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Web accessibility resources
Below is a selection of key Web accessibility resources on the Web. If you would like to recommend a website or article to be included in this list, please e-mail: enquiries@employers-forum.co.uk
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) resources
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/
- Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html
- HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
- http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/
Accessibility evaluation tools
- W3C Markup Validation Service
- http://validator.w3.org
- Watchfire WebXACT
- http://webxact.watchfire.com
Screen readers
- Fangs – the screen reader emulator for Mozilla Firefox
- http://www.standards-schmandards.com/projects/fangs/
- IBM Easy Web Browsing Software – Free evaluation software
- http://www-03.ibm.com/able/dwnlds/
- Window-Eyes
- http://www.gwmicro.com/windoweyes/windoweyes.htm
- JAWS - Free trial version
- http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_downloads/jaws.asp
Multimedia
The National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) provides examples of accessible multimedia on their web site.
- Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
- http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/
- NCAM Resource Center for Developers of Rich Media
- http://ncam.wgbh.org/richmedia/
Research
The BBC in February 2003 published research into the accessibility of www.bbc.co.uk in a report at http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/bbci/websites.shtml