The Little Web Content Book has been prepared to help Content Authors and Editors make their web pages accessible.
This is just one aspect of making a website accessible. Good design is just as important but this is the concern of Web Developers and Designers.
The contents of The Little Web Content Book cover the main problem areas that we have found when conducting web accessiblity audits and is not an exhaustive list.
Source: access2all.org
Worldspace FireEyes is an unprecedented, nextgen web accessibility tool that ensures both static and dynamic content within a web portfolio are compliant with standards such as Section 508, WCAG 1.0, and WCAG 2.0. You can use another tool, but it won’t be fully JavaScript aware or handle event-based page content, like Worldspace FireEyes.Does your site:
- Use AJAX, JavaScript, Flash, PDFs, or dynamic content?
- Personalize multiple user roles?
- Display pages based on user-entered data?
- Use a content management system, with or without templates?
- Need to be accessible, secure, and private?
Source: deque.com
HERA is a tool to check the accessibility of Web pages accoridng to the specification Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0). HERA performs a preliminary set of tests on the page and identifies any automatically detectable errors or checkpoints met, and which checkpoints need further manual verification.
Manual revision is always needed to test whether a page is accessible. To be able to do this testing it is normally necessary to know the Accessibility Guidelines, how users work with assistive technology, and have some practical understanding of web page design.
HERA assists in manual revision by highlighting the parts of the page that need checking, providing instructions on how to perform the tests, and offering two views of the page (normal page rendering and the HTML source code) with the most important elements for checking higlighted through colours and icons.
A form allows you to modify the results that were determined by automatic testing, add comments about each checkpoint, and give the name of the reviewer. It is also possible to generate a report for printing or to download in (XHTML, RDF / EARL and PDF) formats.
Source: sidar.org
odt2braille is a Braille extension to OpenOffice.org Writer. odt2braille will enable authors to print documents to a Braille embosser and to export documents as Braille files. The Braille output is well-formatted and highly customizable.
OpenOffice.org is the leading free and open-source office suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, math and databases. Combined with odt2braille , OpenOffice.org becomes a complete Braille authoring environment.
Source: odt2braille.sourceforge.net
Project:Possibility is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating groundbreaking open source software for persons with disabilities.
Project:Possibility inspires students through university coding competitions that introduce them to the possibilities unlocked by accessibility and open source assistive technology. Then the students are connected to thecommunity of persons with disabilities and software developers, a collaborative community that creates access to experiences previously impossible to achieve.
Source: projectpossibility.org
The Mono Accessibility Project enables many Windows applications to be fully accessible on Linux.
Applications based upon System.Windows.Forms can take advantage of this with no extra code, and enjoy the same level of Accessibility provided by Windows on any system Mono supports.
Source: mono-project.com
Raising the Floor is both a movement and an organization.
A Movement
The movement is composed of people and organizations who are concerned that access to the broadband and Internet is no longer optional, yet many people are not able to use these technologies effectively.
Participants and organizations in Raising the Floor have come together because, like an old barn raising, we can achieve more working together than we can separately – and a coordinated activity is needed to address this complex and pressing problem.
Participants are engaged in a broad range of activities, commercial, academic, voluntary, and governmental, all aimed at ensure that everyone who has trouble using the default interface on modern information and communication technologies (and the default format of content) has the features and tools they need to use them alongside everyone else.
An Organization
There is also an international association that has just been formed in Geneva Switzerland to facilitate these efforts called Raising the Floor - International.
Source: raisingthefloor.net
Cuepoint.js a plugin for adding cue-points and subtitles to HTML5 Video.
Cuepoint.js is an open source plugin for adding subtitles to your HTML5 video. You’re free to use it for whatever you want.
Source: cuepoint.org
OATSoft makes the best Open Source Assistive Technology Software (OATS) easy to find.
oats is source code repository for assistive technology software.
OATSoft is dedicated to improving Assistive Technology and computer accessibility through the power of Open Source development techniques.
Assistive Technology Software allows people with disabilities to overcome some of the disabling effects of society and technology, including computer and web accessibility.
Source: oatsoft.org
