Web Accessibility

 

Culture Online's Web accessibility features

Other resources about accessibility

Understanding Accessibility

Dive into Accessibility
Mark Pilgrim gives us a day in the life of five different people, with five different disabilities. Mark explains how easy accessibility features can be to implement and how they benefit people.

Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM)
WebAIM has fantastic resources related to web accessibility like useful articles & tools and they do a lot of online training related to building accessible websites. Paul Bowman’s, Introduction to Web Accessibility is a great starting point.

How People with Disabilities Use the Web
Judy Brewer of the W3C illustrates some of the requirements of people with disabilities when using the Web.

Guidelines

W3C Web Acccessibility Initiative
E-Government Unit Guidelines

Books

Building Accessible Websites - Joe Clarke
A frank and excellent read on developing for accessibility. Read it online, or get the book.

Designing With Web Standards
If you’re writing HTML, you should have read: Designing with Web Standards, Jeffrey Zeldman (New Riders, 2003)

Tools

Web Accessibility Toolbar – Accessible Information Solutions
A freeware tool which installs as a toolbar in Internet Explorer – The essential accessibility tool for any (Windows based) toolbar.

Mozilla Web Developers Toolbar
For a cross platform tool, try the Mozilla Web Developers Toolbar.

Discover More

Accessify.com
If you’re looking for a jumping off point, go here. An excellent resource pulling together all that’s new in the world of accessibility.

UIAccess
Another great jumping off point.

Usability.gov
Ignore the references to Section 508. This is an excellent online resource from the US Department of Health and Human Services.