• Office 2007 PDFs - Not Accessible - Alastair Campbell
• PDF - ISO Standard - Stephen Partridge
• PDF Accessibility - WebAIM
• PDF Accessibility - Accessible Forms in Acrobat XI - WebAIM
• PDF Accessibility: Adding Alt Text to Images - Virginia DeBolt
• PDF Accessibility Starts with the Author - Matt May
• PDF Association releases Matterhorn Protocol, the Definitive Accessibility Testing Model for PDF Documents and Forms - PDF Association
• PDF Documents and Accessibility Support - Ramon Corominas
• PDF Forms and WCAG 2.0 - Mike Paciello
• PDF is Overused - Joe Clark
• PDF Post to the WebAIM list - Wayne Dick
• PDF Techniques for WCAG 2.0 - W3C WAI
• PDF Test Results by Assistive Technology - Gian Wild
• PDF/UA and Skipped Headings - Ted Page
• PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption - Jakob Nielsen
• PowerPoint Accessibility - WebAIM
• PR: PDFAloud - Accessibility Breakthrough for Adobe Acrobat, PDFs - Planet PDF
• Reference Card for Accessible PDF Creation from Word - Andrew Kirkpatrick
• Requirements for an Accessible PDF - Denis Boudreau
  • Requirements for an Accessible PDF: Part 2 - Common Accessibility Barriers - Denis Boudreau
  • Requirements for Accessible PDF Part 3 - Authoring Best Practices - Deque Systems
  • Requirements for Accessible PDF part Four - Proper Conversion Process - Denis Boudreau
• Reviewing PDF/UA-related Comments on the Section 508 NPRM - Duff Johnson
• RNIB Media Briefing on Accessible PDFs - Mike Davies
• Skipping Heading Levels - Accessibility Considerations (in PDFs) - Duff Johnson
• Strategy for Handling Legacy PDF Accessibility - Leonie Watson
• Strategies for PDF Accessibility - Comparing 'Tagged PDF' approach to 'Accessibility for the Masses' - Duff Johnson
• The Pain of Accessible PDFs from MS Word on Mac - Test Results - Greg Kraus
• To PDF or Not to PDF? Online Accessibility for People with Disabilities
• Unifying WCAG and PDF/UA for PDF Footers - David Mac Donald
• WCAG 2.0 and PDF/UA - Andrew Kirkpatrick
• WCAG 2.0 Techniques for PDF - Andrew Kirkpatrick
• What is PDF/UA all About, Anyway? - Matt May
• When to Use PDF - F. Rainne
• Word Doesn't Do Section 508, PDF Gets the Blame - Duff Johnson
• Why Document Accessibility and PDF/UA Matters - Tim Lohman
• You Reap What You Sow: The Australian Government's Report on PDF Accessibility - Duff Johnson
  • PDF vs HTML for Organisations - Alastair Campbell

Relative sizing

• Font Sizing
• Liquid Design
• Line Length

Scripts

• Javascript Accessibility
• Scripts and Applets - Jim Thatcher
• Testing Script Generated Pages - Cari Burstein

Skip Links

Social Inclusion

• Advancements in the Accessibility of Facebook - Marco Zehe
• a11y Bugs Project - Vlad Alexander
• Accessible Twitter, Accessible Tweets - Matthew Smith
• Anti-Social - Feds Wonder Why Social Media Companies Drag Feet on Accessibility Issues - Greg Otto
• Conversations About Social Media Accessibility - Jennifer Smith
• Fix the Web - Fix the Web
  • 'Fix The Web' In Struggle For Survival - Dan Jellinek
• Improving the Accessibility of Social Media in Government - Digital Gov
• Social Networks and Accessibility - A Not So Sad Picture - Marco Zehe
• Solving Web Accessibility - Leaving No One Behind (Video) - David Berman
• Survey on Social Networking Sites - The American Foundation for the Blind

Structure & Semantics

• 2.4.6 Headings and Labels - Rakesh Paladugula
• Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 3 - Information and Relationships - Dey Alexander
• Accessible HTML Heading Markup - Sailesh Panchang
• Categories of Semantics - Joe Clark
• Heading Navigation in Web Browsers - Roger Johansson
• Headings - Screen Reader Compatibility - Mark Rogers
• Heading Structure - Accessibility for Designers - Access iQ
• Heading Structure For Accessibility - Rakesh Paladugula
• Headings and Document Structure Conclusions - Roger Johansson
• Headings and Labels - Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 10 - Dey Alexander
• Headings and Lists - Are You Using Them Correctly? - Alastair Campbell
• Headings, Heading Hierarchy, and Document Outlines - Roger Johansson
• Headings: Who needs 'em? - Roger Hudson
• HTML5 Ranked Headings for Screen Readers - Leonie Watson
• Make Sure Your HTML5 Document Outline is Backwards Compatible - Roger Johansson
• Importance of HTML Headings for Accessibility - Raymond Selda
• Learning to Love Headings in Microsoft Word - Jonathan Whiting
• On Using H1 for All Heading Levels in HTML5 - Roger Johansson
• Organize Content Using Hierarchically Nested Headings - Denis Boudreau
• Optimize Your Writing for Users with Impaired Vision - Virginia DeBolt
• Provide Meaningful Section Headings to Every Section of a Document - Denis Boudreau
• Semantic Structure - WebAIM
• Semantics and Accessibility - Heading Structure - Matt Long
• Section Headings - Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 11 - Dey Alexander
• The Structure of Accessible Pages - Joe Clark
• Use Structural Markup - Andrew B. King
• Use <h1> for top-level heading - W3C
• Using HTML Headings - Leonie Watson
• Using HTML Lists - Leonie Watson
• Use Headings to Structure your Document - W3C
• Using HTML5 Headings - Leonie Watson
• Using Structural Markup - The University of Durham
• Warning About Multiple H1... - Jukka K. Korpela

Style Sheets (Accessibility)

• Control the Visual Presentation of Text Using CSS - Denis Boudreau
• Creating Accessible CSS - WebAIM
• CSS Accessibility Community Group - W3C Community
  • CSS Accessibility - What Next? - Steve Faulkner
• CSS and Accessibility - Richard Rutter
• CSS and Text Content - Screen Reader Compatibility - Mark Rogers
• CSS, Accessibility, and You (Video) - Derek Featherstone
• CSS Background Images and High Contrast Mode - Adrian Roselli
• CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
• Ensure High Contrast for Text Over Images - Aurora Bedford
• High Contrast Mode Primer - Becky Gibson
• How Our CSS Framework Helps Enforce Accessibility - Ian McBurnie
• Notes on Accessible CSS Image Sprites - Steve Faulkner
• Rely on CSS and Not Images of Text to Present Section Headings - Denis Boudreau
• Using the Web Speech API to Simulate CSS Speech Support - Leonie Watson
• Use CSS Rather than Table Markup for Page Layout - Denis Boudreau
• Why CSS is Important for Accessibility - Alastair Campbell

Tables

• Accessible Data Tables - Leonie Watson
• Accessible Data Tables with Static Headers - Gez Lemon
• Accessible Tables - Jim Thatcher
• Accessible Tables - Tom Babinszki
• Avoid Purely Visual Display of Tabular Information - Denis Boudreau
• Break Complex Data Tables in Smaller, Simpler Data Tables - Denis Boudreau
• Clearing Up Summary - Dennis Lembree
• Creating Accessible Tables - WebAIM
• Creating Structured Tables - Isofarro
• Data Tables and Accessibility - Rakesh Paladugula
• Data Tables Do Not Always Need Markup for Header Cells? - Sailesh Panchang
• Data Tables: Exposing Row Headers - Sailesh Panchang
• Does a Simple Data Table Need to Expose Row and Column Headers? - Sailesh Panchang
• Help Screen Reader Users by Giving Data Tables a Summary - Roger Johansson
• HTML, CSS and Tables: The Beauty of Data - Chris Heilmann
• HTML5 Caption Element and Headings - Gez Lemon
• Is ARIA for Content Doomed to Failure? - Vlad Alexander
• JAWS Ate My Tables - Jared Smith
• Layout Tables - Dennis Lembree
• Layout Tables and Repair Techniques - Gez Lemon
• Notes on Fixing Incorrect Table Structure Using ARIA - Steve Faulkner
• Source Order Matters - Adrian Roselli
• Source Order and Display Order Should Match - Roger Johansson
• Purpose of the summary Attribute - Gez Lemon
• Structure Tabular Information Using Table Markup - Denis Boudreau
• Use Scope Attributes to Associate Cells in Complex Data Tables - Denis Boudreau
• Use the th Element to Specify Row and Column Headers in Data Tables - Roger Johansson
• Writing for the Web #6: Freeing your Content from HTML Tables Used for Layout - Linnea Ann Williams

Testing, Checking, Validating

• 5 Things You Should Know Before Buying Accessibility Audit and Accreditation Services - Jonathan Hassell
• 10 Accessibility Checks in 10 Minutes - Rakesh Paladugula
• 60 Seconds to Learn How to Make Your Website More Accessible? - David Kennedy
• A Challenge to Accessibility Testing Tool Vendors - Karl Groves
• A Principled Argument - Matt May
• A Workflow for Testing Web Accessibility with Free Tools - David A. Kennedy
• Accessibility Barrier Scores - Roger Hudson
• Accessibility Checklists Can be Helpful if Used Right - Roger Johansson
• Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology - W3C
• Accessibility Evaluators Aren't Worthless - Mike Cherim
• Accessibility Lifecycle - Alastair Campbell
• Accessibility Priority Tool - Roger Hudson
• Accessibility Prioritization - Laying the Foundation with a Strategic Plan, Part 1 - Glenda Sims
• Accessibility Testing and Multiple Platforms - Dylan Barrell
• Accessibility Testing and Reporting with TAW3 - Patrick H. Lauke
• Accessibility Testing - Establishing a Screen Reader Test Plan - Henny Swan
• Accessibility Testing in Android Studio - Ted Drake
• Accessibility Testing In Web Browsers - Brian Kelly
• Accessibility Testing, Research and Development - Suzanne Taylor
• Accessibility Testing Software Compared - Steve Faulkner
• Accessibility Testing Tools - Updated - Steve Faulkner
• Accessibility Tests - Russ Weakley
• Accessibility Tools for Quality Assurance: Color Contrast - Martin Kliehm
• Affirming the Consequent - Karl Groves
  • Datasets Employed in the Paper 'Benchmarking Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: Measuring the Harm of Sole Reliance on Automated Tests' - Markel Vigo
• Alexa 100 Accessibility Errors - Jared Smith
• Are Accessibility Evaluation Tools Useless? - Roger Johansson
• Assistive Technology Experiment - ZoomText - Jon Whiting
• Basic Screen Reader Commands for Accessibility Testing - Leonie Watson
• Beware the Automated Accessibility Tool Trap - Trenton Moss
• Certification and Testing - Joe Clark
• Choosing an Automated Accessibility Testing Tool - 13 Questions You Should Ask - Karl Groves
• Conducting User Evaluations with People with Disabilities - IBM
• Confirming a Web Site's Accessibility - Mike Cherim
• Developer Tools to Help Check Web Accessibility - Emily Coward
• Do Accessibility Checkers have a Place in QA? - Wilco Fiers
• Don't Just Tick Boxes - Mel Pedley
• Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility Updated Draft - W3C
• Efficiency in Accessibility Testing or, Why Usability Testing Should be Last - Karl Groves
• Evaluating for Accessibility - Shawn Lawton Henry and Mary Grossnickle
• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility -Web Accessibility Initiative
• 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
• Everything You Know About Accessibility Testing is Wrong, Part 1 - Karl Groves
• Everything You Know About Accessibility Testing is Wrong, Part 2 - Karl Groves
• Everything You Know About Accessibility is Wrong, Part 3 - Karl Groves
• Everything You Know About Accessibility Testing is Wrong, Part 4 - Karl Groves
• Four Different Ways To Test Web Accessibility - Joe Clark
• Getting Accessibility Testing Right - Leonie Watson
• Getting Started with Accessibility Assessments - Andrew Arch, Sofia Celic, Steve Faulkner, and Brian Hardy
• Handling Erratic Behaviour With AT - Gez Lemon
• Is Testing With A Screen Reader Enough? - Kathy Wahlbin
• How To Evaluate A Web Site's Accessibility Level - David Sloan
• How to Use the WAVE Tool to Test and Boost Site Accessibility - Virginia DeBolt
• How to Structure an Accessibility Review - Joseph Dolson
• How to Use NVDA and Firefox to Test Your Web Pages for Accessibility - Marco Zehe
• In Defense of Checklist Accessibility - Karl Groves
• 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)
• Measuring Accessibility - Roger Hudson
• Making Accessibility More Real - Roger Johansson
• On Accessibility and Validity - Matt May
• Pitfalls of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools - Peter Krantz
• Question About Testing on Screen Readers - Jared Smith
• Remaining Challenges of Measuring the Accessibility of Web Sites According to WCAG 2.0 - egovernments
• Research Report on Web Accessibility Metrics - W3C
• Rocket Surgery and Accessibility User Testing - Jared Smith
• Quail Accessibility Testing Framework - 2014 Project Conclusion Report - J. Renee Beach
• Quick Test - Navigate Using Just Your Keyboard - A11Y Project
• Screen Reader Testing is Back in Style - Jon Whiting
• Screen Readers as a Development Tool for Web Developers - WebAIM Thread
• Setting Up a Screen Reader Test Environment - Henny Swan
• Some Thoughts on Automated Web Accessibility Testing - Karl Groves
• Testing for Presence in an Invisible Interface - Brandon McCartney
• Testing for Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• Testing Web Content for Screen Readers without a Screen Reader- Henny Swan
• Testing HTML for 508 Compliance Course - Department of Veterans Affairs
• Testing Invalid Content with Accessibility Validators - Gez Lemon
• Testing with Screen Readers: A Hypothetical Conversation - WebAIM
• Testing Web Content for Accessibility - WebAIM
• The Simple Guide to Web Accessibility Testing (Part 1) - Software Testing Help
• The 6 Simplest Web Accessibility Tests Anyone Can Do - Karl Groves
• The Value of Involving People with Disabilities in User Research - Sarah Horton
• The Ultimate Accessible HTML and CSS Checklist for Developers: Part I - accessiq
• The WAVE Accessibility Tool - Laura Calson
• This One Secret Will Save you $100,000 on Accessibility - Karl Groves
• Understanding the Basics of Web Accessibility Testing - Denis Boudreau
• User Testing for Web Accessibility - Toby Biddle
• Using NVDA to Evaluate Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• UN Survey
  • 97 Percent of Websites Still Inaccessible - Roger Johansson
• 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
• 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 JAWS to Evaluate Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• Using NVDA to Evaluate Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• Website Accessibility Audits - Three Common Fails - Tim Lohman
• Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List - W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
• Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools Need People - Shawn Lawton Henry
• Website Accessibility Metrics - Online Symposium - Simon Harper
• Web Accessibility Testing - Jim Thatcher et al.
• Web Accessibility Testing: Do Automatic Testing First - Karl Groves
• Web Accessibility Testing: What Can be Tested and How - Karl Groves
• Web Accessibility Testing Tools - Who tests the DOM? - Karl Groves
• What is an Accessibility Audit? - Leonie Watson
• Web Accessibility is a Mindset Not a Checklist - Amajjika Kumara
• Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 1.0 - Eric Velleman and Shadi Abou-Zahra, editors
  • WCAG-EM Report Tool - W3C WAI

Text Alternatives and Text Equivalents

• 1.1.1 Non-Text Content - Rakesh Paladugula
• A Call for Consistent Display of alt text Across Browsers - Roger Johansson
• A Super Simple Way to Make Images Accessible: Alt Text versus Title Explained - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• Accessible Charts and Information Graphics - Tim Lohman
• Accessible Responsive Images - Ted Drake
• Adding ALT Text in Blogger - John Eric Brandt
• All About Alt Text - Marie Mosley
• 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 Attributes for Images - Matt Cutts
• Alt Text is an Alternative, Not a Tooltip - Roger Johansson
• Alt Texts - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• Appropriate Use of Alternative Text - Jared Smith
• ARIA-describedby - Rakesh Paladugula
• Automated Descriptions
  • A Picture is Worth a Thousand (Coherent) Words: Building a Natural Description of Images - Oriol Vinyals, Alexander Toshev, Samy Bengio, and Dumitru Erhan
    • Google Automatic Alts? - WebAim Thread
    • The ALTernative Debate - John Eric Brandt
  • Alt Text Bot Image Descriptions FTW - Adrian Roselli
  • Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions - Andrej Karpathy and Li Fei-Fei
• Best Practices for Accessible Diagram Design (Draft) - Detlev Fischer
• 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
• Configuring Internet Explorer to Handle Longdesc - Sean Hayes
• Creating Accessible Images - WebAIM
• Creating an Accessible Infographic - Michael Guill
• CSS Background Images Cannot and Should Not Have Alternate Text - Roger Johansson
• Decision Trees for Text Alternatives:
  • A Simple alt Text Decision Tree - Steve Faulkner
  • An alt Decision Tree - W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
  • Text Alternatives for Images: A Decision Tree - Dey Alexander
• Describing Images for Improved Web Accessibility - Michelle Williamson
• Defining Multiple Captions and alt Text for Responsive Images - Ian Devlin
• Do We Need Three Ways to Describe Images? - Vlad Alexander
• Endangered Species of the Web - The Image - Christian Heilmann
• Effective Practices for Description of Science Content within Digital Talking Book - NCAM
• Ensure ATs Ignore Images that are Purely Decorative and Repetitive - Deque
• Guideline 1.1. Provide Text Alternatives - Olga Revilla
• Guidelines on alt Texts in img Elements - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• How is Accessibility Made? - Vlad Alexander
• How Do We Save Longdesc? - Vlad Alexander
• How Do Web Browsers Perform When Copying and Pasting Alternate Text? - Vlad Alexander
• How Should Web Browsers Render Alternative Text? - Vlad Alexander
• HTML5 Accessibility Chops - SVG Text Alternative Example - Steve Faulkner
• HTML5 Image Description Extension Charles McCathie Nevile, editor
  • HTML 5 Image Description Extension; New Web Accessibility Tutorial on Images - Geoff Freed
  • Implementation Report: W3C HTML5 Image Description Extension (longdesc) - Charles McCathie Nevile and Liam R. E. Quin, editors
  • Re: Formal Objection to Advancing the HTML Image Description Document Along the REC Track - Tim Berners-Lee, Ralph Swick, Judy Brewer, and Philippe Le Hegaret
  • HTML Image Description Extension (longdesc) is a W3C Recommendation - Shawn Henry
• HTML5: Techniques for Providing Useful Text Alternatives - Steve Faulkner, editor
• How the W3C Text Alternative Computation Works - Bryan Garaventa
• I Turned Off Email Images for a Month...and Here's What I Saw - Kirsti Scott
• Infographic Accessibility - Text is Text - Derek Featherstone
• Image alt Attributes Not Always Required in HTML5 - Adrian A. Roselli
• Image alt Exception Change Re-Re-Re-Requested - Adrian Roselli
• Image Identification Project - Wolfram.
• Images are Already About Accessibility - Megan Erin Miller
• Images in Context - Derek Featherstone
• Images of Text - Rakesh Paladugula
• Images of Text - Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 7 - Dey Alexander
• Is ARIA for Content Doomed to Failure? - Vlad Alexander
• Invisible Visualization - Doug Schepers
• How I Hear - Andrew Walker
• Testing Labeling Icons - Adina Halter
• Longdesc and Other Long Image Description Solutions, Part 1: The Issues - Dennis Lembree
  • Longdesc and Other Long Image Description Solutions, Part 2 of 2 - Dennis Lembree
• Longdesc Links, History, Future - Dennis Lembree
• Longdesc Misuse: How Prevalent? - Karl Groves
• Make Infographics Accessible to All - Tess Pajaron
• MathML Accessibility - Frederic Wang
• Maps and Virtual Tours
  • Accessible Google Maps - Dylan Barrell
  • Accessible Google Maps with Search Field - Dylan Barrell
  • Accessibility Tip: Making Maps Accessible - Allayne Woodford
  • Did Someone Say Map? - Gian Wild
  • How to Make Graphs, Charts, and Maps Accessible (Video) - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
  • Maps - Joe Clark
  • Virtual Tours & Accessibility - Darrel Austin
• Mini FAQ About The Alternate Text Of Images - Ian Hickson
• More on Image alt Requirement in HTML5 - Adrian Roselli
• New Image-Description Guidelines Coming from ISO/IEC - Geoff Freed
• Notes on Guidelines For Speech accessible HTML for Dragon NaturallySpeaking - Steve Faulkner
• Notes on Providing alt Text for Twitter Images - Steve Faulkner
• Now You See It, Now You Don't - E-Access Bulletin
• Null alt Text - Web Accessibility Initiative Educational Outreach Thread initiated by William Loughborough.
• NYU ITP Student Builds a Camera That Prints Descriptions Instead of Photos - Jessica Roy
• Orca Now Supports longdesc - Joanmarie Diggs
• Patents versus Accessibility - Adrian Roselli
• Provide alt Attributes for Active Images - Denis Boudreau
• Provide Long Descriptions for Complex Images Using Longdesc - Denis Boudreau
• NVDA Screen Reader Now Recognises Long Description - Media Access Australia
• Playing with Longdesc - Karl Groves
• Providing long description for non-text content that serves the same purpose and presents the same information - W3C
• Providing a long description in another location with a link to it that is immediately adjacent to the non-text content - W3C
• Providing a long description in text near the non-text content, with a reference to the location of the long description in the short description - W3C
• Providing short text alternative for non-text content that serves the same purpose and presents the same information as the non-text content - W3C
• Providing short text alternatives that provide a brief description of the non-text content - W3C
• Providing the accepted name or a descriptive name of the non-text content - W3C
• Punctuating Text-Equivalents - Mike Davies
• Researchers Plan To Automate Web Image Description - Tristan Parker
• Requiring the alt Attribute in HTML5 - Gez Lemon
• Response to: Deprecate Longdesc Change Proposal - John Foliot
• Safari, WebKit and alt Text for Missing Images - Roger Johansson
• Short Note on alt in HTML - Steve Faulkner
• Short Note on aria-labelledby and aria-describedby - Steve Faulkner
• Short Note on Coding alt Text - Steve Faulkner
• Should Photos in Photo-Sharing Sites Have Alternate Text? - Vlad Alexander
• Teach Your Browser New Tricks - Dirk Ginader
• Teaching Accessibility Core Rules - Denis Boudreau
• Text Alternatives - W3C
• Text Alternatives for Images with Captions - Dey Alexander
• Text and Links - Joe Clark
• Text Equivalents Overview - Jon Gunderson
• The Alt and Accessibility - Mike Cherim
• The Alt and Title Attributes - Roger Johansson
• The alt Attribute is NOT for Tooltips - Robert Nyman
• The Hidden Nuggets of WCAG2: The Wonderful World of ALT Attributes, - Gian Wild
• The Hidden Nuggets of WCAG2: When Not to Use ALT Attributes - Gian Wild
• The Image Problem - Joe Clark
• The longdesc Attribute - Ted Drake
• The longdesc Lottery - Mark Pilgrim
  • The longdesc Lottery Comment - Steve Faulkner
• The Visual-Only Icon Problem - Joe Dolson
• Thinking About Accessibility - Equivalent Content - Mike Davies
• Three Common Accessibility Pitfalls for Developers - Text Alternatives - Julie Grundy
• Twitter (Accidentally) Takes Step Toward Accessible Images - Adrian Roselli
• Use On-Page Image Descriptions - Adrian Roselli
• Using alt Attributes on Images Used as Submit Buttons - W3C
• Using alt, figcaption, and longdesc Together - Shelley Powers
• UX Accessibility with aria-label - Heydon Pickering
• Use Consistent Text Alternatives Across Desktop and Mobile - Henny Swan
• Web Accessibility - Alt Text and Long Descriptions - IncludeTrinity.
• WCAG Techniques for Image Text Alternatives - Joshue O Connor
• What Should be the Minimum / Maximum Length of Alternate Text? - Vlad Alexander
• When Can a Web Author Use Null alt Text alt="" to Make an Image Conform to WCAG? - David MacDonald
• When is an Image 'Purely Decorative'? - Dey Alexander
• When to Use the Null alt Option for Images - Virginia DeBolt
• Woe-ARIA: aria-describedby: To Report or Not to Report? - Jamie Teh
• Woe-ARIA - The Surprisingly but Ridiculously Complicated World of aria-label/ledby - Jamie Teh
• Writing ALT Descriptions - John Eric Brandt
• Writing Good alt Text - Roger Johansson
• Writing Appropriate Alternate Text for Images - Rakesh Paladugula

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

Text Only Versions

• Doesn't Work in Lynx - Steve Faulkner
• Myth: Text-Only Versions - Shawn Lawton Henry
• Text-Only is Not Accessible - Karl Groves

Title Attributes

• 3.2.3.2 The Title Attribute HTML 5.1 Nightly Spec
• HTML5 Accessibility Chops - title Attribute Use and Abuse - Steve Faulkner
• 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
• Time to Make the Title Attribute Device Independent - Roger Johansson
• Using the HTML title Attribute - Updated - Steve Faulkner
• 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 -Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 8 - Dey Alexander

Tools: Accessibility

Tutorials and Handbooks

• Assistive Technology Overview - Univeristy of Minnesota Duluth
• Accessibility Guidelines Handbook - Portland Community College
• Electronic Accessibility - University of Montana
• Electronic Accessibility (For Web Developers) - The University of Califorinia
• Guide to Creating Accessible Electronic Materials (PDF) - George Mason University
• How Do I Construct Accessible Documents? - State of California
• How Do I Create Accessible Forms? - State of California
• How to Design for Accessibility - Jamie Knight
• HIKE - Our Quick, Simple Accessibility Primer - Ramya Sethuraman
• University of Minnesota Accessibility Resource - Philip M. Kragnes
• Web Accessibility - Issues and Techniques - Philip M. Kragnes
• Web Accessibility Toolkit - Molly Schwartz
• Web Accessibility Tutorials - W3C WAI

Usability and Accessibility

• A Comparative: Accessibility and Usability - Mike Cherim
• A Journey Into Web Accessibility - Steven Bradley
• Accessibility and User Experience - You Can't Have One Without the Other - Steve Grobschmidt
• Accessibility in the User-Centered Design Process - Shawn Lawton Henry and Mary Grossnickle Martinson
• Accessibility is Part of UX (it isn't a swear word) - Leonie Watson
• Accessibility is Usability in Context of Disability - Jan Eric Hellbusch
• Accessibility Lipstick on a Usability Pig - Jared Smith
• Accountability of Accessibility and Usability - Anitra Pavka
• Accessibility Summit 2014: Accessibility for UX - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• Introducing AccessibleUX.org - AccessibleUX.org
• Joining Accessibility and UX for Accessible UX - David Sloan and Sarah Horton
• The 'A' Word: Accessibility as Part of UX - Leonie Watson
• The Difference Between Web Site Usability and Accessibility - Justin Mifsud
• The Secret Benefit of Accessibility: Increased Usability - Trenton Moss
• Usable Accessibility: Making Web Sites Work Well for People with Disabilities - Whitney Quesenbery
• Accessibility, Usability and SEO Go Hand in Hand - Wojtek
• User Experience and Accessibility - Working with Visual Designers - Janet M. Six
• What Does It Mean To Develop Accessible Websites? - Steven Bradley
• Your User-Centered Design Isn't Usable If It Isn't Accessible - Deque Systems

W3C Guidelines

WordPress

• Accessibility Ready' WordPress Themes - George Williams
• Accessible Video in WordPress - Joe Dolson
• Accessibility with WordPress - Accessing Higher Ground 2012 - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• Accessible WordPress Themes - Rian Rietveld
• Are alt Attributes Required? Always? - Joe Dolson
• Think About ARIA roles When Choosing a WordPress Theme - Virginia DeBolt
• Three Easy Tips for Accessible Theming - Joe Dolson
• One Year of Accessibility-Ready - Joe Dolson
• Word Press Accessibility - Joe Dolson
• WordPress Accessibility - John Eric Brand
• WordPress and Accessibility: Just Where is the Problem? - Joe Dolson
• WordPress Themes Suck at Accessibility: It's Time to Fix It - Sarah Gooding
• WordPress Theme Pattern Library for Accessibility - David A. Kennedy
• WP Accessibility - Joe Dolson
• WP Accessibility Update: alt Enforcement - Joe Dolson

Writing

• Accessibility for Web Writers by Dey Alexander
  • Introduction: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 1
  • Text Alternatives for Images Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 2
  • Info and Relationships: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 3
  • Tagging Headings, Lists, Quotations, Tables: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 3
  • Sensory Characteristics: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 4
  • Colour: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 5
  • Colour Contrast: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 6
  • Images of Text: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 7
  • Page Titles: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 8
  • Link Purpose: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 9
  • Headings and labels: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 10
  • Section Headings: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 11
  • Language of Parts: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 12
  • Unusual words (jargon, idioms): Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 13
  • Abbreviations: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 14
  • Reading Level: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 15
  • Pronunciation of Ambiguous Words: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 16
  • Consistent Use and Labelling of Icons: Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 17
  • Accessibility Checklist for Web Writers

Articles & Related Links

• Accessibility - Why I Got Into This and Why I'm Still Here - Elle Waters New!
• All Things CSUN (Video) - Karl Groves and Billy Gregory
• Personalisation for Accessibility - Martyn Cooper
• Programmatically Determined - Jason Kiss
• What Will It Take to Move the Needle of Change? - Cyndi Rowland New!

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