Accessibility Resources Listing

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.
- WebAIM's Introduction to Web Accessibility
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
- W3C-WAI's Introduction to "How People with Disabilities Use the Web"
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.

Other Accessibility Resource Listings

There are many existing Accessibility Resource pages. The Sakai Working Group's Accessibility Resources Listing is not meant to be comprehensive, so if you can't find what you are looking for, here are a few good listings to check: