This page highlights some resources to help you to ensure your pages are accessible to all users and devices.
Links to W3C Web Accesibility (WAI) Initiative documents for creating accessible sites:
WAI offers a wide range of resources on other aspects of web accessibility, such as:
- Accessibility – W3C – Introduces web accessibility to web developers.
- Essential Components of Web Accessibility – Shows how web accessibility depends on several components of Web development and interaction working together and shows the relationship between the WAI guidelines: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG), and User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG).
- Involving Users in Web Accessibility Evaluation – Provides guidance on including people with disabilities ("users") in accessibility evaluation throughout Web development.
- and many, many more available from the WAI website.
Books, articles and tutorials from around the Web:
- Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design helps developers and designers create websites, software, hardware, and consumer products that are accessible to people with disabilities, provide a better user experience for all, and realize the additional benefits of accessibility.
- Learn to design Accessible Forms. [Published May 2004 | Author: Ian Lloyd]
- Making your blog accessible – not just for blogs! A really good introduction to accessibility explaining some simple steps that can be made.
- Transcripts on the Web: Getting people to your podcasts and videos and list of Transcription Services
Sites devoted to accessibility issues and education:
- Accessify – a site dedicated to furthering the cause of web accessibility by offering free tools and other useful resources.
- Juicy Studio – Gez Lemon’s site devoted to promoting best practice for web developers
- uiAccess – a resource for universal interface design and usable accessibility information
Section 508 (of the Americans with Disabilities Act) Guidelines information can be found in the Standards, Guidelines, and Style Guides section.
The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.