Quick Starts
Looking for a good place to start? Try these:
- WCAG2 How to Meet WCAG 2.0 checklists
- WebAIM - WebAIM is a great place to learn about web accessibility from the perspective of people with various disabilities, learn techniques to handle web accessibility issues, and understand the practical meaning of the various laws and guidelines. WebAIM also has their WAVE online evaluation tool which has a Firefox and Chrome extension.
- BBC's Future Media Standards Semantic Mark-up Guidelines - A great style guide to using the appropriate HTML to mark-up page content.
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
- Designing for Accessibility and Inclusion article - describes “lenses to look through” when coming up with designs, easy to follow
- White Paper: Making Education Websites Accessible to People with Disabilities
- Quality Matter's Accessibility & Usability Resource Site (AURS)
Additional Resources
Due to the overwhelming number of resources previously listed on this page, the list has been broken down into the subpages/categories below. Note that although some resources have been organized by those who might be more likely to use them (designers/users vs. developers), I have tried to minimize the duplication of links on multiple pages, so resources listed on the pages organized by user group may be valuable to everyone.
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- Fluid's Accessibility Resources Page
- WebAIM's Accessibility Resources
- WAI Resources
- University of Minnesota Duluth's Accessible Web Design Resources
- University of California, Berkeley's Site Evaluation Resources
- New York University's Digital Accessibility Resources
- Penn State's Course Accessibility Guidelines
- Portland Community College's Creating Accessible Content
- The National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE) Accessibility "Cheatsheets"