- 3M Office Ergonomics Audit A simple self-assessment of your own workplace. (.pdf)
- AbilityNet is a UK charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the Internet by adapting and adjusting their technology.
- AbilityNet Resource Pack Available free of charge from Superhighways.
- A-Chat Web-based chat tool, designed with accessibility in mind
- Accessible Web Developers group is a public bookmarking site provided by Ma.gnolia where anyone may post a favorite bookmark about creating accessible and mobile-friendly sites.
- Accessify “tools, wizards, articles and tutorials on Web Accessibility for the conscientious web developer”
- Accessify Forum.com a bulletin board for accessibility issues. An excellent resource to post questions and comments.
- Accessible Web Design online course offered by the International Webmasters Association
- Accessible Web Site Design bulleted list of standards in designing Web pages
- AccRepair quality and accessibility testing and repair solution
- Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability Bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen, principal, Nielsen Norman Group
- “ALPHABET SOUP: A web designer’s journey to standards and accessibility” by Randal Rust
- Apple® Accessibility Features Vision built into all Macintosh computers provides adjustable keyboard, an ergonomic mouse, CloseView screen magnification software, Easy Access system software (StickyKeys, SlowKeys, MouseKeys), electronic documentation, key-repeat disable, text-to-speech synthesis and voice recognition (PlainTalk), sticky mouse, and visual alert cues. The VoiceOver spoken English interface for Mac OS X is a fully integrated, built-in screen reader technology providing access to the Macintosh through speech, audible cues, and keyboard navigation.
- Apple Mac OS X Accessibility Features OS 10.4 brings universal accessibility to the fore and allows users plenty of scope for controlling the Mac’s core applications.
- BBC: My Web, My Way aims to help people with the tools and understanding that will enable them to make the most of the world-wide web (not just bbc.co.uk), whatever their ability or disability. The site provides advice and help to all those people who would benefit from making changes to their browser, operating system, or computer to be able to view the Web in a more accessible way. The site is not only for those with disabilities (visual, hearing, motor, cognitive or learning impairments) but also, for example, for those people with minor vision impairments who would not consider themselves to have a disability. The site is maintained through a partnership between bbc.co.uk and AbilityNet, a leading UK computing and disability charity. It is based on AbilityNet’s original “My Computer, My Way” site.
- BBC Accessibility Advice: My Web for Linux provides help with seeing Websites, help with hearing websites, help with your keyboard and mouse, help with reading Websites, and help with filling in Web forms.
- BBC Accessibility Advice: My Web for Mac provides help with seeing Websites, help with hearing websites, help with your keyboard and mouse, help with reading Websites, and help with filling in Web forms.
- BBC Accessibility Advice: My Web for Windows provides help with seeing Websites, help with hearing websites, help with your keyboard and mouse, help with reading Websites, and help with filling in Web forms.
- Blogs: How to Make Your Blog Accessible to Blind Readers from American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
- Cognitive Disabilities Part 1: We Still Know Too Little, and We Do Even Less“
- Cognitive Disabilities Part 2: Conceptualizing Design Considerations
- Seven Accessibility Mistakes, Part 1 in Web Design from Digital Web Magazine
- Seven Accessibility Mistakes, Part 2 in Web Design from Digital Web Magazine
- CSS Zen Garden demonstrates the power and flexibility of CSS for formatting the visual presentation of web pages.
- Deque Systems accessibility products and services
- Design and Layout: Accessibility [United Kingdom]
- Designing with Web Standards the Daily Report from Jeffrey Zeldman, provides Web design news and information.
- FREE Developmental Tools and Resources …add a signer module to your software, a math test, and other educational learning modules. “Learning in Motion is proud to pioneer the research and development of educational software. By-products of our development role are modules of code and functionality we’re happy to share. Sample our tools for deaf and hard-of-hearing. These free tools and resources are available for projects or personal use.”
- Ergonomics & Safety Research Institute (ESRI) [United Kingdom]
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