Guides - Designing Accessible Web Sites

Making Educational Software and Web Sites Accessible: Guidelines including math and science solutions

National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)

http://ncam.wgbh.org/cdrom/guideline/

Revised in 2003, this guide covers a wide range of topics.

Designing websites for people with learning disabilities

The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities (intellectual disability)

http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk/html/content/webdesign.cfm

Tips for Accessibility

Iowa Department for the Blind

http://www.blind.state.ia.us/access/tips.htm#PDF%20Files

This is a good range of tips with clear examples.

HTCTU Manuals and Tutorials

High Tech Center Training Unit

http://www.htctu.net/trainings/manuals/tutmain.htm

Links on this page are to a range of valuable resources that include:

  • Designing Accessible Web Pages

  • Learning Management Systems and Accessibility

  • Captioning Digital Media with MAGpie 2.01

  • Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: InFocus and LIFT for Dreamweaver

  • Creating Accessible Forms and Tables on Web Pages

  • Creating Accessible PDF Documents with Acrobat 6.0

Option Keys – developing accessible websites

OTEN – DE Open Training and Education Network – Distance Education

http://www.oten.edu.au/optionkeys/index.htm

This guide has four sections:

  • Accessible websites

  • Our students

  • Guidelines

  •  Tools

Web Accessibility and Usability Resource

TechDis

http://www.techdis.ac.uk/seven/

This is an excellent source of information and advice.

Writing for the Web

Qld Government

http://www.qld.gov.au/web/writing/ 

Resources include:

  • Advice on writing style

  • Internet Standards

  • Dead words list

  • Glossary of Internet and grammatical terms

DET Web Portal Style Guide (2002)

DET Intranet (not available via the Internet)

http://detnet/dot/portal/about/information_papers.htm

This guide outlines the guidelines for development of web sites within the Qld Department of Employment and Training

Designing More Usable Web Sites

Trace Center

http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/web/index.html

This is a very useful site from a key organisation in the US.  Topics include:

Understanding Accessibility: Vision Impairment

Technical Tip of the Week, in News Notes, September 24, 2003
Karla Embleton

http://www.fcs.iastate.edu/computer/tips/accessibility/vision.htm

This article covers design for access for:

  • People who are blind

  • People with low vision

  • People with colour-blindness

Maccessibility

http://www.maccessibility.com/

This Web site is set up as a blog for news, announcements, and opinions related to the following topics:                                   

  • Apple's Mac OS X Operating System

  • Accessibility of Mac OS X and Mac OS X Software

  • Web Accessibility

  • Accessibility in General

Untangling the Web: An Introduction to Web Design

Joe Lazzaro, Access World, 2004

http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw050307

This article describes the web and how pages work, as well as an intro into accessible HTML.

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