Accessibility Links
I find reading about accessibility to be very interesting. There are often a lot of cool ways of doing things to make sites more accessible and to account for various disabilities.
Three Part Series from Roger JOhansson (456 Berea St.) on Evaluating Website Accessibility:
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200603/evaluating_website_accessibility_part_1_background_and_preparation/
Seven Accessibility Mistakes (from Digital Web Magazine):
Part 1: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/seven_accessibility_mistakes_part_1/
Part 2: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/seven_accessibility_mistakes_part_2/
Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties
http://juicystudio.com/article/cognitive-impairment.php
(I really liked this one - lots of simple things you can do with CSS to make things more readable. I think that a lot of these things would be helpful for non-disabled users as well. That is usually the case with accessibility improvements!)
SearchBliss posted this at 17:48 — 22nd March 2006.
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Good reads, thanks.
demonhale posted this at 17:59 — 22nd March 2006.
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definitely a good read, i will keep coming back to this thread, cant finish them all up...
Busy posted this at 21:59 — 22nd March 2006.
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I got a whole folder of them when I got into it a few years ago.
Need to update my bookmarks more often, half of those dont work
here are some that do
http://webxact.watchfire.com/
WebXACT is a free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.
http://websitetips.com/accessibility/
The Accessibility category contains information to help designers, developers and Web site owners understand, learn, and create sites that are as accessible as possible to those with disabilities, text browsers, assistive technologies, and more. Also included are resources for the Section 508 U.S. government guidelines for accessibility, tools, and more.
http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse8.htm
Accessible Forms
http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/Overview.html
Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/
Dive Into Accessibility
30 days to a more accessible web site
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
http://www.digital-web.com/types/articles/
Articles on every topic related to creating and maintaining Web sites, including Web design, Web development, information architecture, and usability. All articles here are authored by volunteer contributing writers for Digital Web Magazine and often industry experts on the subject at hand.
Just be warned, there are a lot of copied articles out there like the CSS ones are, and a lot of them are wrong, outdated and dont comply. Ideally use the standards base site, wai, 508 etc or gov sites (us only). The 508 law is only US based
Busy posted this at 22:10 — 22nd March 2006.
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another
http://www.anitrapavka.com/accessibility.html
has good links on side nav for major sites
although they just outlining what rest said
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