Additional Resources

• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
  
  • WAI Resources
    Key Web accessibility resources at W3C.
    
    • WAI Home Page - the place to start, for Web accessibility
    • WAI Resources - annotated list of Quick Tips, accessibility guidelines, techniques, curricula, etc.
    • WAI Site Map - key WAI pages, listed by category
    • WAI Events - list of upcoming and past WAI events
    • Policies Relating to Web Accessibility - list of external policies
    • About WAI - brief overview of WAI
    • W3C Technical Reports - library of all W3C specifications
      
      
• Mainstream Developers - Accessibility Information
  Links to accessibility information at mainstream Web software developers.
  
  • AccessAdobe
  • AOL's Accessibility Policy
  • Apple Computer, Disability Solutions
  • IBM Accessibility Center
  • Macromedia Accessibility
  • Microsoft Accessibility
  • Opera Software
  • Sun Microsystem's Accessibility Program
    
    
• Projects, Research, Resources
  Assorted links to projects, research, resources related to Web accessibility at other organizations. Please note separate list of links to legal, policy, and governmental Web sites relating to Web accessibility. (Additional information welcome.)
  
  • Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
  • The Archimedes Project, Stanford University
  • Aware Center, HTML Writers Guild
  • Bartimeus Educational Institute, The Netherlands, Accessibility.nl
  • Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
  • Do-It Program, University of Washington
  • National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM), WGBH
  • Optavia
  • PASIG (Portuguese Accessibility Special Interest Group)
  • Project MATHS (Mathematical Access for Technology and Science for Visually Disabled Users)
  • Project HIIT: Internet for the Hearing Impaired
  • Royal National Institute for the Blind's Accessing Technology fact sheet
  • Science Access Project
  • Starling Access Services
  • TEDIS (Technological Enabling of Disabled and Older People, GMD
  • Trace Research and Development Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Videncenter for Synshandicap, Denmark
  • WebABLE!
  • Web 3D Consortium
    
    
• Papers, Articles
  Also see Policies Relating to Web Accessibility which includes some policy papers.
  • Disabled Accessibility, the Pragmatic Approach, by Jakob Nielsen
  • Nomadicity, Disability Access, and the Every-Citizen Interface, by Dr. Gregg Vanderheiden, Trace R&D Center
  • People with Disabilities and NII: Breaking Down Barriers, Building Choice, by Susan Brummel, CITA
  • Universal Access to the National Information Infrastructure (NII), by Dr. Gregg Vanderheiden, Trace R&D Center
    
    
• Tips Provided by Cynthia Waddell, ADA Coordinator, San Jose, CA (2000)
  What does "web accessibility" mean?
  http://www.icdri.org/the_digital_divide.htm
  Why make an accessible site?
  "Applying the ADA to the Internet: A Web Accessibility Standard" by Cynthia D. Waddell
  http://www.icdri.org/applying_the_ada_to_the_internet.htm
  Selfish Reasons for Accessible Web Design
  http://www.awarecenter.com/why/selfish.html
  
  
• Reasons to Apply Principals of Universal Design
  Much of this information is provided by Kristin Johnson.