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Accessibility Guidelines: Articles - Archive

Accessible Design Guidelines can be Simple, Submitted by Ben Bywater. Source: UN, 6 July 2005. "Kevin Carey of HumanITy has boiled down five different sets of guidelines (Nielsen, WAI, etc) into what he considers are the three most basic accessibility guidelines for use by designers in making interactive digital products..."

Australian Web Accessibility Policies and Guidelines - comprehensive list of government policies relating to web accessibility across the Australian Government space.

IMS Guidelines for Developing Accessible Learning Applications Version 0.6 White Paper, 2001. The following set of guidelines developed by the IMS Accessibility Working Group will provide a framework for the distributed learning community. This framework will set the stage for what solutions currently exist, what the opportunities and possibilities are for implementing them, and the areas where more development and innovation are still needed in educational technologies to ensure education that is truly accessible to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

Ontario

• New era of accessibility begins in Ontario - Legislature Approves New Accessibility Law. Queen's Park, Ontario, May 10, 2005 /CNW/ - "The Ontario legislature today passed a historic law that will make Ontario a world leader in breaking down barriers for people with disabilities..."

Optimizing Your Chances with Accessibility - Effectively increasing search engine ranking with W3C Accessibility guidelines and Section 508, By Brandon Olejniczak. Digital Web Magazine, March 10, 2004. "There are many reasons that justify following W3C Accessibility and U.S. Federal Section 508 guidelines. The first, and most important, is the increasing use of the Web by the elderly, disabled and partially-abled. With an increase in online population comes the opportunity for an increase in readership, users, and online purchasers..."

Overview of the General Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines2.0. Presenter John M. Slatin. California State University, Northridge, Center On Disabilities, Technology And Persons With Disabilities Conference 2005. "Publication of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, expected in 2005, will be a significant event for the disability and accessibility communities, and for Web developers, managers, policy-makers, educators, and others..."

Web Accessibility - what not to do - Federal requirements, the Agency home page, by Jim Thatcher. Center On Disabilities, Technology And Persons With Disabilities Conference March 15 - 20, 2004, California State University - Northridge, 2004 Conference Proceedings. "Section 508 of the Workforce Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998 requires that all US federal agencies make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. To achieve that goal the U.S. Access Board published Accessibility Standards in December of 2000; those requirements became effective in June of 2001. The Access Board also published guides as assistance in interpreting the Accessibility Standards..."

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: Transitioning your web site. Presenter(s) Wendy Chisholm and Judy Brewer. California State University, Northridge, Center On Disabilities, Technology And Persons With Disabilities Conference 2005. "This presentation covers a variety of issues to help you understand and plan for the transition to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) [1]. We will describe the latest developments in WCAG 2.0, provide a detailed comparison of WCAG 1.0 [2] and WCAG 2.0, suggest processes for transitioning policies and business practices from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0, and demonstrate how to transition a WCAG 1.0 Level A site to WCAG 2.0 Level A..."

Web Design for Accessibility: Policies and Practice, by Alan Foley and Bob Regan. Educational Technology Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2002. "An essential part of web design today is designing for individuals with disabilities. Many government and educational institutions now require that all web pages follow accessibility guidelines..."

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Accessibility Guidelines: developing an approach, by Jim Byrne and Pat Byrne. The Making Connections Unit, October 2002. "The Web Accessibility Guidelines and associated documents published by the World Wide Consortium are a fantastic resource, and are recognised as the 'standard' reference documents for those building accessible websites. However they can be difficult for the beginner to understand, so this page attempts to provide both 'a way of thinking about the guidelines' and a more gentle route towards understanding them..."

W3C Device Independence Working Group Publishes Specs for a Universally Accessible Web. Cover Pages, September 2, 2003. "The W3C Device Independence Working Group (DIWG) has released three specifications supporting its goal of ensuring that presentation devices can access Web content appropriate for their capabilities..."

W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Test Suite Version 2.0 And Implementation Report. Presenter(s) Jon Gunderson and Matt May. California State University, Northridge, Center On Disabilities, Technology And Persons With Disabilities Conference 2005. "Abstract - The W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines working group has developed a second generation test suite and implementation reporting system to help consumers and developers to understand the accessibility features of browsers and multi-media players required by people with disabilities to access web resources. Test suites can be used by people with disabilities to provide specific feedback to developers on accessibility features that need to be improved in browsers and multimedia players. The test suites allow people to easily tell developers where accessibility problems exist in their product by providing a common point of reference to discuss the issue..."

Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers, by Mary Frances Theofanos and Janice (Ginny) Redish. Reprinted and expanded from Interactions, [X. 6], November-December 2003, 38-51. "The Communication Technologies Branch of the United States National Cancer Institute (part of National Institutes of Health and Department of Health and Human Services) has been conducting usability testing with people with disabilities, specifically blind and lowvision users, to: understand the relationship between accessibility and usability; understand how blind and low-vision users work with Web sites; develop research-based guidelines for accessibility and usability; assess the usability of specific Web sites for blind and low-vision users..."

Last updated: 16 December 2005

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