Accessibility
(Skip Page Index) Page Index:
- Abbreviations & Acronyms
- Accessibility Statements
- Accesskeys
- Assistive Technology
- Baseline
- Benefits
- Buttons
- Captcha
- Check Lists
- Cognitive Disabilities
- Color Accessibility
- Device Independence and and Graceful Degradation
- Definitions and Overviews
- Deprecated Features
- Flicker
- Forms:
- Language
- Law, Lawsuits, Policies
- Mobile
- Multimedia:
- Open Source
- Plugins, PDF, PowerPoint, etc
- Relative Sizing
- Scripts
- Skip Links
- Structure
- Style Sheets
- Tables
- Testing, Checking, Validating
- Text Alternatives/Equivalents
- Text Links
- Text Only Versions
- Tools (Accessibility)
- Usability and Accessibility
- W3C Guidelines
- Zoom Layouts
- Articles & Related Links
Abbreviations & Acronyms
- 3.2 Acronyms and abbreviations
- 4.2 Specify the expansion of each abbreviation or acronym
- 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 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)
- 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
- 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
- 11.3 Labeling form controls - WAI Coding Technique
- 12.4 Associate labels explicitly with their controls - W3C
-
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
- 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
- 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
-
- 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)
- 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])
- 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
- Target and NFB Final Settlement
- 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
- Accessible Layouts - Alastair Campbell
- Font Sizing
- Liquid Design
- Line Length
Scripts
- Javascript Accessibility
- Scripts and Applets - Jim Thatcher
- Testing Script Generated Pages - Cari Burstein
Skip Links
Structure & Semantics
- 3.5 Use header elements to convey document structure - W3C
- 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)
- 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
- 5.1.2 Identifying rows and column information - W3C.
- 5.2 For data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers, use markup to associate data cells and header cells - W3C.
- 5.3 Linearizing tables - W3C
- 5.4 If a table is used for layout, do not use any structural markup for the purpose of visual formatting - W3C
- 5.5 Provide summaries for tables - W3C
- 5.6 Provide abbreviations for header labels - W3C
- 508(g) - Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables
- 508(h) - Markup shall be used to associate data cells and header cells for data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers.
- Accessible 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
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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
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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
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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
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Accessible Graphics: A Graph with a Description in a Separate, Linked File
- University of Texas
- Accessible Graphics: alt Text for Decorative Images and Spacers - University of Texas
- Accessible Graphics: alt Text for a Functional Graphics - University of Texas
- Accessible Graphics: alt Text for a Link that contains both Graphics and Text - University of Texas
- Accessible Graphics: alt Text for a Logo - University of Texas
- Accessible Graphics: Including a Graph and Its Description on the Same Page - University of Texas
- Accessibility Footnotes - Andy (Malarkey) Clarke
- 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
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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
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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.
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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
- 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
