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Web Authoring - Accessibility

• Videos about Web accessibility
• Resources For Web designers
• Resources for academic / support staff preparing online materials for Web or VLE

Videos about Web accessibility

• Experiences of Students with Disabilities (from WebAIM, 2 minutes)
• Keeping Web Accessibility in Mind (from WebAIM, 12 minutes)
• Accessibility Law Webcast (from JISClegal, 2 hours)

Resources for Web designers

• WWW Advisory Board Code of Practice: Web based materials
• University Web Training Courses
• Archive of presentations to IPs Forum
• University Accessibility Web page
• The Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 (SENDA)
• Disability Legislation and ICT in Further and Higher Education - JISC Legal Information Service
• Web Access and Inclusion for Disabled People (2004) - A formal investigation conducted by the Disability Rights Commission
• JISC TechDis Service
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - W3C
• Online Overview of the Web Accessibility Initiative - W3C
• WAI Resources - W3C: Introducing Accessibility
• What is Web Accessibility? - W3C presentation
• How people with disabilities use the Web - W3C
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility - W3C
• W3C WAI Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility.
• WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) Resources
• Accessify.com Resources
• Cynthia Says - Web Accessibility checking tool
• WAVE - WebAIM Accessibility checking tool
• JAWS Screen Reader Demo - for checking your pages via a screen reader
• BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer (Betsie)
• LIFT - Online service for FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Please e-mail r.whitfield@bradford.ac.uk for advice

Resources for academic / support staff preparing online materials for Web or VLE

• Inclusivity online resources for Learning and Teaching
• Course - Make your Documents Accessible
• Accessibility documentation
• Microsoft Word Accessibility Techniques - WebAIM
• PowerPoint Accessibility Techniques - Part 1: The Recommended method - WebAIM
• Microsoft Accessibility
• Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Techniques - WebAIM
• How to Create Accessible Adobe PDF Files - Adobe
• Advanced Techniques for Creating Accessible Adobe PDF Files - Adobe
• Blackboard Accessibility
• University Accessibility Web page
• No cost technologies to support teaching and learning - HEA ESCalate
• alert - Accessibility in Learning Environments and Related Technologies
• DEMOS project - Online materials for staff disability awareness
• JISC TechDis Service
• Cynthia Says - Web Accessibility checking tool
• WAVE - WebAIM Accessibility checking tool
• JAWS Screen Reader Demo - for checking your pages via a screen reader

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