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

AccessibleWeb list archives.

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