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Web Accessibility Resources

This section includes links to web accessibility resources on the Internet.

Accessibility Organizations and General Resources

• Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto
  The ATRC provides education, services, and research & development in accessibility.
  
  
• Trace Research and Development Center
  Trace is a research centre at the University of Wisconsin, which focuses on making off the shelf technologies and systems more accessible for everyone through accessible design.
  
  
• Accessibility Online Resource
  This Australian database includes information on hardware and software products, standards development, training and education issues, support programs, policy papers and case studies, both from Australia and key international sources
  
  
• Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education Center
  AWARE's mission is to serve as a resource for web authors for learning about web accessibility.
  
  
• All Things Web: Could Helen Keller Read Your Page?
  A collection of resources for Web spinners and authors.
  
  
• Apple Disability Site
  Apple Macintosh related accessibility information.
  
  
• Centre for Applied Special Technology
  Founded in 1984, CAST is an educational, not-for-profit organization that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people, including those with disabilities.
  
  
• CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
  The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility that works to make media accessible to under served populations such as disabled persons, minority-language users, and people with low literacy skills.
  
  
• TRACE: Designing An Accessible World
  Large resources with examples, guidelines of accessible Web sites
  
  
• IBM Special Needs Solutions
  IBM's online accessibility centre. Includes techniques as well as information for professionals.
  
  
• Microsoft's Accessibility Home Page
  Information regarding accessibility within Microsoft applications.
  
  
• NCSA Mosaic Access Project
  A resource for those interested in how people with disabilities can use the Internet and the World Wide Web.
  
  
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Home Page
  Resources, events, and activities related to accessibility of the web for people with disabilities.
  
  
• WebAble
  An extensive listing of accessibility related web resources.
  
  
• The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
  WAI, in coordination with organizations around the world, pursues accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of work: technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and research and development.
  
  

Adaptive Technology

• Glossary of Access Technology
  The ATRC's glossary page with detailed descriptions of devices and systems used for accessibility.
  
  
• Marcopolo
  Provides eyes-free access to the World Wide Web. It is for blind and low-vision computer users or anyone who wishes to browse the Web without having to look at a computer monitor.
  
  
• Alternative Web Browsing (WAI)
  This is a collection of pointers to information, and where possible, to demonstration versions of alternative browsing methods.
  
  

Standards and Guidelines

• Common Look and Feel Standards and Guidelines for the Internet
  The Common Look and Feel standard is the key requirement for accessible design of the Government of Canada Web sites. It points to an existing international standard: the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 recommendation, from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
  
  
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
  Explains in detail how to make a Web site accessible for people with a variety of disabilities. These guidelines are somewhat dated. See the working version of WCAG 2.0.
  
  
• Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
  For software developers, explains how to make a variety of authoring tools support the production of accessible Web content, and also how to make the software itself accessible.
  
  
• User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
  * For software developers, explains how to make accessible browsers, multimedia players, and assistive technologies that interface with these.
  
  
• XML Accessibility Guidelines
  For developers of XML-based applications, explains how to ensure that XML-based applications support accessibility.
  
  

Legislation

• Policies Relating to Web Accessibility (WAI)
  This page is a resource of applicable international laws and policies regarding Web accessibility.
  
  
• Common Look and Feel Standards and Guidelines for the Internet (Canada)
  The Common Look and Feel standard is the key requirement for accessible design of the Government of Canada Web sites. It points to an existing international standard: the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 recommendation, from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  
  
• Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (U.S.)
  Legislation developed in the U.S. that requires all government and government suppliers to develop accessible information technology. Refer to section 1194.22 for the Web accessibility standards associated with the legislation.
  
  
• World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes (Australia)
  These advisory notes are issued by the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission ("HREOC") under section 67(1)(k) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 ("the DDA"), which authorises HREOC to issue guidelines for the purpose of avoiding discrimination. These Notes are not legal requirements: they are advice on how to avoid discrimination.
  
  

Accessible Web Authoring

• Best Viewed With Any Browser - Campaign for a Non-Browser Specific WWW
  Links to sites, and guidelines for creating accessible Web sites.
  
  

Authoring and evaluation tools

• A-Prompt interactive authoring tool for accessible documents.
  The A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt) project is designed to make the Internet more accessible by prompting HTML authors to write better documents. It is a joint collaboration between The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University Of Toronto and The Trace Centre at the University Of Wisconsin.
  
  
• Bobby - Web page accessibility checker
  Free web-based service that will help you make web pages accessible to people with disabilities. It will also find HTML compatibility problems that prevent pages from displaying correctly on different web browsers.
  
  
• SSB Technologies
  SSB Technologies is a provider of web-related Section 508 compliance and web accessibility solutions. InFocus is a software product that enables Web site publishers to make their Web sites, Intranets and Web-enabled applications accessible to persons with disabilities in compliance with Section 508.
  
  
• WAVE: Accessibility Checker
  Bobby like online accessibility checker. Enter the URL to the page to be evaluated
  
  
• Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility (WAI)
  This is a collection of information about Evaluation, Repair, and Transform Tools to be used by Web content developers and users to make the Web more accessible.
  
  

Java, VRML, XML, PDF, Linux Accessibility

• Accessibility and VRML
  Information regarding accessibility initiatives and VRML.
  
  
• Adobe Accessibility Plan for PDF and Acrobat Viewers
  Adobe provides a set of free tools that allow visually disabled users to read documents in Adobe PDF format. These tools convert PDF documents into either HTML or ASCII text which can then be read by many screen reading programs.
  
  
• IBM Java Accessibility Checklist
  Information for Java programmers regarding accessibility.
  
  
• European MATHS Project
  A project enabling non-visual representations of mathematical formulae.
  
  
• Science Access Project
  Oregon State University's group for the development of methods for making science, math, and engineering information accessible to people with print disabilities.
  
  
• SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia
  To enable simple authoring of TV-like multimedia presentations such as training courses on the Web, W3C has designed the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. The SMIL language is an easy-to-learn HTML-like language.

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