Accessibility Resources

Assistive Technology (AT) Software

• Dragon Naturally Speaking
• JAWS
• hNVDA (Non Visual Desktop Access) - free screen reader
• ZoomText

Code Editing Software

• Sublime Text
• Textmate

Accessibility Testing Software

• CSS Vaidator
• IE Accessibility toolbar
• HTML Vaidator
• Jim Thatcher’s Accessibility Checking Software
• WAT (Web Accessibility Toolbar) Toolbar

More Accessibility Resources

18F

• 18F Accessibility Guidelines
• 18F Accessibility Checklist
• 18F Accessibility Tools List

Anne Gibson

• Anne Gibson's Twitter
• Anna Gibson’s - An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues

Aaron Gustafson

• Aaron Gustafson's Twitter
• Aaron Gustafson's website
• Falling in Love with Forms - BlendConf 2014
• Web Visions 07 Forms Presentation

Color

• Accessibility Color Wheel - checks color contrast and the three different types of color blindness
• Check My Colours
• Color Contrast Checker - Color Contrast Checker - Web AIM
• Color Contrast Tool - Jonathan Snook

Denis Boudreau

• enis Boudreau's Twiter
• Accessibility Tips

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

Eric Meyer

• Diagnostic Accessibility Styling with CSS
• Diagnostic accessibility styling with CSS blog post
• CSS Reset

Karl Groves

• Karl Groves's Twitter
• Karl Groves's website

Knowbility

• Knowbility's Twitter
• Knowbility's website
• Knowbility's - Access U (accessibility conference)

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 Mozilla-based 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

• PX to EM - converts your pixel layout to EMs in your CSS

Texas University

• The University of Texas at Austin's Accessibility Institute - main page

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
• Using ARIA to Enhance Web Application Accessibility - 2012 - WebAIM
• Hierarchy for Motivating Accessibility Change - WebAIM
• WebAIM Screen Reader Survey Results for last few years