STC AccessAbility SIG
A Blog About Accessibility

STC Usability SIG Topics in Usability: Accessibility
STC Usability SIG articles on "Accessibility, Ergonomics, and Special Audiences" at http://www.stcsig.org/usability/topics/
Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability Bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen, principal, Nielsen Norman Group
Futures Laboratory The Argonne Futures Lab performs basic and applied research in advanced communications, collaboration, and visualization technologies (for example, teleimmersion) to enable [...]

Read: Usability and Human Factors »

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Apple® Accessibility Features 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.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Windows platform only)
Job Access With Speech (JAWS) for Windows® screen [...]

Read: Speech Resources »

Bibliography—literature in relation to Design for All (299 K ) edited by Greta Olsson & Thomas Lyhne. This Bibliography is a part of CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 "Guidelines for standards developers to address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities". The Guide addresses relevant aspects relating to the needs of older persons and persons [...]

Read: Accessibility Literature »

Accessibility Validator, HTML Validator, Spell Checker, Link Checker all in one tool! The Total Validator is a free one-stop validator or all-in-one validator comprising an HTML validation against the W3C Markup Specifications or ISO/IEC definition using the published DTDs (2.0, 3.2, 4.0, 4.01, ISO/IEC, XHTML 1.0 and 1.1), an accessibility validator that validates against the [...]

Read: Accessibility Browser Extensions, Favelets, and Toolbars »

User-Defined Access Keys: using .asp, by Gez Lemon of JuicyStudio [UK]
User-Defined Access Keys: using .php, by Gez Lemon of JuicyStudio [UK]
Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys, by Gez Lemon of JuicyStudio [UK]
Techniques for "skip navigation" links and "skip to main content" links
Too much accessibility - ACCESSKEYS
Using Accesskeys - Is it worth it? This is not a [...]

Read: Web Accessibility: Access Keys »

Accessibility Color Wheel Version 1.0 by Giacomo Mazzocato. When you hover over the color wheel, you’ll see text in colors for normal, Deuteranopia, Protanopia and Tritanopia color vision simultaneously. An "OK" message is displayed when you hover over an accessible color. By clicking on the color, you can copy the hex values. The tool may [...]

Read: Web Accessibility: Color and Typography »

Topics in Usability: Accessibility
Topics in Usability: Web usability and design guidelines for working with older adults, children, and babies

Related posts

Usability and Human Factors (0)
Internet Accessibility / Usability Resources F-W (0)
Internet Accessibility / Usability Resources A-E (0)
Accessibility Literature (0)
Accessibility Browser Extensions, Favelets, and Toolbars (0)
Web Accessibility: Color and Typography (0)

Read: STC Usability SIG »

Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR) FIR is a standards-compliant technique that uses stylesheets and ordinary HTML to provide a visible image, usually consisting of text. The CSS specifies that the image will display in most cases; if it should not display for some reason, the underlying structural HTML markup is supposed to take its place… Because [...]

Read: Internet Accessibility / Usability Resources F-W »

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 [...]

Read: Internet Accessibility / Usability Resources A-E »

ABLEDATA
Access Software Hal, Luna, LunaPlus, Super Nova, and Cicero screen readers and other access software that provides speech and Braille for Windows.
Active Living Alliance For Canadians with a Disability
ADA&IT Technical Assistance Centers
"All Access Pass: enabling technologies offer business possibilities," by Dan Costa, Communications, Home Office Computing, April 2001. (156 K )
Copyright 2001 Freedom Technology [...]

Read: Assistive Technology »