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Type	Topic	Title & Description	Source
General Information	Awareness	Why Accessibility Makes Sense This presentation-style resource explains the value of web accessibility and why it makes sense for web developers in an organization to practice accessible design and why it is critical for the organization's clients.	Accessites.org
Articles & White Papers	Awareness	Web Accessibility and Individuals with Disabilities in Postsecondary Education: The Legal Issues Answers the question, does the information on public websites, intranets, and distance learning courses at postsecondary institutions have to be accessible to individuals with disabilities? Other related questions are also addressed.	AccessIT
Video or Audio File	Awareness	BBC Click Accessibility YouTube video of a BBC broadcast recording the process of searching for and placing an order for a book from Amazon.com for a sighted person and a person who is blind.
Training Materials	Awareness	Web Accessibility and Assistive Technology Modules include Overview of AT, Web Accessibility, AT & Accessibility Legalities, and Accessible Materials.	Faculty and Administrator Modules in Higher Education
Video or Audio File	Awareness	Surfing the Web with a Screen Reader Illustrates some of the most important principles in accessible web design, and demonstrates the challenges users of screen readers experience every day. Versions for Windows Media Player and RealPlayer.	AccessIT
Video or Audio File	Awareness	Accessible Web Design: Who Needs It? Interviews with three individuals who are blind recalling their experiences and frustrations while using the internet.	University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Video or Audio File	Awareness	Archived webcasts: Web Accessibility for Community Colleges, Parts I and II Paul Bohman, of WebAIM, discusses people with different disability types and their needs for accessing the web as well as some of the aspects of policy and law and how to provide training within the organization.	DBTAC - Great Plains ADA Center
Video or Audio File	Awareness	Archived webcasts on Web Accessibility Titles include: * "Accessible Web: how many people is your site leaving out?" Presented by Cynthia Waddell * "Solve the Mystery of the Accessible Web" presented by Sharon Trerise and Deborah Buck * "Caught in the Web: Accessibility now and in next-generation technologies" presented by Cyndi Rowland * "Web 2.0 and Accessibility: What Challenges and Opportunities Await?" presented by Mark Greenfield	University Computer Policy and Law
Case Studies & Reports	Awareness	Legal Opinions from Office for Civil Rights regarding IT Accessibility in California Community Colleges In accordance with California Government Code - 11135, and in accordance with Chancellor's office Legal Opinion M 03-09 and Legal Opinion M 01-17, the California Community College system follows Section 508 of Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards.	High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges
Video or Audio File	Awareness	Keeping Web Accessibility In Mind 11.5 minute video which provides an overview of the difficulties users with disabilities face on the web and some of the motivations for web accessibility	WebAIM.org
Video or Audio File	Awareness	Curb Cuts and Web Sites Referring to the NYS Standards for Web Accessibility, this video depicts some of the barriers encountered by people with disabilities. Quicktime version \| Windows Media version	NY State Forum
Video or Audio File	Awareness	Accessibility Videos and Podcasts Videos and podcasts of people with disabilities using assistive technology to interact with accessible and inaccessible web pages.	University of Wisconsin Madison
Video or Audio File	Awareness	"From Where I Sit" Video Series Eight CSU students with disabilities who share their experiences in the college classroom and with technology. Includes responses by a panel of faculty members who viewed each video and discussed the issues raised.	Accessible Technology Initiative
General Information	Awareness	Introduction to Web Accessibility This introduction is designed to help readers understand how people with disabilities use the web, the frustrations they feel when they cannot access the web, and what you can do to make your sites more accessible.	WebAIM.org
Articles & White Papers	Awareness	Best Practices for Web Accessibility Design and Implementation Outlines a process-based approach to implementing accessibility design. This paper outlines accessibility policy implementation in five steps: 1) Understanding the issue, 2) Identification and adoption, 3) Validation, 4) Adopting an approach, and 5) Implementation.	Foley, Dr. Alan and Regan, Bob
Articles & White Papers	Awareness	Web Accesssibility: Guidelines for Administrators Answers some basic questions about addressing web accessibility such as What are the primary web accessibility issues?, What accessibility standards exist that our organization can adopt?, Can I check the accessibility of my organization's websites? And What steps can I take to assure the accessibility of the websites in my organization?.	DO-IT, University of Washington
Case Studies & Reports	Awareness	United Nations Global Audit of Web Accessibility Of the 100 leading websites from 20 countries around the world evaluated, only THREE met the minimum level of accessibility as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.	nomensa.com
Video or Audio File	Awareness	"From Where I Sit" Video Series "From Where I Sit" is a powerful video series of eight CSU students with disabilities who share their experiences in the college classroom. Faculty responses to the student's comments are included.	California State University Accessible Technology Initiative
Video or Audio File	Awareness	Web Accessibility for Community Colleges Webcast Series: 1) Provides background information on web accessibility and standards for accessible design, 2) specific information addressing accessible design techniques	Great Plains ADA/IT Center in collaboration with WebAIM
Training Materials	Awareness	Before and After Demonstrations A multi-page resource suite that shows common accessibility barriers using practical examples. The demonstration consists of an inaccessible Web site, an accessible version of the same site, as well as information about the demonstrated barriers.	W3C WAI
Training Materials	Awareness	Overview: Planning Web Accessibility Training Training resource pages outlining strategies and resources which can be useful in preparing training sessions on Web accessibility	W3C WAI
Articles & White Papers	Awareness	Web Based Information and Prospective Students with Disabilities: A Study of Liberal Arts Colleges Study to determine what prospective students with disabilities would find if they viewed the websites of the top four-year liberal arts colleges in the country. Specifically the questions they were asking is whether prospective students with disabilities can access the home page, whether they could find services that might be provided them and whether they could determine who to contact if they had further questions.	EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Number 4, 2004
General Information	Awareness	Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization resource suite", are designed to help develop a customized business case for Web accessibility for a specific organization. The resource suite presents many different aspects of Web accessibility and includes guidance on incorporating these aspects into a specific organization's business case. The aspects considered include social factors, financial factors, technical factors, and legal and policy factors.	W3C WAI
Checklists	Evaluation	Quick Reference: Testing Web Content for Accessibility Reference sheet of major areas to examine when evaluating web content for accessbility.	WebAIM.org
General Information	Evaluation	Unified Web Evaluation Methodology A methodolog for evaluating the accessibility of web content that was developed in a joint effort by 23 European organisations in three European projects combined in a cluster to develop a Unified Web Evaluation Methodology. The methodology is based on the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and will be synchronised with the foreseen migration from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0 in the near future.	webcluster.org
General Information	Evaluation	Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility Resource suite that outlines different approaches for evaluating Web sites for accessibility. While it does not provide checkpoint-by-checkpoint testing techniques, it does provide general procedures and tips for evaluation in different situations, from evaluation during Web site development to ongoing monitoring of existing sites.	W3C WAI
Tools	Evaluation	W3C Markup Validation Service Free online service that checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards	W3C
Tools	Evaluation	Functional Accessibility Evaluator Analyzes web resources for markup that is consistent with the use of CITES/DRES HTML Best Practices for development of functionally accessible web resources that also support interoperability	University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
General Information	Evaluation	Evaluating Websites for Accessibility Resource suite that outlines different approaches for evaluating Web sites for accessibility. Provides general procedures and tips for evaluation in different situations, from evaluation during Web site development to ongoing monitoring of existing sites.	W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
Tutorial	Evaluation	Manual Checks for Web Accessibility Tutorial for manually evaluating web content for accessibility.
Tutorial	Evaluation	Web Accessibility for All Tutorials: Web Accessibility Evaluations Tutorials for both automated and manual evaluations.	Electronic Accessibility for All Project, University of Wisconsin Madison
Examples	Policy	Policy Governing World Wide Web Accessibility at UW–Madison Policy statement	University of Wisconsin - Madison
Articles & White Papers	Policy	Distance Education: Access Guidelines for Students with Disabilities Office for Civil Rights (OCR) offered nine suggestions for addressing areas of concern identified by a 1996 review of the California Community Colleges. Among the suggestions was the need for development of system-wide access guidelines for distance learning and campus Web pages. This document details the OCR suggestions.	The High Tech Center Training Unit In Collaboration with the Chancellor’s Office California Community Colleges
Examples	Policy	College and University Guidelines, Policies, Processes, and Resources on Web Accessibility Lists the information the Johns Hopkins Web Accessibility Committee has collected about the web accessibility initiatives of other institutions, including the activities of the COFHE schools and the policies of other institutions.
Examples	Policy	Known Campus Statements on Web Accessibility A collection of campus statements on web accessibility	AnnMarie Johnson and Sean Ruppert, Univ. of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Examples	Policy	Web Accessibility Policies (and Pseudo Policies) in Postsecondary Institutions Links to policies representing a broad sampling of policies across the United States and other regions around the world.	WebAIM.org
Examples	Policy	Statement of Contact for Accommodations Sample statement providing contact information in a situation where the web content poses an acccessibility issue for a user.
General Information	Policy	Developing Organizational Policies on Web Accessibility	W3C WAI
Examples	Policy	Accessible Technology Initiative The Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) reflects the California State University's (CSU) ongoing commitment to provide access to information resources and technologies to individuals with disabilities. This commitment is articulated in Executive Order 926 (EO 926), the CSU Board of Trustees Policy on Disability Support and Accommodations	California State University
Case Studies & Reports	Policy	AP 6365 Accessibility of Information Technology North Orange County Community College District adopted an Administrative Procedure that deals with all Electronic and Information Technology purchases using District funds	North Orange County Community College
Articles & White Papers	Policy	Web Accessibility System Change: The Myths, Realities, and What We Can Learn From Two Large Scale Efforts Synopsis of how two large-scale web accessibility initiatives were conceived and implemented. Each is described with respect to key components of system change efforts, including: (a) a description of their policy, (b) the accessibility standard they use, (c) how the efforts are funded, (d) how change was implemented over time, (e) the training and supports offered, (f) any monitoring plans, and (g) any planned consequences.	Cyndi Rowland and Heather Mariger, NCDAE
Training Materials	Support	Accessibility Common Courseware Exchange for Software Studies Accessibility Common Courseware Exchange for Software Studies (ACCESS) is a shared repository of tried-and-true learning materials contributed by people who are teaching or working in this field. You must join (free) the Academic Initiative to access these materials.	IBM
Tutorial	Design	Designing Accessible Web Sites Tutorial designed for webmasters or web development managers to find out what accessibility is all about, what the standards are, and how to design for 508 compliance. Registration (free) is required.	Section508.gov
Book	Design	Building Accessible Web Sites The book teaches developers of every sophistication and budget level how to improve the accessibility of their Websites so that people who are blind, deaf, or mobility-impaired can get the most out of them.	Joe Clark
Checklists	Design	Quick Reference: Web Accessibility Principles Reference sheet of major areas to address when designing accessible web content.	WebAIM.org
Articles & White Papers	Design	SEO and Accessibility Prevent Lawsuits; Increase Visibility Humorous article making excellent points about the compatibility between the two goals of search engine optimization and acccessibility.	Mike Banks Vale, webpronews.com
Training Materials	Design	Creating Accessible PDF Documents with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 23 slide presentation outlining techniques for creating accessible PDF documents.	Sean Keegan, High Tech Center Training Unit for California Community Colleges
General Information	Design	Making Text Legible: Designing for People with Partial Sight Basic guidelines for making effective legibility choices that work for nearly everyone.	Lighthouse International
Training Materials	Design	Captioning with Mccaw Instructional manual on the use of Macaw. Macaw is a lightweight captioning tool for the synchronization of text and multimedia for the QuickTime media player only. It is Mac and PC compatible and is available at no cost.	High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges
Step-by-Step Instructions	Design	Digital Captioning with MAGpie Instructional manual for creating captions for multimedia content using MAGpie.	High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges
Step-by-Step Instructions	Design	Digital Captioning with HI-Caption Instructional manual for using HI-Caption for creating synchronized captions for video content.	High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges
Step-by-Step Instructions	Design	Software for Creating Captions Instructions for creating captions using MAGpie and HI-Caption.	WebAIM.org
Book	Design	Universal Usability and Access by Design Online The unabridged, online version of Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers, by Sarah Horton, published in 2005 by New Riders Press. Referenced from the text are links to texts and tutorials that support and expand on the concepts covered in the book.	Sarah Horton
General Information	Design	Web Design References: Accessibility Extensive list of links to a wide variety of accessible design resources	University of Minnesota Duluth
Book	Design	Dive Into Accessibility: 30 days to a more accessible web site This book answers two questions. "Why should I make my web site more accessible?" and "How can I make my web site more accessible?".	Mark Pilgrim
Tutorial	Design	Web Accessibility Tutorial Created to 1) Provide a general understanding of what Web Accessibility is and why it is important to SCC students with disabilities, and 2) Provide information and resources on how to check a Web site for universal accessibility and how to make fixes, if necessary.	Sacramento City College
Training Materials	Design	Curriculum for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Includes 1) Introduction, 2) Guidelines for Web Content Accessibility, 3) Checkpoints for meeting the Guideline requirements, and 4) Examples for implementing the Checkpoints.	W3C WAI
Tutorial	Design	Web Accessibility for Section 508 Background information on Section 508 and design techniques to make your Web presence accessible according to the standards that have been put in place for Section 508.	Jim Thatcher
Tutorial	Design	Access eLearning Free,online ten-module tutorial that offers information, instructional techniques, and practice labs on how to make the most common needs in distance education accessible for individuals with disabilities, and enhance the usability of online materials for all students	CATEA Grade Project
Articles & White Papers	Design	Designing for Dyslexics Examines dyslexia and how web design can impact the ability of those afflicted to access information on web pages. Includes specific design recommendations.	Mel Pedley, Accessites.org
Checklists	Design	Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 A list of all checkpoints from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, organized by concept, as a checklist for Web content developers.	W3C WAI
Training Materials	General	The WebAIM Guide to Web Accessibility The CD-ROM based training contains the equivalent of over 1000 printed pages of instructional materials, plus hundreds of examples, simulations, videos, and other accessibility resources.	WebAIM.org
Book	General	Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design This books helps you improve your products—websites, software, hardware, and consumer products—to remove accessibility barriers and avoid adding new barriers. One guiding principle is: just ask people with disabilities.	Shawn Lawton Henry
Video or Audio File	Distance Learning	Real Connections: Making Distance Learning Accessible to Everyone This video presentation provides guidelines for designing Internet-based distance learning courses to fully include all students, including those with disabilities. The presentation is open-captioned and audio-described to assure access to the content for viewers who are deaf or blind, respectively (Runtime: ~11:55 minutes).	DO-IT
General Information	Distance Learning	Distance Learning FAQs Addresses common questions regarding distance learning and accessibility	DO-IT
General Information	Distance Learning	The Center on Accessible Distance Learning (AccessDL) Provides guidance and resources on making distance learning courses accessible to students and instructors with disabilities. Includes directions for joining a discussion list as well as publications, videos, websites, resource centers, promising practices, and research.	DO-IT
General Information	Distance Learning	Accessibility of Electronic Tools and Features Used in Distance Learning	DO-IT
General Information	Distance Learning	What considerations should be made in order to develop accessible web-based distance learning courses? Provides information regarding creating accessible web-based distance learning course.	AccessIT
General Information	Distance Learning	How do courseware products differ on accessibility? A discussion regarding the accessibility of different courseware packages including Blackboard®, WebCT, and eCollege®	AccessIT
General Information	Distance Learning	Are chat rooms accessible to people with disabilities? Provides information on the accessibility of text chat	AccessIT
General Information	Distance Learning	What is rich media and how can I learn more about its accessibility? Provides information regarding of multimedia on the web, accessibility considerations and what is available to improve accessibility.	AccessIT
General Information	Distance Learning	Is PDF accessible?	AccessIT
General Information	Distance Learning	Access E-Learning A 10 module tutorial offering information, instructional techniques, and practice labs on how to make the most common needs in distance education accessible for individuals with disabilities, and enhance the usability of online materials for all students.	Georgia Tech Research on Accessible Distance Education (GRADE)