Accessibility Books
Highlighted Books
Books on Web Accessibility
- Pro HTML5 Accessibility: Building an Inclusive Web
Joshue O Connor; Apress; March 2012; ISBN: 978-1430241942.
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Web
Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory
Compliance
Shawn Lawton Henry, Jim Thatcher, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Richard Rutter,
Christian Heilmann, Cynthia Waddell, Michael R. Burks, Mark Urban, Bruce
Lawson; friends of ED; July 2006; ISBN: 1590596382.
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"Understanding Web
Accessibility", chapter 1 by Shawn Lawton Henry, is
available online. A couple of review comments:
- "...a passionate user advocate who helps the W3C craft its
internationally recognized accessibility standards... There are
smart, insightful tips on working with users..." - Jeffrey
Zeldman
- "...Shawn Lawton Henry’s Understanding Web Accessibility [is]
succinct, well written and entertaining" - Matt Machell
- Universal
Design for Web Applications: Web Applications That Reach
Everyone
Wendy Chisholm, Matt May; O'Reilly Media, Inc.; November 2008; ISBNL
978-0596518738.
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Universal Design for Web Applications from Amazon by following
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- Constructing Accessible
Websites [updated version above, Web
Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory
Compliance]
Shawn Lawton Henry, Paul Bohman, Michael R. Burks, Bob Regan, Sarah J.
Swierenga, Jim Thatcher, Mark D. Urban, Cynthia D. Waddell; Glasshaus;
April 2002; ISBN: 1590591488.
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"...information from an extraordinary collection of accessibility
experts providing outstanding advice every designer should find helpful
and important."
- Bob Regan, Senior Product Manager for Accessibility,
Macromedia
Reviews at http://www.webreference.com/new/020502.html,
http://www.nod.org/cont/dsp_cont_item_view.cfm?viewType=search&contentId=1085 , Amazon,
and slashdot.com,
which says:
Chapter 1 is an introduction to web accessibility. ...this chapter
provides a good overview and presents some compelling arguments for
providing accessible websites. ...they are all sound reasons why it is
in the interests of an organization to think about accessibility.
...This first chapter sets the tone for the whole book. It doesn't
preach about accessibility for the sake of people with disabilities but
rather seeks to convince the reader that accessibility is in their
interests.
- Maximum
Accessibility: Making the Web More Usable for Everyone
John Slatin and Sharron Rush, Addison Wesley Professional, September
2002, ISBN: 0201774224.
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Maximum Accessibility from Amazon by following this
link...
Shawn says: My first response to Maximum Accessibility was great big sigh of joy in discovering that it is in large print so
that I can actually read it without much difficulty. I have only had a
chance to skim through it briefly and see that it provides lots of
examples and anaylsis of current Internet sites. It looks like a very
good addition to the available literature.
- Access by Design: A Guide to Universal
Usability for Web Designers
Sarah Horton; July 2005; ISBN: 032131140X.
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Designers from Amazon by following this link...
- Building Accessible Websites
Joe Clark, New Riders Publishing, October 2002, ISBN: 073571150X.
Outdated.
- Understanding Accessibility
Robert B. Yonaitis, HiSoftware, ISBN: 1-930616-03-1.
(not yet reviewed)
- Web Accessibility for People with
Disabilities
Mike Paciello, CMP Books, October 2000, ISBN: 1-929629-08-7.
Outdated.
- Universal Web Design
Crystal Waters, New Riders Publishing, 1997, ISBN: 1-56205-738-3.
Outdated.
Other Books on Accessibility
- User Interfaces for All:
Concepts, Methods, and Tools (Human Factors and Ergonomics
Series)
Stephanidis, C. (Ed.), Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
January 2001, ISBN 0-8058-2967-9.
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link...
30 chapters separately authored. Targeted to a broad readership
including HCI researchers, user interface designers, computer
scientists, software engineers, Human Factors researchers and
practitioners, and scientists in government, industry, and education.
Includes "Everyone Interfaces" chapter by Gregg Vanderheiden and
Shawn Lawton Henry.
- Inclusive Design Guidelines for
HCI
Colette Nicolle and Julio Abascal (Ed.), Taylor & Francis, 2001,
ISBN 0-7484-0948-3.
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18 chapters separetly authored. Audience for many chapters is
primarily academics and others in the accessibility standards and
guidelines development fields, rather than day-to-day designers and
developers. Includes chapters on telecommunications, public access
terminals (e.g., kiosks), transport, home automation.
- Accessible Technology in Today's
Business
Gary Moulton, LaDeana Huyler, Janice Hertz, Mark Levenson; Microsoft
Press; Aptil 2002; ISBN: 0735615012.
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- Initiatives for Making e-Learning
Accessible
Faulkner Information Services (Author), Faulkner Information
Services, October 2001, ISBN: B000066CXX.
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