Accessibility Resources

Here are some accessibility resources that we have found and will be adding to as we find more.

Software

The following tools will need to be purchased to help assess the accessibility of the ARMY.MIL website.

JAWS

• Professional - $1,095
• Standard - $895

ZoomText

• CD - $595

Dragon Naturally Speaking

• Standard - $100
• Preferred - $200 (with wireless headset - $350)

Code Editing Software

• http://macromates.com/ - Textmate - $53

Accessibility Testing Software

• http://jimthatcher.com/testing2.htm
• Bobby from Watchfire - $299
• InFocus from SSB Technologies - $1,795
• The LIFT Machine from UsableNet - $999

• Ramp Ascend from Deque - $1499
• WebKing from Parasoft - Contact info@parasoft.com for prices
• WebXM from Watchfire - Contact sales@watchfire.com for prices

Speech-based Web browsers

• http://www.soundlinks.com/pwgen.htm - PwWebSpeak
• http://www-06.ibm.com/jp/accessibility/raku2web/jp/start_en.html - IBM Home Page Reader

More Accessibility Resources

Texas University

• http://www.utexas.edu/disability/ai/ - main page
• http://www.utexas.edu/disability/ai/resource/link.html - resources
• http://www.utexas.edu/learn/accessibility/training.html - Accessibility Training and Consulting
• http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm - Jim Thatcher
• http://www.utexas.edu/learn/accessibility/samplehtml.html - sample code
• http://www.utexas.edu/disability/ai/resource/how_to/index.html - How-To's and Demos
• Web Accessibility, Usability, and Standards – Texas A&M University - http://webaccess.tamu.edu/

WebAIM

• http://www.webaim.org/standards/508/checklist - 508 checklist
• http://www.webaim.org/techniques/captions/ - captions
• http://www.webaim.org/articles/ - WebAIM Online Tutorials on Accessibility topics from A – Z
• http://webaim.org/blog/screenreaders_on_mac/ - screen reader on Mac

508 Accessibility Test

• http://www.contentquality.com/fulloptions.asp - Cynthia Says
• http://wave.webaim.org/ - WAVE WebAIM.org
• http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar - toolbar for WAVE WebAIM.org (Firefox)

Adobe

• http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/ - accessibility
• http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/solutionsacc.html - Acrobat (PDF)
• http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_booklet.html - Acrobat (PDF)

Miscellaneous

• http://validator.w3.org/ - (X)HTML Validator
• http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ - CSS Validator
• http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ais/toolbar/ - IE Accessibility toolbar
• http://www.webaim.org/resources/webdev/ - Web Developer Extension for Mozilla-based Browsers
• http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/accessibility.html - University of Minnesota Duluth Accessibility References
• http://www.jrdougall.id.au/screen_readers.php - NVDA Free Screen Reader for Windows Vista
• http://www.webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey/ - WebAIM Screen Reader Survey Resuilts
• Mark content as “ for screen reader users”. Perhaps identifying content as being specific for this audience attracts higher levels of use.
• http://www-03.ibm.com/able/guidelines/web/accessweb.html - IBM Accessibility Checklist
• http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2008/06/web_accessibility_checklist/ - Cameron Moll article (check comments for other suggestions) about Web Accessibility Checklist from Aaron Cannon's article - http://northtemple.com/1608
• http://cameronmoll.com/downloads/Web_Accessibility_Checklist.pdf - PDF of Aaron Cannon's Web Accessibility Checklist
• Surfing the Internet with JAWS and MAGic! - http://www.freedomscientific.com/Training/Surfs-Up/_Surfs_Up_Start_Here.htm
• Eric Meyer Accessibility CSS – http://24ways.org/2007/diagnostic-styling and http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/09/07/diagnostic-styling/
• Eric Meyer Reset CSS – http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/

Checklist of Items for Accessibility

• Cameron Moll – Web Accessibility Checklist article (check comments for more information - http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2008/06/web_accessibility_checklist/
• Web Accessibility Checklist - http://cameronmoll.com/downloads/Web_Accessibility_Checklist.pdf

Color

Color Contrast Checker - http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

Web AIM

• Main Web AIM website - http://webaim.org/
• WAVE Accessibility Evaluation Tool - http://wave.webaim.org/
• WAVE Toolbar - http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar
• JAWS license not developer friendly - http://webaim.org/blog/jaws-license-not-developer-friendly
• Introduction to Web Accessibility - http://webaim.org/intro/
• Keyboard Shortcuts for JAWS - http://webaim.org/resources/shortcuts/jaws
• Using JAWS to Evaluate Web Accessibility - http://webaim.org/articles/jaws/

Roger Johansson - 456 Berea Street

• Reading up on WAI-ARIA - http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200811/reading_up_on_wai-aria/
• Add rest of links from this page here

Typography

• Typography and Accessibility - http://21picas.co.uk/?p=364

WAI-ARIA

• WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide - http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/
• How to Meet WCAG 2.0 –
• The WCAG 2.0 Documents - http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20.php#trans
• Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0 - http://www.usability.com.au/resources/wcag2/
• Introduction to WAI ARIA - http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introduction-to-wai-aria/
• Reading up on WAI-ARIA - http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200811/reading_up_on_wai-aria/