Kim, your site from the National Center for Learning Disabilities is one to truly keep bookmarked as a resource for parents. It is just what I would have on my parent Diigo page to educate parents about what their children deserve and what is available to them. I have the book From Emotions to Advocacy by Pam and Pete Wright and it is called "The Special Ed Survival Guide". There are so many things parents just aren't aware of in terms of how to help their children be successful in school. I love that this site offers information about assistive tech, accommodations, IEP/504 information, homework, etc! There are wonderful podcasts from the parent's perspective, as well. I remember watching a video in one of my autism classes of a woman who left teaching and became a parent advocate in the schools to help parents with children with special needs understand the system and get the services their children needed. This site does just that. Nice addition to the Diigo. Thanks!

Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. Web accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to aging. (This is what came up when I bookmarked the site. I feel this site is invaluable in that it defines Web accessibility and why it is important, explains how to make your Web site accessible, how to evaluate the accessibility of a site, as well as provides many more useful resources.)

This study looks at the accessibility of websites belonging to 80 colleges of communications and schools of journalism in the US and Canada using a computer-generated test called the Bobby test. The article provides background on disabilities, the Web, as well as suggestions to improve accessibility to Web pages.

As an add-on to this, I got on CAST's website (http://www.cast.org/) and here is a bit more information about the Bobby test: Bobby In 1995, CAST launched Bobby as a free public service to make the burgeoning World Wide Web more accessible to individuals with disabilities. Over the next decade, Bobby helped novice and professional Web designers analyze and make improvements to millions of Web pages. This work won CAST numerous awards and international recognition. CAST no longer supports the Bobby accessiblity testing software. Bobby was sold to Watchfire in 2004 which, in turn, was acquired by IBM in 2007. Although Bobby is no longer available as a free service or standalone product, it is one of the tests included within the IBM Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition software, the comprehensive enterprise application for testing websites. References: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/welcome/watchfire/press.html http://www.watchfire.com/products/webxm/bobby.aspx http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/policy/accessibility/ Other options are listed on the W3C Website at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/Overview.html