Visual Impairment - web accessibility

October 8, 2002

1. Introduction

2. Video : Web sites that work

3. Look at some sources of information on the web:

Designing web sites that are accessible to all lists the popular sources * including the TechDis Seven Precepts * and the Ten Quick Tips at the WAI *

The Accessibility page in the Keele Web publishing guidelines

The RNIB website 

TechDis - the HE service for all aspects of technology and disabilities *

Dive into Accessibility for a crash course

Access all Areas: disability, technology and learning edited by L Phipps, A Sutherland, J Seale 2002 TechDis ISBN 1-904190-18-9 * (Paper)

Keele University Disability Services as an example of good practice, and information source

4. Case studies:

User cases at Dive Into Accessibility: Jackie and Michael

Students First: The Experiences of Disabled Students in Higher Education (1998) by John Hall and Teresa Tinklin *

5. Try accessibility validation sites on web sites of your choice

Bobby

WAVE

Colour blindness check at Vischeck

6. Try some software

Try lynx at SAILOR (telnet://sailor.lib.md.us)  or the Lynx Emulator

Try Dolphin's Supernova on a PC

7. Issues and unanswered questions

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