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Supplemental Materials for “Accessibility Is Not A Checklist”

Saturday, 02. 12. 2011  –  Category: Accessibility, All, Presentations, UX

I presented “Accessibility is not a Checklist” at the Interaction 11 conference in Boulder, CO, on February 12, 2011. This post contains a list of related and supplementary materials for web accessibility.

You can view the video, slides and an accessible transcript on this site. Or you can view the slides on slideshare and the video on vimeo.

I will be posting additional supplementary materials and articles in the coming weeks. So stay tuned.

General Resources

These are good places to start if you are new to accessibility, or are looking for the best comprehensive resources:

• Universal Design for Web Applications by Wendy Chisholm, Matt May
• WebAIM – Web Accessibility in Mind IMHO, the best comprehensive resource on web accessibility
• Web Design References: Accessibility
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Quick Reference
• Web Axe
• Intro to Web Accessibility Resources
• Section 508 Web Accessibility Tutorial
• Yahoo! Accessibility
• Progressive Enhancement 101: Overview and Best Practices
• Usable Accessibility: Making Web Sites Work Well for People with Disabilities
• Karl Groves
• A11y Buzz

Cognitive Disabilities

• Clear Helper
• 6 Surprising Bad Practices That Hurt Dyslexic Users
• About Cognitive Accessibility & Related Articles
• Accessible Web Design: More Thoughts on Dyscalculia

Links related to specific presentation slides

• Twitter hashtag for accessibility: #a11y
  
• Wikipedia: Assistive Technologies
• Refreshable Braille Display (source of photo)
• Tip #2: Design for Mobile First
  • Mobile First: One Year Later
  • Presentation
  • Accessibility First—for a Better User Experience for All
• Tip #3: Include People with Disabilities in Your Usability Research
  • Just Ask by Shawn Lawton Henry
• Tip #5: Don’t Punish Your Customers to Solve Your Business Problem
  • Death to Captchas
  • http://webaim.org/blog/spam_free_accessible_forms/
  • More Alternatives to CAPTCHA
    • http://akismet.com/
    • Build your own spam blocker
• Tip #6: Get People to Drive Themselves
  • Glenda Watson Hyatt: The iPad as an Affordable Communicator: Initial Review
  • Apple Accessibility
  • iPad VoiceOver guide for people with vision loss
  • VoiceOver and the onscreen keyboard on the iPad
  • VoiceOver and Safari on the iPad
• Tip #8: Protect Your Investment
  • Contrast is King
  • Tips for Designing for Colorblind Users
  • HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives
  • Writing for the Web – Accessibility
    Ongoing series of articles on accessibility for web writers, starting with: Accessibility for web writers, part 1: Introduction
  • Five kinds of ‘alt’ text
• Tip #10: Provide Help in an Accessible Manner
  • Usable and Accessible Form Validation and Error Recovery