Website Accessibility Resources
Getting Started
- WebAIM: Introduction to Web Accessibility
- Shawn Lawton Henry: Understanding Web Accessibility
- Wikipedia: Web accessibility
Social Media
- Twitter: @webaim, @webaxe, @mpaciello, @terrillthompson, @stevefaulkner, @csunwebmaster, @ezufelt, @Jennison, @GlendaWH, @LFLegal, @swimsy, @pfanderson, @redcrew
- Blogs
- The #a11y Daily (a Twitter magazine)
- Second Life Accessibility
Organizations
- U-M Web Accessibility Working Group
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC): IT Accessibility and Usability
- Access Technology Higher Education Network (ATHEN)
Websites
- Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM)
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (W.A.I.)
- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
- Hans Hillen’s ARIA information
- IBM Guidelines for Writing Accessible Java Applications
- Usability.gov
- Access-I.T.: The National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education
- National Centre for Accessible Media (NCAM)
- The Web Standards Project
Accessibility Evaluators and Tools
- Functional Accessibility Evaluator (FAE)
- Firefox Accessibility Extension
- WAVE Accessibility Checker and WAVE toolbar (.xpi file)
- Toronto Accessibility Checker
- Worldspace FireEyes Accessibility plug-in
- AIS Web Accessibility Toolbar (Windows only)
- W3C HTML Validator
- W3C CSS Validtator
- Web-Anywhere web-based screen reader
- NVDA free screen reader application (Windows-based)
- snook.ca color contrast checker
- Juicy Studio: Colour Contrast Analyser and Firefox add-on
- Colorblind Web Page Filter
- MAGpie video captioning
Articles
- Creating Accessible Tables
- Creating Accessible Data Tables
- Creating Accessible Forms
- Using NVDA to Evaluate Web Accessibility
- Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility
- Could Helen Keller Read Your Page?
- Creating Accessible PDF Documents
- Adobe Flash CS3 accessibility
- Web Captioning Overview
- Juicy Studio
- A List Apart: Accessibility Articles