Sakai Accessibility WG's Developer's Guidelines Development

Accessibility Guidelines

Areas for consideration when Developing Guidelines:

• Semantic Mark-up Guidelines
• WCAG 2.0 / Section 508 / ARIA Standards/Regulations Based Accessibility Guidelines
• Keyboard functionality Style Guide
• Guidelines for Submitting a Sakai Tool for Accessibility Testing

Existing Sakai Guidelines

• Sakai 2.x
  • Draft Sakai Accessibility Style Guide from 2004 (doc)
  • Sakai Tool Accessibility Checklist for Developers and QA Folks (doc)
  • Draft -Sakai Developer Accessibility Handbook Outline (pdf)
  • Technical Elements and Interoperability Worksheet
• Sakai 3
  • Sakai 3 UX Development Guidelines and Information

Reference Resources for the Developer Guidelines Development Effort

We are looking for reference Accessibility Programming Guidelines for evaluating Web Applications. If you know of any existing documents or useful resources, please add it to the list below. -Thanks!

Reference Accessibility Guidelines

• Sakai Widget Accessibility
• GNOME Accessibility Developers Guide
• GNOME User Interface Guidelines for Supporting Accessibility
• GNOME User Interface Checklist
• IITAA Best Practice Rules Mapping to Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act (IITAA)
• IBM Web Accessibility Checklist
• IBM Accessible Documentation Checklist
• Sun Accessibility Quick Reference Guide
• Sun's Towards Accessible Human-Computer Interaction
• BBC Future Media Standards and Guidelines
  • BBC's Semantic Markup Guidelines
  • BBC's Accessibility Guidelines
• DHTML Style Guide Working Group's DHTML Style Guide
• Fluid DHTML Developer Checklist

Understanding the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Specification

• Codetalks.org Intro to the WAI-ARIA Specification