The Need for Web Accessibility

• How a blind person will "see" your Web page - audio comparison of inaccessible and accessible Web pages

The Law

• Section 508: Subtitled “The Road to Accessibility”

Standards/Guidelines

• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
• W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Comprehensive and detailed Web site design guidelines

Useful Tools and Tips

• Adobe's free tools for making accessible PDFs
• Designing More Usable Web sites, a resource-rich Web site
• HTML Commandments, quick refrence with specific recipes for accessible Web pages.
• Trace Center, University of Wisconsin - Designing a More Usable World
• UCLA's Disability & Computing Program, links to a variety of useful resources
• Vision Australia's Colour Contrast Analyzer
• Watchfire WebXACT, a free Web service to test a single Web page for accessibility and privacy