Web Accessibility Resources - Web Center

Learn about web accessibility, create/modify your web pages to meet accessibility guidelines, and then run each page through an accessibility validation tool (see below) to ensure its accessibility to all people, including those with disabilities.

The Best Online Resource for Web Accessibility

Web Accessibility Checklists

• Quick Checklist for Usability and Web Accessibility
• Full Checklist of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Checkpoints
• Section 508 Checklist (published by WebAIM)

Web Accessibility Tools

• WebAIM - Using Opera to Check for Accessibility - Easy and fast! Check your pages for basic accessibility using the free Opera browser - enlarge everything, turn off images, turn off styles, disable tables to check for linearization and more. A first-step to check for accessibility. (tutorial)
• WAVE Accessibility Tool (from WebAIM) - check your pages for accessibility (free online tool)
  
  
• Watchfire WebXACT - WebXACT is a free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues. (free online tool)
• Page Valet - check your pages for accessibility (free online tool)
• A-Prompt Toolkit - Free evaluation and repair tool: "[A] software tool designed to improve the usability of HTML documents by evaluating Web pages for accessibility barriers and then providing developers with a fast and easy way to make the necessary repairs." (free software)

Learn About Web Accessibility: Why? What? How?

Tutorials

• WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind) - An excellent website. Explanations are clear and thorough. (tutorials, resource, articles, reference)
  • Techniques: Adobe Acrobat PDF, Captioning, Flash, PowerPoint, Word, Animations, Images, Tables, CSS (style sheets), Forms
  • Concepts: Disability Types: Visual (blindness, low vision, color-blindness); Hearing (deafness); Motor (inability to use a mouse, lack of fine muscle control); Cognitive (including reading disorders, learning disabilities, ADHD)
  • Laws and Standards: United States, International
  • Products & Tools: Online checkers/validators/simulators, free and commercial software, books, assistive technologies, browsers
    
    
• W3C WAI - How People with Disabilities Use the Web - Very informative. "This document provides an introduction to use of the Web by people with disabilities. It illustrates some of their requirements when using Web sites and Web-based applications, and provides supporting information for the guidelines and technical work of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)." (resource)
  
  
• Access-Board.gov - Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications (tutorial, resource)
  
  
• W3C - HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - Excellent information (tutorial)
  
• W3C - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (tutorial)
• W3C - Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (tutorial)
  
  
• Table Manners: Creating accessible Tables for both layout and data (tutorial)
• evolt.org - Links & JavaScript Living Together in Harmony (tutorial)
  
  
• AccessBoard.gov - Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications (1194.22) (tutorial, resource)
  
  
• U.S. Department of Justice - Section 508 Self-Evaluation - Web Page Accessibility Questionnaire (resource)

References

• W3C - Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (reference)
• Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (reference)
• Top 10 Questions about Section 508 (as interpreted by California State University system) (reference)

Additional Resources

• AccessiBlog (articles, tutorials, references)
• Web Design Tips - Accessibility (articles, tutorials, references)
• NetMechanic - Web Accessibility Resource Center (articles, tutorials)

Specific Topics in Web Accessibility

Accessible Popup Windows

• evolt.org - Links & JavaScript Living Together in Harmony (tutorial)
• NetMechanic - Accessibility Tip: Pop-Up Windows And Accessibility (article)

Tables - Data tables vs. Layout tables

• Table Manners: Creating accessible Tables for both layout and data (tutorial)

Adobe PDF Files

• Adobe's Accessibility Resources (resource) - see also Ohlone's Web Style Guide requirements for PDF files