Web Accessibility Resources

General Web Accessibility Info

• WebAIM - at the Center for Persons with Disabilities, Utah State University

• WebAIM articles - Intro to accessibility, and understanding disability types

• W3C - How People with Disabilities use the Web - Diverse Abilities and Barriers

• Web Accessibility: Essential for Some, Useful for All - series of short videos by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

• Paciello Group - blog

• DO-IT resources at University of Washington

• Web Design Reference Site at U. Minnesota
  (Don't miss Laura Carlson's weekly Web Design Update newsletter.)

Statistics

National Disability Policy: A Progress Report (2016)

U.S. Laws

• WebAIM - United States Laws

• Legal Updates - Law Office of Lainey Feingold

• The National Law Review - "Retailers Should Start Preparing for Website Accessibility Class Actions: Careful, Your Website is Showing!" (November 2016)

• Lawsuits - You can just google "website accessibility lawsuits," but here's a brief article on recent suits, by Web Axe.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Accessibility

• WebAIM - Web Accessibility and SEO

• Joe Dolson - SEO and Accessibility

Building Sites

• Semantic HTML, Forms, JavaScript, Rich Media, testing, more

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1

• WCAG Overview

• W3C's How to Meet WCAG 2 - Quick Reference

• WebAIM's Quick Reference - Testing Web Content for Accessibility

• WebAIM's WCAG 2.0 Checklist

• Validate HTML - W3C Markup Validation Service

• Deque University - Code Examples and Other Accessibility Resources

HTML5 / ARIA

• ARIA Landmark Roles - video by Leonie Watson (1:53)

• Notes on ARIA Use in HTML

• HTML5 Accessibility - accessibility support status of HTML5 features in modern browsers

• ARIA - Mozilla Developer Network

• Videos of Screen Readers Using ARIA

Testing Websites for Accessibility

• NVDA Free Screen Reader

• Tenon - browser-based 508 and WCAG test

• Rian Rietveld - Keyboard Navigation

Extensions/Toolbars/Bookmarklets

• Axe browser extension (see "Getting Started with an axe Browser Extension" section)

• WAVE Chrome Extension

• Chris Pederick's Web Developer Toolbar

• Accessibility Developer Tools - Add Audit Plus Accessibility Sidebar Pane to Chrome Developer Tools

• Bookmarklet: tota11y (Let me know if you try this!)

Testing Services

• Compliance Sheriff

• Deque

• SSB Bart Group

• OzART by AccessibilityOz

WordPress

• Accessibility Ready WordPress themes

• Codex > Accessibility section

• Make WordPress Accessible > Accessibility Handbook

• Make WordPress Accessible > Official Blog

• Joe Dolson's WP Accessibility Plugin

• Support > Accessibility Forum

• Theme Review Team: How to be Accessibility Ready

Captioning

• 3Play Media

• CaptionSync

• Add subtitles and closed captions to YouTube video

• Captions: Improving Access to Postsecondary Education

Misc.

• Colour Contrast Analyser (github)

• JAWS Demonstration

• Rian Rietveld: "Web Accessibility, Where to Start?" (WordPress.tv video)