Web Accessibility Initiative - Guidelines and resources from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

500 Usability Resource - Provides information on the technical and practical aspects of accessibility (including usability issues) and its evaluation, and information on how disabled users access the Internet.

508 Spot - Guides and resources to help build applications with accessibility and usability.
Meta Description: [ Section 508 Checklist, Section508 Guides, and free Resources for Web Accessibility and Usability WAI BOBBY Tools to help web site developers program with standards. 508 Spot will help you with Developing according to Section 508 Checklist, WAI Guides and W3C Standards. Our Tutorials will help... ]

Access Matters - Bob Easton searches for accessibility best practices.
Meta Description: [ Access Matters, Seeking Best Accessibility Practices, Mike Cherim, Beast-Blog, Green-Beast ]

Access.Edu - Information pertaining to the creation of accessible Web sites, evaluation tools, tutorials.

Accessibility Color Wheel - A tool to help choose a color pair with good contrast and suitable for text and background of accessible sites. It simulates also various kinds of color-blindness.
Meta Description: [ Accessibility Color Wheel - choose color combinations to improve the readability of your pages ]

Accessibility Guide - A guide designed to help webmasters comply with web accessibility guidelines, with special emphasis on HTML techniques.

Accessibility Wizard - A tool for web developers and project teams. It breaks down the WAI Checkpoints into individual tasks for each job role in a development team.
Meta Description: [ The Accessibility Wizard is a tool for web developers and project teams. It breaks down the WAI Checkpoints into individual tasks for each job role in a development team. Every member of a development team is directed to implement the WAI Checkpoints at a specified conformance level (A,AA or AAA)... ]

Accessible eLearning For All - The ALFA Project is being developed to allow educational content providers to create eLearning on any subject and in any language.
Meta Description: [ The ALFA Project - Accessible eLearning For All module creation system development project ]

Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education Center - The AWARE center is a resource developed by the HTML Writer's Guild to assist all web writers to create more accessible web sites.

Accessible Web Page Design - List of resources for building accessible websites.
Meta Description: [ Developers of web pages should consider the full spectrum of users that may visit their sites. Listed below are some resources that may be helpful in creating pages that are truly accessible. ]

Accessible Webpage Design: Resources - Site created to promote awareness about the need for accessible web design and to steer those who wish to learn more about the topic into the right direction.
Meta Description: [ accessible web page design resources: organizations, guidelines, tools, examples, policies, legal information, literature ]

AccessibleNet.org - Accessible directory of links and resources to help Policy Makers and Web Designers make informed decisions about Web accessibility.
Meta Description: [ Web Accessibility links and resources to help Policy Makers and Web Designers make informed decisions about Web accessibility ]

Accessify.com - Tools, links and resources on Website accessibility.

AccessifyForum.com - Discussion forum regarding site building, news, and legal issues relating to accessibility.

Adobe - Accessibility - Learn how to make your site more accessible when using Adobe software.

AiSquared - Developers of tools for seeing or hearing content from your computer.
Meta Description: [ Ai Squared has been a leader in the assistive technology field for 18 years. The company's flagship product, ZoomText, is the world's best magnification and reading software for the vision impaired. Ai Squared prides itself on delivering the highest quality software products and superior technica... ]

404 All About Access - A blog about web accessibility and issues involving access technology at large, including but not limited to screen readers, operating systems and productivity software.

alphaWorks : aDesigner - Disability simulator software that helps Web designers ensure that their pages are accessible and usable by the visually impaired. (IBM ID required to download.)
Meta Description: [ A disability simulator that helps Web designers ensure that their pages are accessible and usable by the visually impaired. ]

404 ALT texts in IMG - Detailed techniques for using the ALT tag.

Americans With Disabilities Act Information - The US Dept. of Justice's resource page for the ADA. Voluminous, and not limited to computer and Internet issues, but at least it should be fairly authoritative, if you're willing to wade through the material.
Meta Description: [ The ADA Home Page provides access to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations for businesses and State and local governments, technical assistance materials, ADA Standards for Accessible Design, links to Federal agencies with ADA responsibilities and information, updates on new ADA requi... ]

AnitraPavka.com - Personal weblog with views on accessibility issues, news, and accessibility events.

404 AskAlice - Free report provides an assessment of a site's accessibility, and information on how to improve.

ATPM.com - Web Accessibility - Article by Raena Armitage. Addresses why Web accessibility matters, and gives some practical tips to apply to your Web sites right now.

ATPM.com: Putting Curb Cuts and Wider Doors on the Internet: Toward Web Site Accessibility - Article by Sylvester Roque and Kimberly Nyles-Roque. Covers disabilities that can affect the internet experience, and gives advice on how to improve sites and avoid causing problems for users.

CNN: Web Sites are Locking out the Disabled - Office buildings have wheelchair ramps and TV has closed captioning, but many Web sites are inaccessible to people with disabilities. Things don't have to be that way.
Meta Description: [ Office buildings have wheelchair ramps and TV has closed captioning, but many Web sites are inaccessible to people with disabilities. Things don't have to be that way. ]

500 Color-Blind Design Evaluation - Online tool to show what your site colors look like to color-blind people.

Could Helen Keller Read Your Page? - Technical tips on improving the accessibility of a web page.
Meta Description: [ Improving accessibility of Web pages, WITHOUT compromising presentation or navigation for most readers ]

Design Your Web Content for Accessibility - Short article by Bryan D. Caplovitz covering audience, guidelines, and validation.

Designing More Usable Web Sites - Research and links from the Trace Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Meta Description: [ Guidelines, projects, browsers with accessibility features and other information related to the accessible design of web sites. ]

Digital Web Magazine: Accessibility - Web accessibility articles by various authors.
Meta Description: [ Digital Web Magazine - Articles by Topic - Accessibility ]

Dive into Accessibility - A comprehensive 30 day guide to making your website more accessible. Can be downloaded as a PDF.

EServer TC Library: Accessibility - A rapidly-growing annotated bibliography of reviewed and rated online resources in accessible and universally-usable design.
Meta Description: [ There are numerous print and online sources that help Web designers to understand accessibility standards and to create accessible content. It is not always a lack of awareness or skill that keeps Webmasters from implementing standards: it seems that accessibility testing is broadening beyond tes... ]

500 Euroaccessibility - Launched to foster European cooperation toward a harmonised methodology for evaluating the accessibility of web sites. Members, committees and task forces, working rules, objectives, and FAQ.
Meta Description: [ Consortium EuroAccessibility ]

Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility - Outlines approaches for preliminary review web site accessibility and for evaluation of conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

404 Flapback Accessibility Demonstration - A review of browsers, tools and design principles for creating user-sensitive, device-independent web pages. Finger-spelling and morse code are employed to argue for an internet on-ramp serving desktop, handheld and special surfers alike.

Freedom Scientific - Developer of JAWS for Windows Screen Reader, MAGic Screen Magnification software, the PAC Mate accessible Pocket PC, and WYNN literacy software.
Meta Description: [ Assistive and adaptive technology for people who are blind or have low vision or learning disabilities. Our products include screen reading software for the blind, magnifier software for those with low-vision, and other products for accessible scanning and reading, as well as braille displays... ]

Government of Canada: Accessibility - Official standards and guidelines for Government of Canada Web sites, as part of the Treasury Board's Common Look and Feel initiative.
Meta Description: [ In keeping with the client-centred approach of the CLF initiative, universal accessibility standards are directed toward ensuring equitable access to all content on GoC Web sites. ]

Henry's Hints on Web Access - Discusses the invisible image techniques for text only browsers.

How to Make Website Content Accessible - Articles with advice and tips on making website content universally accessible.
Meta Description: [ Website builder advice - What you need to make your own website really good ]

404 HTML4.com - Information on web accessibility, usability and web standards.
Meta Description: [ Web accessibility for disabled or impaired people, web sites usability for everyone, and markup languages standards., Web accessibility for disabled or impaired people, web sites usability for everyone, and markup languages standards. ]

404 IBM Accessibility Center - Information on IBM's 'accessible' products and services.
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ICDRI: Accessibility on the Web - Article defining accessibility and arguing its importance from ethical and economic perspectives. Covers basic techniques for design and testing.

Introduction to Accessible Web Design - Article introducing accessible Web design and initiatives to improve accessibility.
Meta Description: [ An article to help you understand the issues surrounding making Web Sites accessible to all users through Accessible Web Design. ]

Joeclark.org - Accessibility info and Weblogs from the writer Joe Clark

Library Hi Tech Volume 20, Number 2, 2002 - Special issue: Accessibility of web-based information resources for people with disabilities. Read abstracts online; pay for access to full articles.

Macromedia - Accessibility - Learn how to make your site more accessible when using Macromedia software.

Microsoft - Accessibility - Information about Microsoft accessibility products and services.
Meta Description: [ The Microsoft Accessiblity Web site provides information on the accessibility of Microsoft products and related resources including sections on Products and Resouces, Assisitve Technolgy, Step by Step Tutorials, Guides by Disability, Case Studies and Articles, Business Benefits. ]

Opensourcetutorials.com: Web Accessibility Is Similar To Search Engine Optimization - Matthew Drouin explains how web accessibility is similar to SEO along with the 5 essential actions to take to make a site accessible.
Meta Description: [ Open Souce Tutorials covers open source technologies from getting started by getting a domain name and a hosting company all the way up to how to manage the MySQL and PostgreSQL database that will be needed for ecommerce sites. ]

RNIB Campaign for Good Web Design - Royal National Institute for the Blind's campaign for accessible web design.

RNIB Web Access Centre - A free online resource centre to help designers and managers create accessible web sites. Also links to consultancy services.

Searchenginewatch - Don't Disable Your Site for Handicapped Users - Article by Matt Bailey. Designers of web sites that are not accessible to disabled users are overlooking a market segment of millions of searchers and potential buyers.
Meta Description: [ Are you designing web sites that are accessible to disabled users? If not, you're overlooking a powerful market segment of millions of searchers and potential buyers. ]

Section508.gov - Official website for Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act.
Meta Description: [ Section508.gov is a resource for information on Section 508 of the Disablities Act. The website also contains a searchable database of accessible products by supporting vendors. This portion of the site, called Buy Accessible, offers an online resource for vendors to post information on accessibl... ]

Self Direction Community Project - Providing online disability awareness training.
Meta Description: [ The Self Direction Community Project website is a research area to promote and enhance online training accessibility. Providing Disability Awareness Training is one of the primary aims of the project, and in order to offer this online to employers and goods and service providers, the training ne... ]

SightWeaver - SightWeaver is a tool for repairing HTML tables, to make them more accessible.
Meta Description: [ >SightWeaver is a tool for repairing HTML tables so that they comply with accessibility standards. The program imports existing HTML documents, and attempts to determine accessibility information from the markup. The user is then presented with the corrected tables... ]

Society for Technical Communication: Internet Accessibility - Information about accessibility to the Internet. Points to many articles, websites and tools to help create and analyze digital documents.
Meta Description: [ Information about accessibility to the Internet provided by the AccessAbility SIG (A-SIG) of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). ]

Standards-schmandards - Weblog about web standards, accessibility and usability.
Meta Description: [ About web accessibility, usability and web standards. ]

404 TDT - Accessibility - The Design Times Section 508 guidelines, checklists, information, and tools to help build applications with accessibility and usability.
Meta Description: [ The Design Times Section 508 guidelines, checklists, information, and tools to help you build applications with accessibility and usability. ]

The Alliance for Technology Access: Web Accessibility - Extensive articles with many links to resources to educate and help with planning and creating accessible web pages.
Meta Description: [ The Alliance for Technology Access (ATA) is a network of community-based Centers, Vendors, and Professionals dedicated to providing assistive technology, augmentative communication, environmental control, accessiblity software and other technology access information and support to persons with di... ]

The Guild of Accessible Web Designers - An association of organisations and accessible web designers and developers promoting accessible web design standards.
Meta Description: [ Welcome to the Guild of Accessible Web Designers ]

The Wave - Helps you check if your page is accessible to people with disabilities. New version includes tests for section 508.

404 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Accessibility - Links to information on web accessibility and resources for building sites that are accessible to all users regardless of disability.

UI Access - Resource for universal interface design and accessibility that provides techniques to support developing and implementing strategies.
Meta Description: [ Resource for universal interface design and usable accessibility information and services. ]

UnBounded Access - Provider of web accessibility technology, services and research.

Usability First - Accessibility - Includes background information on Accessibility and lists computer related accessibility aids according to types of disability.
Meta Description: [ This is the Usability First accessibility section, which describes design issues as they relate to the disabled, as well as universal design issues in general. ]

UsableAccess.com - Web accessibility and usability resources including articles, news, discussion, and research. Focuses on both theory and practice of user-centered design.

USPS Section 508 Handbook in HTML - Explains the requirements of Section 508 and sets forth, in broad outline, the Postal Service's policies on how to comply with them.

USPS Section 508 Technical Reference Guide in HTML - Technical Reference guide in support of USPS AS-508, detailing techniques and technical approaches to Section 508 and accessibility.

Viewable With Any Browser - Campaign for a Non-Browser Specific WWW. Resources, more information and links about this effort.

W3 Compliant Sites - A collection of web standards compliant web sites and their designers.
Meta Description: [ A collection of web sites created by designers that conform with the W3C web standards. ]

Web Accessibility - An overview of website access for people with disabilities, and an overview of UK law and the Disability Discrimination Act.
Meta Description: [ This site promotes awareness of the issues involving website accessibility, in particular, website access for disabled people ]

Web Accessibility Survey - Some data collected on the accessibility of college and university web pages.
Meta Description: [ Studies of web page accessibility in higher education. A "Accessible Web Page Design Resources" Page is included. ]

Web Credible: Accessibility Resources - Offers tips, tricks, tutorials, links and information about Web accessibility, including UK legal requirements.
Meta Description: [ Web accessibility resources, articles, tutorials and information. Featured articles have been re-published all over the Internet. ]

Web Design Standards Project - Offers advice, articles and tutorials for standards compliant web site design including accessibility, xhtml and css.
Meta Description: [ Web standards, accessibility and coding techniques by Steve Tucker ]

Web Page Accessibility Section 508 Checklist - Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Section 508 Guidelines
Meta Description: [ Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Section 508 Guidelines, EG&G TEAM NAVAIR PM MAC, NAVAIR Vision - We exist to provide cost-wise readiness and dominant maritime combat power to make a great Navy/Marine Corps team better. ]

WebAIM - Web Accessibility in Mind - Information, training, resources, guidelines and standards for Web accessibility and disability access to the Web.

Webdisabilities.com - Listing of web companies that have been awarded a kite mark for considering the disabled user.
Meta Description: [ A directory of web companies who know how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities. Selected web designers who consider the disabled user, and reward these companies with a Webdisabilities.com kite mark. ]

Webmates - The purpose of Webmates is to assist other webmasters in their personal efforts to comply with the current standards regarding coding, accessibility and usability.