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Web Accessibility / Usability Resources
What is Accessibility / Usability? ADA Compliant? Section 508? WAI? The W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) definition: "Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web."
Accessibility / Usability resources listed below should help answer these questions and more:
- ADA Homepage
- U.S. Dept. of Justice's Americans With Disabilities Act Information on the Web.
- HiSoftware® Cynthia Says™ Portal
- A Web content accessibility validation solution, designed to identify errors in your content related to Section 508 standards and / or the WCAG guidelines.
- Accessible Design for Users with Disabilities
- Jakob Nielsen's article describing accessible design for various disabilities.
- Aroga - Assistive Technology
- assistive and adaptive technology based in Canada.
- CAST
- Center for Applied Special Technology is a not-for-profit organization that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people, especially those with disabilities.
- CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (W3C)
- W3C's techniques for authoring accessible Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
- EASI
- Equal Access to Software and Information.
- Microsoft Accessibility
- Technology for Everyone.
- U of M's ACT
- Mid-South Access Center for Technology.
- Tennessee.gov Accessibility Guidelines.
- Guidelines for Tennessee's accessibility initiative.
- Guide to the Section 508 Standards for Electronic and Information Technology.
- from the United States Access Board.
- Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications (1194.22)
- A Federal Agency Committed to Accessible Design.
- Designing More Usable Web Sites.
- The Trace Research & Development Center is a part of the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founded in 1971, Trace has been a pioneer in the field of technology and disability.
- The Usability Methods Toolbox.
- Methods and techniques used in usability evaluation, by James Hom.
- WAI
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.
- WebABLE!
- Disability-related Internet resources.
- Web Usability
- Jakob Nielsen's Web site pertaining to Web usability.
- Usable Web
- A collective list of links related to Web-usability.
- University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
- Illinois Center for Instructional Technology Accessibility has a very good site Web Accessibility Best Practices.
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