External Accessibility Resources

• Accessible Web design
  • Accessify.com
  • A List Apart – Accessibility
  • 456 Berea Street
  • WebAIM – Articles on HTML Accessibility
  • Jim Thatcher – Constructing Accessible Web Sites
  • Joe Clark – Building Accessible Web Sites
  • Essential Components of Web Accessibility
  • Making Ajax and Related Technologies Accessible
• Accessible learning technologies
  • IMS Global Learning Consortium Guidelines for Creating Accessible Learning Applications
  • ATutor – Accessible Learning Content Management System
  • Dublin Core Accessibility Work Group
  • One for All and All for One: Making Engineering Learning Technology Accessible for All
• Accessibility laws
  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
  • Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act
  • Telecommunications Act of 1996
  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
  • Workforce Investment Act 1998 – Section 508
  • North Carolina Gen. Stat. § 168A-7; Section 3
  • Assistive Technology Act 1998
  • International – Resource AccessAbility SIG
  • Joe Clark on Accessibility and the Law
  • ICDRI Global Legal and Policy Resources
  • USA Legal and Policy Resources
  • States and Local Policy Initiatives
  • Department of Justice Section 508 Home Page
  • International Web Accessibility Laws and Policies
• Accessibility standards
  • W3C – Consortium
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
  • Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines
  • Section 508 Home Page
  • UNC General Administration – Web Style Guide (PDF)
  • Web Standards Project
  • Web Standards Group
• AJAX
  • AJAX: A New Approach to Web Applications
  • AJAX Best Practices – Becky Gibson
  • AJAX and Screen Readers: When Can it Work?
  • Build Your own AJAX Applications
  • W3C – Dynamic Accessible Web Content Road Map
  • AJAX Wikipedia – Accessibility
  • AJAX – with Java 2 Platform
  • How to Make your AJAX Applications Accessible – Max Kiesler
• Best practices and checklists
  • Max Design Web Standards Checklist
  • WebAIM Accessibility Checklist
  • IBM Accessibility Checklist
  • University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign-Web Accessibility Best Practices
  • NCSU Best Practice Checklist
• Designing for accessibility
  • How People with Disabilities Use the Web
  • Testing with Screen Readers
  • Seven Screen Reader Usability Tips – Trenton Moss
  • Screen Readers and Visibility
  • Increased Usability – Secret Benefits of Accessibility
  • A Dyslexic Perspective on e-Content Accessibility
  • Maximize Text for Readability
• Designing with CSS
  • CSS Discussion List
  • HTML and CSS: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide
  • Zen Garden
  • CSS – Web Design Group
  • CSS Layout Techniques
  • W3.CSS Tutorial
  • Advanced CSS Layouts
  • CSS Edge – Eric Meyer
  • Getting it All, with CSS – Forms Tutorial
• Distance education and e-learning
  • National Center on Accessible Distance Learning
  • IMS Global Learning Consortium – Accessibility
  • Practical Ways to Make Workplace Distance Learning Accessible
  • More than Compliance: Accessible eLearning that Makes a Difference (DOC)
  • Universal Instructional Design
  • CAST – What is Universal Design for Learning
  • Campus Technology Advice to Educators
  • California Community Colleges – Automated & Manual Accessibility Testing
  • Key2Access eLearning
  • NASA Learning Technologies Project
• Tutorials
  • W3C Schools – Web Tutorials
  • Captioning with HiCaption
  • Captioning with MAGpie
  • Building Accessible Dynamic Websites with Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7
  • California Community Colleges – CCC Accessibility Center
• Web technologies
  • Better Search Ranking – Secret Benefits of Accessibility
  • Script Smarter: Quality JavaScript from Scratch
  • Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
  • SVG Authoring Guidelines