Accessibility Resources
The items listed on this page are grouped by software and miscellaneous, which contains articles, blogs posts, information from organizations, subject, or people. If possible, I have listed their Twitter name/link, website, and other items I recommend.
Assistive Technology (AT) Software
Code Editing Software
Accessibility Testing Software
- CSS Vaidator
- IE Accessibility toolbar
- HTML Vaidator
- Jim Thatcher’s Accessibility Checking Software
- WAT (Web Accessibility Toolbar) Toolbar
Additional Accessibility Resources
18F
Anne Gibson
Aaron Gustafson
- Aaron Gustafson's Twitter
- Aaron Gustafson's website
- Falling in Love with Forms - BlendConf 2014
- Web Visions 07 Forms Presentation
Color
- Color Contrast Checker - Color Contrast Checker - Web AIM
- Color Contrast Tool - Jonathan Snook
Denis Boudreau
Dennis Lembree, Easychirp, and Web Axe
- Dennis Lembree's Twiter
- Dennis Lembree's website
- Easychirp's Twiitter
- Accessible version of the Twitter application - Easy Chirp
- Web Axe's Twitter
- Blog and podcast on web accessibility - Web Axe
Create Accessible Digital Products by Accessible Electronic Documents Community of Practice (AED COP)
Documents
Learn how to create accessible Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF documents that conform to the Revised 508 Standards. You should to review AED COPs how-to create documents, videos, and checklists.
- Create Accessible Word
- Create Accessible PDF
- Create Accessible Presentations (PowerPoint)
- Create Accessible Spreadsheets (Excel)
Videos
Each video series is about 40 - 50 minutes long with about a dozen or so videos, there are only five videos PDF videos because they are longer in length.
- How to Make an Accessible Document in Microsoft Word
- How to Test and Remediate PDFs for Accessibility Using Adobe Acrobat DC
- How to Author and Test Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations for Accessibility
- How to Author and Test Microsoft Excel Worksheets for Accessibility
Eric Meyer
- Diagnostic Accessibility Styling with CSS
- Diagnostic accessibility styling with CSS blog post
- CSS Reset
Karl Groves
Knowbility
Roger Johansson - 456 Berea Street
- Roger Johansson's Twitter
- Roger Johansson's website
- Creating accessible tables
- Reading up on WAI-ARIA
Miscellaneous
- Adobe Accessibility
- Web Developer Extension for Firefix and Chrome Browsers
- University of Minnesota Duluth Accessibility References
- Cameron Moll article (check comments for other suggestions) about Web Accessibility Checklist from Aaron Cannon's article
- Surfing the Internet with JAWS and MAGic!
- Treehouse Accessibility Videos
- Accessibility and Me - David Kennedy
- A11yBuzz
- Section 508
- Derek Featherstone's Twitter
- Simply Accessible's website
- 2014 - 24-Hour Online Community Event Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day - videos
- 2015 - 24-Hour Online Community Event Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day - videos
- Fire Vox - free screen reader extension for Firefox
Typography
W3C
- W3C Accessibility
- W3C - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List
- W3C - Forms Spec
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - WCAG
WAI-ARIA
- WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide - W3C
- The WCAG 2.0 Documents - W3C
- Landmark Roles - W3C
- Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0
- Introduction to WAI ARIA - Opera last updated August 2008
- Reading up on WAI-ARIA - Roger Johansson
WebAIM
- WebAIM's Twitter
- WebAIM's website
- Introduction to Web Accessibility - WebAIM
- WAVE Toolbar Chrome extension - WebAIM
- WAVE Accessibility Evaluation Tool
- Section 508 Checklist - WebAIM
- Captions, Transcripts, and Audio Descriptions - WebAIM
- WebAIM Online Tutorials on Accessibility topics from A - Z
- Using JAWS to Evaluate Web Accessibility - WebAIM
- JAWS Keyboard Shortcuts - WebAIM
- JAWS license not developer friendly - WebAIM
- Screen reader on Mac - Jaws, Window Eyes, Parallels, and Boot Camp - WebAIM
- WebAIM - Skip Navigation
- Hierarchy for Motivating Accessibility Change - WebAIM
- WebAIM Screen Reader Survey Results for last few years