Resource Sites

Please Note: Many of the resources listed below were obtained from the NYS Forum for Information Resource Management, IT Accessibility Committee website (http://www.nysfirm.org/committees/access/resources/5-13-04/)

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• AccessIT (National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education): http://www.washington.edu/accessit/
  
  
• Accessible HTML Forms
  • Forms in HTML Documents - Not specifically a document on accessible forms, but the W3C source document on HTML forms in general, including information on accessibility. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html
  • Jim Thatcher's Forms Tutorial - Good basic tutorial on accessible forms. http://www.jimthatcher.com/webcourse8.htm
  • WebAim - Creating Accessible Forms: Very thorough tutorial with code listings and specific tips for using Macromedia® Dreamweaver and Microsoft® FrontPage.
    http://www.webaim.org/techniques/forms/
     
• Accessible HTML Tables
  • Tables in HTML Documents - This is the portion of the W3C's HTML specification that discusses tables and the elements that are used in composing tables. Excellent resource, including a section about how tables are rendered by non-visual user agents. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html
  • Techniques for Accessible HTML Tables - Prepared by Stephen Ferg, a computer systems analyst in the Division of Data Dissemination Systems (LABSTAT) at the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Discusses techniques for formatting complex tables of statistical data in HTML so that they are accessible to visually impaired users and compliant with the provisions of Section 508.
    http://www.ferg.org/section508/accessible_tables.html
  • Accessible Tables - Written by Jim Thatcher, a noted accessibility expert, for the Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center, funded in support of Section 508 by NIDRR and GSA at Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for Rehabilitation Technology.
    http://www.jimthatcher.com/webcourse9.htm
  • WebAIM's Creating Accessible Tables - Good, basic tutorial on coding accessible tables in HTML. http://www.webaim.org/techniques/tables/
    
    
• Accessible Images and Visual Elements
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Section 7, Images and Image Maps - The W3C's take on how to make images accessible to all.
  • Creating Accessible Images - From the University of Wisconsin at Madison, this page is geared toward satisfying Section 508 requirements, and provides several useful techniques for making your images accessible.
  • WebAIM's Creating Accessible Images - Tutorial including an excellent guide to creating effective ALT attributes.
     
• Accessible Site Design Guide: http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/abdesign.html
   
• All Things Web - Compatibility & Accessibility: http://www.pantos.org/atw/access.html
   
• AWARE Center (Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education): http://www.awarecenter.org/. This web site, part of the HTML Writer's Guild, has lots of authoring resources.

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• The CPB/WGBH NCAM (National Center for Accessible Media): http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/
   
• Cynthia Says Portal - http://www.cynthiasays.com/

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• Dive into Accessibility - http://diveintoaccessibility.org/
   
• Doctor HTML - http://www.doctor-html.com/RxHTML/cgi-bin/ssi.cgi?l=intro.html

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• Guide to Writing Accessible HTML: http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/rd/html/html.html

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• Intuitive Systems - Guidelines for Web Page Design: http://www.intuitive.com/articles/design-guide.html

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• JavaScript Accessibility Issues: http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/java/jseval.htm

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• Microsoft Accessibility: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/

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• State of Connecticut CMAC ("ConneCT Management Advisory Committee) Web Site Accessibility: http://www.cmac.state.ct.us/access/

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• TRACE Center: http://www.tracecenter.org/

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• Using Cascading Style Sheets to Enhance Accessibility
  • The W3C's Cascading Style Sheets Home Page - Includes the latest information on the status of various style sheet-related documents, and includes links to resources you can use to learn CSS. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
  • The W3C's W3C CSS Validation Service - Includes a downloadable version of the validator. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ 
  • The CSS Zen Garden - One of a series of sites in which designers take the same basic content and give it an entirely different flavor using nothing more than CSS. If you are still on the fence regarding the power of CSS, this site will convince you! http://www.csszengarden.com/
  • The w3Schools CSS Tutorials - Provides tips and techniques at a very granular level. Their mission is "to develop well organized and easy to understand online Web tutorials based on W3C Web standards." http://www.w3schools.com/css/
  • The Web Design Group's CSSCheck - Another excellent style sheet validator. http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/ 

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• Vincent Flander's Fixing Your Web Site Using Dr. HTML - http://www.fixingyourwebsite.com/drhtml.html

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• WAI Reference List: http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/
• WebABLE: http://www.webable.com/
• WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind): http://www.webaim.org/
• WebAIM PowerPoint Accessibility Techniques Tutorial: http://www.webaim.org/techniques/powerpoint/
• World Wide Access: Accessible Web Design: http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Technology/universal.design.html

Last Update: Tuesday, May 02, 2006