Standards Links
W3C Guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/. Priority 1 checkpoints from these guidelines must be followed pursuant to the State's Web Style Guide.
HTML 4.01 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/.
XHTML 1.0 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/. A reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Level 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Level 2: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2
Character entity reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html#h-24.4.1
State of Nevada Web Style Guide: http://www.nitoc.nv.gov/NITOCdocs/3.02(A)_Policy_WebStyleGuide.pdf
Section 508 (Federal Information Technology Accessibility Initiative): http://www.section508.gov
U.S. Government Access Board: http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/guide/1194.22.htm. Section 508 web standards which MUST be followed by Federal agencies when producing web pages. An excellent start to understanding accessibility issues. Very similar to Priority 1 guidelines of the W3C.
Compliance Checkers
Web Design Group HTML validator: http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/. An excellent source for HTML validation.
W3C HTML Validation Service: http://validator.w3.org/. W3C HTML validator. Catches MOST but not ALL errors.
W3C CSS Validation Service: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/. Validate your cascading style sheets here for standards conformance.
Wave: http://wave.webaim.org/. Free online checker from the Pennsylvania's iniative on Accessible Technology.
Watchfile (Bobby): http://wave.webaim.org/. Sells several professional checking products, including WebQA ($1,495) for small-to-medium-sized companies. Bobby Online checks one page at a time for free.
UsableNet: http://www.usablenet.com. Offers tools for Section 508 and W3C usability and accessibility testing for Dreamweaver and via the web. Usablenet also checks one page at a time for free.
Tidy: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/. Excellent tool for cleaning up your HTML.
Accessibility Web Sites
Screen Readers
Home Page Reader: http://www-03.ibm.com/able/solution_offerings/hpr.html. Excellent screen reader tool for the blind or visually impaired.
Window-Eyes: http://www.gwmicro.com/Window-Eyes/. Window-Eyes is an excellent screen reader with extensive speech and braille display support. Demo will run for 30 minutes at a time.
NCAM (National Center for Accessible Media): http://ncam.wgbh.org/. This is where you can get Magpie and Mopix. NCAM is a research and development facility dedicated to the issues of media and information technology for people with disabilities in their homes, schools, workplaces, and communities.
Accessibility Design Tools
Microsoft Accessibility Tutorials: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/. This is the starting point for Microsoft accessibility information such as step by step tutorials to introduce you to some of the most commonly used accessibility features.
Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/. Here is where you get information on Adobe accessibility and free tools such as Acrobat Reader and how to make your PDF's accessible.
Macromedia: http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/. This is where you will find accessible Macromedia tools, such as plug-ins for Flash and Shockwave. Also available are accessibility extensions for Dreamweaver and free templates for building accessible websites.
Other Accessible Content Sites
Vischeck: http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php. Vischeck is a way of showing you what things look like to someone who is color blind. The site checks for three types of color deficits: Deuteranope (a form of red/green color deficit), Protanope (another form of red/green color deficit), and Tritanope (a blue/yellow deficit- very rare). The integrated vischeck system was developed by two scientists at Stanford university.
HTML Writer's Guide Aware Center: http://aware.hwg.org/. A central resource for web authors for learning about web accessibility.
Usable Web: http://usableweb.com/. A guide to creating accessible web pages and downloadable documents. From the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Web Accessibility Initiative: http://www.w3.org/WAI/. From the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
Browsers with adaptive technology
Amaya: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/. This is W3C's test-bed browser, implementing emerging web technologies. There are versions for Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT and UNIX.
Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/. Firefox is a new web browser from the Mozilla Foundation. Almost overnight it has become the rising star amongst browsers and has captured 7% of the user market.
Lynx: http://lynx.browser.org/. Excellent browser for accessibility testing. This is a popular text-based browser for UNIX, Windows 95/NT, MS-DOS, and Mac OS allowing flexible and powerful text-based access from older platforms.
Opera: http://www.opera.com/. This compact browser for Windows 95/98/ME offers enhanced keyboard navigation and screen magnification.
Netscape Navigator: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp. Navigator enables enlargement of fonts.
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CSS Enhancements in Internet Explorer 6: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnie60/html/cssenhancements.asp. This document describes the enhanced support for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specification provided by Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later.
Website Tips: http://www.websitetips.com/. This site provides CSS, HTML, and XHTML tutorials, graphics tutorials, articles, tips, information and resources to build or improve your Web site presence.
Design Fundamentals: http://www.pantos.org/atw/basics.html. A must read from the All Things Web website.
GUI Bloopers: http://www.bh.com/companions/1558605827/?mscssid=TKJH49MMS8GU9J685F7G53C28MHW6CE1. Presentation and promo of Jeff Johnson's book "GUI Bloopers". Covers problems with text, graphics, interactive dialog and web design.
Screen Deep: http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/screen/. Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council convened a steering committee to evaluate and suggest fruitful directions for progress in user interfaces to computing and communications systems. A very informative site.
Other W3C pages
Getting Started: Making a Web Site Accessible: http://www.w3.org/WAI/gettingstarted/.
Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility: http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/Overview.html#prelim.
Auxiliary Benefits of Accessible Web Design: http://www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/benefits.html. From the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
Working Draft Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/.
Working Group: http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/.
Accessibility Features of CSS: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS-access.
Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/full-checklist.html.
Quick Tips: http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/QuickTips/.
Accessibility Features of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics): http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access/.
Introduction to HTML: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/. An excellent beginner's guide.
Introduction to CSS: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style.html. Basics of Cascading Style Sheets.
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