Web Accessibility Resources
Articles, Tutorials and More
Articles
- Why Web Accessibility?
- Extend your market reach, create a better experience for all users and more
Online Resources, Books and Tools
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0)
- Recommendations for making your website more accessible.
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- Provides guidelines generally regarded as the international standard for Web Accessibility as well as support materials and resources.
- WebAim.org
- An introduction to Web Accessibility, articles and tools.
- The Web Standards Project
- Resources for learning about Web Standards.
- Inclusive Design Research Centre
- A research and development center focusing on Inclusive Design.
- Trace Research and Development Center
- Accessibility and Universal Design resources.
- Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO-IT)
- Accessible web design publications and information.
- Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
- Research and development in Universal Design for all people, including those with disabilities.
Books for Learning How to Design Usable and Accessible Websites
- Building Accessible Websites
- by Joe Clark
- Don't Make Me Think — A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
- by Steve Krug
Online Validation Tools
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Markup Validator
- W3C's online Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) validator.
- W3C Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Validation Service
- W3C's online CSS validator.
Other Useful Online Tools For Assessing WEB Accessibility
- WebAIM Color Contrast Checker
- Use this tool for checking text color contrast.
- Colorblind Web Page Filter
- Colorblind filters allow you to see how your web pages will render for three different types of colorblindness.
- Introduction to the Screen Reader
- A 7 minute video which demonstrates how screen readers assist people who are visually impaired.
- Lynx Viewer
- Enables you to see how your web pages will read in a text only browser.
- Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List
- W3C list of 3rd party tools. Please note W3C does not endorse these tools.
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