Accessibility is becoming increasingly critical to the Internet experience. Is your site accessible to people with disabilities? Is it compatible with browsers other than Internet Explorer?
The guidelines overview pages listed below introduce WAI accessibility guidelines and their related documents, such as: * techniques to help implement the guidelines * translations of the documents into different languages * checklists
Making multimedia e-learning optimally accessible is not about ticking a checklist! All our advice encourages a thoughtful and analytic approach to addressing accessibility issues. Accessible e-learning is achieved by engagement, not by formula
Reading Text Online Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D., Chief of Advanced Studies and Projects for HFI, discusses reading text online. Are we really ready to make research based decisions?
The Web Accessibility Initiative's Protocols and Formats working group directly address the issue of making rich Internet applications accessible, and we borrow some of their concepts to investigate methods of ensuring that Ajax applications work with lea
...The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) has developed two such tools, version 1.0 and 2.01 of the Media Access Generator (MAGpie), for creating captions and audio descriptions for rich media. ...
Dec. 5, 06. "Accessibility agency Nomensa tested the leading websites in five different sectors across 20 countries. Only three websites (...) The report, commissioned by the United Nations as part of its International Day of Disabled Persons ..."
In his 26 April 1999 column on the AWARE Center, CNET builder.com's "Master Builder" Dan Shafer wrote: As I've pointed out, there are strong, selfish advantages to be gained by making your site accessible; but, not all of your efforts apply only to those
GRADE's mission is to improve the accessibility of distance education for students with disabilities throughout the nation by providing: * Technical assistance, * Training, and * Research.
What is accesselearning? A free,online ten-module tutorial that offers information, instructional techniques, and practice labs on how to make the most common needs in distance education accessible for individuals with disabilities, and enhance the usabil
AccessIT promotes the use of electronic and information technology (E&IT) for students and employees with disabilities in educational institutions at all academic levels. This Web site features the AccessIT Knowledge Base,
Gunning Fog, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid are reading level algorithms that can be helpful in determining how readable your content is. Reading level algorithms only provide a rough guide, as they tend to reward short sentences made up of short
Accessible Javascript Menu 4.5 by Brothercake UDM is a fully-featured and accessible DHTML menu, that provides useable content to all browsers - including screenreaders, search-engines and text-only browsers.
Guideline 1.1 Text Alternatives: Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms people need, such as large print, braille, speech, symbols or simpler language.