Resources for Web and DHTML accessibility from both the design and technical perspectives.
General Resources
- Make Your Web Content Accessible Course
- Quick-and-Dirty Website Accessibility Tests - and Fixes
An overview of techniques to quickly and easily improve the accessibility of web pages. - Basic Guidelines for Achieving Accessibility
A few framing thoughts that are inspiration for strategies to produce Basic Good Practice Guidelines - Accessibility consideration for embedded content
An overview of accessibility related concerns and things to be aware of when embedding content - PDF to accessible format
Not without controversy, this site will allow you to upload a PDF and convert it into fairly good HTML or TXT - A break-down of PDF and accessibility
This site does a nice job of pointing out the quick-fix and also more accessible process of producing accessible PDFs. - Apple accessibility links
Apple maintains a list of useful accessibility links for 3rd party solutions, mac products, community resources, and standards bodies. - W3C Multimedia Accessibility FAQ
Some helpful how-tos for making multimedia materials accessible.
Policy
- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005
An Introduction to the AODA - WAI-ARIA Overview
An overview of WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite; a set of documents that lay out how to make Web 2.0 sites and applications more accessible.
Testing Tools
- AChecker
AChecker is a tool that allows you to type in a url and test for accessibility. - W3C complete list of tools
A Complete list of web accessibility evaluation tools - HiSoftware's Cynthia Says Portal
This site allows you to type in a url and test for accessiblity, and it also allows you to emulate different browsers while doing the test. - Webaim articles on testing using a screen reader:
Development Tools
- Mozilla Developer Center's ARIA Overview: a comprehensive overview of ARIA and other DHTML accessibility techniques
- MDC's Key-navigable Custom DHTML Widgets: a tutorial on adding keyboard handlers to your widgets. Also take a look at Fluid's Keyboard a11y plugin for keyboard accessibility.
- MDC's ARIA Live Regions Overview
Fluid Resources
- Accessibility Review Protocols: A checklist of techniques for evaluating the accessibility of your Web site.
- An Overview of DHTML Accessibility
- DHTML Developer Checklist: A checklist of techniques for modern, accessible JavaScript programming
- Accessibility Decorators
- Notes on User Interface Adaptation and User Preferences
- Accessibility Transformation Brainstorming: A list of potential user interface transformations that could be supported by the Fluid framework.
- TransformAble 2.0 Roadmap
- Fluid Presentations on Accessibility
- Matterhorn Opencast a11y overview: A basic overview of accessibility standards for video as envisioned for the Opencast project