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Abbreviations & Acronyms

• 3.2 Acronyms and abbreviations
• 4.2 Specify the expansion of each abbreviation or acronym
  • Example for Checkpoint 4.2
• abbr - W3C.
• Abbreviations & Acronyms (css)
• Abbreviations - Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 14 - Dey Alexander
• Dealing with Acronyms and Abbreviations - Mike Cherim
• Explaining abbreviations, acronyms and symbols on Web pages - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• The Accessibility Hat Trick: Getting Abbreviations Right - Colin Lieberman
• Using Acronyms Without First Expanding Them - Glenda Watson
• Why Use the Acronym and Abbr Tags? - Ian Lloyd

Accessibility Statements

• Accessibility or Help Links? - Alastair Campbell
• Accessibility Statement -What Is It and Who Uses It? - Tom Babinszki
• Accessibility Statements - Dennis E. Lembree
• Are Accessibility Statements Useful? - Leona Tomlinson
• Certification and Testing - Joe Clark
• Create Your Own Accessibility Statement - Leonie Watson
• Don't Provide an Accessibility Statement - Peter Krantz
• Does Your Website Overstate Its Accessibility? - Out-Law News
• New Accessible Web Site Agreement - Lainey Feingold
• Web Accessibility Statements - The Best Of Intentions, Clearly Stated - headstar
• Web Accessibility Statements And User Support - Mel Pedley
• Writing a Good Accessibility Statement - Gez Lemon

Accesskeys

• 11.1 Keyboard access to forms - W3C
• Access Keys - Web Aim Thread
• Accesskeys: Where Are We Now? - Mel Pedley
• Example for Checkpoint 9.5
• Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys - Gez Lemon
• I Do Not Use Accesskeys - Dave Shea
  • I'm Still Off Accesskeys - Dave Shea
• If You Use the Accesskey Attribute, Specify Unique Values - Roger Johansson
• Problems with Dynamically Assigned Accesskeys - Terrill Thompson
• The accesskey Attribute - Do We Still Need It? - Emma Sax
• User-Defined Access Keys - Gez Lemon

Assistive Technology

• Assistive Technology - Access Technologists Higher Education Network (ATHEN)
• Assistive Technology: a Video Tour of Accessibility - Jon Gibbins
• Assistive Technology: Alternative Pointing Devices - Mel Pedley
• Assistive Technology: Braille and Low Vision Aids - Mel Pedley
• Alternative Web Browsing - Peter Bosher and Judy Brewer
• 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
• Current Browsers And The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - Patrick H. Lauke
• Head Wands
  • Head Wand - WebAIM
  • Headwand in Action - Russ Weakley
• How Assistive Technology Works - Video Demonstrations - The University of Dundee
• 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
• I Saw a Mouse! Where? - Mel Pedley
• Improving Accessibility for Motor Impaired Users - Trenton Moss
• Keyboard Access
  • Adaptive keyboard - WebAIM
  • Assistive Technology: Keyboards And Other Input Alternatives - Mel Pedley
  • Improve Your Keyboard Accessibility - Roger Johansson
  • Keyboard Accessibility in Web Applications, part 2 - Mihai Sucan
  • Keyboard Support: Mysteries Unveiled - Mike Cherim, edited by Tommy Olsson
• Mouth Sticks
  • Mouth stick - WebAIM
• Screen Magnifiers
  • Introduction to Screen Magnifiers - Karo Caran and Victor Tsaran
  • Web Accessibility for Screen Magnifier UsersWebcredible
• Screen Readers
  • Configuring Links in Screen Readers - Mike Davies
  • Empty Links and Screen Readers - Mike Davies
  • How Do You Detect a Screen Reader? - Leonie Watson
  • 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
  • Screen Readers Lack Emphasis - Steve Faulkner
  • 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
    • Understanding How to Use CSS for Accessibility (Hiding Stuff) - Donald Evans
    • Why 'left: -9999px;' is Better For Accessibility Than 'display: none;' - Nick Fitzsimons
  • Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers - Mary Frances Theofanos and Janice (Ginny) Redish
  • Improving Usability for Screen Reader Users - Trenton Moss
  • Influence of Valid Code on Screen Readers - Joe Clark
  • Learning From Screen Readers - Jon Whiting
  • Open Source Screen Readers? - Chris Hofstater
  • Seven Screen Reader Usability Tips - Trenton Moss
  • 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
    • About WebAIM Screen Reader Survey 4 - Dennis E. Lembree
    • My Take on the WebAIM Survey - Terrill Thompson
    • WebAIM's Survey: Headings Matter to Users of Assistive Technologies - Duff Johnson
  • The DOM And Screen Readers - Gez Lemon
  • The Quagmire of Web Accessibility- Chris Hofstater
  • Three Things I Learned About Screen Reader Users - Joshua Kaufman
  • Turn Firefox into a Screen Reader with Fire Vox - Roger Johansson
  • Usability screening techniques: evaluating for a wider range of environments, circumstances and abilities - Shawn Lawton Henry
  • Understanding How JAWS Reads Text - Steve Faulkner
  • Video: YouTube and Easy YouTube with a Screen Reader - Christian Heilmann
  • Views From a Screen Reader User - Mike Cherim
  • Waiting for Screen Readers to Learn the Semantics of HTML5 - Virginia DeBolt
• 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 2 - A WebDev+s Guide - Alastair Campbell

Baseline

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

Benefits (Why accessibility?)

• 5 Reasons Businesses Should Take Web Accessibility Seriously - Philip J Reed
• Accessibility: How Many Disabled Web Users Are There? - Joseph C. Dolson
• Accessibility: Making It All Worthwhile - Jack Pickard
• Accessibility and SEO - Bruce Lawson and Vasilis van Gemert
• Accessibility to the Face - Rob Foster
• Accessibility is Optimization - Matt Bailey
• Auxiliary Benefits of Accessible Web Design - W3C
• Benefits of an Accessible Website - part 1: Increase in Reach - Trenton Moss
  • Benefits of an Accessible Website - part 2: The Business Case - Trenton Moss
• Benefits of WCAG 2 Presentation - W3C
• Chasing the Accessibility Business Case - Conclusion - Karl Groves
• Connection - William Loughborough
• Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization - Web Accessibility Initiative
• Does Your Grandfather Surf the Web? - William Loughborough
• Expand the Awesome: Design for a Wider Audience - Ann McMeekin
• 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
• High Accessibility Is Effective Search Engine Optimization - Andy Hagans
• How Do You Get Your Client to Pay For Accessibility? - Gez Lemon
• How To Sell Accessibility - Trenton Moss
• It Pays to Play by the Rules - Compliance, Accessibility and SEO - Mark Jackson
• Is Web Accessibility a Human Rights Issue? - Wendy Chisholm
• Legal Reasons to Make Intranets, Extranets and Software Accessible - Struan Robertson
• Leveling the Playing Field: We're all Differently Abled - Joseph C. Dolson
• Overcoming Objections to Accessibility - Mike Cherim
• Perspectives on Web Accessibility - W3C
• Presenting the Case for Web Accessibility - W3C Draft
• Putting the User at the Heart of the W3C Process - Jonathan Chetwynd
• Resources for Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization - The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
  • Share Resources Supporting the Web Accessibility Business Case - Shawn Henry
• Selfish Reasons for Accessible Web Authoring - Kynn Bartlett
• Selling Accessibility to Programmers - Joe Clark
• Selling Accessibility - Positive Factors (External) - Karl Groves
• The Benefit of Accessible Design for Able-Bodied Users of the World Wide Web - Denis Anson, Ronni Marangoni, Karyn Mills, Lalit Shah
  • Usability Benefits of Web Accessibility - Joe Clark
• The Business Case for Web Accessibility - Nirmita Narasimhan
• The Business Rationale for Virtual Accessibility - Kel Smith
• 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
• Universal Design and Web Accessibility: Unexpected Beneficiaries - Terry Thompson
• Web Accessibility Benefits Persons with Disabilities and ... Who Else? - Tom Babinszki
• Why Accessibility? - Robert Nyman
• Web Accessibility and SEO - Jared Smith
• Why Accessibility? Because It's Our Job! - James Edwards
• Why Universal Design is Important - Kel Smith
• Why Bother? - Joe Clark
• Why Bother With Web Accessibility? - Accessites.org

Buttons

• Just Use a (Native HTML) Button - Steve Faulkner
• Make Links Focusable (or use real buttons) - Roger Johansson

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

• A Sliding Alternative to CAPTCHA? - Luke Wroblewski
• Accessibility of CAPTCHA - Gez Lemon
• Accessibility of Visual and Auditory Captchas - Web In Sight
• Glenda Watson Hyatt: Do It - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• Auditory Captchas Web Survey - University of Washington
• Are Social Networking Sites Accessible to People with Vision Loss? - American Foundation for the Blind
  • CAPTCHAs on Social Networking Sites Shut Out Blind Users - American Foundation for the Blind
• Beyond CAPTCHA: No Bots Allowed! - James Edwards
• Breaking CAPTCHAs - Mel Pedley
• CAPTCHA and Accessibility - John Foliot
• CAPTCHA is Dead - Matt May
• CAPTCHA-less Security - Karl Groves
• CAPTCHA Usability: Humane Alternative to CAPTCHA - Jesper Ronn-Jensen
• CAPTCHAs, CAPTCHAs Everywhere - Jim Thatcher
• CAPTCHAs Shown to Yet Again Impede Accessibility - Media Access Australia
• Captcha Usability Revisited: Google Inaccessible to Blind People - Jesper Ronn-Jensen
• 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
• Escape From CAPTCHA - Matt May
• 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
• How Captcha was Foiled: Are You a Man or a Mouse? - Tim Anderson
• Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA - W3C
  • CAPTCHA Paper Updated - Matt May
• Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests Problems and Alternatives - Matt May
• Introducing DISTCHA* - Samuel Sirois and Denis Boudreau
• Judge For Yourself, Is Ticketmaster Audio CAPTCHA Usable? - Kelly Ford
• Making CAPTCHAs Less Evil? - Paul Crichton
• Not The Blog Post I Was Going To Write Today - John Foliot
• Problems with CAPTCHA and Audio CAPTCHA Alternative - Gregory J. Rosmaita
• Provide an Accessible Alternative if You Must Use a CAPTCHA - Roger Johansson
• The Problem With Captchas - Mel Pedley

Checklists

• Can Checklist Accessibility be Harmful? - Vlad Alexander
• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility
• Practical Accessibility Tips - Mike Davies
• Section 508 Checklist - Jonathan Whiting
• The Accessibility Checklist I Vowed I'd Never Write - Aaron Cannon
• WAI Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Cognitive Disabilities

• A Conceptual Framework for Accessibility Tools to Benefit Users with Cognitive Disabilities - WebAIM and Shane Anderson
• Assistive Technology with Cognitive Disability Emphasis - Mark Dubin
• Chunking
• Cognitive Accessibility Survey - Jared Smith
• Cognitive Disabilities Part 1 - WebAIM
• Cognitive Disabilities Part 2 - Cyndi Rowland
• Cognitive load and the rule of seven (or how many is too many) - Nick Finck
• Cognitive Disability - Alan Dix
• Creating Sites Accessible to People with Cognitive Disabilities - Gian Wild
• Accessibility is a Human Right - Ian Pouncey
• Designing for Dyslexics: Part 1 of 3 - Mel Pedley
  • Designing for Dyslexics: Part 2 of 3 - Mel Pedley
  • Designing for Dyslexics: Part 3 of 3 - Mel Pedley
• Design for Understanding - Ashley Nolan
• Designing Web Pages for Dyslexic Readers - John Bradford
• Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties - Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley, and Peter Firminger
• Dyslexia, Disability and Teaching Accessibility - Jack Pickard
• Dyslexia Style Guide - bdadyslexia
• Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility with WAVE - WebAIM
• Icons, Symbols and Cognitive Disabilities - Christopher Phillips
• Inclusion Of Cognitive Disabilities in the Web Accessibility Movement - Lisa Seeman
• Lower-Literacy Users - Jakob Nielsen
• Maximum Accessibility - Inclusive New Media Design (INMD)
• More On Dyslexia - Mel Pedley
• Overview of WebAIM Cognitive Research - WebAIM
• Project Dyslexie - Christian Boer
• Standards.Next Rocking Cognition and Accessibility - Henny Swan
• Video: Antonia Hyde on Learning Disabilities (Scripting Enabled London) - Christian Heilmann
• WCAG 2 Activity on Cognitive Disability - Joe Clark
• Web Accessibility for Cognitive Disabilities and Learning Difficulties - Ian Pouncey

Color: Accessibility

Definitions and Overviews

• 25: Accessibility Basics - Tom Hughes-Croucher
• Accessibility - W3C Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG)
• Accessibility and Availability - Derek Featherstone
• Accessibility, Availability and Affordability - Christopher Phillips
• Accessibility as a Platform to Build Upon - Emil Stenstrom
• Accessibility Basics - Tom Hughes-Croucher
• Accessibility for All vs. for People with Disabilities - Roger Johansson
• Accessibility In Trouble 2: Standards - Mike Davies
  • Accessibility In Trouble 3: Universality - Mike Davies
  • Accessibility In Trouble 4: Dehumanisation - Mike Davies
  • Accessibility In Trouble 5: Deterioration- Mike Davies
  • Accessibility In Trouble 6: Misrepresentation - Mike Davies
• Accessibility Is More Than 'Possible to Access' - Roger Johansson
• Accessibility Only For Disabilities? - Tommy Olsson
• Accessibility vs Universality - Implications - Alastair Campbell
• Accessibility (Web) - Laura Carlson
• ADA Changes: The New Definition of Disability - Tim Moore
• Barrier-Free Web Design, a.k.a. Web Accessibility 2.0 - Roger Johansson and Tommy Olsson
• Constructing a POUR Website - WebAIM
• Defining Disability - Or Trying To Anyway - Nicolas Steenhout
• Definitions of Web Accessibility - Mel Pedley
• Et Tu, Joe? - Tommy Olsson
• Essential Components of Web Accessibility - W3C
• Failed and Flawed Accessibility Organizations - Ian Lloyd
• Failed? Fundamentally Flawed? - Mike Cherim
• Future of Web Accessibility - Alastair Campbell
• How Accessible is 'Accessible'? - Chris Hofstater
• In Defense Of Accessibility - Jack Pickard
• Lack of Access = Barrier to Access - Joe Dolson
• Levels of Accessibility - Mike Cherim
• On Accessibility - Catherine Roy
• The Difference Between Inclusive Design and Accessibility - Sandi Wassmer
• 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
• Trying to Define Web Accessibility - Joe Dolson
• Understanding Web Accessibility - Shawn Lawton Henry
• Universality and Accessibility - Gez Lemon
• Web Accessibility - What and Why - Dipendra Manocha
• Web Accessibility - What is It? What are the Benefits? - Paul Walsh
• What Accessibility Means in 25 Words - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• What Is Web Accessibility? - Trenton Moss
• What is media access? - Joe Clark

Device Independence and Graceful Degradation

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

Deprecated Features

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

Flicker

• Do Your Flashing Ads Cause Seizures? - Glenda Watson Hyatt
• Guideline 2.3: Be Careful With Flashing Visual Content - Olga Revilla
• London 2012 Olympics Branding Film Causes Epileptic Seizures - Roger Johansson
• Photosensitive Epilepsy - Gez Lemon
• Screen Flicker - 508
• Web Content Accessibility Guideline 2.3 - W3C

Forms

• 11 Forms - W3C.
• 508(n) - When electronic forms are designed to be completed on-line, the form shall allow people using assistive technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues.
• Accessible and Usable Forms - Mike Foskett
• Accessible Custom Checkboxes and Radio Buttons - Roger Johansson
• 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
• Accessible Forms by Jim Thatcher
• Accessible Forms - John Slatin
• Accessible Forms - Ted Page
• Accessible Forms: Radio Buttons with <fieldset>, <legend>, and <label> - University of Texas
  • Accessible Forms: Buttons Using <input> elements of type = "button" and <button> elements - University of Texas
  • Accessible Forms: Graphical Buttons - University of Texas
• Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0 - Roger Hudson
• Accessible HTML/XHTML Forms - Ian Lloyd
• Accessible HTML5 Forms - Required Inputs - John Foliot
• Accessibility and the Label Tag - Adrian Senior
• Accessibility Issues of Checkboxes and Radio Buttons - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• Alternatives to Forms - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• Better Accessible Forms - Ian Lloyd
• Building Accessible Web Forms - Alejandro Gervasio
• Creating Accessible Forms - WebAIM
• Default Place-Holding Characters
  • 10.4 Until user agents handle empty controls correctly, include default, place-holding characters
  • Braille Displays and Web Forms - David Poehlman
  • Default Place-Holding Characters - Gez Lemon
  • Place-holding characters in edit/text boxes - Patrick H. Lauke
  • Re: WCAG 1.0 checkpoint 10.4 - David Poehlman
• Fieldset
  • Fieldsets, Legends and Screen Readers - Steve Faulkner
  • Fieldset - www.w3schools.com
  • FIELDSET - Form Control Group
  • Filedset/Legend in XHTML vs. HTML - Kevin C Smith
  • Use the Fieldset and Legend Elements to Group HTML Form Controls - Roger Johansson
• Forms and Interaction - Joe Clark
• Forms By Dan Cederholm
• Form Help Without Popups - Gez Lemon
• Forms Usability
• Forms Within Tables - Doodle and Accessibility - Terrill Thompson
• Future Web Accessibility: HTML5 <input> Extensions - Aaron Andersen
• Guidelines for Accessible Forms - Steven Datt
• How to use tables to structurize forms in HTML and about alternatives, like fieldset - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• Labels
  • 10.2 ensure that the label is properly positioned - W3C
    • Example for Checkpoint 10.2
  • 11.3 Labeling form controls - WAI Coding Technique
  • 12.4 Associate labels explicitly with their controls - W3C
    • Example for Checkpoint 12.4
  • Accessible Forms: Labeling Input Fields - University of Texas
    • Accessible Forms: Labeling Pulldown Menus - University of Texas
  • Create Dynamic Form Labels with ARIA - Ted Drake
  • HTML5 Accessibility Chops - Form Control Labeling - Steve Faulkner
  • Inaccessible Label-Wrapped Form Inputs - Mike Cherim
  • LABEL - Form Field Label
  • Label Positioning - Gez Lemon
  • Labels for Form Controls Overview - Illinois Center for Information Technology and Web Accessibility
  • "<label>" for Search Field - Web Aim Thread
  • The <label> tag
  • Use the Label Element to Make Your HTML Forms Accessible - Roger Johansson
• Make forms accessible - WAI Coding Technique
• Making Compact Forms More Accessible - Mike Brittain
• 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
• Reset and Cancel Buttons - Jakob Nielsen
• Simply Accessible - Derek Featherstone
• Spam-Free Accessible Forms - Jared Smith
• Tab Index
  • 9.4 Create a logical tab order through links, form controls, and objects
    • Example for Checkpoint 9.4
  • Avoid Frustrating Users With tabindex - Nick DeNardis
  • Initial Focus to a Text Field - Good or Bad? - Robert Nyman
  • More Fun With The tabindex Attribute - Becky Gibson
  • Staying Positive About Tabindex - Joe Clark
  • 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
• Using titles on Form Fields - Mike Davies
• Will We Ever Get Required Fields Right? - Derek Featherstone

Language

• 2.2 Identifying the primary language - W3C
• 4.3 Identify the primary natural language of a document
  • Example for Checkpoint 4.3 - W3C.
• The Barrier of Foreign Words - Mike Davies
• Accessibility In My Own (Foreign) Words - Jack Pickard
  • The Barrier of Foreign Words - Mike Davies
  • Be Accessible, Don't Meet Guidelines - Mel Pedley
• 'Does He Take Sugar?': The Risks of Standardising Easy-to-read Language - Brian Kelly
• Indicating Language Choice: Flags, Text, Both, Neither? - Roger Johansson
• Internationalization Primer - Jonathan Snook
• Language Codes - Joe Clark
• Language of Parts -Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 12 - Dey Alexander
• The Inaccessibility of Jargon - Steve Grobschmidt
• Why use the language attribute?

Law, Lawsuits, Policies

• 504
  • Section 504 vs. Section 508 - Wayne Dick
  • Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• 508
  • 1194.22 Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications - The Access Board
  • 508 and Higher Ed - Jon Whiting
  • 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
  • Forthcoming Updates on Federal Section 508 Rules - Joe Dolson
  • Refreshed Accessibility Standards and Guidelines in Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology - Advisory Committee to the Access Board
  • Section508.gov
  • Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - Wikipedia.
  • Section 508 Checklist - Jonathan Whiting
  • Section 508 Technical Assistance page - The Access Board
  • Section 508 Wiki - Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee
  • Standards for Electronic and Information Technology: An Overview
  • Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee
  • 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
  • US Access Board Releases Another Sec. 508/ICT Proposed Rule: Public Hearings Upcoming - Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology
  • WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 Refresh Side-by-Side - uiAccess
  • Web Accessibility for Section 508 - Jim Thatcher
  • WebAIM Hosting TEITAC Content - Jared Smith
• A Clear EU Accessibility Law Proposed? At What Cost? - Hassell Inclusion New!
• Accessibility is a Global Mandate - Suzanne Cohen
• Americans with Disabilties Act (ADA)
  • 5 Easy Steps To ADA & Section 508 Web Accessibility - Word of Mouth Media New!
  • ADA Litigation Over Website Accessibility is Poised to Explode - Jim Butler
  • 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
  • Justice Department Advances Update of ADA Regulations - John Eric Brandt
  • The ADA and the Web: Concerns and Misconceptions - Jared Smith
• Accessibility and the Law - Joe Clark
• Accessibility Legislation - an Insight (Summary of accessibility policies by country) - Urte Meinhardt
• British Standard 8878 on Web Accessibility- Complementary Guidance - Tristan Parker
• British Standard for Accessibility - Bruce Lawson
• 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 University (La Marca vs. Capella University) - WebAIM Thread
  • Lawsuit Charges Online University Does Not Accommodate Learning-Disabled Students - Dan Carnevale
  • Web CT Criticisms - wikipedia
• Charles Schwab Web Accessibility Agreement - Law Office of Lainey Feingold
• Companies, Courts Debate Whether ADA Applies to Web Sites - Sherry Karabin
• Crying Foul on Accessibility Claims - Ian Lloyd
• CVS.com To Meet Web Accessibility Standards - Mel Pedley
• 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
• DOJ Delays Web Accessibility Regulations - The Law Office of Lainey Feingold
• Federal Sites Rapped over Accessibility Problems - Alice Lipowicz
• Florida State University
  • Blind Florida State U. Students Sue Over E-Learning Systems - Jie Jenny Zou
• Global Accessibility Policy – Technology Changes, Civil Rights Do Not - Cynthia Waddell
• Google
  • Accessibility: A Progress Report (Google) - Naomi Black
  • Accessibility Group @ Google Groups
  • Accessibility in Google Apps - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
  • Accessibility Updates for Docs, Sites and Calendar - Google
  • Administrator Guide to Accessibility (PDF) - Google
  • Adoption of Google Apps Program Discriminates Against the Blind - National Federation of the Blind of Greater Louisville
  • An Update on Apps Accessibility in the Last Year - Jeffrey Harris, Google
  • As Schools Shift to Google Apps, Blind Students Object - Mark Jaycox
  • Colleges Discriminate Against the Blind With Google Apps, Advocates Say - Marc Parry
  • Enhanced Accessibility in Docs, Sites and Calendar - T.V. Raman
  • Exclusion of Google Docs Avoids ADA Challenges - Columbia Spectator
  • Greater Accessibility for Google Apps - Google
  • Google Accessibility Feedback Form
  • Google and Accessibility. What's the Plan? - Joseph Dolson
  • Google Apps Accessibility - North Carolina State University
    • Google Docs Accessibility - Documents - North Carolina State University
    • Google Docs Accessibility - Google Sites - North Carolina State University
    • Google Docs Accessibility - Spreadsheets - North Carolina State University
      • Google Doc to Microsoft Office Bookmarklet - North Carolina State University
    • Google Docs Accessibility - Presentations - North Carolina State University
  • Google Apps Accessibility - University of Minnesota Duluth
  • Google Announces Accessibility Updates to Apps - John Eric Brandt
  • Google Chrome Frame - Still an Accessibility Black Hole? - Steve Faulkner
  • Google IO12 Review and Accessibility - Dennis E. Lembree
  • Google+ Hangouts Become Accessible to the Blind - Janko Roettger
  • Google Has Not Met Accessibility Standards - Giacomo Bologna
  • Google Launches Google+ Hangout Accessibility App - globalaccessibilitynews
  • Google's Accessibility Message Comes Through Loud and Clear - PF Anderson
  • How Accessible Are Google Apps? - Greg Kraus
  • How Accessible Are Google Apps? - Meris Stansbury
  • How Google Makes its Products Accessible to the Disabled - Matt Hartley
  • Is Google Shutting Out The Blind? - Susan Kuchinskas
  • Just a Second, Mr. G - John Eric Brandt
  • Making Google Accessible - Google
  • NFB: Google Apps Accessibility Not There Yet - Jarret Cummings
  • NFB Questions Google Apps Accessibility - John Eric Brandt
  • Renowned Futurist Ray Kurzweil Joins Google to Work on Machine Learning and Language Processing - thenextweb
  • Report on Accessibility of Gmail and Google Calendar  - Access Technology Higher Education Network (ATHEN)
    • Introduction - ATHEN
    • Two Accessibility Models - ATHEN
    • The Report Card - ATHEN
    • GMail - ATHEN
    • GMail Evaluations - ATHEN
    • Google Calendar - ATHEN
    • Google Calendar Evaluations - ATHEN
    • Conclusion - ATHEN
  • Response to Accessibility in Google Docs - Dennis E. Lembree
  • University of Minnesota Google Apps Standard
• Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act - Marucco, Stoddard, Ferenbach, and Walsh
• Is Legally Mandated Accessibility a Benefit? - Joe Dolson
• ICDRI Update On Global Accessible Web Policy And Law - Cynthia D. Waddell
• 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
• Kindle (Arizona State University)
  • Colleges Lock Out Blind Students Online - Marc Parry
• Legal Costs Can be Big to Defend Inaccessible Web Content in Postsecondary Education - Linda Goetze
• Law Schools
  • Blind Students Sue Over Online Law School Applications - Adrian Rosell
  • Blind Students Sue Law Schools Over Online Applications - Sophia Li
• LSAC
  • LSAC Inaccessible Web Lawsuit - Cynthia Waddell
• Manifesto - Web Standards Project's Accessibility Task Force
• Martin v. MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority)
  • ADA Transit Case Seeks Accessible Web Remedy  - Cynthia D. Waddell
• National Federation of the Blind Files Complaint with United States Department of Education - Reuters
• Netflix
  • Federal Judge Rules that ADA Covers Web-Only Businesses - 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
  • Netflix Seeks Permission to Appeal Order to Comply with ADA - Sheri Qualters
  • Ruling on Accessibility and the ADA - Andrew Kirkpatrick
• New York Attorney General Announces Comprehensive Web Access Settlement - Lainey Feingold
• Oracle Sued by Blind Workers in Texas - Dan Goodin
• Penn State University
  • Compliant Filed Against Penn State Regarding Web Accessibility - Michael Fienen
  • Complaint Filed Against Penn State University for Inaccessible Technologies - Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology
  • National Federation of the Blind and Penn State Resolve Accessibility Complaint - Businesswire
  • Penn State Accused of Discriminating Against Blind Students - Marc Parry
  • Will Penn State be the Next Test Case? - John Eric Brandt
• The Practical and Legal Reasons Behind Designing for Accessibility - Gregory P. Care, Dan Ross
• Recent Legal Issues in Higher Education and Web Accessibility - Cyndi Rowland
• RNIB Serves Legal Proceedings on bmibaby - Royal National Institute of Blind People
• Screen-Reader Problems Uncovered In Olympics Ticket Site - Dan Jellinek
• State and Federal E-Government in the United States, 2003 - Brown University
• Southwest Airlines (Robert Gumson v. Southwest Airlines and Access Now v. Southwest Airlines)
  • ADA Doesn't Extend to the Internet - Eric Bangeman
  • No decision from the Appeals Court - Jim Thatcher
  • Judge: Disabilities Act doesn't cover Web - Declan McCullagh
  • Man Sues Airlines for Fare Access - Kendra Mayfield
• Suing Companies Over Inaccessible Websites - Christian Montoya
• Sydney Olympics (Bruce Maguire v. Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games [SOCOG])
  • Bruce Lindsay Maguire v Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games
  • Olympic Failure: A Case for Making the Web Accessible - Tom Worthington
• Target (National Federation of the Blind v. Target)
  • Accessibility, Law and Target.com - Jim Thatcher
  • Analysis - Target Web Lawsuit: The Six Million Dollar Question - Majeed Saleh and Dan Jellinek
  • Blind Cal Student Sues Target - Henry K. Lee
  • Blind 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
  • National Federation of the Blind v. Target - Disability Rights Advocates
    • Target and NFB Final Settlement
      • Does Target Settlement Really Hit the Target? - Ian Lloyd
      • Targeting Accessibility - Glenda Sims
      • Target Acquired: Four Cheers! - Jack Pickard
      • Target Lawsuit Settled - Jared Smith.
      • What The Target Settlement Should Mean To You - Matt May
  • National Federation of the Blind vs. Target - An Important Decision - Jim Thatcher
  • 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 Goes Ahead - Mel Pedley
  • 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
  • Web Accessibility Now Because Nationwide Class Action Suits are Bad for You - Karcher Group
• Representative Markey Introduces 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act of 2009 to Make Broadband More Accessible - Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COATS)
• Ticketmaster
  • Precedent - Joe Clark
• UK Government Accessibility Consultation - Bruce Lawson
• UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People - Article 9: Accessibility
• US Organizations Liable Under UK Law? - Mel Pedley
• Web Accessibility and the Law - Joseph C. Dolson
• Web Accessibility and the Law: Recent Legal Developments and Advocacy Strategies - Lainey Feingold  and Crista Earl
• Web Accessibility and UK Law: Telling It Like It Is - Trenton Moss
• Web Accessibility Law in Higher Education - Jonathan Whiting
• Web Accessibility, Structured Negotiations and DOJ Rulemaking - Lainey Feingold

Lists

• Unordered Lists: More Than Just Bullets - Brian Huisman

Mobile

• 5 Tips to Improve the Web for Mobility/Dexterity Disabilities - Kathy Wahlbin
• Accessimobility - Jeremy Keith
• Accessibility for iPhone and iPad Apps - Matt Gemmell
• Accessibility Summit - Integrating Accessibility Across Devices - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• Crossing Over - Bringing Mobile Innovations to Accessibility - Derek Featherstone
• Facebook Mobile Site Using Metadata for Photo Alt Text - Clint Andrew Hall
• 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
• HTML Accessible Emails - Royal National Institute of Blind People
• Hot New iPhone Apps by Irresponsible Developers - Joe Clark
• 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
• Matt May Talks About How Accessibility Has Influenced Mobile development and Design (Video) - Matt May
• Mobile Accessibilty - Ted Drake
• Mobile Accessibility - Tim Kadlec
• Mobile Accessibility - W3C WAI Education and Outreach Working Group
• Mobile Accessibility Presentation at CSUN 2012 - Henny Swan
• Mobile Accessibility Tests - Henny Swan
• Mobile Accessibility Tip - Don't Suppress Pinch Zoom - Henny Swan
• Mobile Devices
• Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
• Mobile Web 2009 = Desktop Web 1998 - Jakob Nielsen
• 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
• Table of Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities - Web Accessibility Initiative
• Talk is Cheap - Screen Reader Testing on Mobile - Henny Swan
• The Mobile Accessibility Landscape - SSB Bart Group
• Top 10 Steps Towards Making Your Mobile Apps More Accessible - Stuart Dredge
• Top Ten Tests for Alternatives on Mobile - Henny Swan
• Thoughts Around Universal Access on Mobile from Accessibility 2.0 - Henny Swan
• 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
• 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

• 1.2: Time-based Media: Provide alternatives for time-based media. - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
  • Guideline 1.2: Time-based Media (part 2) - Olga Revilla
• 1.3 "Until user agents can automatically read aloud the text equivalent of a visual track, provide an auditory description of the important information of the visual track of a multimedia presentation." -
• 1.4 "For any time-based multimedia presentation (e.g., a movie or animation), synchronize equivalent alternatives (e.g., captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track) with the presentation" - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
• 508 (b) Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation.
• Accessible Digital Media - Geoff Freed and Madeleine Rothberg
• Accessible HTML5 Video with JW Player as Fallback - Terrill Thompson
• Accessible Multimedia - DoIT
• Accessible Online Video for Keyboard-Only Users - Trenton Moss
• Accessible Video In A Diverging Web Environment - David Klein and Kenneth "Fritz" Thompson
• Acknowledging the Elephant in the Room - Moving Toward Media Accessibility - Rahul Gonsalves
• Adding Multimedia in Web Documents (part 2) - WaSP Asks the W3C
• An Introduction to WebVTT and <track> - Ian Devlin
• Audio and Multimedia - Jim Thatcher
• Audio Description
  • A Day in the Life of an Audio Describer - Paul Crichton
  • Audio Describing Videos - Gian Wild
  • Autistic Spectrum, Captions and Audio Description - Judith Garman
  • Description Key
  • Guidelines for the Description of Educational Media
  • Guidelines for Audio Description on Videos - accessiq
  • LiveDescribe Audio Description Work - Katerina
  • Try Audio Describing a Painting - Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
  • 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
• Autoplay is Bad for All Users - Emma Sax
• Embedding Time-Aligned Text into Ogg - Silvia Pfeiffer
• How do You Solve the Accessible Video and Audio Challenge? - Glenda Sims
• How to Incorporate Stunning Multimedia Into Your Accessible Site - Joe Clark
• Captioning
  • Accessibility/Caption Formats - Mozilla
  • Accessibility/Video Accessibility - Mozilla
  • Are All Video Captions Equally Accessible? - Glenda Watson Hyatt
  • Auto-Garbled Captioning - Sarah E. Bourne
  • Automated Captioning for Lectures in Higher Education with experts from Liberated Learning Consortium and IBM - Ginny Perelson, Keith Bain, Mike Wald, and Peter Fay
  • Best Practices in Online Captioning - Joe Clark
  • Between the Lines - Catherine Roy
  • Bull in a Caption Shop - Joe Clark
  • CC for Flash - National Center for Accessible Media
  • Caption It Yourself - Basic Guidelines for Busy Teachers, Families, and Others Who Shoot Their Own Video - Bill Stark
  • Captions - Jared Smith
  • Captions for Video with Flash CS3 - Tom Green
    • Captions for Video with Flash CS3 (Part Two) - Tom Green.
  • Captions vs subtitles - Alastair Campbell
  • Captioning FAQ - Media Access Group
  • Captioning for Quicktime - WebAIM
  • Captioning for Windows Media - WebAIM
  • Captioning Key - Described and Captioned Media Program
  • Captioning, Transcripts and a Teachable Moment - John Foliot
  • Captioning Video - John Eric Brandt
  • Captioning Video Gets Easier - Paul Crichton
  • Captioning in Flash CS3 - Andrew Kirkpatrick
  • Captioning of Internet Video Programming - Federal Communications Commission
  • Captioning Web Multimedia: An Overview Of Technologies, Resources, And Tools - Jared Smith
  • 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
  • Congress Makes Captioning a Requirement for Online Video with Passing of Equal Access to 21st Century Communications Act and 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009 - Jenna Britton
  • Crowd-Sourced Twitter Captioning of Videos - Brian Kelley
  • CC for Flash - National Center for Accessible Media
  • Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP)
  • Error Correction - Joe Clark
  • Even More About Captioning Video - John Eric Brandt
  • 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
  • Finally, Caption Playback - Ken Harrenstien
  • Google's Smart Captioning Move - Suzanne Robitaille
  • H.R. 3101 Takes a Step Forward - The National Association of the Deaf
  • HTML5 Video Captioning - Frank Olivier
  • Internet Captions Mean Better Access for WA Deaf Community - Chris Thomas
  • Internet Video Closed Captioning Rules Due in January - Deborah D. McAdams
  • Introduction to World Caption (video) - Universtity of Wisconsin
  • June 6 is Caption THIS Day! - Char James-Tanny
  • Opencast Project Open House at UC Berkeley - UC Berkeley
  • Online Video Captioning - Jen Rohrig
  • Recruiting Participants for Captioning Study - David Fourney
  • SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia)
  • Stanford Captioning System: A Workflow Model for Producing Captioned Media - John Foliot and Sean Keegan
  • The French Chef Still Waits for The Annoying Orange: Making online programming accessible to people with disabilities - Suzanne Robitaille and Michael Janger
  • The Stanford Captioning Project - John Foliot and Sean Keegan
  • Two Tracks O' Text - Joe Clark
  • The Caption Conundrum: Problem and Solution - deaftechnyc
  • Video Captioning: Part 1 of 2 - Colleen Burns
    • Video Captioning: Part 2 of 2 - Colleen Burns
  • Web Captioning Overview - WebAIM
  • Working with Captions - Mamta H. Tandel
  • What Are Captions? - Leonie Watson
  • What'd You Do with Your Summer? Google Intern Brings Inline Caption Editing to YouTube - Josh Ong
  • Who is Required to Close-Caption? - closedcaptioning.
  • Why Captioning? - John Foliot and Sean Keegan
  • Why I Hate Online Captioning - Joe Clark
  • Will Mozilla Blow it on Captioning? - Joe Clark
• CBC Online Video: Shall We Do This Properly? - Joe Clark
• Creating Your Own Accessible HTML5 Media Player - Terrill Thompson
• Guideline 1.2: Time-based Media (part 1) - Olga Revilla
• iTunes and iTunesU
  • iTunes: Easy on the Ears, Hard on the Eyes - Tim O'Brien
  • iTunes and iTunesU Adds VoiceOver - Cory Bohon
  • iTunes U Accessibility Working Group - Athen (Access Technologists in Higher Education Network)
• New Technology Translates Lectures into Sign Language - Stephanie Steinberg
• 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 - Editor's Draft By Judy Brewer, John Foliot, Geoff Freed, Silvia Pfeiffer, and Janina Sajka
• Multimedia by Joe Clark
• Multimedia Accessibility FAQ - Shawn Lawton Henry, Editor
• Multimedia Lectures - Tools for Improving Accessibility and Learning - Mary Bart
• Open University Media Player Passes Accessibility Test - Dan Jellinek
• Pearson Guidelines for Accessible Educational Web Media - pearsoned
• Podcasting
  • Adding Value: Providing Transcripts for Podcasts - Sharon Perry
  • Audio Transcription For Podcasts: JC Human vs. CastingWords.com - Robin Good
  • Transcribing Podcasts - Jeremy Keith
  • Jeffrey Frey on Accessible Podcasts - Dennis Lembree
  • Podcasting and Accessibility - WebAIM list Thread
• Say What? Google Works to Improve YouTube Auto-Captions for the Deaf - Larry Greenemeier
• Streaming (live or real-time)
  • A Promising Practice in Streaming Captioned Educational Video - Access it
  • Accessibility of Live/Real-Time Web-Based Multimedia For the Deaf And Hard of Hearing - Jared Smith
  • Captioning Live Streaming Video - WebAIM Discussion
  • Real-time captioning - Media Access Group
• Transcripts
  • Accessible Video and Transcripts - Adrian Roselli
  • Adding Value: Providing Transcripts for Podcasts - Sharon Perry
  • Aim For the Stars - Pragmatism and Transcripts - Derek Featherstone
  • Amp Up Accessibility of Your Videos: Add Transcripts - Glenda Watson Hyatt
  • Audio Transcription For Podcasts: JC Human vs. CastingWords.com - Robin Good
  • Crowdscribing - Jeremy Keith
  • 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
  • Transcripts on the Web - Shawn Lawton Henry
  • Transcribing Podcasts - Jeremy Keith
  • What are Transcripts? - Leonie Watson
  • When Should You Provide Transcription? - Tom Babinszki
• Universal Subtitles - Participatory Culture Foundation, et al.
• Using HTML5 and Javascript to Deliver Accessible Supplemental Materials - The National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
• YouTube
  • Accessibility and the YouTube Players - Terrill Thompson
  • Adding Captions to YouTube: Resource Links - Bill Creswell
  • Automatic Captions in YouTube - Google
  • Captioning YouTube Video and Providing Accessible Controls - Ohio State University
  • Captioning YouTube Videos - Gian Wild
  • Captioning YouTube Videos - John E. Brandt
  • Captioning YouTube Video and Providing Accessible Controls - Ohio State University
  • How to Caption Videos in YouTube - Tom Babinszki
  • Keyboard Accessible YouTube Controls - Derek Featherstone
  • New Captions Feature For Videos - YouTube
  • Say What? Google Works to Improve YouTube Auto-Captions for the Deaf - Larry Greenemeier
  • The Future Will Be Captioned: Improving Accessibility on YouTube - YouTube
  • YouTube Caption Tools Part 2 - Terrill Thompson
  • YouTube Introduces Automatic Captions for Deaf Viewers
  • YouTube Launches CaptionTube: A Caption Editor - Josh Lowensohn
  • YouTube Will Automatically Caption Your Video - Adrian A. Roselli
• Video Accessibility Problems - Joe Dolson
• Video Subtitling and WebVTT - Tom Leadbetter
• WCAG 2.0 Audio Audio Contrast Tool Help For Success Criteria 1.4.7. - eramp
• Web Application Accessibility (video) - Universtity of Wisconsin
• WebVTT Caption Demonstration - National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
• What is Media Access? - Joe Clark

Open Source

• Lynx Browser and Accessibility - Steve Grobschmidt
• OATS (Open Source Assistive Technology Software)
• OpenOffice.org and Accessibility Part 1: Writer - WebAIM
• Open Source Accessibility - Making Programs and Content Available to Everyone - Steve Lee
• Open Source Screen Readers? - Chris Hofstater
• Visually Impaired User Weighs In on Assistive Technology Debate - Scott Sede

Plugins, PDF, PowerPoint, etc.

• A New Standard for PDF Accessibility: PDF/UA - Matt May
• Accessibility Cheat Sheets - Gaining Online Accessible Learning through Self-study (GOALS)
• Accessible PDF - Bim Egan
• Accessible PDF #2 - Royal National Institute of Blind (RNIB)
• Accessible PowerPoint on The Web: Tools That Can Help - Richard Banks, Elizabeth Coombs, and Norman Coombs
• Accessibility Features in Adobe Reader 7 - Jon Whiting
• Accessibility Improvements in Adobe Acrobat XI - Jonathan Whiting
• Accessibility Testing PDF Creation Tools - Ted Page
• Are These PDFs Accessible? - Roger Hudson
• Are PDFs More Important Than Web Accessibility? - Mark Magennis
• Automated PDF Accessibility Testing - Alastair Campbell
• Cherished Lies of the Blind - Joe Clark
• Creating Accessible Links in PDFs - Ted Page
• 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
• Document Accessibility Guide-Microsoft Word - New Zealand Government
• Each PDF Page is a Painting - Why PDF 'Reading Order' is Irrelevant to Accessibility - Duff Johnson
• Facts and Opinions About PDF Accessibility - Joe Clark
• Flash
• Good Document Design is the Key to Accessibility - John Sheridan
• Here We Go Again With Untagged PDFs - Joe Clark
• 'International Perspective' - Joe Clark
• Is PDF Accessible?
• Is PDF Accessible in Australia? - Roger Hudson
• Making Footnotes Accessible in PDFs (and other PDF Accessibility Fixes) - Ted Page
• No Fuss Accessibility - Antonio DaSilva
• No 'PDF Only' or 'Word Only' Content - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• NVDA and PDF Table Accessibility - Ted Page New!
• Office 2007 PDFs - Not Accessible - Alastair Campbell
• Office 2010: Accessibility Investments and Document Accessibility - Larry Waldman
• PDF - ISO Standard - Stephen Partridge
• PDF Accessibility - WebAIM
• PDF Accessibility Quick Checks - Illinois IT Accessibility Initiative: ITaccess
• PDF Accessibility Testing with JAWS, NVDA and Window-Eyes - Priti Rohra
• 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 tagging for the blind - electricnews.net
• PDF Techniques for WCAG 2.0 - W3C
• PDF Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and 2.0. W3C
• PDF Test Results by Assistive Technology - Gian Wild
• PDF/UA and Skipped Headings - Ted Page New!
• 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
• RNIB Media Briefing on Accessible PDFs - Mike Davies
• Section 508 and PDF: The Facts - 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
• Ten Tips for Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
• Testing Adobe's Online PDF to HTML Conversion Tool - Ted Page
• The Australian Government's Study into the Accessibility of the Portable Document Format for People with a Disability - Australian Government
• The Four Levels of PDF Accessibility - Alastair Campbell
• To PDF or Not to PDF? Online Accessibility for People with Disabilities
• You Reap What You Sow: The Australian Government's Report on PDF Accessibility - Duff Johnson
  • PDF vs HTML for Organisations - Alastair Campbell
• WCAG 2.0 and PDF/UA - Andrew Kirkpatrick
• WCAG 2.0 Techniques for PDF - Andrew Kirkpatrick
• What is Tagged PDF? - Duff Johnson
• When to Use PDF - F. Rainne
• Word Doesn't Do Section 508, PDF Gets the Blame - Duff Johnson

Relative sizing

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

Scripts

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

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Structure & Semantics

• 3.5 Use header elements to convey document structure - W3C
  • Example for Checkpoint 3.5
• 1.2.1 Section headings
• Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 3 - Information and Relationships - Dey Alexander
• Categories of Semantics - Joe Clark
• Guideline 3. Use markup and style sheets and do so properly
• Headings in HTML and PDF, a Comparison - Duff Johnson
• Heading Levels - Navigation or Decoration? - Duff Johnson
• Heading Navigation in Web Browsers - Roger Johansson
• 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 in HTML 5 and Accessibility - Bruce Lawson
• Headings: Who needs 'em? - Roger Hudson New!
• 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
• On Using H1 for All Heading Levels in HTML5 - Roger Johansson
• Optimize Your Writing for Users with Impaired Vision - Virginia DeBolt
• SimpleQuizzes - Dan Cederholm
• Semantic Structure - WebAIM
• Separation: The Web Designer's Dilemma - Michael Cohen
• 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 HTML5 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

Style Sheets (Accessibility)

• 6.1 Organize documents so they may be read without style sheets - W3C
• A Case for Some Accessibility in Our CSS - Stuart Robson
  • Thoughts on Accessible CSS - Jamie Knight
• Accessibility and Cascading Style Sheets - Kynn Bartlett
• Accessibility Features of CSS
• Cascading Style Sheets And Accessibility - Marco Bertoni
• Creating Accessible CSS - WebAIM
• CSS Accessibility Community Group - W3C Community
  • CSS Accessibility - What Next? - Steve Faulkner
• CSS and Accessibility - Richard Rutter
• CSS, HTML, ARIA, Browsers, Assistive Technology and Interoperability - Steve Faulkner
• CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
• CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - (Current Document)
  • CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - (30 June 2005)
• Example for Checkpoint 3.3 - W3C
• Inline Styles and Why They are Considered Harmful for Accessibility - Dan Stringer
• Misunderstanding Accessible Design - Joe Dolson
• Notes on Accessible CSS Image Sprites - Steve Faulkner
• Use markup and style sheets and do so properly - W3C
• Using Cascading Stylesheets to Give Web Visitors More Choices - Crista Earl And Elizabeth Neal
• Why CSS is Important for Accessibility - Alastair Campbell

Tables

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

Testing, Checking, Validating

• 26: Accessibility Testing - Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
• A Challenge to Accessibility Testing Tool Vendors - Karl Groves
• A Principled Argument - Matt May
• A Sighted Person Testing a Website With a Screen Reader (Tweet) - Lisa Herrod (scenariogirl)
• An Example of Automated Accessibility Testing - Joe Dolson
• Accessibility Audit vs. Accessibility Testing - Trenton Moss
• Accessibility 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...Can't We All Just Get Along (Documentation of a Panel Discussion) - Panel: Derek Featherstone, Ian Lloyd and James Craig
• Accessibility Lifecycle - Alastair Campbell
• Accessibility: Panning for Gold - Andy (Malarkey) Clarke
• Accessibility: Standards Versus Testing - Jonathan Kahn
• Accessibility Testing - Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
• Accessibility Testing and Reporting with TAW3 - Patrick H. Lauke
• Accessibility Testing - Establishing a Screen Reader Test Plan - Henny Swan
• Accessibility Testing In Web Browsers - Brian Kelly
• Accessibility Testing, Research and Development - Suzanne Taylor
• Accessibility Testing Software Compared - Steve Faulkner
• Accessibility Testing Tips and Tools Presentation - Henny Swan
• Accessibility Testing Tools - Steve Faulkner
• Accessibility Tools for Quality Assurance: Color Contrast - Martin Kliehm
• Alexa 100 Accessibility Errors - Jared Smith
• Are Accessibility Evaluation Tools Useless? - Roger Johansson
• Assessing Usability for People with Disabilities through Remote Evaluation and Critical Incident Reporting - Mike Paciello
• Assistive Technology Experiment - ZoomText - Jon Whiting
• Automated Testing - How useful is it? - Grant Broome
• Beware the Automated Accessibility Tool Trap - Trenton Moss
• Bobby is Gone - Mike Cherim
• Certification and Testing - Joe Clark
• Conducting User Evaluations with People with Disabilities - IBM
• Confirming a Web Site's Accessibility - Mike Cherim
• Developer Tools to Help Check Web Accessibility - Emily Coward
• Don't Just Tick Boxes - Mel Pedley
• Efficiency in Accessibility Testing or, Why Usability Testing Should be Last - Karl Groves
• Evaluating for Accessibility - Shawn Lawton Henry and Mary Grossnickle
• Evaluating Web Site Accessibility: A Seven Step Process - Jared Smith and Paul Bohman
• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility -Web Accessibility Initiative
• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox - Patrick H. Lauke
• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar - Patrick H. Lauke
• Evaluating Website Accessibility Part 1, Background and Preparation - Roger Johansson
  • Evaluating Website Accessibility Part 2, Basic Checkpoints - Roger Johansson
  • Evaluating Website Accessibility: Part 3, Digging Deeper - Roger Johansson
• Evaluating Web Site Accessibility with WAVE - Jared Smith.
• Four Different Ways To Test Web Accessibility - Joe Clark
• Getting Accessibility Testing Right - Leonie Watson
• Getting Started with Accessibility Assessments - Andrew Arch, Sofia Celic, Steve Faulkner, and Brian Hardy
• Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers - Mary Frances Theofanos and Janice (Ginny) Redish
• How To Evaluate A Web Site's Accessibility Level - David Sloan
• How Usability Testing Adds Value to Accessibility Evaluations - Mary Donnelly
• How to Structure an Accessibility Review - Joseph Dolson
• How to Use Accessibility Guidelines, Standards and Testing - Joe Clark
• How to Use NVDA and Firefox to Test Your Web Pages for Accessibility - Marco Zehe
• In Defense of Checklist Accessibility - Karl Groves
• Influence of Valid Code on Screen Readers - Joe Clark
• Improving the Accessibility of Your Web Site - The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility - The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Learning Not to See - Sarah Bourne
• Measuring Accessibility - Roger Hudson
• Making Accessibility More Real - Roger Johansson
• Manual and User Accessibility Testing - Shilpi Kapoor
• My Response to WAI's Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology 1.0 Working Draft - Brian Kelly
• On Accessibility and Validity - Matt May
• Pitfalls of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools - Peter Krantz
• 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
• Evaluating Accessibility with ChromeVox - University of Michigan
• Quick Accessibility Testing - Emil Stenstrom
• Screen Reader Testing is Back in Style - Jon Whiting
• Setting Up a Screen Reader Test Environment - Henny Swan
• Testing for Accessibility - Sara Ford
• 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 Effectiveness of the Web Accessibility Audit as a Motivational and Educational Tool in Inclusive Web Design - David Sloan
• The Importance of Human Evaluation - WebAIM
• The Lifecycle of Web Accessibility - Antonio Volpon
• The Usefulness of Accessibility Audits - Jack Pickard
• Testing for Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• Three Things I Learned About Screen Reader Users - Joshua Kaufman
• Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• UN Survey
  • 97 Percent of Websites Still Inaccessible - Roger Johansson
  • Making the Internet More Disability-Friendly is Good Business, Experts Tell UN Panel - United Nations News Center
  • Most Websites Flunk Basic Standards for Disability Accessibility, Says UN survey - United Nations News Center
• Unified Web Evaluation Methodology (UWEM0.5)
  • Unified Web Evaluation Methodology version 1.2 - wabcluster
• University of Wisconsin Researchers Develop Tool to Prevent Seizures - Erica Hendry
• Usability Exchange
• Use of Automated Tools For Testing Web Site Accessibility - Marieke Guy
• User Testing with Intellectually Disabled Users - George Ornbo
• Using Combined Expertise to Evaluate Web Accessibility - The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Using NVDA to Evaluate Web Accessibility - Jared Smith
• Using Opera 10 With the Mac Screen Reader VoiceOver - Henny Swan
• Using the Accessible Information Solutions (AIS) Web Accessibility Toolbar - Steven Faulkner
• Using JAWS to Evaluate Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• Using Opera to Check for Accessibility - WebAIM
• Validation
• WCAG 2.0 And Testability - Mel Pedley
• Web Accessibility Checklist - University of Texas
• Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools Need People - Shawn Lawton Henry
• Website Accessibility Metrics - Online Symposium - Simon Harper
• Web Accessibility Metrics - 'What Are They For Then?' - Martyn Cooper
• 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
• Website Evaluation Rubric - Denny Lancaster
• What Can Web Accessibility Metrics Learn From Alt.Metrics? - Brian Kelly
• What is an Accessibility Audit? - Leonie Watson
• Web Accessibility is a Mindset Not a Checklist - Amajjika Kumara
• Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology 1.0 - W3C

Text Alternatives and Text Equivalents

• 508 (a) - A text equivalent for every non-text element shall be provided (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content).
• A Better Way to Author Alternate Text - Vlad Alexander
• 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 Alternatives - Andy (Malarkey) Clarke
• Accessible Graphics: A Graph with a Description in a Separate, Linked File - University of Texas
  • Accessible Graphics: alt Text for Decorative Images and Spacers - University of Texas
  • Accessible Graphics: alt Text for a Functional Graphics - University of Texas
  • Accessible Graphics: alt Text for a Link that contains both Graphics and Text - University of Texas
  • Accessible Graphics: alt Text for a Logo - University of Texas
  • Accessible Graphics: Including a Graph and Its Description on the Same Page - University of Texas
• Accessibility Footnotes - Andy (Malarkey) Clarke
• Adding ALT Text in Blogger - John Eric Brandt
• alt and the Flickr Defense - Matt May
• alt and title Content Display in Popular Browsers - Steve Faulkner
• Alternative Content for Graphics - Jim Thatcher
• Alternative Text for Images: the ALT attribute - Estelle Weyl
• Alt in HTML5 Required? - To Be or Not to Be - Steve Faulkner
• ALT Attributes for Images - Matt Cutts
• Alt Text is an Alternative, Not a Tooltip - Roger Johansson
• Alt Texts - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• Alternative Text for Complex Graphics - Zoe Gillenwater
• An Offer to the HTML5 Team to Save longdesc - Vlad Alexander
• Appropriate Use of Alternative Text - Jared Smith
• 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
• 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
  • Text Alternatives for Images: A Decision Tree - Dey Alexander
• Effective Practices for Description of Science Content within Digital Talking Books
- NCAM
• Designing Accessible Icons (Part 1 of 2) - Tom Waterhouse
• Displaying and Optimizing ALT text in Popular email Clients - Ros Hodgekiss
• Do We Need Three Ways to Describe Images? - Vlad Alexander
• Enhancement to and Replacement for longdesc - Vlad Alexander
• Five Kinds of 'alt' Text - David Travis
• Guideline 1.1. Provide Text Alternatives - Olga Revilla
• Guidelines on alt Texts in img Elements - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
• How to Enable a Long Description Attribute on Images in WordPress - Michael Fields
• 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
• HTML5: Techniques for Providing Useful Text Alternatives - Steve Faulkner, editor
• Image alt Attributes Not Always Required in HTML5 - Adrian A. Roselli
• Image Description Guidelines - The Diagram Center
• Images in Context - Derek Featherstone
• Images of Text - Accessibility for Web Writers, Part 7 - Dey Alexander
• Is ARIA for Content Doomed to Failure? - Vlad Alexander
• Longdesc Misuse: How Prevalent? - Karl Groves
• 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
• Maps and Virtual Tours
  • A More Accessible Map - Seth Duffey
  • Making Maps Accessible - Sarah Bourne
  • Maps - Joe Clark
  • Maps That Are Accessible - Web Accessiblity Initiative Interest Group Thread.
  • SVG Maps for People with Visual Impairment - Benjamin Campin et. al.
  • Virtual Tours & Accessibility - Darrel Austin
• Mini FAQ About The Alternate Text Of Images - Ian Hickson
• More on Image alt Requirement in HTML5 - Adrian Roselli
• Naughty or Nice? CSS Background Images - Derek Featherstone
• New Image-Description Guidelines Coming from ISO/IEC - Geoff Freed
• 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
• On Combining title and alt on Images - David Dorward
• Online Galleries
  • Dayton Art Institute
  • i-Map: The Every Day Transformed - Tate Modern
• NVDA Screen Reader Now Recognises Long Description - Media Access Australia
• Parroting Pareto - Jeremy Keith
• 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 a text alternative that describes the purpose of the CAPTCHA - 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
• Reviving Anorexic Web Writing - Amber Simmons
• Safari, WebKit and alt Text for Missing Images - Roger Johansson
• Should alt Text Be Used To Paint A Thousand Words? - Sharon Perry
• Should Photos in Photo-Sharing Sites Have Alternate Text? - Vlad Alexander
• Testing aria-labelledby and aria-describedby Support in Popular Browsers on Windows - Steve Faulkner
• Text Alternatives - W3C
• 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 in HTML - Stephen Poley
• The alt Attribute is NOT for Tooltips - Robert Nyman
• The Case of the Missing alt Attribute - Joel Dolson
• 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 Lottery - Mark Pilgrim
  • The longdesc Lottery Comment - Steve Faulkner
• Thinking About Accessibility - Equivalent Content - Mike Davies
• Understanding the Purpose of an Image Using alt Text - Dan Stringe
• Updated (HTML5) Re-Open Request and Change Proposal on Meta Generator - Judy Brewer, et al.
• Using alt attributes on images used as submit buttons - W3C
• Using ARIA to Fix Non-Standard Images on Flickr - Ted Drake
• Use Consistent Text Alternatives Across Desktop and Mobile - Henny Swan
• Web Accessibility - Alt Text and Long Descriptions - IncludeTrinity.
• WCAG 1.1 Provide a text equivalent for every non-text element - W3C
  • Example for Checkpoint 1.1a - a text equivalent for images and graphical buttons
• What Should be the Minimum / Maximum Length of Alternate Text? - Vlad Alexander
• WYSIWYG Support for @longdesc Today - John Foliot
• Writing ALT Descriptions - John Eric Brandt
• Writing Good alt Text - Roger Johansson
• Writing good ALT text - Simon Willison
• Writing Good ALT Text - The Guild of Accessible Web Designers

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

Text Only Versions

• 11.4 -" If, after best efforts, you cannot create an accessible page, provide a link to an alternative page that uses W3C technologies, is accessible, has equivalent information (or functionality), and is updated as often as the inaccessible (original) page. -W3C"
• 508 (k) - "A text-only page, with equivalent information or functionality, shall be provided to make a web site comply with the provisions of these standards, when compliance cannot be accomplished in any other way. The content of the text-only page shall be updated whenever the primary page changes"
• Myth: Text-Only Versions - Shawn Lawton Henry
• Text-Only is Not Accessible - Karl Groves
• Text-Only Pages are Possibly Not So Bad - Joe Clark
• Text-Only Versions - Tommy Olsson
• "Text Only" Versions Considered Harmful - Jon Hanna

Tools: Accessibility

Usability and Accessibility

• A Comparative: Accessibility and Usability - Mike Cherim
• Accessible and Usable Web Design - Joshua Kaufman
• Accessibility in 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
• Accountability of Accessibility and Usability - Anitra Pavka
• Web Accessibility Now Because Nationwide Class Action Suits are Bad for You - Karcher Group
• Let Them Eat Cake: Accessibility and Usability, Brought Together Through the DOM and CSS - Aaron Gustafson
• The Secret Benefit of Accessibility: Increased Usability - Trenton Moss
• Usable Accessibility: Making Web Sites Work Well for People with Disabilities - Whitney Quesenbery
• User-Center, Standards-Driven Web Accessibility - Jared Smith
• Web Usability and Accessibility Are As Important As Search Engine Prominence - Eugene Mulligan

W3C Guidelines

Zoom Layouts

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

Articles & Related Links

• A Personal Look at Accessibility in Higher Education (Video) - Gaining Online Accessible Learning through Self-study (GOALS)
• Assessing your Institution's Web Accessibility Efforts: Part 1 - Cyndi Rowland
• Assessing Your Institution's Web Accessibility Efforts: Part 2 - Jon Whiting
• Assistive Technology Overview - Univeristy of Minnesota Duluth
• Improving Accessibility Can Close Digital Divide - Rob Sinclair
• E-Learning
  • AccessForAll Meta-data Specification (ISO/IEC 24751) - Innovation Adoption Learning (ISM)
  • AccessForAll to eLearning - Martyn Cooper
  • accesselearning - Georgia Tech
  • Accessibility and Learning Theories - Martyn Cooper.
  • Accessibility and Pedagogy in eLearning - Martyn Cooper
  • Accessibility and Web Innovation - A Constant Struggle - Chris Heilmann
  • 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
  • Confidence in eAssessment - Martyn Cooper
  • e-Assessment and Accessibility - David Sloan
  • First Three Parts of ISO Multipart Accessibility in e-Learning Standard Published - Sharon Perry
  • Gaining Online Accessible Learning through Self-Study GOALS By National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE) and WebAIM
  • Getting Down and Dirty with Accessibility and Usability - Karen Mardahl
  • Holistic Approaches to E-learning Accessibility - Lawrie Phipps and Brian Kelly
  • How-To Guide for Creating Accessible Online Learning Content - Hadi Rangin
  • Implementing a Holistic Approach to E-learning Accessibility - Brian Kelly and Cora How
  • IMS Access For All v3.0 Public Draft - IMS Global
  • Inovation Adoption Learning (ISM) Consortium AccessForAll Meta-data Specification - Inovation Adoption Learning (ISM) Consortium
  • Making Learning Technologies Accessible - Pearson
  • New Standards to Facilitate eLearning
  • Personalisation Is Key To Draft E-Learning Standard - Tristan Parker
  • The Barrierfree Learning Environment - Barrier Free
  • The Evolution Towards a Personalised Web and the Impact on Education - Martyn Cooper
  • Rethinking Web Accessibility for E-Learning - Brian Kelly
  • Web Accessibility 3.0: Learning From The Past, Planning For The Future - Brian Kelly and Liddy Nevile
• Keyboard Accessibility
  • Accessibility Advent: Support the Escape Key -James Aylett
  • Keyboard Accessibility for Web Applications - Jonathan Snook
  • Keyboard Accessibility (again) - Roger Johansson
  • Keyboard Accessibility Quick Tip - Emily Coward
• Low Vision
  • Exclusion of Visual Readers with Low Vision form WCAG 2.0 and the 508 Revise - Wayne Dick
• Looking to the Work of Others as You Create Your Institution's Web Accessibility Policy - National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE)
• Mind the Digital Gap - It's Bigger Than You Think - Ability Net
• Personalisation for Accessibility - Martyn Cooper
• Programmatically Determined - Jason Kiss
• Social Inclusion
  • a11y Bugs Project - Vlad Alexander, et al.
  • Accessible Twitter, Accessible Tweets - Matthew Smith
  • Facebook Accessibility - Project Possibility Wiki
  • Fix the Web - Fix the Web
    • 'Fix The Web' In Struggle For Survival - Dan Jellinek
  • Making Facebook Accessible - John Eric Brandt
  • Social Inclusion for the Web - Roger Hudson
  • Survey - Cloud Accessibility for Visually Impaired and Normally Sighted People - Diana Kornbrot
  • Survey on Social Networking Sites - The American Foundation for the Blind
  • What Impact Will Facebook's New Accessibility Team Have? - Sarah Pulis
• Title Attributes
  • 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 - 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
• Touch
  • Touch Accessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired - University of Minnesota Duluth New!
  • Trials of iPads as Assistive Technologies - Denise Wood New!
• University of Minnesota Accessibility Resource - Philip M Kragnes
• WordPress
  • Accessibility with WordPress - Accessing Higher Ground 2012 - Deborah Edwards-Onoro
  • Accessible WordPress Themes - Rian Rietveld
  • New Plug-In - WP Accessibility - Joe Dolson
  • WordPress Accessibility - John Eric Brandt

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