ATRC - Web Access: "How to" Resources

Web Accessibility:"How to" Resources

"How to" Sites for Website Accessibility:

The following eight resource listings are arranged alphabetically.

All Things Web: Could Helen Keller Read Your Page? (http://www.pantos.org/atw/35412.html)
This somewhat outdated article still offers good information.
ART Simulator (http://ubapps.com/applications/testing/simulations)
The ART simulator enables you to experience first-hand the barriers to accessibility faced by people with disabilities, and to better understand how to improve disabled users' experience. The style sheet and scripts simulations mimic technologies for people with disabilities that do not support style sheets and scripts. The image and multimedia simulations help test the usability of the site when relying solely on text. (Text on sites can be converted into speech or Braille). The slow reader simulation makes reading a site slower. Long unnecessary text becomes difficult and frustrating.
CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (http://ncam.wgbh.org/)
The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility that works to make media accessible to underserved populations such as disabled persons, minority-language users, and people with low literacy skills. Rich Media Accessibility is a wonderful resource. Media Access Generator (MAGpie), for captioning video, is a free download available from this site.
HTML Dog (http://www.htmldog.com)
A site dedicated to good code writing. Both HTML and CSS tutorials and resources on all levels.
HTMLTips and Tricks for Accessibility - Microsoft Word (.doc) version also available in Rich Text Format (.RTF) version. A listing of HTML work-arounds for increasing the accessibility of your web page. Coding examples show how to use TITLE to further explain your hyperlinks (great for rollovers), how to make your tables more accessible and the basic elements that make a website more accessible.
The University of Arizona (http://uaweb.arizona.edu)
has developed a website to help webmasters with 508 and has an entire section devoted to Web Accessibility.
Viewable with Any Browser: Accessible Site Design Guide (http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/abdesign.html)
Clear guidelines for creating accessible Web sites and links to sites.
Web Accessibility Tutorial:
http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm.
Jim Thatcher's web access tutorial is a complete guide to acheiving 508 compliance.
WebAIM (http://www.webaim.org/techniques/)
Web Accessibility In Mind is the Web Accessibility "How-To" Site. Includes excellant resources including how to create captions that work in Quicktime, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player (http://www.webaim.org/techniques/captions/), as well as "How to Make Accessible Web Content Using Frontpage 2000 " and "How to Make Accessible Web Content Using Dreamweaver 3.0 and 4.0."
WebCT (http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=1790151)
Making WebCT Courses Accessible for Students with Disabilities is featured on this Web CT page. Also of interest is the 40 minute streaming video of Bringing your Web CT Course into ADA Compliance.
Web-Savvy (http://www.websavvy-access.org/index.shtml)
Designers, programmers and instructor services available to make sites as accessible as possible.