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WAI Compliance Examples

• ASU Information Technology/Instruction Support
• Quality Computer Instruction and Training
• MEC 2000 WAI Prentation
• CIS 133AA
• ComputerShopper.com
• "Fix-up Site"
• "Revised 1"
• "Revised 2"

General Information

• Access Issues (.pdf)
• University of Toronto Courseware Accessibility Study
• An Introduction to Writing Accessible Web Pages
• Captioning Digital Video
• Captioning and Audio Description on the Web
• The AWARE Center
• The TRACE Center
• Accessible Web Site Design
• Designing More Usable Web Sites

Guidelines for Creating Accessible Webs

• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Policies Relating to Web Accessibility
• W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• W3C Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• W3C Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• WAI QuickTips Reference Card
• Microsoft's Accessibility Design Guidelines
• CCC Distance Education Access Guidelines
• Starling Access Services: Accessible Web Page Design
• Colour Blind Design by Andrew Oakley
• Public Service Commission of Canada: Designing Universal Web Pages
• Captioning and Audio Description on the Web - The National Center for Accessible Media

Web Accessibility Authoring and Publishing Support

• WAI Authoring Tool Guidelines
• HoTMetaL Pro V5.0 - SoftQuad's HTML Publishing Tool with AdaptAble Technologies
• A-Prompt - Web Accessibility Verifier
• TIDY - Dave Raggett's HTML Cleanup Utility
• ALTifier - Adds ALTernative text to your images
• WHAT - Web HTML Accessibility Tool to Help Create More Accessible Web Pages
• TOM - Adds ALT text to images. Performs several accessibility services

Web Accessibility Services, Tools and Utilities

• Accessibility Design Tools
• Bobby 3.0 - Web Accessibility Validation Service
• Acrobat Access - Adobe's Proxy Server to Convert PDF to HTML
• BETSIE - The BBC's Text-to-Speech Internet Enhancer
• ILIAD - E-Mail and Web Search Engine by NASA Learning Technologies Project
• Lynx Viewer
• SAMI - Microsoft's Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange Format
• The Web Access Gateway - Silas Brown's Translation Service for the Visually Impaired

Courseware Authoring Tools and Services

• Blackboard
• Convene
• ETUDES (demo of accessible version)
• TopClass
• WebCT
• eCollege

Web Accessibility Browsers

• W3C User Agent (Browsers) Guidelines
• Amaya
• AVANTI Browser
• BrookesTalk
• EIA Touch Screen Browser
• Emacs-W3
• HomePage Reader
• Internet Explorer
• L-H
• Lynx
• MultiWeb
• NetTamer
• Opera
• pwWebSpeak
• Sensus Internet Talking Browser
• Sigtuna
• WebCite
• VIP Browser

Windows Screen Readers Compatible with Web Browsers

• HAL 95/98
• JAWS for Windows
• OutSpoken Solo
• SlimWare Windows Bridge
• Window Eyes
• WinVision

Important Legal Standards Supporting Accessibility

• US Dept. of Justice's Americans With Disabilities Act Information on the Web
• Text Version of the Americans with Disabilities Act
• ADA Homepage
• Applying the ADA to the Internet: A Web Accessibility Standard
• Section 255 of the Telelcommunications Act 1996
• US Access Board's Telecommunications Act Accessibility Guidelines
US Access Board Appoints Electronic and Information Technology Access Advisory Committee
• The Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998
• City of San Jose Disability Access Design Standards
• Disabled Enabled Empowered Determined

Java Accessibility

• Sun's JAVA Accessibility Utilities
• Sun's JAVA Accessibility API
Sun's JAVA Tutorial -- How to Support Assistive Technologies
• IBM Guidelines for Writing Accessible Applications Using Java
• Microsoft's Active Accessibility for Java
• Trace Research's JAVA Accessibility and Usability Work

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For more information:

Mark K. Jowett, Ph.D. | mjowett@comcast.net | www.qualityinstruction.com