Web Design for Accessibility

WAI Home Page
Guidelines: WAI Web Content Accessibility Curriculum (explains the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)
Checkpoints: WAI Web Content Accessibility Curriculum (lists one or more checkpoints that are associated with a particular guideline)
Examples (provides details or examples of one or more techniques that are associated with a particular checkpoint)
Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (provides a list of checkpoints organized by priority level)

Effective Colour Contrast; Making Text Legible
(Highly recommended; practical guides with examples, from Lighthouse International)
Vischeck and Colorblind Web Page Filter - these two sites utilize filters to show you what your page looks like to someone who is colourblind.

Accessibility Issues [National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S.]
Design and Build Accessible Web Sites [Royal National Institute of the Blind, U.K.]
Design of Accessible Web Pages [Jane Berliss, Lewis Kraus, Susan Stoddard]
Design of Accessible Web Pages [Sylvia Chong]
Web Content Accessibility Instructions for Authors [IBM]
Web Accessibility: Making Your Web Site Accessible to the Blind [Curtis Chong, National Federation of the Blind, U.S.]
WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) [Utah State University]

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June 23, 2010

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