Useful Web Design Links: Web Accessibility
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World Wide Web Consortium, (W3C) Sections
Web Accessibility Initiative
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html
Recommended list of DTDs you can use in your Web document
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
Oxford University
Web Strategy Group
http://www.ox.ac.uk/web/
Making accessibile Web pages
http://www.ox.ac.uk/web/guides/making_accessible.html
Central Admin Web Service
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/webservice/
Legal Requirements
Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) info at the RNIB site
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_DDA.hcsp
Other
Web accessiblility tools from the South Carolina Assistive Technology Program, (
SCATP
)
http://www.sc.edu/scatp/webaccesstools.htm
Special Educational Needs and Disability, (
SENDA
) Act 2001
http://www.accessibility101.org.uk/senda.htm
WAVE: A free accessibility evaluation tool
http://wave.webaim.org/
Bobby (now known as
WebXACT)
, is a free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues
http://webxact.watchfire.com/
RNIB
's pages on Good Design
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/code/public_rnib003460.hcsp
Guidelines on accessibility from Oxford Brookes University
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/mediaworkshop/brookesvirtual/documentation/accessibility.html
Vischeck colour blindness simulator
http://www.vischeck.com/examples/
Creating Accessible Images
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/images/longdesc.php#d
Simulations
http://www.webaim.org/simulations
Screen Reading Software
Jaws
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws.asp
Windows Eyes
http://www.gwmicro.com/
Tutorials
Section 508
http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm
Creating accessible PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat 5.0
http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/acrobat50.html
Creating accessible PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat 6.0
http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/acrobat60.html
Creating accessible PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat 7.0
http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/acrobat70.html
See the Adobe Accessibility Resource Center for tutorials on making other Adobe products accessible
http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/
Site testing with multiple browsers
BrowserCam
http://www.browsercam.com/
BrowserShots
http://browsershots.org/
The Site Wizard
http://www.thesitewizard.com/webdesign/multiplebrowsers.shtml
Recommended Reading
Web Design Tutorials
http://www.thesitewizard.com/webdesign/
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