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Accessibility Law

Americans with Disability Act (ADA)
Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act
Telecommunication Act
Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA)
Workforce Investment Act 1998 – Section 508
North Carolina Gen. Stat. § 168A-7; Section 3
Assistive Technology Act 1998
International – Resource AccessAbility SIG
Joe Clark on Accessibility and Law
ICDRI Global and Policy Resources
USA Legal and Policy Resources
States and Local Policies and Laws
Department of Justice Section 508 Home Page
International Policies Relating to Web Accessibility

Accessibility Standards

W3C – Consortium
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines
Section 508 Home Page
State of North Carolina –Web Style Guide
Web Standards Project

Distance Education and eLearning

National Center on Accessible Distance Learning
IMS Global Learning Consortium - Accessibility
Practical Ways to Make Workplace Distance Learning Accessible
More than Compliance: Accessible eLearning that Makes a Difference
Universal Instructional Design
CAST – What is Universal Design for Learning
Campus Technology Advice to Educators
California Community Colleges - Distance Education Access guidelines
Key2Access Elearning
NASA Learning Technologies Project

Accessible Learning Technologies

IMS Global Learning Consortium Guidelines for Creating Accessible Learning Applications
ATutor - Accessible Learning Content Management System
Dublin Core Accessibility Work Group
One for All and All for One: Making Engineering Learning Technology Accessible for All
eLearnopedia

Web Technologies

Better Search Ranking - Secret Benefits of Accessibility
Script Smarter JavaScript from Scratch
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
SVG Authoring Guidelines

Accessible Web Design

Accessify.com
A List Apart Accessibility
BlueRobot.com
Mark Pilgrims - Dive Into Accessibility
456 Berea Street
WebAIM – Articles on Accessibility
Jim Thatcher- Constructing Accessible Web Sites
Joe Clark – Building Accessible Websites
Essential Components of Web Accessibility
WebsiteTips -Accessibility

Best Practices and Checklists

Max Design Web Standards Checklist
WebAIM Accessibility Check List
IBM Web Accessibility Checklist
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign-Web Accessibility Best Practices
NCSU Best Practice Checklist

Designing for Accessibility

How People with Disabilities Use the Web
Testing with Screen Reader
Trenton Moss- Seven Screen Reader Usability Tips
Screen Readers and Visibility
Increased Usability -Secret Benefits of Accessibility
A Dyslexic Perspective on e-Content Accessibility
Maximize Text for Readability

Tutorials

W3C Schools – Web Tutorials
CATEA- Accessible Content Authoring
Captioning with HiCaption
Captioning with MAGpie
Building Accessible Dynamic Websites with Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7
California Community Colleges- High Tech Training Center

Designing with CSS

CSS Discussion List
HTML and CSS: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide
Zen Garden
CSS- Web Design Group
CSS Layout Techniques
Advance CSS Layout
Eric Meyer - CSS Edge
CSS Forms Tutorial

AJAX

AJAX a New Approach to Web Applications
AJAX Best Practices - Becky Gibson
AJAX and Screen Readers: When Can it Work?
Build Your own AJAX Applications
W3C - Dynamic Accessible Web Content Road Map
AJAX Wikipedia - Accessibility
AJAX - with Java 2 Platform
How to Make your AJAX Applications Accessible - Max Kiesler

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