RESOURCES FOR ATTENDEES
For the convenience of course attendees, we provide this list of hypertext links and books cited in this course’s learning guide roughly in the order they appear in the course and learning guide:
Legislation, lawsuits, and standards
Canada
- Government of Canada’s new Standard on Web Accessibility
- Standard on Web Usability
- Standard on Web Interoperability
- Standard on Optimizing Websites and Applications for Mobile Devices
- Ontario’s AODA Integrated Accessibility Standards (Ontario Regulation 191/11, April 2011)Ontario’s AODA Accessibility Standards for Customer Service (Ontario Regulation 429/07) Compliance Manual
- AODA rules for business and non-profits
- The Accessibility for Manitoba Act
- Manitoba’s Bill 26
- Introduction to Ontario’s Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation
- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005: AODA Integrated Accessibility Standards (Ontario Regulation 191/11, April 2011)
USA
- ADA Accessibility Checklist For Existing Facilities (with New York State building code references)
- The Americans with Disabilities Act Checklist for Readily Achievable Barrier Removal
- “Section 508” of USA’s federal Rehabilitation Act Amendments (1998)
- “Section 508” full standards
- Section 508
- Sample VPAT 1.6 filled
- Illinois IITAA – WCAG 2.0 Mapping
- New York State Web policy points to Section 508
- Web accessibility laws by states of the USA
- Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Individuals with Disabilities Act
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
- ADA and schools
- DOT’s Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA)
- HHS Section 508 Accessibility Checklists
- Section 504: The Law & Its Impact on Postsecondary Education
Other countries
- Argentina’s accessibility legislation
- Australian government web accessibility standards and guidelines
- Italy: The Stanca Act is the Italian law for government accessibility, from 2004, and is a mashup of WCAG 1.0 Level 1 and Section 508
- Netherlands: 2006 decision legislates accessibility for government sites by end of 2010, and Web Guidelines broadly based on WCAG 1.0
- Norway’s Anti-Discrimination and Accessibility Act, Section 14
- eNorway 2009: Norwegian Ministry of Modernization strategy for e-government
- Spain’s response to WAD:
- Other International Government Policies Relating to Web Accessibility (CH, DE, DK, ES, EU, FI, FR, HK, IL, IN, IT, JA, NZ, PT, UK)
- France RGAA 3.0
- EAA European Accessibility Act
Global
- UN Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- More examples of accessibility legal negotiations and settlements
Accessibility guidelines
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
- Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 by WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative)
- Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT)
- EPUB 3.0 Overview
- WebAIM’s WCAG 2.0 Checklist
- Techniques and Failures for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 (latest version)
- Comparison of WCAG 1.0 Checkpoints to WCAG 2.0 Success Criteria in Numerical Order
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 (latest version)
- WCAG 2.0 Checklist (Appendix B)
- Mobile Accessibility: How WCAG 2.0 and Other W3C/WAI Guidelines Apply to Mobile (2015)
- W3C Standards for Web Applications on Mobile
- WCAG 2.0 Conformance Levels
- How to Make Presentations Accessible to All
- Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT)
- BBC Mobile Accessibility Guidelines<meta itemprop=”name” content=”davidberman.com-accessibility-resources-list-php”>
- UK: Equality Act 2010<meta itemprop=”faviconUrl” content=”https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/documents/images/kix-favicon7.ico”>
Assistive technologies and techniques
Visual difficulties
- Zimmerman Low Vision Simulation Kit is by Pittsburgh’s Dr. George J. Zimmerman
- Cambridge Simulation Glasses
- Cambridge Simulation Gloves
- Impairment simulator software
- Filter Keys for Windows
- Slow Keys for MacOS
- Read Regular font, by Natascha Frensch
- Comparison of accessibility features in various versions of Microsoft Windows
- Search for assistive technology products
- JAWS for Windows
- NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access)
- Browsealoud
- Characters as Read by JAWS and Window-Eyes
- AppleVis
- Braille displays for MacOS
- Braille displays for iOS
- Braille commands for VoiceOver navigation from a braille display
- BrailleBack: braille display third-party app for Android: (search Google Play for BrailleBack)
- English to Braille online translator
- BANA Guidelines and Standards for Tactile Graphics, 2010
- Preferred PDF reader for many power users with visual challenges: Qread used in conjunction with their screen reader
- Magic screen reader/screen magnifier (by Freedom Scientific, so integrates well with JAWS)
- Google’s High Contrast and Color Enhancer addons for Chrome
- Natural Readers
Dexterity/mobility/motor difficulties
- Advanced on-screen keyboard example: ScreenDoors 2000
- Tobii EyeMobile for Windows tablet
- Chrome extension for disabling autoplay (for Audio Control)
- Misophonia
- Autism Canada’s diagnostic tool for identifying location on autism spectrum
- SteadyMouse
Hearing difficulties
- CaptionedText.com demo
- Captioning Key
- PTASL: Q&A: How Pro-Tactile American Sign Language — PTASL — is changing the conversation | Perkin https://www.perkins.org/stories/how-pro-tactile-american-sign-language-ptasl-is-changing-the-conversation
iOS Accessibility
- Making Your iOS App Accessible
- Debug Accessibility in iOS Simulator with the Accessibility Inspector
- Quick Reference Guide for VoiceOver on iOS
- Test Accessibility on Your Device with VoiceOver
- Apple VoiceOver supported languages
Android, Windows Phone Accessibility
- Making Applications Accessible by Android Developers
- Windows Store apps: Guidelines for Accessibility
WCAG 2.0 (including Success Criteria Level A and AA, in order)
Guideline 1.1: Text Alternatives
- WCAG 2.0 Success Criterion 1.1
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF1
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF4
- MathPlayer example
- NVDA extension that supports MathML and ChemML project funded by Stanford
- MathHear (which has MathSpeak integrated)
- Wiris’s alternative text implementation
- Alternate text to Images in Blackboard Learn
Guideline 1.2: Time-based Media
Guideline 1.3: Adaptable
- WCAG 2.0 1.3
- Netflix films that include audio description
- MediaElementJS
- YouTube wrapped with Ajax
- Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) 1.0
- STAMP (Sub-titling text add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint)
- Magpie (for creating captions and audio descriptions for rich media)
- Amara crowdsourced subtitling, free Amara editor, and Amara On Demand (paid service)
- More guidance on how to deal with special situations
- Shift Times command in Aegisub for Windows, Mac, or Unix
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF6
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF20
- WAI-ARIA 1.0 technical specification
- WAI-ARIA 1.0 primer
- Can I use WAI-ARIA Accessibility features?
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF9
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF21
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF17
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF3
Guideline 1.4: Distinguishable
- WCAG 2.0 1.4
- Colour deficiency simulator (and image corrector)
- Corrective Lenses For The Colorblind by Dave Ludwig
- Designing for an audience under a year old? See what human babies see
- aDesigner visual disability simulator (including HTML, OpenOffice ODF, Flash, Flex, Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA), IBM/Linux’s IAccessible2 (IA2) GUI)
- Colour Contrast Analyser for Windows in 10 languages
- Colour Contrast Analyser for Mac in 8 languages (for the eyedropper, Colour Select> Colours> magnifying glass icon)
- Colour Contrast Analyser
- Accessible Colors color chooser
- WCAG Contrast Checker Firefox Add-on
- Jonathan Snook’s Colour Contrast Check
- Contrast Analyser from The Paciello Group that has eyedropper for graphics … and in both official languages!
- Check My Colours
- GrayBit (browser based removal of all colour from a URL of your choice)
- Luminosity Colour Contrast Ratio Analyser (Juicy Studio)
- Pixel to Em conversion free tool
- Google makes image recognition leap
- Adobe Typekit
- Adobe Edge Web Fonts
- Font Squirrel
- Google Web Fonts
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF7
- How to stay on brand while meeting Success Criterion 1.4.3
Guideline 2.1: Keyboard Accessible
- WCAG 2.0 2.1
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF11
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF23
- User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
- Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
Guideline 2.2: Enough Time
Guideline 2.3: Seizures
- WCAG 2.0 2.3
- Photosensitive Epilepsy Analysis Tool (PEAT) for Windows (or Mac via emulation) of avi files
- Online Flash Test (for broadcasters, filmmakers,…)
- Web Accessibility Toolbar for IE (from Paciello group)
Guideline 2.4: Navigable
- WCAG 2.0 2.4
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF18
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF13
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF2
- Headings Map (Google Chrome Addon)
Guideline 3.1: Readable
Guideline 3.2: Predictable
Guideline 3.3: Input Assistance
- WCAG 2.0 3.3
- HTML5 form input types
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF10
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF5
- WCAG 2.0 technique PDF22
- Total Validator Pro (discontinued online, better than ever offline)
- CSS Validator
- Html Validator add-in for Firefox
- JavaView (for standalone validation of XML against its DTD)
- What is SMIL
- Accessibility Features of SMIL
Guideline 4.1: Compatible, etc.
Testing tools for web and mobile
- YUI Target Environments
- W3C HTML Test Suite for WCAG 2.0
- W3C CSS Validation service
- W3C Markup Validation
- W3C Link checker
- W3C RSS feed checker
- HTMLTidy
- W3C’s complete list of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
- Adobe Browserlab
- Browser emulator for really early browsers
- Fangs (Firefox extension) screen reader emulation
- Colour deficiency simulator (and image corrector)
- WAVE Chrome Extension
- Karl Grove Diagnostic CSS
- HTML_CodeSniffer (and the Accessibility Auditor Bookmarklet)
- aDesigner visual disability simulator (including HTML, OpenOffice ODF, Flash, Flex, Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA), IBM/Linux’s IAccessible2 (IA2) GUI)
- W3C mobileOK Checker
- David’s fave NVDA add-on
- NVDA voices
- Arabic NVDA
- Tenon online accessibility tester for code or URL
- CynthiaSays.com
- IBM Bluemix Digital Content Checker
- Web-me
- Tingtun HTML Checker
- aDesigner visual disability simulator (including HTML, OpenOffice ODF, Flash, Flex, Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA), IBM/Linux’s IAccessible2 (IA2) GUI)
- Hacker’s Keyboard for Android (yes, you can have your Tab key back!)
- TPG Mobile Accessibility Testing for Android and iOS
- Broken Link Check (online, limited to 3000 pages)
- LinkChecker (for Windows, MacOS, Linux)
- Paciello’s Group’s Mobile Accessibility Testing Guide for Android and iOS
- 11 ½ Free Tools for Testing Website Accessibility
- Ace by DAISY, Accessibility Checking Tool for EPUB
- David’s 11.5 free WCAG testing tools webinar
- Accessibility Checker on your Windows desktop to find accessibility issues
WCAG 2.1 (including the new Success Criteria Level A and AA, in order)
- WCAG 2.1
- W3C’s Understanding WCAG 2.1
- Understanding WCAG 2.1
- 1.3.4 Orientation (AA)
- 1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose (AA)
- 1.3.6 Identify Purpose (AAA)
- 1.4.10 Reflow (AA)
- 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast (AA)
- 1.4.12 Text Spacing (AA)
- 1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus (AA)
- 2.2.6 Timeouts (AAA)
- 2.3.3 Animation from Interactions (AAA)
- 2.5.1 Pointer Gestures (A)
- 2.5.2 Pointer Cancellation (A)
- 2.5.3 Character Key Shortcuts (A)
- 2.5.3 Label in Name (A)
- 2.5.4 Motion Actuation (A)
- 2.5.5 Target Size (AAA)
- 2.5.6 Concurrent Input Mechanisms (AAA)
- 2.5.7 Motion Actuation (A)
- 4.1.3 Status Messages (AA)
- What’s new in WCAG 2.1? – Intopia
- HTML 5.2 autocomplete attributes
Document standards, techniques and testing
- OpenOffice: Providing Alt Text To Images: An Overview
- EPUB 3.01 Specification
- EPUB 3 Accessibility Guidelines
- EPUB 3 Best Practices
- EPUB 3 Accessibility QA Checklist
- EPUB Accessibility 1.0Save As Daisy add-in for Word 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013
- EPUB Reading System Evaluations comparison of accessibility of various EPUB readers
- Metadata and level A: EPUB Accessibility 1.0
- Are there any WYSIWYG editors for EPUB books? – Ebooks Stack Exchange:
- “Preparing InDesign Files for Accessibility”
- Tingtun PDF Checker
- Berman’s PAC flag import
- PDF and WCAG 2.0 are non-contradictory (meeting one will never invalidate the other)
- W3C’s PDF Techniques for WCAG 2.0
- Adobe’s PDF Accessibility Overview
- Guide to the essentials of creating accessible PDFs with Microsoft Word and Acrobat Professional 8
- XML Forms Architecture (XFA) Specification 2.8
- Adobe’s Accessible PDF from Microsoft Word (2007)
- Adobe Acrobat X Pro Accessibility Guide
- Adobe Acrobat X Action Wizard for Accessible PDF
- Creating accessible PDF documents with Adobe InDesign CS6
- InDesign accessibility facts
- Importing Word files (into LiveCycle Designer 10)
- W3C’s PDF Techniques for {Flash}
- Flash Techniques for WCAG 2.0
- Plain Text Techniques for WCAG 2.0
- Creating Accessible Adobe PDF Files
- PAC PDF Accessibility Checker
- Excellent discussion threads on fixing PAC 2.0 errors
- PDDOMView
- AxesPDF QuickFix
- CommonLook PDF
- CommonLook PDF Manual
- CommonLook Clarity
- AxesPDF for Word features
- CommonLook Office
- Adobe InDesign CS6 Accessibility Overview
- Axaio MadeToTag
- CKEditor 3.x Accessibility Guide
- Creating Accessible Content
- Where SEO meets accessibility: Alt and Title tag optimization
- Foxit PhantomPDF instructional tutorial videos
- How to Make PDF Document Tables More Accessible: The Basics
Instructional design software: Adobe Captivate
- Adobe Captivate accessibility
- Adobe Captivate Help / Creating accessible projects
- Adobe Captivate Accessibility Best Practices
- Adobe Captivate 8 VPAT
Instructional design software: Articulate Storyline
- Articulate Storyline 2 Update 5
- How to make an Articulate Storyline course WCAG compliant
- Articulate Storyline 3/360 How To Change Player Colors Fonts
- FAQ on Accessibility for Articulate Storyline 360
- Section 508 compliance for Storyline 360
- WCAG 2.0 compliance for Storyline 360:
- Getting started tutorial with videos and practice activities for Storyline 360
- How to design an accessible course with Storyline 360:
- E-book on best practice for designing accessible eLearning
- Closed captioning feature in Storyline 360 details
- More new features in Storyline 360
- Articulate Storyline 360 VPAT 2021
- Articulate 360 Accessibilty FAQs
- Articulate Rise 360 VPAT for WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1
- How To Add Alternative Text To Images in Rise 360
- Rise 360 Accessibility Collection
- Rise 360: Keyboard-Accessible Navigation:
- Rise 360: How to Add Closed Captioning to a Video
Instructional design software: other
Accessible virtual classroom platforms
Introduction to Online Learning and Accessibility
- Introduction to the Special Section on Integrating Accessibility into Online Learning
- Get Rid of the Gray: Make Accessibility More Black and White!
- What is the difference between accessible, usable, and universal design?
- Web Accessibility Matters (4-part video series by David Berman)
Accessible content management
- AEM 6.0: Creating Accessible Content
- Drupal Accessibility
- Drupal Accessibility Group
- Drupal Modules that Improve Accessibility
- Accessible templates for Joomla
- WordPress Accessibility
- Make WordPress Accessible
- Gravity Forms – WCAG 2.0 Form Fields plugin
- Simone accessible WordPress theme
White papers
Other accessibility links
- More on ROT
- Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities
- Fire Safety & Disabilities Guide
- Addiction Treatment Resources for Americans with Disabilities
- The Disabled Job Seeker’s Guide to Becoming a Real Estate Agent
- A How-to Guide on Job Searching with a Disability
- The Guide to Buying Used Accessible Vehicles
- Socialization and the Child who is Deaf or Hard of Hearing
- Disability Accommodation Cost Guides
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
- HTML5
- HTML5 differences from HTML4
- Can I Use HTML5? (by browser)
- WAI-ARIA 1.0 technical specification
- WAI-ARIA 1.0 primer
- XHTML 1.0
- Use Google Docs with a screen reader
- David Woodbridge excellent stream of how-to posts
- Making a blog accessible
- Article example on accessible accordion view
- HTML Writers Guild – AWARE Center
- IBM Human Ability and Accessibility site
- Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility
- Accessible Digital Office Documents (ADOD) project
- Assistive Technology | FAQs
- Rehabilitative and Assistive Technology: Overview
- Benefits for People with Disabilities
- Medicare and Social Security Disability: Benefits for Disabled Individuals
- American Association on Health and Disability
- Local Doctor Finder: Search by Disability
- Home Modifications – Funding Sources
- Disability Home Accommodation Cost Guide
- Fire Safety & Disabilities Guide
- Google Slides
- Accessibility of Google Slides
- Comprehensive Guide to Attending a Sporting Event for Disabled, Special Needs & Senior Citizens
- Accessible Instagram
- Create newsletter-style columns
- Current VPAT template 2.1
- Tips for Facebook videos
- Facebook alternative text:
- Tecla Shield
- What does JAWS support in IE?
- What does JAWS support in Firefox?
- How to add alternative text to an image you add to a Twitter post
- Hemingway for Windows 3.0 live editor
- American Deaf Culture free online course
- The argument for sans serif typefaces for dyslexia
- WAI-ARIA aria-elements in an easy-to-read, mobile-friendly format
- Improve The Accessible Of Your Designs With ARIA
- Colo{u}r deficit palette tester
- Managing focus for accessibility
- Captioning for sound effects and music
- OzPlayer accessible video player
- List of accessible media players
- Accessibility Checker on your Windows desktop to find accessibility issues
- How to stay on brand while meeting Success Criterion 1.4.3:
- Why Lowercase G Is the Alphabet’s Hardest Letter to Write (Time magazine)
- How to Install ANDI
- ANDI bookmarklet
- ISO 639.2 Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages
- Government of Canada English-French dictionary of accessibility terms
- UX accessibility for elderly: 12 principles
- Signglasses
- Duxbury Braille Translator
- NAD Position Statement on Functionally Equivalent Telecommunications for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
- Jeenie
- Sprint’s STS
- Dragon Naturally Speaking Web browser basics:
- Protects Students With Disabilities (FAQ About Section 504 and the Education of Children with Disabilities)
- 5 Easy Steps To Design for Accessibility in Adobe Captivate
- Safe Harbor
- OzPlayer:
- Accessible players
- W3C’s position on <b> and <i> tags
- 6:49
- Using ARIA:
- WAI-ARIA Screen reader compatibility study
- Ontario’s AODA 2020 Accessibility Compliance Form
- Ontario’s AODA December 2020 submission deadline extension
Reviewed January 26, 2018