STC AccessAbility SIG
A Blog About Accessibility

Alzheimer’s Association
Alzheimer’s Disease: Unraveling the Mystery National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Alzheimer’s Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) from the National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia
Dementia MedLine Plus health information from NIH
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders journal
Dealing with Dementia

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American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA)
WholeHealthMD.com

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Allergy and Asthma FAQ Home Page  Especially for children
Allergy Relief Store
American Lung Association’s page about Asthma
Asthma UK
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
Asthma page from the (US) National Heart Blood and Lung Institute Web site
Canadian Lung Association’s page about Asthma
Environmental Illness Resource is an information resource and interactive community site for people suffering from a range [...]

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AARP: Home Design provides useful information on universal home design, aging in place, housing for adults over 50, and more.
Administration on Aging (AOA) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (U.S. HHS) site provides information about the Older Americans Act, the federal legislation establishing the AoA, and a range of programs that offer services and [...]

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AbilityHub assistive technology for computers and disability
Accessible Housing
Adaptech Research Network In partnership with the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS), the Adaptech Research Project conducts research on the use of computer technologies by Canadian college and university students with disabilities. [Canada]

list of free and/or inexpensive hardware and software alternatives that might be useful [...]

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ABLE to Travel has travel agents who have dealt with all types of issues that a traveler using a wheelchair or who has limited mobility may encounter during his or her trip, including accessible transportation to and from the airport, stowage of wheelchairs or other mobility equipment on board an aircraft, accessible hotel accommodations, and [...]

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Reprinted with permission from the American Automobile Association, AAA World Magazine, May/June issue, 2000.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has published its first consumer brochure to help persons with disabilities select and purchase a car with adaptive equipment or modify an existing vehicle.
Adapting Motor Vehicles for Disabled People provides a step-by-step process to help [...]

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Specialist Task Force 333:
European Accessibility Requirements for Public Procurement of Products and Services in the ICT Domain (EC Standardization Mandate M/376, Phase 1)
If you are interested in what’s happening in Europe regarding the accessibility of ICT products purchased by government organizations (EU reaction to Section 508), please check out the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) [...]

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SIG member, Richard N. P. Hodgkinson, Fellow of the U.K. ISTC (Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators), is the editor for two ISO standards related to usability, accessibility, and systems software documentation:

ISO/TS 16071:2003: "Ergonomics of human-system interaction — Guidance on accessibility for human-computer interfaces"
ISO/IEC FDIS 18019:2003(E): "Software and systems engineering — Guidelines for the design [...]

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Equal Access to Software & Information (EASI) provides online training on accessible information technology for persons with disabilities.
Online courses in eClasses.Org over 50 online instructor-led courses and 4 Web certificates.
Section 508 Training

Acquiring Technology: What Every Federal Employee Needs to Know About Section 508
IRS presents a course on Section 508 for Software Development
Section 508 Awareness CD
The [...]

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