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Standards
GuidelinesOrganizations
Testing
Services General
Articles
Related Topics:
Color Blindness and Color Discrimination
Ergonomics and Personal Safety
Special Audiences: Designing for the Old and Young
STC
AccessAbility SIG
The AccessAbility SIG has an extensive resources page, with up-to-date
information on all kinds of disabilities.
General
Resources
Internet
Accessibility
The Web Accessibility
Initiative (WAI) project of the W3C
WAI pursues accessibility of the Web through five primary areas
of work - technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and research
and development.
The Access
Board
A Federal Agency committed to accessible design. This site includes
information about their guidelines and standards, technical assistance,
training and research, and enforcement of standards.
Disability
Access Symbols
The Graphic Artists Guild provides a set of twelve graphical icons to
indicate a variety of access types for both online and physical uses.
Access Adobe
Tips and tricks for creating more accessible PDF files.
http://access.adobe.com/
Apple Computer’s Disability Connection
Information on how Apple Computer products are accessible to people with
special needs.
http://www.apple.com/education/k12/disability/
Microsoft's Accessibility Homepage
Information on how Microsoft products are accessible to people
with special needs.
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/
IBM Accessibility Center
Information on how IBM products are accessible to people with
special needs.
http://www-3.ibm.com/able/
Sun Microsystems' Enabling Technologies Program
Information on how Sun Microsystem products are accessible to
people with special needs.
http://www.sun.com/tech/access/
Sorehand: Resources and FAQ on Repetitive Stress
Injury (RSI)
One place to look for information on mouse and pointer design
and usability.
http://www.ucsf.edu/sorehand/
Smithsonian Guidelines for Accessible Exhibition
Design
Guidelines for making display exhibits accessible to people with
special needs.
http://www.si.edu/opa/accessibility/exdesign/start.htm
Bobby
This web-based public service analyzes web pages for their accessibility
to people with disabilities using the WAI guidelines.
http://www.cast.org/bobby/
Visual Friendly
An internet service that allows users to modify text size, colors and
other aspects of the page to personal preferences.
http://www.visualfriendly.com/en/gr/php/indexhtm
Wave 2.01
A tool that helps you check if your page is accessible to people with
disabilities, from Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology
http://www.temple.edu/instituteondisabilities/piat/wave/
Web Accessibility Tools Consortium [WAT-C]
This group provides a collection of free tools to assist both developers and designers in the development and testing of accessible web content. The consortium is a collaboration of some of the world's leading accessibility practitioners, founded by Accessible Information Solutions (Australia), Infoaxia (Japan), The Paciello Group (USA), Wrong HTML (Japan), and Juicy Studio (UK).
http://www.wat-c.org/
Toolbars
These applications install in your browser to help you test different aspects of accessibility on the web page you are viewing
Organizations
and Web Sites
Access.Edu
List of accessibility services, such as assistive technology,
companies and organizations that focus on accessibility, and guidelines
for designing accessible web sites.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/access/links.html
American Foundation for the Blind
Information on creating applications that are accessible to people
who are visually impaired.
http://www.afb.org/info_document_view.asp?documentid=198
Archimedes Project of the Stanford Center for Language
and Information
Promotion of equal access to individuals with disabilities by
influencing the early design stages of computer-based technology.
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/arch/arch.html
CAST - Center for Applied Special Technology
Focus on expansion of educational opportunities for individuals with disabilities
through development and innovative uses of technology.
http://www.cast.org/
California State University Northridge Center on
Disabilities
Services for students with disabilities.
http://www.csun.edu/cod/center.html
The Center for Universal Design at North Carolina State
University
National research, information, and technical assistance center that evaluates,
develops, and promotes universal design in housing, public and commercial
facilities, and related products.
http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/index.html
Disabilities Information Resources (DINF)
Information on disabilities and disability-related subjects.
Information includes research and conferences, resources, and designing
for universal accessibility.
http://www.dinf.org/
Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology
DO-IT at the University of Washington
Disability resources for areas such as education, sports, travel and leisure,
and legal policy.
http://www.icdri.org/DOIT.htm
EASI - Equal Access to Software and Information
Resources for students and professional with disabilities.
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/
FAST - Foundation for
Assistive Technology
A UK-based information resource and exchange platform for all those with
an interest / involved in the development of assistive technology.
http://www.fastuk.org
National Center for Accessible Media (Corporation
for Public Broadcasting and WGBH)
Sponsors of several projects related to making online media more accessible.
Their Web Access Project created the Web Access icon, free for use to
indicate sites that contain accessibility features to accommodate the
needs of disabled users.
http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/index.html
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research
Information on the design of accessible web sites.
http://www.infouse.com/disabilitydata/addaccess.text.html
Pantos - All Things Web: Compatibility and Accessibility
This site is "a collection of resources for Webspinners
& authors."
http://www.pantos.org/atw/access.html
Teaching and Learning Technology Support Network
(TLTSN) on Special Needs at the University of Wales Bangor
Information on what the TLTSN Center at Bangor is doing in the area of
special needs.
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/cal/sn/tltsnsni.htm
Trace Research Center - Designing a More Usable World
Trace chaired the WAI guidelines committee and works in many areas of
accessibility.
http://trace.wisc.edu/world/
Vision Connection
A portal from the Lighthouse for people who are partially sighted
or blind, the professionals who work with them, the families and friends
who support them -- and anyone looking for the latest information on vision
impairment, its prevention and vision rehabilitation
http://www.visionconnection.org/
WebAim
An excellent list of resources and a good blog of articles on accessibiilty
http://www.webaim.org/resources/
Guidelines
for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen
Readers by J Mary Frances Theofanos and Janice (Ginny) Redish
This article, from ACM SIGCHI's Interactions, presents 32 guidelines for
making sites accessible and usable for people who work with screen readers.
Observing Users Who Listen
to Web Sites by Janice (Ginny) Redish and Mary Frances
Theofanos
This article shares some of the findings from conducting usability testing
with blind and low-vision users at the Communications Technology Branch
at the United States National Cancer Institute about how vision-impaired
users work with web sites. (Usability
Interface, April 2003)
How
a blind person will "see" your Web page – audio comparison
of inaccessible and accessible Web pages from HFI
This article includes audio files of a screen reader on two versions of
the same page, so visitors can hear how the pages read.
Working
Toward an Accessible Web Site By Kim McConnell
This article shares the steps the author took to work toward transforming
a Web site to one that is accessible according to the W3C recommendations.
Section 508 from the
Hearing Loss Perspective By David Baquis
Why is Section 508 important? Here is an explanation of Section 508 of
the Rehabilitation Act and how it ensures a minimum level of access in
the federal workplace. It includes a summary of key Section 508 sections
relevant to hearing loss. (Usability
Interface, April 2003)
Guidelines for Writing Accessible
Online Help by Will Reed, Everyl Yankee, and Wendi Fornoff,
with Deborah Murray
This article describes how to write effective on-line help for blind and
low vision users of text based readers. (Usability
Interface, April 2003)
Position Paper
on the Suitability to Task of Automated Utilities for Testing Web Accessibility
Compliance by Bill Killam and Bill Holland
Automated tools are only the first necessary step in addressing accessibility-removing
the barriers. We must now address the special condition of usability related
to handicapped users and accept that user-based evaluation is the only
true test of success. (Usability
Interface, April 2003)
Bridging Usability
and Aesthetic Design of Wheelchairs by Betsy Fields
This article looks at the design aesthetic of wheelchairs. (Usability
Interface, April 2003)
Handicap
Bathroom Remodeling - Bathroom Remodeling For The Elderly and Disabled
by Sarah Petersen
Bathroom and remodeling ideas for the elderly and disabled including walk-in
bathtubs, doorless steam showers, and elevated toilets.
Stuckness
and Low Vision by Gloria Reece
Gloria discusses her low-vision condition, the problems it poses in her
life and work and the accommodation strategies she has developed. (Usability
Interface, April 2003)
I Walk, I See, I Hear
by Jodi Shumway
Backgrounder on the challenge of writing the Special Needs SIG's Conference
Guide for People with Special Needs for the Society's 50th International
Conference in Dallas (Usability
Interface, April 2003)
Learning Disabilities:
Being Different Shouldn't Mean Being Discriminated Against
by Karen Mardahl
I view my son's early school years in the 90s as a nightmare. I asked
if my son could submit homework done on the computer due to his awful
handwriting - weren't his ideas the key issue? - and "NO!" was
the reply. (Usability Interface,
April 2003)
Intranet Usability and Section 508 by Kathy Bine (Usability Interface, August 2002)
Equality of Access: Putting the Content of the Internet within the Grasp of the Disabled by Kim Weathersby (Usability Interface, August 2001)
Wheelchair Access? You've Got to be Kidding by Judy Skinner (Usability Interface, October 1999)
"How the Disabled Spur
Invention" - New York Times, October 28, 1999
Looks at how things originally invented for the disabled have been used
to make anyone's life easier. Examples from sock clips which were originally
used by the blind to text-to-speech programs used by many to large
handled can openers.
(Note: The New York Times charges for access to archived articles)
"Designing
to meet the needs of visually impaired people" - TextMatters
Good overview of accessible design for the visually impaired.
Working Together: People with Disabilities and Computer Technology by Sheryl Burgstahler (Usability Interface, October 1999)
Web Accessiblity Initiative by Whitney Quesenbery (Usability Interface, October 1999)
Papers from CSUN
Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference ‘97 and ’98
A long list of papers and presentations on a broad list of accessibility
topics.
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