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Resources, part 5

There are over 1,100 rare disorders according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD). We have limited this set of resources to the more common disorders and the ones with more public awareness. We also include items that have been submitted for the list by the A-SIG Discussion list members. If you find a link that is no longer active or has moved, please notify the Webmasters.

Part 1: Updated Sunday May 04 2008

Accessible Travel Adaptive Technology Aging Allergy and Asthma Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease) Aphasia Architectural, Environmental, and Product Design Arthritis Asperger's Syndrome and Autism

Part 2: Updated Sunday May 04 2008

Assisted Living, Clothing, and Rehab Equipment Products Assistive Technology

Part 3: Updated Sunday May 04 2008

Attention Deficit Disorder Behavior and Social Interaction Blood Diseases and Disorders Book Lists Brain Injury Cancer Cerebral Palsy Chromosome 18 Syndrome Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Cognitive Disability Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Cystic Fibrosis Deep Vein Thrombosis Developmental Disabilities Diabetes Disability Etiquette

Part 4: Updated Sunday May 04 2008

Disability Organizations Disability Sites for Children and Families Disaster Resources Down Syndrome Drug/Alcohol Addiction Dwarfism Dyslexia Dystonia Education Emergency Preparedness

Part 5: Updated Sunday May 04 2008

Employment Epilepsy Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders Facial Difference Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Fibromyalgia Fragile X Syndrome Guillain-Barré Syndrome / Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy Health Care for Women Hearing Loss Heart Attack and Angina Huntington's Disease Hyperlexia Hypermobility, Ehlers-Danlos, and Marfan Syndrome Internet Accessibility / Usability Invisible Disabilities Klinefelter Syndrome

Part 6: Updated Sunday May 04 2008

Language Learning and Speaking Legal & Human Rights Resources Literacy: Reading and Print Disabilities Literature Lung Diseases Lupus Magazines and Periodicals Medical Links

Part 7: Updated Sunday February 24 2008

Mental Health Mucopolysaccharidoses & Mucolipidoses Multiple Sclerosis Muscular Dystrophy and Ataxia Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Orthopaedic Information Pain Management Parkinson's Disease Performance Arts / Theater Pervasive Developmental Disorders Phobias Physical Impairment Polio Prader-Willi Syndrome Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy Restless Leg Syndrome Rett Syndrome

Part 8: Updated Sunday May 04 2008

Scoliosis Service Dogs and Therapy Animals Sight / Vision Loss Sjögren's Syndrome Sleep Disorders Spasmodic Torticollis / Dystonia Speech Spina Bifida Spinal Cord Injury Spine and Neck Pain Sports and Recreation Stress Stroke Treatment and Recovery

Part 9: Updated Thursday March 20 2008

Tay-Sachs Disease Technical Communication Thyroid Disorders Tourette Syndrome Traumatic Brain Injury Turner Syndrome Usability and Human Factors Vision Loss William's Syndrome

See also: Suggested Reading book lists.

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Employment

• Able Trust the Florida Governor's Alliance for the Employment of Citizens with Disabilities
• AccessCAREERS from the DO-IT Program at the University of Washington
• Access Nurses - Travel Nurse Jobs
• Action Without Borders Career Center an interactive site where people and organizations can exchange resources and ideas, locate opportunities and supporters, and take steps toward building a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives.
• American Hospital Association (AHA) Career Center
• An investigation of reasonable workplace accommodations for people with psychiatric disabilities: Quantitative findings from a multisite study. by MacDonald-Wilson, K. L., Rogers, E. S., et al. (2002). Community Mental Health Journal, 38(1), 35-50. (78.2 K )
• Arizona Technology Access Program (AzTAP)
• Bender Consulting Services (BCS) employment and career opportunities for people with disabilities [US]
• Bender Consulting Services of Canada (BCSC) employment and career opportunities for people with disabilities [Canada]
• Center for American Indian Rehabilitation (CAIR)
• Careers & the DisABLED magazine
• Chimes services, support, and employment for people with disabilities [Maryland]
• Cornell research: A Review of Selected E-Recruiting Websites: Disability Accessibility Considerations, by William Erickson. (September 2002) (full paper – VERY large file).
• Cornell research: "Accessible IT for People with Disabilities: HR Considerations", by Susanne M. Bruyère, William Erickson, and Sara VanLooy. (2003 May)
• Cornell research: "People with Disabilities and the Technology-Driven Workplace," by Susanne M. Bruyère, Ph.D., CRC, NCC, Director Program on Employment and Disability at Cornell University, William Erickson, and Jennifer Schramm (October 2003)
• "Creating a Positive Work Environment for People with Disabilities," by Mylene Padolina, a senior diversity consultant at Microsoft (Nov. 1, 2007)
• "Disability Employment Guide 101," (1.6 MB ) jointly developed by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Workforce Preparation
• Disability Employment News from the US Business Leadership Network
• DisabledPerson.com
• DisabilityInfo.gov the federal government's online resources for Americans with disabilities
• Disability Etiquette Handbook from the City of San Antonio, Texas Planning Department and the Disability Advisory Committee
• Diversity Employment Solutions
• Diversity Jobs: Disabilities (list of more links)
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) [U.S.]
• EEOC Marks Second Anniversary of President's Disability Initiative with Fact Sheet on Telework as a Reasonable Accommodation
• Employment Resources in Canada for Individuals labelled disabled [Canada]
• Frequently Asked Questions about Employees with Psychiatric Disabilities: Tips and Resources on the ADA, Job Accommodations, and Supervision. by MacDonald-Wilson, K. L. (1997). Boston University, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston, MA. (74.5 K )
• Great Lakes ADA & IT Center
• From Gulf News an article in English entitled "Handicap to get more job opportunities" [UAE]
• Handicap International [a Belgian site in Dutch, English, and French]
• Handicap-jobs.de [German]
• Handicap Network [German]
• Handicap-jobs.de [German]
• Handicapped-worker employment information guide from the state of Minnesota
• Hire Potential
• Identifying functional limitations in work for people with psychiatric disabilities. by MacDonald-Wilson, K. L., Rogers, E. S., & Lyass, A. (2003). Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 18(1),15-24. (58.6 K )
• Iowa Department for the Blind: Opening doors to opportunity, offers a program of specialized, integrated services that blind and severely visually impaired Iowans need to live independently and work competitively. Also has excellent information about making the Web accessible, tools and assistive devices, and more.
• Irene M. Ward & Associates provides disability related resources to businesses and the community in the areas of employment, inclusion, and diversity.
• Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
• Job & Career Strategies for the Disabled [English, Spanish, and Russian]
• Job Creation at Pasona ("Creating Jobs for the Handicapped" ) in Japan [Japan; in English]
• Job Hunter's Bible.com Work for the disabled by Richard Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute)
• Jobs for People with Disabilities: Disabled Hiring Programs for Government Jobs / Federal Jobs / Post Office Jobs
• Manpower: Social Responsibility A recruitment agency has come up with a forward-thinking campaign to shape up employers' attitudes towards job-seekers with disabilities world wide.
• Maryland's WorkTech for Employers provides free information, consulting and training so businesses can hire, keep, and promote valued employees with disabilities.
• Monster.com Employment Services. Read about how Monster.com Assists People with Disabilities in Finding Employment
• National Business and Disability Council
• Native Americans
  • Native American Employment Opportunities
  • Native American Jobs
  • Native American Resources on First.gov
• Nish employment opportunities for people with severe disabilities
• Nursing Jobs
• Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission promoting the employment of Ohioans with disabilities
• Ohio - President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities
• One-Stop Toolkit for Serving People with Disabilities Accessible and comprehensive tools and information to grantees who provide services that help individuals with disabilities find and keep good jobs.
• O*NET™ OnLine
• Social Security Employment Support for People with Disabilities
• Study and Work Abroad in Denmark information for students with disabilities
• Technology Access Center of Tucson, Inc. (TACT)
• Ticket to Work provided by the Social Security Administration. The Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program is an employment program for people with disabilities who are interested in going to work. The Ticket Program is part of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 – legislation designed to remove many of the barriers that previously influenced people's decisions about going to work because of the concerns over losing health care coverage. The goal of the Ticket Program is to increase opportunities and choices for Social Security disability beneficiaries to obtain employment, vocational rehabilitation (VR), and other support services from public and private providers, employers, and other organizations.
• U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board
• U.S. Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy
• U.S. Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration: One-Stop Toolkit for Serving People with Disabilities
• Vocational Rehabilitation State Offices
• Working While Disabled – A Guide To Plans For Achieving Self-Support SSA Publication No. 05-11017, February 2004 (PDFs are available in English and en Español )
• WorkSupport.com a gateway to information, resources, and services regarding the employment of people with disabilities.
• Your Ticket to Work provided by the Social Security Administration. The Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program is an employment program for people with disabilities who are interested in going to work. The Ticket Program is part of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 – legislation designed to remove many of the barriers that previously influenced people's decisions about going to work because of the concerns over losing health care coverage. The goal of the Ticket Program is to increase opportunities and choices for Social Security disability beneficiaries to obtain employment, vocational rehabilitation (VR), and other support services from public and private providers, employers, and other organizations.
• Youth to Work Coalition (YWC) established to assist businesses in creating or enhancing internships and mentoring programs for youth with disabilities

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Epilepsy

• Abilities Network and Epilepsy Foundation of the Chesapeake Region
• Animals with Epilepsy Clinical Neurology in Small Animals - Localization, Diagnosis and Treatment, International Veterinary Information Service
• Epilepsy Association of Central Florida (EACF)
• Epilepsy Foundation
• Epilepsy.com
• Seizures and Epilepsy - Frequently Asked Questions answered by James A. Whitlock, Jr., MD, Staff Neurologist, Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital, Salem, NH. USA
• Epilepsy Ontario Service Dogs [Canada]
• Flickering content or high contrast oscillating patterns may trigger Photosensitive Epilepsy, an article from Juicy Studio about the need to avoid flickering Web content, using photosensitive epilepsy as the basis for discussion.
  Note: See additional information at W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative and the section on Flash accessibility
• Temporal Lobe Epilepsy is epilepsy that is characterized by abnormal electrical activity in the temporal lobe of the brain. This activity does not cause grand mal seizures; rather, it causes unusual behaviors and patterns of cognition.

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Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders

• Applied Ergonomics Conference and Virtual Community
• Ergonomics information provided by IBM.
• Ergonomics At Work, Department of Occupational Health and Safety (DOHS)
• Ergonomics & Safety Research Institute (ESRI) [United Kingdom]
• "Ergonomics of human-system interaction — Guidance on accessibility for human-computer interfaces"
• Healthy Computing information provided by IBM. Topics include Setting up your workstation, Workstation aids, Mobile computing, Comfort, Vision, Display, Input devices, Environmental aspects, and more.
• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
• Musculoskeletal disorder information provided by IBM.
• Musculoskeletal Disorders Diagnosis from the Merck Manuals Online Medical Library.
• Musculoskeletal Disorders from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). [UK]
• Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) and Workplace Factors, a Critical Review of Epidemiologic Evidence for Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Neck, Upper Extremity, and Low Back contributed to by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Cincinnati, OH.
• NIOSH Safety and Health Topic: Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders (NIOSH - The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
• Office Ergonomics Research Committee, "a non-profit committee of companies dedicated to the advancement of research in office ergonomics"
• Safety and Health Topics: Ergonomics provided by U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration
• STC Usability SIG articles on "Accessibility, Ergonomics, and Special Audiences" at http://www.stcsig.org/usability/topics/
• Ergonomics and Personal Safety topics provided by the STC Usability SIG.

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Facial Difference

• AboutFace International
• Davie Roche keynote speaker, humorist, performer
• Davie Roche's Favorite Links
• Let's Face It

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

• Alcohol Related Birth Injury (ARBI) Resource Site
• Esmerel's Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Resources
• FAS Community Resource Center
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome / Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAS/FAE) Legal Issues Resource Center University of Washington School of Law together with the Fetal Alcohol And Drug Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine
• KidsHealth for Parents
• National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS)

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Fibromyalgia (Muscle Pain)

• Accommodation and Compliance Series: Employees with Fibromyalgia Syndrome provided by the Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor
• American Fibromyalgia Syndrome Association (AFSA) funds research for NIH grants to study fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
• Arthritis Foundation — Fibromyalgia: "What Is It?"
• Book List Recommendations
• Excerpt from "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fibromyalgia: Quick and Easy Tips for Feeling Better", by Lynne Matallana, ImmuneSupport.com. [Buy the book...]
• "Fibromyalgia", by Justin Wasserman, MD, 2004 ()
• Fibromyalgia Fact Sheet from the American College of Rheumatology, 2007 update PDF version (237.5 KB )
• Fibromyalgia Network a quarterly journal that collects useful information from physicians, researchers, medical journals, and scientific symposiums to provide ideas for coping and new therapies to try (both drug and nondrug). Every issue focuses on teaching patients how to help their doctors take better care of them. Fact Sheet (351.5 KB )
• Fibromyalgia: An "Invisible" Disability
• Fibromyalgia: list of publications and organizations provided by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, The National Women's Health Information Center
• "Differential diagnosis: myofascial pain", in Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practitioner's Guide to Treatment, by Jan Dommerholt, PT, MPS and Tamer S. Issa, PT, DPT ()
• ImmuneSupport.com, a Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome site.
• National Fibromyalgia Partnership, Inc., Home of the Fibromyalgia Frontiers journal Fibromyalgia Monograph: Fibromyalgia: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment & Research (625.5 KB )
• National Fibromyalgia Research Association (NFRA) source for what's new in fibromyalgia research and education
• Public Witness Testimony on Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS), to The House Appropriation's Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies by Ronald C. Kramis, Ph.D. - January 29, 1998 PDF of Congressional testimony PDF of Congressional testimony (166 KB )
• SAM-e could be a new ally in the battle against the pain of osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia and the depression that so often accompanies chronic illness, by Judith Horstman, Arthritis Today, 2000.
• "Treatment of Fibromyalgia", by Robert Gerwin, MD ()

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Fragile X Syndrome

• Fragile X Research Foundation
• Fragile X Syndrome Resources

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Genetic Disorders

• Genetics Home Reference: Your Guide to Understanding Genetic Conditions from the U.S. National Library of Medicine

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Guillain-Barré Syndrome / Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy

• Guillain-Barré Syndrome / Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) Foundation International
• Guillain-Barré Syndrome information from the Mayo Clinic
• Guillain-Barré Syndrome information from the NIH National Library of Medicine
• Guillain-Barré Syndrome information from the NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

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Health Care for Women

• National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)
• National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC): Women with Disabilities
• Centres of Excellence in Women's Health.
• Canadian Women's Health Network. Women's health information you can trust.
• "We're Women, Too: Identifying Barriers to Gynecologic and Breast Health Care for Women with Disabilities", by Lenore Riddell; Kathy Greenberg; Joan Meister; Jude Kornelsen. () Very readable 48-page study and results by Canadian researchers of the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (BCCEWH).

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Hearing Loss

• A-Z to Deafblindness provides information and resources for the deafblind.
• ALS Pah! an e-zine for American Sign Language students and teachers
• American Auditory Society
• American Sign Language Fingerspelling dictionary, converters, quiz
• ALS Online Lessons
• Apple® Accessibility Features built into all Macintosh computers provides adjustable keyboard, an ergonomic mouse, CloseView screen magnification software, Easy Access system software (StickyKeys, SlowKeys, MouseKeys), electronic documentation, key-repeat disable, text-to-speech synthesis and voice recognition (PlainTalk), sticky mouse, and visual alert cues.
• Arizona Hearing Online products for special needs
• Auditory Processing Disorder in Children fact sheet
• Canadian Hearing Society
• Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) provides all persons who are deaf or hard of hearing awareness of and equal access to communication and learning through the use of free captioned educational media and supportive collateral materials
• College Scholarships Sponsor: Bell (Alexander Graham) Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Program Number: 63227, Title: College Scholarship Award, E-mail: Financialaid@agbell.org
• Deafblindness Resources
• Deafness and Hard of Hearing Resources
• Deafness in Disguise: Concealed Hearing Devices of the 19th and 20th Centuries
• Digital Hearing Aids: Current "State-of-the-Art"
• Oticon hearing care solutions
• Hearing Loss Web
• Maryland Relay a telecommunications service helping people who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind or speech disabled to easily communicate through TTY (text telephone) with anyone using a standard phone
• Media Access Group at WGBHdevelops and distributes captioning, video description, and MoPix means of access to movies and television for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing
• National Captioning Institute
• National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) of CPB/WGBH is a research and development facility dedicated to the issues of media and information technology for people with disabilities in their homes, schools, workplaces, and communities.
• National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
• Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects, Inc.
• Royal National Institute of the Deaf (RNID) the largest charity representing the 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK.
• Romance Sign Languages Catalonian, French, Italian, Lyons, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish (Mimica) Languages
• Self Help for Hard of Hearing (SHHH) People, Inc.
• Sign Language Dictionary Online
• Sign Languages of the World
• SignWriting
• ThinkQuest International deaf culture with information about American, Chinese, Japanese, and Norwegian Sign Languages
• Tinnitus (Ringing and Other Ear Noise)
• Vibrant® Soundbridge™ middle ear implants
• Webcast Captioning from Automatic Sync Technologies

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Heart Attack and Angina

• American Heart Association (AHA)
• American Heart Association CPR Courses
• American Red Cross
• Angina Pectoris: What is it? American Heart Association
• Angina Facts National Institutes of Health
• Angina Resources on the Web MEDLINEplus health information
• Australian Resuscitation Council
• Chain of Survival web site
• Citizen CPR Foundation
• CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care, American Heart Association
• CPR Simulator
• European Resuscitation Council co-ordinates the activities of European organisations with a major interest in resuscitation medicine (RM) and Emergency Medical Care (EMC).
• How To Do CPR provides short illustrated steps for CPR on adults, children dogs, and cats
• How to Perform CPR on an Adult from eHow.com provides detailed steps for CPR on adults
• Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
• Lifesaving Solutions for Treating Cardiorespiratory Emergencies
• National Association of EMS Physicians
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Diseases and Conditions Index (DCI)
• National Safety Council
• Public Access to Defibrillation (PAD) Programs is an initiative that makes automated external defibrillators (AEDs) available to the public by placing them in public and private places where large numbers of people gather. A PAD program includes all the steps necessary to get AEDs installed and people trained to use them.
• Resuscitation Council (UK)

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Huntington's Disease

• Hereditary Disease Foundation
• Huntington's Disease Society of America
• Huntington's Disease Information
• Huntington's Disease Advocacy Center

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Hyperlexia

• Hyperlexia Resources

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Hypermobility, Ehlers-Danlos, and Marfan Syndrome

• Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation [US]
• Ehlers-Danlos Support Group [UK]
• Hypermobility Syndrome Association (HMSA) [UK]
• Hypermobility forum for people with Marfan, EDS
• National Marfan Foundation

See also Arthritis and Fibromyalgia (Muscle Pain).

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Internet Accessibility / Usability

• A-Chat Web-based chat tool, designed with accessibility in mind
• Accessible Web Developers group is a public bookmarking site provided by Ma.gnolia where anyone may post a favorite bookmark about creating accessible and mobile-friendly sites.
• Accessify "tools, wizards, articles and tutorials on Web Accessibility for the conscientious web developer"
• Accessify Forum.com a bulletin board for accessibility issues. An excellent resource to post questions and comments.
• Accessibility Browser Extensions, Favelets, and Toolbars
  • Accessibility Validator, HTML Validator, Spell Checker, Link Checker all in one tool! The Total Validator is a free one-stop validator or all-in-one validator comprising an HTML validation against the W3C Markup Specifications or ISO/IEC definition using the published DTDs (2.0, 3.2, 4.0, 4.01, ISO/IEC, XHTML 1.0 and 1.1), an accessibility validator that validates against the W3C WAI Accessibility Guidelines and US Section 508 Standard, a spelling validator (English, French, Italian, Spanish), a broken links validator, and the ability to take screenshots with different browsers to see what your web pages really look like.

    Total Validator Tool - the Online tool that allows you to check up to 5 pages at a time.

    Firefox Extension for the Total Validator Tool - the Online tool that allows you to check up to 5 pages at a time.

    Total Validator Desktop Tool - the FREE desktop tool that checks one page.

    Total Validator Desktop Tool Pro - the Pro desktop tool (GB£20, approx US$36, or €29) that allows you to check a whole site in one go - includes a Firefox extension. (Runs on Mac OS X 10.4+; Windows XP, 2000, 2003; and Linux supporting Java 1.5+)

  • Accessibility collection of articles and tools from the University of Minnesota Duluth
  • Accessibility Favelets Accessify offers useful downloadable scripts to help you check web pages with ease such as tagging abbreviations and acronyms.
  • Web Accessibility Toolbar for Windows IE, is provided by the Accessible Information Solutions (AIS) team of Vision Auatralia. The toolbar has been developed to aid manual examination of web pages for a variety of aspects of accessibility and comes in several languages: English, Danish, German, Korean, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
  • Web Developer Extension. The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock, Mozilla, and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that those browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The extension provides very helpful Web developer tools including accessibility and code validators, Edit CSS, code outliners, display features, and much more.
  • A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt), developed by the University of Toronto, is a software tool designed to help Web authors improve the usability of Web pages created in HTML format (available in English, French, and German). A-Prompt first evaluates an HTML Web page to identify barriers to accessibility by people with disabilities. A-Prompt then provides the Web author with a fast and easy way to make the necessary repairs. The tool's evaluation and repair checklist is based on accessibility guidelines created and maintained by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium. (Windows 98/98SE/2000/Me/XP only.) [Canada / U.S.A.]
• Accessible Web Design online course offered by the International Webmasters Association
• Accessible Web Site Design bulleted list of standards in designing Web pages
• Access Keys
  • User-Defined Access Keys: using .asp, by Gez Lemon of JuicyStudio [UK]
  • User-Defined Access Keys: using .php, by Gez Lemon of JuicyStudio [UK]
  • Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys, by Gez Lemon of JuicyStudio [UK]
  • Techniques for "skip navigation" links and "skip to main content" links
  • Too much accessibility - ACCESSKEYS
  • Using Accesskeys - Is it worth it? This is not a how to; it is an argument that accesskeys are difficult to do correctly. The Canadian government accessibility folks recommend against using accesskeys according to this article. (Defining accesskeys seems to be a waste of time unless one is designing for a controlled environment such as an intranet.)
• AccRepair quality and accessibility testing and repair solution
• Ajax and Accessibility: "What about Ajax?"
• Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability Bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen, principal, Nielsen Norman Group
• "ALPHABET SOUP: A web designer's journey to standards and accessibility" by Randal Rust
• Apple® Accessibility Features built into all Macintosh computers provides adjustable keyboard, an ergonomic mouse, CloseView screen magnification software, Easy Access system software (StickyKeys, SlowKeys, MouseKeys), electronic documentation, key-repeat disable, text-to-speech synthesis and voice recognition (PlainTalk), sticky mouse, and visual alert cues.
• Blogs: How to Make Your Blog Accessible to Blind Readers from American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
• Cognitive Disabilities Part 1: We Still Know Too Little, and We Do Even Less"
• Cognitive Disabilities Part 2: Conceptualizing Design Considerations
• Color and typography:
  • Accessibility Color Wheel Version 1.0 by Giacomo Mazzocato. When you hover over the color wheel, you'll see text in colors for normal, Deuteranopia, Protanopia and Tritanopia color vision simultaneously. An "OK" message is displayed when you hover over an accessible color. By clicking on the color, you can copy the hex values. The tool may be used for foreground and background color contrasts. You may download the javascript if you want to use it offline.
  • British Telecommunications (BT) Age & Disability Action: "Safe web colours for colour-deficient vision" Information and design tools for designing sites so that color cues are not lost.
  • Color Laboratory The color laboratory allows you to select colors and see how they appear next to one another and in various foreground / background combinations. It also allows you to see those colors as they might appear to color-blind users.
  • Colour Vision Easy to use tool to quickly see color deficiencies with color palettes for Protanomaly (low red), Protanopia (no red), Deuteranomaly (low green), Deutanopia (no green), Tritanomaly (low blue), Tritanopia (no blue), Typical Monochromatic, ATypical Monochromatic.
  • Color Contrast Analyzer: The "Colour contrast analyser allows you to check the contrast of two colours using the W3C's colour contrast algorithm by specifying the colours directly."
  • "Computer Color Matters -Is your computer color blind?" from Color Matters® Computers
  • Design Evaluation provides three ways to see what your Web site's colors look like to the color-blind.
  • Fonts excellent resource for information about fonts from Webaim
  • Newman Color Blind Design Evaluation. You can test pages at this site.
  • Lighthouse International: Effective Color Contrast - Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies offers color guidelines for the Web.
  • Lighthouse International: Making Text Legible - Designing for People with Partial Sight offers basic guidelines for making effective legibility choices that work for nearly everyone.
  • Understanding web typography – an introduction an article by Jim Byrne
  • Vischeck Test your Web design for how it looks to various color blind impairments. Run Vischeck on your own image files or run Vischeck on a Web page: on your desktop or online.
  • Visibone Information about colour blindness, with colour cards simulating colour spectrums as they appear to those with colour deficient vision.
  • Website Tips: Color provides several web-safe color charts by VisiBone's Bob Stein, by Lynda Weinman, and Daxassist. There are also resources to many more charts, and articles and tips on color and design, color psychology and meanings.
  • Wellstyled Web-Safe Colors Tool incredibly helpful online color scheme tool to help select eye-stopping color schemes.
• Seven Accessibility Mistakes, Part 1 in Web Design from Digital Web Magazine
• Seven Accessibility Mistakes, Part 2 in Web Design from Digital Web Magazine
• CSS Zen Garden demonstrates the power and flexibility of CSS for formatting the visual presentation of web pages.
• Deque Systems accessibility products and services
• Design and Layout: Accessibility [United Kingdom]
• Designing with Web Standards the Daily Report from Jeffrey Zeldman, provides Web design news and information.
• FREE Developmental Tools and Resources ...add a signer module to your software, a math test, and other educational learning modules. "Learning in Motion is proud to pioneer the research and development of educational software. By-products of our development role are modules of code and functionality we're happy to share. Sample our tools for deaf and hard-of-hearing. These free tools and resources are available for projects or personal use."
• Ergonomics & Safety Research Institute (ESRI) [United Kingdom]
• Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR) FIR is a standards-compliant technique that uses stylesheets and ordinary HTML to provide a visible image, usually consisting of text. The CSS specifies that the image will display in most cases; if it should not display for some reason, the underlying structural HTML markup is supposed to take its place... Because it does not nest an image inside a heading, FIR is at least superficially better for accessibility.
• Flash accessibility
  • Adobe Accessibility Resource Center. Need your Web site Section 508 compliant? Get information and tools to make your web pages accessible, including the ability to test your Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, and Shockwave files.
  • Can Flash be made accessible? Yes: JK Rowling Flash website - Case study - Web Access Centre

    "The J.K. Rowling accessible website was launched in July 2005 and is recognised as one of the most advanced and accessible Rich Media experiences, pioneering new accessibility features for disabled, blind and partially sighted internet users."

  • Can Flash be considered accessible? - from accessible.ie, "An Irish Perspective on Accessibility and Usability"
• Flickering content or high contrast oscillating patterns may trigger Photosensitive Epilepsy, an article from Juicy Studio about the need to avoid flickering Web content, using photosensitive epilepsy as the basis for discussion.
• Floatutorial Maxdesign's step-by-step guide shows how to float elements such as images, drop caps, and next and back buttons to create image galleries, inline lists, and multicolumn layouts.
• Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS).
• How People with Disabilities Use the Webprovides scenarios and descriptions for how different types of disabilities affect Web use.
• IBM Accessibility Center Contains information on how to make websites accessible as well as build accessible software.
  Of particular interest is Understanding Disability Issues When Designing Web Sites.
• Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology online service. See Computing > Computers And Society > Social Issues Computing > Information Interfaces And Presentation (e.g., HCI) > User Interfaces.
• Jim Thatcher accessibility consulting
• Juicy Studio promotes best practices for making Web site accessible for all.
• Making E-communication Accessible is a supplement to the SAIF Standards for Disability Information and Advice Provision in Scotland. [UK]
• Motor Disabilities techniques and concepts
• Nielsen Norman Group Report Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities 75 Best Practices for Design of Websites and Intranets, Based on Usability Studies with People Who Use Assistive Technology.
• Microsoft Accessibility Center. Includes accessibility information for developers.
• Project: New for new designers and designers new to standards
• Quick Tips for Web Accessibility
• Recycling computer hardware and software for the disadvantaged
  • National Cristina Foundation (NCF) provides computer technology and solutions to give people with disabilities, students at risk, and economically disadvantaged persons the opportunity, through training, to lead more independent and productive lives. NCF uses donated used computer technology resources that no longer meet an enterprise's or an individual's needs and gives them a second productive life as a tool for developing human potential.
  • Three ways to recycle old computer systems you don't want anymore.
• "Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines", 2006 edition. Also available in PDF format (157.4 MB PDF)
• SSB Technologies, Inc.
• Side by Side WCAG vs. 508 comparison
• STC Usability SIG
  • Topics in Usability: Accessibility
  • Topics in Usability: Web usability and design guidelines for working with older adults, children, and babies
• The Paciello Group accessible interface design help for government agencies, technology vendors, e-commerce corporations, and educational institutions
  • Accessibility Tips
• Universal Design Education Online.
• Validating an entire site: Installing the W3C HTML Validator on MAc OS X
• U.S. Government Website Accessibility Guidelines. This is an annotated table created to assist NASA webmasters in the goal of making all Government websites accessible to persons with disabilities.
• Too much accessibility, by Bim Egan of the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) [UK]
  • Too much accessibility - ACCESSKEYS
  • Too much accessibility - TABINDEX
  • Too much accessibility -FIELDSET LEGENDS
  • Too much accessibility - Multiple JavaScript event handlers
  • Too much accessibility - TITLE attributes
• WAI Magazine Short summaries about accessibility tools for Web developers.
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Watchfire WebXM™ online Web analysis
• Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM)
• Wired Seniors: A fervent few, inspired by family ties, by Susannah Fox, et al. (). A Pew report, 9 September 2001, found that four million Americans aged 65 and over were online, sending e-mail to family members and surfing for important information. Demographics research report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. By now, that number has increased significantly.
• World Usability Day: 3 November
• World Wide Web Usability International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) (1997) 47(1) 1-222 [United Kingdom]
• Word to HTML conversion tools
  • Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft® Office offers tools to convert Word to HTML and to convert PowerPoint to HTML
  • CZ Document Converter

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Invisible Disabilities

• Invisible Disabilities Association of Canada
• Invisible Disabilities: Look a Little Deeper
• The Invisible Disabilities Advocate (IDA) For people living with chronic illness or pain, others often have difficulty understanding, because to them you do not "look" sick or in pain. IDA is a nonprofit organization that helps friends and family discover what to say, what not to say, and how to help someone living with a debilitating illness!

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Klinefelter Syndrome

• American Association for Klinefelter Syndrome Information and Support (AAKSIS)
• Klinefelter Syndrome from the Turner Center, a center for information, counselling and research on chromosome anomalies [Denmark]
• Klinefelter Syndrome: International Support Groups and links to more information
• Understanding Klinefelter Syndrome: A Guide for XXY Males and Their Families from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Health & Human Development

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Part 1: Accessible Travel - Asperger's Syndrome and Autism
Part 2: Assisted Living, Clothing, and Rehab Equipment Products - Assistive Technology
Part 3: Attention Deficit Disorder - Disability Etiquette
Part 4: Disability Organizations - Emergency Preparedness
Part 5: Employment - Klinefelter Syndrome
Part 6: Language - Medical Links
Part 7: Mental Health - Rett Syndrome
Part 8: Scoliosis - Stroke Treatment and Recovery
Part 9: Tay-Sachs Disease - William's Syndrome

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