Accessibility Resources

The items listed on this page are grouped by software and miscellaneous, which contains articles, blogs posts, information from organizations, subject, or people. If possible, we have listed their Twitter name/link, website, and other items we recommend.

Assistive Technology (AT) Software

• Dragon Naturally Speaking
• JAWS
• hNVDA (Non Visual Desktop Access) - free screen reader
• ZoomText

Code Editing Software

• Sublime Text
• Textmate

Accessibility Testing Software

• CSS Vaidator
• IE Accessibility toolbar
• HTML Vaidator
• Jim Thatcher’s Accessibility Checking Software
• WAT (Web Accessibility Toolbar) Toolbar

Additional Accessibility Resources

18F

• 18F Accessibility Guidelines
• 18F Accessibility Checklist
• 18F Accessibility Tools List

Anne Gibson

• Anne Gibson's Twitter
• Anna Gibson’s - An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues

Aaron Gustafson

• Aaron Gustafson's Twitter
• Aaron Gustafson's website
• Falling in Love with Forms - BlendConf 2014
• Web Visions 07 Forms Presentation

Color

• Accessibility Color Wheel - checks color contrast and the three different types of color blindness
• Check My Colours
• Color Contrast Checker - Color Contrast Checker - Web AIM
• Color Contrast Tool - Jonathan Snook

Denis Boudreau

• enis Boudreau's Twiter
• Accessibility Tips

Dennis Lembree, Easychirp, and Web Axe

• Dennis Lembree's Twiter
• Dennis Lembree's website
• Easychirp's Twiitter
• Accessible version of the Twitter application - Easy Chirp
• Web Axe's Twitter
• Blog and podcast on web accessibility - Web Axe

Eric Meyer

• Diagnostic Accessibility Styling with CSS
• Diagnostic accessibility styling with CSS blog post
• CSS Reset

Karl Groves

• Karl Groves's Twitter
• Karl Groves's website

Knowbility

• Knowbility's Twitter
• Knowbility's website
• Knowbility's - Access U (accessibility conference)

Roger Johansson - 456 Berea Street

• Roger Johansson's Twitter
• Roger Johansson's website
• Creating accessible tables
• Reading up on WAI-ARIA

Miscellaneous

• Adobe Accessibility
• Web Developer Extension for Mozilla-based Browsers
• University of Minnesota Duluth Accessibility References
• Cameron Moll article (check comments for other suggestions) about Web Accessibility Checklist from Aaron Cannon's article
• Surfing the Internet with JAWS and MAGic!
• Treehouse Accessibility Videos
• Accessibility and Me - David Kennedy
• A11yBuzz
• Section 508
• Derek Featherstone's Twitter
• Simply Accessible's website
• 2014 - 24-Hour Online Community Event Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day - videos
• 2015 - 24-Hour Online Community Event Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day - videos
• Fire Vox - free screen reader extension for Firefox

Typography

• PX to EM - converts your pixel layout to EMs in your CSS

Texas University

• The University of Texas at Austin's Accessibility Institute - main page

W3C

• W3C Accessibility
• W3C - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List
• W3C - Forms Spec
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - WCAG

WAI-ARIA

• WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide - W3C
• The WCAG 2.0 Documents - W3C
• Landmark Roles - W3C
• Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0
• Introduction to WAI ARIA - Opera last updated August 2008
• Reading up on WAI-ARIA - Roger Johansson

WebAIM

• WebAIM's Twitter
• WebAIM's website
• Introduction to Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• WAVE Toolbar Chrome extension - WebAIM
• WAVE Accessibility Evaluation Tool
• Section 508 Checklist - WebAIM
• Captions, Transcripts, and Audio Descriptions - WebAIM
• WebAIM Online Tutorials on Accessibility topics from A - Z
• Using JAWS to Evaluate Web Accessibility - WebAIM
• JAWS Keyboard Shortcuts - WebAIM
• JAWS license not developer friendly - WebAIM
• Screen reader on Mac - Jaws, Window Eyes, Parallels, and Boot Camp - WebAIM
• WebAIM - Skip Navigation
• Using ARIA to Enhance Web Application Accessibility - 2012 - WebAIM
• Hierarchy for Motivating Accessibility Change - WebAIM
• WebAIM Screen Reader Survey Results for last few years