Designing the Web for People With Disabilities: Available Resources

Several resources were relied on to develop this paper and are available to users, publishers, and software product manufacturers interested in information accessibility for people with disabilities. Following is a brief list of resources, including URL's where available.

Organizations

Environment Canada's Adaptive Computer Technology Centre: Accessible Web Page Design

URL: http://www.igs.net/~starling/acces.htm.

Environment Canada's Adaptive Computer Technology Centre was one of the first web sites to include guidelines and on-line examples of accessible web pages and HTML implementations.

Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto

URL: http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/.

The purpose of the ATRC is to:

Develop and share creative solutions to the challenges faced by users of adaptive technology
Foster the effective use of adaptive technology in education
Promote the integration of alternative access systems throughout the information technology infrastructure at this and other educational institutions

Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic

URL: http://www.rfbd.org.

Providing services for nearly half a century, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) is a national nonprofit organization that serves people who cannot read standard print because of a visual, perceptual or other physical disability. RFB&D is recognized as the nation's leading educational lending library of academic and professional textbooks on audio tape from elementary through post-graduate and professional levels.

Trace Research & Development Center's Designing an Accessible World

URL: http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/world.html.

The Trace R&D Center is one of the leading assistive technology research facilities in the world. This section one their web page is a classic example of accessible design. Additionally, Trace provides several on-line reference documents.

WGBH National Center for Accessible Media

URL: http://www.wgbh.org/ncam.

NCAM develops strategies and technologies to make media accessible to millions of Americans, including people with disabilities, minority language users, and those with low literacy skills.

For 85 million Americans with little or no access to media's sights and sounds, the CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is working to remove the barriers to communication by:

developing strategies and technologies to make all public media accessible at home, work, school and in the community
retrofitting existing television, radio, print, and theatrical movies with access technology
designing access into emerging telecommunications such as Advanced Television (ATV) and the National Information Infrastructure

Publications and Papers:

Design of HTML Pages to Increase Their Accessibility to Users With Disabilities: Strategies for Today and Tomorrow. URL: http://www.trace.wisc.edu/TEXT/GUIDELNS/HTMLGIDE/htmlgide.html. By: Gregg C. Vanderheiden Ph.D., Wendy A. Chisholm, Neal Ewers Trace R&D Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

World Wide Web Browser Access Recommendations. URL: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund/access-browsers.html. By: Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Mosaic Accessibility Project, Usability Access Chair, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

World Wide Web Accessibility to People with Disabilities A Usability Perspective. URL: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund/access-overview.html. By: Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Mosaic Accessibility Project, Usability Access Chair, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

Universal Accessibility - A Matter of Design. URL: http://www.prodworks.com/ua_9606.htm. By: Ray Ingram, The Productivity Works, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey.

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