| Web Accessibility Initiative: Guidelines and resources from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). |
| 508 Spot: Guides and resources to help build applications with accessibility and usability. |
| Access Matters: Bob Easton searches for accessibility best practices. |
| Access.Edu: Information pertaining to the creation of accessible Web sites, evaluation tools, tutorials. |
| Accessibility Color Wheel: A tool to help choose a color pair with good contrast and suitable for text and background of accessible sites. It simulates also various kinds of color-blindness. |
| Accessibility Guide: A guide designed to help webmasters comply with web accessibility guidelines, with special emphasis on HTML techniques. |
| Accessibility Wizard: A tool for web developers and project teams. It breaks down the WAI Checkpoints into individual tasks for each job role in a development team. |
| Accessible eLearning For All: The ALFA Project is being developed to allow educational content providers to create eLearning on any subject and in any language. |
| Accessible Ireland: Aims to promote accessible design and enable website designers to receive feedback on their web sites from users, disabled and otherwise. |
| Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education Center: The AWARE center is a resource developed by the HTML Writer's Guild to assist all web writers to create more accessible web sites. |
| Accessible Web Page Design: List of resources for building accessible websites. |
| Accessible Webpage Design: Resources: Site created to promote awareness about the need for accessible web design and to steer those who wish to learn more about the topic into the right direction. |
| AccessibleNet.org: Accessible directory of links and resources to help Policy Makers and Web Designers make informed decisions about Web accessibility. |
| Accessify.com: Tools, links and resources on Website accessibility. |
| AccessifyForum.com: Discussion forum regarding site building, news, and legal issues relating to accessibility. |
| Adobe Accessibility Resource Center: Learn how to make your site more accessible when using Adobe software. |
| AiSquared: Developers of tools for seeing or hearing content from your computer. |
| All About Access: A blog about web accessibility and issues involving access technology at large, including but not limited to screen readers, operating systems and productivity software. |
| alphaWorks : aDesigner: Disability simulator software that helps Web designers ensure that their pages are accessible and usable by the visually impaired. (IBM ID required to download.) |
| ALT texts in IMG: Detailed techniques for using the ALT tag. |
| Americans With Disabilities Act Information: The US Dept. of Justice's resource page for the ADA. Voluminous, and not limited to computer and Internet issues, but at least it should be fairly authoritative, if you're willing to wade through the material. |
| AnitraPavka.com: Personal weblog with views on accessibility issues, news, and accessibility events. |
| AskAlice: Free report provides an assessment of a site's accessibility, and information on how to improve. |
| ATPM.com - Web Accessibility: Article by Raena Armitage. Addresses why Web accessibility matters, and gives some practical tips to apply to your Web sites right now. |
| ATPM.com: Putting Curb Cuts and Wider Doors on the Internet: Toward Web Site Accessibility: Article by Sylvester Roque and Kimberly Nyles-Roque. Covers disabilities that can affect the internet experience, and gives advice on how to improve sites and avoid causing problems for users. |
| Building Accessible Websites: Introductory book by Joe Clark. Full text available online. |
| Business Benefits of Accessible Web Design: Describes the many business and technical benefits that are realised by applying the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to Web applications. |
| CNN: Web Sites are Locking out the Disabled: Office buildings have wheelchair ramps and TV has closed captioning, but many Web sites are inaccessible to people with disabilities. Things don't have to be that way. |
| Color-Blind Design Evaluation: Online tool to show what your site colors look like to color-blind people. |
| Could Helen Keller Read Your Page?: Technical tips on improving the accessibility of a web page. |
| Design Your Web Content for Accessibility: Short article by Bryan D. Caplovitz covering audience, guidelines, and validation. |
| Designing More Usable Web Sites: Research and links from the Trace Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Digital Web Magazine: Accessibility: Web accessibility articles by various authors. |
| Dive into Accessibility: A comprehensive 30 day guide to making your website more accessible. Can be downloaded as a PDF. |
| EServer TC Library: Accessibility: A rapidly-growing annotated bibliography of reviewed and rated online resources in accessible and universally-usable design. |
| Euroaccessibility: Launched to foster European cooperation toward a harmonised methodology for evaluating the accessibility of web sites. Members, committees and task forces, working rules, objectives, and FAQ. |
| Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility: Outlines approaches for preliminary review web site accessibility and for evaluation of conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. |
| Freedom Scientific: Developer of JAWS for Windows Screen Reader, MAGic Screen Magnification software, the PAC Mate accessible Pocket PC, and WYNN literacy software. |
| Government of Canada: Accessibility: Official standards and guidelines for Government of Canada Web sites, as part of the Treasury Board's "Common Look and Feel" initiative. |
| Henry's Hints on Web Access: Discusses the invisible image techniques for text only browsers. |
| How to Make Website Content Accessible: Articles with advice and tips on making website content universally accessible. |
| HTML4.com: Information on web accessibility, usability and web standards. |
| IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center: By enabling human capability through innovation, the center strives to help people with disabilities maximize their potential. |
| ICDRI: Accessibility on the Web: Article defining accessibility and arguing its importance from ethical and economic perspectives. Covers basic techniques for design and testing. |
| Introduction to Accessible Web Design: Article introducing accessible Web design and initiatives to improve accessibility. |
| Isolani: Articles on creating accessible forms that work with Javascript, text-only websites, and structured tables. |
| Joeclark.org: Accessibility info and Weblogs from the writer Joe Clark |
| Library Hi Tech Volume 20, Number 2, 2002: Special issue: Accessibility of web-based information resources for people with disabilities. Read abstracts online; pay for access to full articles. |
| Microsoft - Accessibility: Information about Microsoft accessibility products and services. |
| Opensourcetutorials.com: Web Accessibility Is Similar To Search Engine Optimization: Matthew Drouin explains how web accessibility is similar to SEO along with the 5 essential actions to take to make a site accessible. |
| Papers on Section 508: Multiple papers on the subject of creating accessible forms and tables. |
| PAS 78: A Guide to Good Practice in Commissioning Accessible Websites: A Publicly Available Specification from the British Standards Institution, in association with the Disability Rights Commission. [free download subject to some license conditions] |
| RNIB Campaign for Good Web Design: Royal National Institute for the Blind's campaign for accessible web design. |
| RNIB Web Access Centre: A free online resource centre to help designers and managers create accessible web sites. Also links to consultancy services. |
| Royal National Institute for the Blind: Web Access Centre: Web accessibility resources. |
| Searchenginewatch - Don't Disable Your Site for Handicapped Users: Article by Matt Bailey. Designers of web sites that are not accessible to disabled users are overlooking a market segment of millions of searchers and potential buyers. |
| Section508.gov: Official website for Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act. |
| Self Direction Community Project: Providing online disability awareness training. |
| SightWeaver: SightWeaver is a tool for repairing HTML tables, to make them more accessible. |
| Society for Technical Communication: Internet Accessibility: Information about accessibility to the Internet. Points to many articles, websites and tools to help create and analyze digital documents. |
| Standards-schmandards: Weblog about web standards, accessibility and usability. |
| TDT - Accessibility: The Design Times Section 508 guidelines, checklists, information, and tools to help build applications with accessibility and usability. |
| TechDis Accessibility & Usability Resource: Provides information on the technical and practical aspects of accessibility (including usability issues) and its evaluation, and information on how disabled users access the Internet. |
| The Alliance for Technology Access: Web Accessibility: Extensive articles with many links to resources to educate and help with planning and creating accessible web pages. |
| The Guild of Accessible Web Designers: An association of organisations and accessible web designers and developers promoting accessible web design standards. |
| UI Access: Resource for universal interface design and accessibility that provides techniques to support developing and implementing strategies. |
| Usability First - Accessibility: Includes background information on Accessibility and lists computer related accessibility aids according to types of disability. |
| UsableAccess.com: Web accessibility and usability resources including articles, news, discussion, and research. Focuses on both theory and practice of user-centered design. |
| USPS Section 508 Handbook in HTML: Explains the requirements of Section 508 and sets forth, in broad outline, the Postal Service's policies on how to comply with them. |
| USPS Section 508 Technical Reference Guide in HTML: Technical Reference guide in support of USPS AS-508, detailing techniques and technical approaches to Section 508 and accessibility. |
| Viewable With Any Browser: Campaign for a Non-Browser Specific WWW. Resources, more information and links about this effort. |
| W3 Compliant Sites: A collection of web standards compliant web sites and their designers. |
| Web Accessibility: An overview of website access for people with disabilities, and an overview of UK law and the Disability Discrimination Act. |
| Web Accessibility Survey: Some data collected on the accessibility of college and university web pages. |
| Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: Recommendation from the W3C, which explains to developers and authors how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. |
| Web Credible: Accessibility Resources: Offers tips, tricks, tutorials, links and information about Web accessibility, including UK legal requirements. |
| Web Page Accessibility Section 508 Checklist: Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Section 508 Guidelines |
| WebAIM - Web Accessibility in Mind: Information, training, resources, guidelines and standards for Web accessibility and disability access to the Web. |
| Webdisabilities.com: Listing of web companies that have been awarded a kite mark for considering the disabled user. |
| Webmates: The purpose of Webmates is to assist other webmasters in their personal efforts to comply with the current standards regarding coding, accessibility and usability. |
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