WEB ACCESSIBILITY

The following resource list will provide more information, tools, and resources to make your web site accessible. For specific guidelines about web accessibility, refer to the information provided by the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) http://www.w3c.org Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) http://www.w3.org/WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL. For a listing of the WAI Quick Tips, refer to http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/QuickTips. Additional guidelines regarding Section 508 are located at http://www.section508.gov.

• UIC Academic Computing and Communications Center (ACCC) home page
  http://www.accc.uic.edu
• ACCC Web publishing at UIC information
  http://www.accc.uic.edu/webpub/
• UIC ACCC Instructional Technology Lab (ITL)
  http://www.accc.uic.edu/itl/
• Supplemental information about designing accessible Web pages
  http://www.accc.uic.edu/webpub/webaccess.html.
  A link to the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines can be located through the Design Resources section of the UIC Web Publishing page.

-A-Prompt Toolkit: http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/index.html

- Bobby: http://www.cast.org/bobby

- LIFT: http://www.usablenet.com

- WAVE 2.01 (Pennsylvania Initiative on Assistive Technology (PIAT) – "available for testing and review": http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave

- WAVE 2.02 Alpha: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/yindex.html

- Media Access Generator (MAGpie) to add captions to various media: http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie

- Microsoft Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI): http://www.microsoft.com/enable/sami/default.htm

- W3C CSS Validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator

- HTML Writer Guild’s Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education (AWARE): http://aware.hwg.org/tips/essay_kb_02.html

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/microsoft/default.htm

http://access.adobe.com/tools.html

http://cmos-eng.rehab.uiuc.edu/ppt/index.html

Send comments and bugs to ppt@rehab.uiuc.edu

http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Tablin

- CSE HTML Validator by AI Internet Solutions: http://htmlvalidator.com

- Dave Raggett's HTML TIDY: http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy

- Web Design Group HTML Validator: http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator

- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Validation Service: http://validator.w3.org

Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI) Web Contest Winners: http://www.rit.edu/~easi/entrants.htm

Determining Colors for Users who have Color-blindness by Tiny Eyes, Inc., Menlo Park, California: http://www.vischeck.com/index.shtml

http://usability.gov/guidelines/guidelines.html

http://www.usability.gov/lessons/learned.html

Web Access Training Tutorials/Info: http://www.w3.org/WAI/training

Access Board: http://www.access-board.gov/news/508-final.htm

Department of Education: http://ericec.org/faq/sectn504.htm - http://www.ed.gov

Department of Justice: http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm

Accessible Web Authoring Resources & Education: http://aware.hwg.org

Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST): http://www.cast.org

Center for IT Accommodation, Office of Governmentwide Policy (GSA): http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/cita

Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO-IT), University of Washington: http://www.washington.edu/doit

Equal Access to Software and Information: http://www.rit.edu/~easi

Federal IT Accessibility Initiative: http://www.section508.gov

HTML Writers Guild: http://www.hwg.org

HTML’s Writers Guild’s Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education: http://aware.hwg.org

The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Torono: http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc

Trace Research and Development Center: http://www.tracecenter.org

http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov

Usability.gov Site: http://www.usability.gov

Usability.gov Accessibility Info: http://usability.gov/accessibility/index.html

Webable: http://www.usableweb.com

Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM): http://www.webaim.org

http://www.cmpinc.net/section508

http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/itaccess01

http://www.tracecenter.org/conferences

http://www.tracecenter.org/conferences

Special Needs Opportunity Windows from the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto: http://snow.utoronto.ca/access/courseware/index.html

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) students can obtain more information through the Client Services Office (CSO). To contact the CSO, call (312) 413-0003 or send an electronic mail message to consult@uic.edu.

The Instructional Technology Lab (ITL) offers assistance to UIC faculty and staff with Web and multimedia development, as well as all aspects of support in the areas of instructional technology and the use of computer and Internet technology in teaching and learning applications. For assistance, contact the ITL by phone at (312) 996-9824 or send an electronic mail message to itl@uic.edu.