Legislation, Guides, Colours & fonts, Rich media / Video, Customisation
Validation, Assistive Technology, Disabilities
General Links
Assessment Accessibility in Questionmark Perception version 5
BlackBoard Learn Accessibility
JISC TechDis
Technology for Disabilities Information Service, a JISC service aimed at enhancing access, through technology, to learning and teaching, research and administration activities for students and staff with disabilities in further and higher education.
Scottish Accessible Information Forum
Teachability, University of Strathclyde. Booklets and workshops produced by and for the SHEFC funded project looking at all aspects of acccessibility within teaching and learning.
W3C WAI
The World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative
WebAIM
Web Accessibility In Mind; A partnership between Utah State University, The TLT Group: The Teaching, Learning, and Technology affiliate of the American Association for Higher Education, Western Governors University and Blackboard.com
WebAIM's "How to" articles
Web Accessibility QuickTips: WCAG 2 at a Glance
W3C Web Design and Applications: Accessibility
Legislation
Disability and the Equality Act 2010 direct.gov.uk
JISC Senior Management Briefing Paper 22: Accessibility: Disability, Technology and Legislation
Code of practice for the assurance of academic quality and standards in higher education Section 3: Disabled students (2010)
BS 8878: 2010 Web accessibility code of practice
Guides
Adobe Acrobat X1 Accessibilty
Jisc TechDis' Accessibility Essentials Series
Jisc Techdis Acessibility Essentials 3, PowerPoint:Implementing Inclusive Practice
JISC TechDis resource: Writing accessible electronic documents in MS Word
Creating Accessible Excel Files
MS Office 2010 Accessibility
MS Office Accessibility
WebAIM's Techniques – Word
WebAIM's PDF Accessibility
WebAim's Recommendations for Making Web Content Accesssible for People with Cognative Disabilities
WebAIM's Best Practices for PowerPoint
RNIB guide: Word processsing (including the use of styles and tables)
Colour & fonts
Lighthouse International Color Contrast Guide - Good practical guide to colour: designing for partially sighted and colour vision deficiencies
Greybit v2.0 Greyscale conversion accessibility tool
WebsiteTips Color section web-safe color charts, articles and tips on color and design, color psychology and meanings
Vischeck Colour blindness simulation tool
On Web Typography - article on A list Apart (17 Nov 2009)
Accesssible Web Typography a free everything you'll ever need to know HTML book by Jim Byrne of the Making Connections Unit
Fonts - WebAim guide focussing mainly on readability
Georgia and Verdana Typefaces designed for the screen
Typofile The best faces for the screen
Rich media / Video
Amara UniveralSubtitles.org
CaptionTube Closed captioning tool for YouTube hosted video
WebAIM's captioning overview for the web - comprehensive "how to" guide
The Institute of Educational Technology (IET) is at the heart of the Open University as a centre of international excellence in the research and development of online, open and distance learning.
The National Center for Accessible Media - text captioning of video clips using a free download Media Access Generator (MAGpie) tool
Joe Clark's Media Access - everything you need to know about the art of captioning
Customisation
AbilityNet's my computer, my way!
BBC's My Web My Way
Microsoft Accessibility site - tips and guidance for users with disabilities
Apple Accessibility
Validation
TechDis Web Accessibility Self-Evaluation Tool for Staff Developers and Learning Techologists
Lynx Viewer - View pages as viewed by text only browser Lynx
WAVE - WebAim's accessibility evaluation tool
Assistive technology
Assistive Technology at (the Univerity of) Aberdeen - about assistive technology, guides, help and documentation
Screen reader demos, research and resouurces - Alistair Duggin
KeyTools - supplier of ergonomic equipment, books and software to help make "IT easier".
Sight and Sound Technology UK (UK distributor for JAWS etc.)
JAWS screen reader
Keyboard Shortcuts for JAWS (WebAim resource)
JAWS Guides from VIP Software. Also includes guides for ZoomText and other useful links
JAWS Training from Freedom Scientific
NVDA high quality open source screen reader for Windows operating systems
Keyboard shortcuts for NVDA (WebAim resource)
NVDA User Guide (2012.2.1)
Dolphin Computer Access (HAL, Supernova, Lunar and Lunar Plus)
WebAnywhere online sreen reader from University of Washington
Apple Accessibility Mac OS X Accessibility - Assistive Technologies
Assitive Technology TV
Assistive technology from assistiveware.com for Mac OS users
Disabilities
Dyslexia
JISC TechDis Defining Dyslexia
WebAim's Cognitive Disabilities
Dyslexic.com
British Dyslexia Association
Dyslexia Action, formerly known as 'The Dyslexia Institute'
Dyscalcula and Dyslexia Interest Group
Vision related
Anatomy of the Eye Medical Coding Career Guide
Colour blindness and colour deficiency Online PhD Programs
Colour blindness UIC, Illinois, Chicago
National Centre for Tactile Diagrams
Hearing
Deafness and the User Experience Lisa Herrod’s ‘A List Apart’ article from Aug 2008.
Royal National Institute for the Deaf
Deaf-Blind
Motive difficulties
Repetitive Strain Injury (computer related)
A Chiroprators Guide to Repetitive Strain Injury
Cerebral Palsy
Origins of Cerebral Palsy useful information on causes or orgins of cerbral palsy: the etilogy of CP - aetiology, causal pathways
About-Cerebral Palsy.org Information and resources