Accessible Webpage Design: Resources

• All Things Web (ATW)
• Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education Center (AWARE)
• Blind Resource Center (NYISE)
• Do-It
• CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
• Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI)
• Trace Center
• W3C and its Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

Commerical

• Soaring Eagle Communications
• Starling Access Services

• W3C/WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• All Things Web--Design Fundamentals
• DoIt HTML Guidelines
• DoIt--Accessible Web Page Design Resources
• HTML 4.0 Accessibility Improvements (overview) and
  HTML 4.0 Specification (detailed description)
• Web authoring and Lynx
• Viewable With Any Browser--Accessible Site Design
• Disability Access Design Standards--City of San Jose
• WebAIM Guidelines for Higher Education Institutions for Web Accessibility and Universality
• JavaScript accessibility issues
• Accessible Web Design (Blind Resource Center)
• Colour standard for Ministry home pages
• Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 (W3C recommendations)
• Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (W3C recommendations)
• Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (W3C)
• Other Accessible Web Site Guidelines

• Accessible Site Design Guide--Accessible Design Tools
• Amaya - W3C's Editor/Browser
• WHAT (WWW HTML Accessibility Tool)
• TOM (NCSA's Text-Only Maker)

• Bobby
• Accessibility-Prompt Toolkit
• Webpage Accessibility Self-Test: Public Service Commission of Canada
• W3C HTML Validation Service
• W3C CSS Validator, Level 2
• Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer
• WebSAT
• Lynx-It (2.8)
• Other

• Lynx Homepage
• Public Telnet Access to Lynx
• Lynx Source Distribution
• DosLynx V 0.8
• Lynx Viewer (2.7.1)

• pwWebSpeak
• IBM Home Page Reader for Windows

• Window-Eyes (GW Micro)
• Jaws for Windows
• Automatic Screen Access for Windows (ASAW)

• Search Engine Technology Interface
• WebFerret

• Adobe Acrobat Access: Adobe Systems access to documents in PDF format
• Search Engine Simulator

• Sites Using the Web Access Symbol (CPB/WGBH NCAM)
• Bobby Approved Database
• Company Homepages
• Federal and State Government Homepages
  • U.S. Equal Employment opportunity Commission
• City- and Municipal Homepages
  • City of San Jose Homepage
• College- and University Sites
  • Duke University Department of Zoology
  • Oregon State University Homepage
  • Utah State University Homepage
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • University of California-Los Angeles
• College- and University Libraries
  • University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Library
  • University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Libraries
  • Indiana University Bloomington Libraries
  • Drexel University W.W. Hagerty Library
  • UCLA Library

• University of Pittsburgh-Center for Instructional Development & Distance Education (CIDDE)
• Board of Regents of the University of Michigan
• Syracuse University
• University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
• University of Wisconsin-School of Library and Information Science
• University of Wisconsin-Parkside Library
• University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Office of Information Technology
• University of Wisconsin-Superior
• School of Information Science at Indiana University
• Drexel University, College of Information Science and Technology
• Florida State University, Office of the Vice President for University Relations
• Simmons College 
• Simmons College Libraries
• more to come shortly

• WebAIM Guidelines for Higher Education Institutions for Web Accessibility and Universality
• Report of the Committee on Access to Technology for Individuals with Disabilities. University of Wisconsin System, December 1999.
• U.S. Equal Employment opportunity Commission
• UW-Stevens Point Guidelines for Accessibility of UWSP Web pages on the Internet
• UW-Madison Accessibility Guidelines for WWW Home Pages
• UW-Madison School of Education Homepage Guidelines for Accessibility
• State of Wisconsin--Enterprise Standards: Deployment of Accessible Pages
  on the World Wide Web

If you know of any other institutional web design policy statements (esp. ones containing barrier-free design mandates), please let me know: aschmetz@uwsp.edu

• U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. Hearing Testimony Presented to Subcommittee on the Constitution. [See section: "Oversight hearing on 'The Applicability of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to Private Internet Sites.' "]. Feb. 9, 2000. Accessed Feb. 14, 2000. <http://www.house.gov/judiciary/2.htm>.
• Judy Brewer, "Policies related to web accessibility." W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. 7. January 2000. Accessed 19. Januar 2000. <http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Policy>.
• Paul Bohman, "The Applicability of the A.D.A. to the Internet." WebAIM. 1999. Accessed 6. April 2000. <http://www.webaim.org/articles/ada>.
• Carl S. Kaplan, "Is Cyberspace a 'Public Accommodation'?" New York Times. Nov. 12, 1999. 
• National Federation of the Blind, Inc. et al. v. America Online, Inc. Complaint. U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Nov. 4, 1999. National Federation opf the Blind. Accessed 1. Feb. 2000. <http://www.nfb.org/aolcompl.htm>.
• U.S. Dept. of Justice--ADA Information on the Web
• Civil Rights Division, Ruling #204 (September 9, 1996)
• Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998, Section 508 (Workforce Investment Act)
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Australia)--World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes, Version 2.1 (July 1998).
• Robert Cannon, "Does Your Web Page Violate the American Disabilities Act?"   Internet Advertising/Marketing Law Report. 8. May 1998. Accessed 28. April 1999. <http://adlaw.ljx.com/legislation/does_web_page_violate_ada.html>.
• Cynthia D. Waddell and Kevin Lee Thomason, "Is your site ADA-compliant ... or a lawsuit-in-waiting?" The Internet Lawyer Newsletter. Nov. 1998. Accessed 19. March 1999. <http://www.internetlawyer.com/ada.htm>.
• Cynthia D. Waddell, "Applying the ADA to the Internet: a web accessibility standard." Equal Access to Information and Software (EASI). 17. June 1998. Accessed 19. March 1999. <http://www.rit.edu/~easi/law/weblaw1.htm>.
• Maria Seminero, "'Handicapped access' hits the Web." ZDNN. 18. April 1999. Accessed 19. April 1999. <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2243282-1,00.html>.
• "Web focal to blind man's complaint." USA Today Tech Report. 1. Jan. 1999. Accessed 29. April 1999. <http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctd831.htm>.
• Cynthia Waddell, "The growing digital divide in access for people with disabilities: overcoming barriers to participants." White paper presented at the Understanding the Digital Economy Conference. 25. May 1999. Open Web: Achieving Website Accessibility in State Government. Washington State Department of Aging & Adult Services Administration (AASA) Home Page. Accessed 8. July 1999. <http://www.aasa.dshs.wa.gov/access/waddell.htm>.
• Adam Clayton Powell III, "New U.S. law requires Web sites to become 'handicapped accessible'." The Freedom Forum Online. 30. April 1999. Accessed 5. May 1999. <http://www.freedomforum.org/technology/1999/4/30handicapaccess.asp>.
• Letter from Stefan Rosenzweig, Office of Civil Rights, to Chancellor Nussbaum, California Community Colleges. DAIS Public Library. 1998. Accessed 8. April 2000. <http://www.janejarrow.com/public_library/ocr_lof/nussbaum.html>.
• Susan Brummel  Turnbull, "People with Disabilities and NII: Breaking Down Barriers, Building Choice." Excerpted from The Information Infrastructure: Reaching Society's Goals Report of the Information Infrastructure Task Force Committee on Applications and Technology. U.S. Department of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology. CITA and the National Information Infrastructure (NII) Task Force. 7. September 1994. Accessed April 8, 2000. <http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/cita/sb-paper.htm>.

• Recent general literature on the topic
  • Paul Bohman, "Universal Design and Disability Access to the Web." WebAIM. 1999. Accessed 6. April 2000. <http://www.webaim.org/articles/webnet2000>.
• Jakob Nielsen, "Disabled Accessibility: The Pragmatic Approach." useit.com: usable information technology . 13. June 1999. Accessed 17. Sept.1999. <http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990613.html>.
• "Selfish Reasons for Accessible Web Authoring." HTML Writers Guild, Inc. 22. May 1999. Accessed 28. January 2000. <http://aware.hwg.org/why/selfish.html>
• Concepts and Issues in Universal Design for Learning." Center for Applied Special Technology. 26. Jan. 1999. Accessed 19. March 1999. <http://www.cast.org/concepts/>.
• Jeanette Prasifka, "Disabled fear computer advances will ignore them." Chicago Tribune, Oct. 19, 1998. Sect. 4, p. 8.
• Michael Moeller, "Disabling Web barriers." 12. May 1998. PCWeek Online. Accessed 19. March 1999. <http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/reviews/0511/11wai.html>.
• Debra Nussbaum, "Bringing the visual world of the Web to the blind." The New York Times. 30. March 1998. E8.
• Sheryl Burgstahler, "Universal access: making electronic resources accessible to people with disabilities is the right thing to do - and it's the law." Journal of Telecommunications in Higher Education. Spring 1998: 18-21.
• Amy M. Kautzman, "Virtuous, Virtual Access: making web pages accessible to people with disabilities." Searcher. 6(6) June 1998: 42-49.
• Chuck Letourneau, "Accessible Web design - a definition." Starling Access Services. 1998. Accessed 28. January 2000. <http://www.starlingweb.com/webac.htm>.
• Terry Sullivan and Krystyn Manning, "Could Helen Keller Read Your Page?" All Things Web. 15 August 1997. Accessed 27 January 2000. <http://www.pantos.org/atw/35412.html>
• Electronic Curbcuts: How to Build an Accessible Web Site." 24 June 1997. Accessed 29. April 1999. <http://www.prodworks.com/ilf/ecc.htm>.
  
• Web access in the campus and library environment
• Tom McNulty, ed., Accessible Libraries on Campus: A Practical Guide for the Creation of Disability-Friendly Libraries. Chicago: American Library Association, 1999.
• Kristen L. Garlock and Sherry Piontek, Designing Web Interfaces to Library Services and Resources. Chicago: American Library Association, 1999.
• Jeffrey R. Young, "For students with disabilities, the Web can be like a classroom without a ramp." Chronicle of Higher Education. 44 (27) 3. March 1998: A31.
• Beth Fraser, Dan Comden and Sheryl Burgstahler, "Including users with disabilities: designing library Web sites for accessibility." Choice. 35 (Supplement). 1998: 35-37.
• Judith Dixon, "Levelling the road ahead: guidelines for the creation of WWW pages accessible to blind and visually handicapped users." Library Hi Tech. 14(1) 1996: 65-68.
• Camela Cunningham and Norman Coombs, Information access and adaptive technology. Phoenix, AZ: American Council on Education, Oryx Press, 1997. [Particularly relevant is Chapter 11: The information highway and the information hungry.]
• Carol A. Casey, "Accessibility in the virtual library: creating equal opportunity Web sites." Information Technology and Libraries. 18(1) March 1999: 22-25.
• Mary Minow, "Does your library's Web page violate the Americans with Disabilities Act?"  Mary Minow's map to library law homepage. [originally printed in California Libraries, 1999.] April 1999. Accessed 29. April 1999. <http://www.librarylaw.com/ADAWebpage.html>.