Links & tools - Accessibility

General accessibility:

• Digital Divide Network addresses the gap between those people and communities who can make effective use of information technology and those who cannot: http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/content/sections/index.cfm

Web Accessibility:

• EDTeC's Accessibility Initiatives website contains Guidelines for Accessible Online Courses, and many other resources and links.
• WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind), a web accessibility project based at the Utah State University: http://www.webaim.org/
• WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) - tutorials on many aspects of web accessibility: http://www.webaim.org/tutorials
• WC3 - World Wide Web Consortium:
  W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Standard (WAI): http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
  W3C Accessible Content Checklist: http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/full-checklist).
  W3C - WAI Resource: HTML 4.0 Accessibility Improvements: http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/HTML4-access
  W3C Alternative web browsing: http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Browsing
• TRACE Center - Designing More Usable Web Sites - a comprehensive list of links to a wide variety of resources: http://trace.wisc.edu/world/web/index.html
• National Center for Accessible Media - Making Educational Software Accessible: http://ncam.wgbh.org/cdrom/guideline/
• Inclusion in an Electronic Classroom - 2000: AccessAbility- Enabling Technology for Life Long Learning: http://snow.utoronto.ca/initiatives/access_study/accessability.html
• DO-IT Program, University of Washington: http://www.washington.edu/doit/

Organising content:

• Reigeluth, C.M. and Stein, F.S. (1983), The Elaboration Theory of Instruction, Instructional Design Theories and Models, Reigeluth C.M. (ed), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ.
  See Kearsley, G., Theory Into Practice: Theories [Online]. http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/reigelut.html
• Jakob Nielsen, Inverted Pyramids in Cyberspace, Jun 96: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9606.html

Web Usability:

• http://usableweb.com - 1427 links about web usability
• frontend.com - Usability Info centre: http://infocentre.frontend.com/servlet/Infocentre
• Links relating to accessibility from UsableWeb: http://usableweb.com/topics/000262-0-0.html
• Jakob Nielsen, Alertbox column archive: http://www.useit.com/alertbox
• Jakob Nielsen on disabled accessibility: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990613.html

Software archives:

• Tucows - http://www.tucows.com
• CNET - http://download.cnet.com, http://shareware.cnet.com/

Multimedia:

• National Center for Accessible Media - Resource Center for Developers of Rich Media: http://ncam.wgbh.org/richmedia/index.html
• Media Access Generator (MAGpie) - Free software for adding captions to QT, SMIL and SAMI media files: http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/
• Joe Clark’s gateway page for articles, resources, and critiques of media-access issues: http://www.joeclark.org/access/

Web browsers:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: Windows - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/, Mac - http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/ie/ie_default.asp
• Netscape: http://home.netscape.com/download/index.html
• Opera ("the fastest browser"): http://www.opera.com/
• Lynx (text only): http://lynx.browser.org/

Software developer resources:

• Macromedia product accessibility info: http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/
• Macromedia Flash accessibility guidelines and templates: http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/features/flash/
• Adobe Accessibility info: http://access.adobe.com/information.html
• Online conversion tools for Adobe PDF Documents: http://access.adobe.com/onlinetools.html
• Adobe Capture/PDF info: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrcapture/main.html
• WebCT Platform accessibility: http://booboo.webct.com/otln/webct_accessibility.htm
• Microsoft FrontPage accessibility tips: http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/content/articles/accessibility.html

WebCT accessibility:

• Stephen Rehberg, Georgia State University: Document which discusses WebCT accessibilityand a summary of general accessibility issues: http://www.webct.com/wyw/ViewContent?contentID=2627931
• How WebCT is addressing accessibility issues:
  http://www.webct.com/products/viewpage?name=products_accessibility
  http://booboo.webct.com/otln/webct_accessibility.htm
• WebCT discussion forum on accessibility: http://www.webct.com/webct/forum/topics?discussion=7816&topic=21849
• Experimental course set up in WebCT exploring accessibility issues:
  http://www.acvc.htctu.fhda.edu:81/public/access/ User: guest Password: guest

Validation:

• The W3C validation service for HTML at: http://validator.w3.org and for CSS at: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator
• BOBBY - well-known online validation service: http://www.cast.org/bobby/
• To see your web page as viewed with 'Lynx' (text-only), by search engines or to 'purify' your HTML: http://www.delorie.com/web/
• A-Prompt toolkit - free software to verify the accessibility of your web pages: http://www.aprompt.ca/

Adaptive technologies:

• The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto: http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/index.html
• Adaptive technologies - a list of some specific products: http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Technology/tech.html
• Web Browsing through Adaptive Technology (compares how different browsers work with adaptive technologies - 1996) - http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/rd/library/papers/consumer.html
• Simulated demonstration of a screen-reader: http://www.webaim.org/tutorials/simulations/screenreader
• Video demo of screen reader: http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/ltde/access/ewers.htm
• http://www.execpc.com/~wgraczyk/adapcomp.html
  List of links to information about adaptive computer technology for people with all sorts of disabilities, especially those with visual handicaps.