AccessibleWeb@U
AccessibleWeb@U is a group that meets monthly to discuss and share on the topic of accessible Web design as a part of routine work process of Web site development and management.
- Dates
- AccessibleWeb@u meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month.
- Times
- Meeting times are 11:30am-1:00pm unless otherwise announced on the email list.
- Locations
- Meetings rotate among participants' offices. Locations are announced in the email list.
- Email List
- The email address for the group is accessibleweb@u.washington.edu. You can add yourself to or remove yourself from this list by going to the AccessibleWeb list management page.
- Web Site
- The AccessibleWeb@u Web site is located at http://www.washington.edu/computing/accessible/accessibleweb/
Email Discussions
Meeting Minutes
- Publication Services Web Design: Design, Budgets, and Accessibility - Making it Work — May 17, 2007
- April 19, "Making Sites Both Accessible AND Usable" - A special presentation by Dr. Ginny Redish, sponsored by the Department of Technical Communication and Computing & Communications
- January 8, Web Design for Color Blind Users - Matt McMahon, Department of Biological Structures
- December 11, Planning Meeting
- November 13, XHTML, CSS, and Accessibility - Rick Ells
- October 15, Assistive Technology provides access for people with disabilities - Dagmar Amtmann and Jeff Witzel of AccessIT
- September 11, Which Tools Work? - Melody Ivory-Ndiaye and Terry Thompson
- August 14, LIFT accessibility evaluator
- July 10, Browser versions, wireframe design models
- May 8, Helen Remick, Assistant Provost for Equal Opportunity - Legal responsibilities for accessibility
- March 13, Kick-off Meeting - Discussion of scope of activities
Resources
- State Guidelines - Accessibility to Information Technology for Individuals with Disabilities - DRAFT v2 - Washington State Department of Information Services
- Bridging the gap: between accessibility and usability - Mary Frances Theofanos, Janice (Ginny) Redish, in ACM SIGCHI Interactions Nov-Dec 2003 issue (pdf)
- Making UW Web Sites Accessible To Everyone
- Section508.gov
- Overview of State Accessibility Laws, Policies, Standards and Other Resources Available On-line - Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center
- Accessify
- Building Accessible Websites
- A Dyslexic Perspective on e-Content Accessibility
- Optimal Web Design - Software Usability Research Laboratory, Wichita State University
Evaluators, Checkers
- Bobby
- Cynthia Says
- LIFT
- A-Prompt - University of Toronto's Web Accessibility Verifier.
- WAVE Accessibility Checker - WebAIM.
- Tidy - Tidy is a very nice tool for making your HTML clean and standards compliant, and it also will identify accessibility problems using the W3C criteria
Simulators
- Screen Reader Simulation - WebAIM
- Vischeck - What your page looks like with different types of color vision
- Considering the Color Blind
Standards-based Design
- A List Apart
- The CSShark Answers FAQs
- The Noodle Incident
- W3Schools
- W3C CSS
- Western Civilisation CSS Tutorial
- CSS-Discuss.org
- Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
- New York Public Library Style Guide
- Better Living Through XHTML
- Meyerweb.com
- PNH Developer Toolbar
- AJAX and Accessibility - Exploring the topic
