Accessibility Resources

Accessibility References

Northeast ADA & IT Center (provides training, technical assistance and materials on the Americans with Disabilities Act and Accessible Information Technology throughout New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.) *
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Home Page (U.S. Department of Justice)
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) (World Wide Web Consortium)
Articles, Issues & Information (The Virtual Professor: Kate Britt - WebCT)
United States Access Board (a federal agency committed to accessible design)
State of New Jersey: Web Accessibility Policy
Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI) *
Web Accessibility (IBM)
Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) *
CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
Section 508 (U.S. Government) *
Access to Information and Electronic Technology Offered by the U.S. Government -- Section 508 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act

Accessibility Tips for Web pages and Online Courses

ADA Standards for Accessible Design (U.S. Department of Justice)
Checklist for Web Content Accessibility (World Wide Web Consortium - W3C)
SALT - Specifications for Accessible Learning Technologies (CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media)
Quick Tips to Make Accessible Web Sites (World Wide Web Consortium-W3C; send for quick tips reference card) *
Section 508 Web Standards and W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Priority 1 Checkpoints: A Side-by-side Comparison *
Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM) (Utah State University) *
Designing For Accessibility (The Virtual Professor: Kate Britt - WebCT)
Designing and Understanding Accessible WWW Pages (The Alliance for Technology Access)
WebCT Course Design and Accessibility (Concrete suggestions for making your online course accessible for students of all abilities)
Resources: Universal Design (National Center for Technology Innovation)
WebCT Accessibility Interest Group

Accessible Web Page Evaluation and Repair Software

Accessibility Evaluation Tools Information (WebAIM - Utah State University)
WebXACT (evaluation software; Watchfire; formerly Bobby) *
A-Prompt (evaluation software; University of Toronto)
Cynthia Says (evaluation software; The International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet)
The WAVE (evaluation software; WebAIM)
Functional Accessibility Indicator (evaluation software; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Hermish (evaluation software)
IBM Home Page Reader (IBM)
Using Opera to Check for Accessibility (WebAIM; Opera is not an accessibility validator per se—it's a Web browser, much like Internet Explorer or Netscape—but it can act like an accessibility validator if you know how to use it that way. In fact, it's one of the best available.)

Accessible Document and Multimedia Preparation Software

WebAIM Resources (WebAIM - Utah State University)
Illinois Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office (University of Illinois; use for PowerPoint and other Office applications)
Accessibility Products (Macromedia)
Preparing PDF Documents for Accessibility (Adobe)
Media Access Generator (MAGpie) (NCAM; creates captions and audio descriptions for rich media.)

Accessibility for the Visually Impaired

Screen Access and Low Vision Programs for Windows National Federation of the Blind)
JAWS for Windows (screen reader software by Freedom Scientific) *
Window-Eyes (screen reader software by GW Micro)
IBM Home Page Reader (screen reader software by IBM)
Adaptive Technologies (The Virtual Professor: Kate Britt - WebCT)
Access and Productivity Tools (software solutions that empower individuals with disabilities)

Accessibility for the Color-Blind

Considering the Color-Blind (New Architect: Internet Strategies for Technology Leaders)
Colors for the Color-Blind
Vischeck (shows you what images and Web pages look like to someone who is color blind) *
Daltonize (color blind image correction)
Adaptive Technologies (The Virtual Professor: Kate Britt - WebCT)
WhatColor (Helps Colorblind people to use the PC without difficulties caused by colors)

Accessibility for the Hearing Impaired

Accessibility for the Learning Disabled

Adaptive Technologies (The Virtual Professor: Kate Britt - WebCT)
Access and Productivity Tools (software solutions that empower individuals with disabilities)

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Using Opera to Check for Accessibility (WebAIM; Opera is not an accessibility validator per se—it's a Web browser, much like Internet Explorer or Netscape—but it can act like an accessibility validator if you know how to use it that way. In fact, it's one of the best available.)