Resources on UI Access

This page primarily lists resources developed by Shawn or that are only available on UI Access. Other resources are listed in:

Accessibility Resource Links is a printable a list of over 100 categorized, annotated links to other accessibility resources

Introductions

About Web Accessibility is an overview of accessibility and how it fits into your business, introducing a definition of accessibility, how accessibility can increase business, legal activity, and technical advances
Usable Accessibility defines "usable accessibility" as going meeting minimum technical accessibility standards to ensure that the Web site is usable by people with disabilities
Another –ability: Accessibility Primer for Usability Specialists discusses the relationship between accessibility and usability in product design, presents a definition of accessibility, and introduces the concept of ‘usable accessibility.’
Myth: Text-Only Versions clarifies that text-only versions is rarely the answer to accessibility
Myth: Accessible Sites are Plain states that accessible sites can be visually-appealing
Books on Web Accessibility

Adapting the Design Process to Address More Customers in More Situations
Managing Accessibility In Technology: Bringing Together People, Processes, and Techniques For Successful Implementation - book draft online

Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools Need People discusses the need for knowledgeable human evaluation along with automated tools
Usability screening techniques: evaluating for a wider range of environments, circumstances and abilities

On Scalable Text explains issues, guidelines, and options for providing scalable text by using relative text size (rather than absolute text size) and making textual information text (rather than images)
On Spawned Windows explains issues, guidelines, and options for opening new browsers windows when users select a link

Comparison of EITAS Paragraphs and WCAG Checkpoints (PDF) lists the technical standards of the Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards (EITAS) and compares the EITAS web standards with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG) from the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
U.S. Legal Activities on Web Accessibility - provides a summary of the applicability of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to web accessibility
Canadian Legal Activities on Web Accessibility - coming soon
About the UK DDA - addresses the applicability of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to web sites
About the Australian DDA - addresses the applicability of the Australia's Disability Discrimination Act 1992 to web sites
About the European Union and Web Accessibility - coming soon