Building Simple Accessible Web Pages Alice Anderson alice.anderson@doit.wisc.edu Lisa Jansen lisa@lss.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Objectives
Video: World Wide Access
Software for Creating Accessible Web Pages
Resources

Objectives

The objectives for this presentation are to introduce web accessibility issues, use Netscape Composer to demonstrate simple web editing techniques, and to provide a list of resources for continuing work on accessible web pages.

Video: World-Wide Access

The video shown during the presentation was produced by DO-IT at the University of Washington. The guide for the video can be downloaded from
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Technology/universal.design.html  To order a copy of the video, download tip sheets, or explore DO-IT's many resources, go to http://www.washington.edu/doit/

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Software for Creating Accessible Web Pages

This page was created using Netscape Composer, which comes bundled with Netscape Communicator. We use Composer because it is easy to use, free to academic users, available for many platforms, and contains most of the tools necessary for creating simple, accessible web pages. For more information about Composer or to download your own copy, see http://home.netscape.com/communicator/creatingsites.html  While it is possible to use Composer to edit web pages containing frames or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), we recommend using a more advanced software package to handle these tasks.

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Resources

The Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Required reading for anyone putting content on the web. Provides prioritized guidelines and techniques for accessible web content. Also a good place to learn about web accessibility issues, resources, news and events.

Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
http://www.cast.org
A great resource for Web developers. CAST's Bobby is a Web based tool that will analyze any page and report on its accessibility.

Technology Access Project (TAP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.wisc.edu/learntech/tech_access/index.htm
Resources and support for creating accessible web- and technology based course materials.

WebAim: Web Accessibility in Mind
http://www.webaim.org/
Web accessibility how-to site. Includes tutorial for building an accessible web site.

WebAble
http://www.webable.com
Database of hundreds of accessibility resources.

EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information
http://www.rit.edu/~easi
Contest winners for universal web design, evaluated both on their general attractiveness and HTML design as well as their accessibility for people with disabilities.

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Adobe Acrobat
http://access.adobe.com/
Accessibility tools, information and resources for making Adobe Acrobat PDF files more accessible to people with visual disabilities.

Apple
http://www.apple.com/education/k12/disability/

IBM
http://www-3.ibm.com/able/guidelines.htm
Checklists for creating accessible software, web pages, Java applications, Lotus Notes applications, and hardware. More resources available from the IBM Accessibility Center at http://www-3.ibm.com/able/

Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/
 

Additional faculty resources

DO-IT Faculty Room: Resources for Post Secondary Faculty
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Prof/faculty.html
For post secondary faculty and administrators who want to work successfully with students with disabilities. Provides tip sheets on web accessibility, as well as accessible computer technology and computer labs. Links to presentation materials, video, other resources.

DO-IT Prof Model Demonstration Project
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Prof/
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education (grant #P33A990042) to help college faculty and administrators address the needs of students with disabilities.