Links

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 The Teaching, Learning, and Technology affiliate of the American Association for Higher Education (TLT Group), Western Governors University and blackboard.com.

Legislation

• Disability and the Equality Act 2010
• 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

• Jisc TechDis - Accessibility Essentials Series
• JISC TechDis resource - Writing accessible electronic documents in MS Word
• Creating Accessible Excel Files
• MS Office Accessibility
• Accessibility in Microsoft Office 2010
• WebAIM's Techniques in Word
• WebAIM's PDF Accessibility
• WebAIM's "How to" articles
• 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
• Web Accessibility QuickTips: WCAG 2 at a Glance
• Web Design with Style, Ease and CSS
• W3C Web Design and Applications: Accessibility

Colour and 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

• 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
• Flash Player Accessibility
• 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 (Job Access With Speech) 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 screen 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
• Designing Web pages for Dyslexic Readers
• 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
• RNIB

Hearing

• Deafness and the User Experience - Lisa Herrod’s ‘A List Apart’ article from Aug 2008.
• Royal National Institute for the Deaf

Deaf-Blind

• A-Z of Deaf Blindness

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