Annotated WWW Resource List.

This is a small sampling of the resources available on the World Wide Web (WWW). Each listing is accompanied by a brief description. These sites provide useful information that supports the development of effective, accessible WWW pages. The listing will be updated on a regular basis.

Internet/WWW-General
HTML Information
General Design and Related Issues
Universal Design
Accessibility
Hardware/Software Developers
Government Policies
Assessing Web Pages
Browser Software
Search Engines
Increasing Awareness of Web Sites
NIDRR Grantee Resources

Internet/WWW-General.

Web Design Group
http://www.htmlhelp.com/
The Web Design Group was founded to promote the development of non-browser-specific, non-resolution-specific, creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide.

World Wide Web Primer
http://www.frii.com/~gnat/ideas/www-primer.html
Written in 1994 by Nathan Torkington, this primer still provides a good general overview of the Web.

WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation
http://oneworld.wa.com/htmldev/devpage/dev-page.html
This resource page is maintained by SingNet and hosted by OneWorld Information Services.

HTML Information.

A Beginner's Guide to HTML
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
The NCSA Beginner's Guide is still the most frequently requested file on NCSA's Web

HTML Overview
http://www.ora.com/oracom/inet/html.html
by Russ Jones from Managing Internet Information Services, O'Reilly & Associates, 1st Edition December 1994 (discontinued).

General Design and Related Issues.

Computers and the Disabled
http://www.cmptv.com/computerchronicles/shows/96-97/1424/1424.html [Inactive Link 10/2002]
This episode of Computer Chronicles highlights various perspectives on how computer technology is helping people with physical disabilities to do just about anything. (Show# 1424, Original Air Date: 3/3/97)

Internet World
http://www.internetworld.com/
Internet World, published monthly by Mecklermedia in Westport, Conn., began as a newsletter and became a full-color newsstand magazine in September 1993.

Good, Bad, and Ugly Pages
http://www.internetworld.com/print/monthly/1996/04/bottom.html
This article from Internet World 7 (4) April, 1996, by Joel Snyder looks at planning before launching a web site, and errors to avoid.

Serving Government
http://www.internetworld.com/print/monthly/1996/01/joeuser.html
Andrew L. Jaffee describes the Florida state legislature's process to design its Web site to give residents online access to all state documents. Internet World 7 (1) January, 1996.

Universal Design.

The Benton Foundation
http://www.benton.org/
The Benton Foundation promotes public interest values and noncommercial services for the National Information Infrastructure through research and policy analysis, outreach to non-profits and foundations, and print, video, and online publishing.

Universal Service and the Information Superhighway
http://www.benton.org/Library/Universal/brief1.html
(briefing paper)

The Benton Foundation's Universal Service and Universal Access Virtual Library
http://www.benton.org/Policy/Uniserv/
(extensive listing of publications)

Universal Accessibility - A Matter of Design
http://www.prodworks.com/ua_9606.htm
Copy of presentation materials by Ray Ingram, June, 1996. Copyright ©1996, The Productivity Works, Inc.

Universal Design
http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/built_env/builtenv.htm
The Center for Universal Design, part of the School of Design at North Carolina State University, is a national research, information, and technical assistance center that evaluates, develops, and promotes accessible and universal design in housing, buildings, and related products.

Accessibility.

Accessible Web Page Design
http://www.eskimo.com/~jlubin/disabled/web-desi.htm
Copyright (c) 1994-1996 by Jim Lubin. Links to information on accessible Web page design, testing your Web page for accessibility, graphics, and on-line design discussions; also links to other disABILITY information and resources.

Accessible Web Page Design
http://www.igs.net/~starling/acc/
Copyright ©1997, Starling Access Services. Links to guidelines for making Web page components accessible; links to other resources.

General Design Tips
http://www.igs.net/~starling/acc/acgen.htm

Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
The University of Toronto's ATRC promotes the integration of alternative access systems throughout the information technology infrastructure.

Web Access
http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/rd/access/waccess.html

HTML Commandments
http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/rd/html/commandments.html
Guidelines for writing accessible HTML.

Alliance for Technology Access (ATA)
http://www.ataccess.org/
The ATA is a network of community-based resource centers dedicated to providing information and support services to children and adults with disabilities, and increasing their use of standard, assistive, and information technologies.

Designing Access To WWW Pages
www.ataccess.org/ATResourceLibrary/WWW%20Access/default.html [Inactive link 10/02]

Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
http://www.cast.org/
Founded in 1984, CAST is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to expand opportunities for individuals with disabilities through innovative computer technology.

Issues of Web Design
http://www.enetdigest.com/design/design.html
Copyright Kathy E. Gill. Created 27 April 1996 - Last Updated 7 October 1997. Background and procedures on multiple browser compatibility and resource links.

National Center to Improve Practice
http://www.edc.org/FSC/NCIP/
The National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education Through Technology, Media, and Materials (NCIP) promotes the effective use of technology to enhance educational outcomes for students with sensory, cognitive, physical, and social/emotional disabilities.

Accessibility of this Site
http://www.edc.org/FSC/NCIP/Accessibility.html
Describes NCIP's design strategies to make their Web site accessible for all users.

< http://bucky.aa.uic.edu/Mosaic [inactive link 9/2002]>NCSA Mosaic Access Page
http://bucky.aa.uic.edu/
Mosaic is one of the first Internet information browsers and World Wide Web clients, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. This page presents Mosaic's disability access efforts.

WebABLE!
http://www.yuri.org/webable/
Now located at the Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation Web site, WebABLE! is a Web directory for disability-related Internet resources.

People with Disabilities Can't Access the Web by Mike Paciello
http://decweb.ethz.ch/WWW6/Workshops/wks003.html [link no longer exists]
(background paper, resource links)

Web Access '97
http://access.www6conf.org/
The theme of the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference, held April 7-11, 1997 in Santa Clara, California is accessibility: Everyone-Everything-Connected. Co-hosted by Stanford University and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).

WWW Consortium
http://www.w3c.org/
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 to develop common standards for the evolution of the World Wide Web.

WWW Accessibility to People with Disabilities A Usability Perspective
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund/access-overview.html
An overview of Web accessibility needs by Jon Gunderson of the Mosaic/Web Access Project.

WWW Browser Access Recommendations
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund/access-browsers.html
A working document by Jon Gunderson to provide browser developers and programmers with specific design recommendations to improve the usability of browsers by people with disabilities.

Hardware/Software Developers.

Microsoft Accessibility and Disabilities
http://microsoft.com/enable/
How the industry giant works with people with disabilities to make its products more useful.

Disability Connection from Apple Computer
http://www.apple.com/education/k12/disability//
The goal of Apple's Worldwide Disability Solutions Group is to change the experience of disability in positive, constructive, and -- where appropriate -- dramatic ways.

IBM Special Needs Systems
http://www.austin.ibm.com/sns/
IBM technology can open doors for achievement and independence and enhance the employability, education, and quality of life of people who have disabilities.

Government Policies.

Center for Information Technology Accommodation
http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/coca/index.htm
CITA (formerly the Clearinghouse on Computer Accommodation-COCA) is located in the General Services Administration. Links are provided to policies and guidelines.

Writing Accessible HTML Documents
http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/cita/
Guidelines with rationale and examples of inaccessible and accessible code.

Universal Information Access on the WWW
http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/cita/
Overview written by Paul Fontaine (June 2, 1995).

Policy Statement on Making Materials and Information Available and Accessible to Individuals with Disabilities
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Sec504/append-d.html
This policy clarifies the obligations of the United States Department of Education under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, to make its materials accessible and available to its disabled customers. (May, 1996)

World Wide Web (WWW) Server Standards and Guidelines
http://www.ed.gov/internal/
Defines the specific standards and general guidelines which the United States Department of Education (ED) uses to make information available on the World Wide Web. (revised March, 1998)

World Wide Webserver of the City of San Jose
http://www.ci.san-jose.ca.us/
The Web site of San Jose, California, was selected as a model City link by the federal CITA.

Disability Access Design Standards
http://www.sjpl.lib.ca.us/archives/events/putnam.htm
Standards are presented and serve as a model for other site developers.

Assessing Web Pages.

W3C Validation Service
http://validator.w3.org/"
World Wide Web Consortium HTML Validator

Bobby
http://www.cast.org/bobby/
Bobby is a graphical Web-based program designed by the Center for Applied Special Technology to help web site designers and graphic artists make their web pages accessible by the largest number of people.

Validators and Document Checkers
http://www.htmlhelp.com/links/validators.htm
This list of links to sites that check for HTML syntax errors is maintained by the Web Design Group.

What does your HTML look like in Lynx?
http://www.miranova.com/~steve/Lynx-View.html (link no longer exists)
Enter the URL of a page at this site and you will see how the page appears to those using the Lynx browser.

Web Page Accessibility Self-Evaluation Test
http://www.psc-cfp.gc.ca/dmd/access/testver1.htm
Developed by the Diversity Management Directorate, Public Service Commission of Canada. You should be able to "score" a Web page's Accessibility Quotient and make the necessary corrections, using this simple self-evaluation test.

WEBTechs HTML Validation Service
http://valsvc.webtechs.com/
An online validator that checks documents and pieces of code against various levels of HTML standards. A reference link is also provided.

Browser Software.

Browserwatch
http://browserwatch.internet.com/
Internet World maintains a list of browser software.

Cyberdog
http://www.cyberdog.apple.com/
Apple's browser for the Macintosh.

Lynx
http://lynx.browser.org/
A text-based browser, Lynx is one of the early products still in use today.

Microsoft Internet Explorer
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/default.htm
The popularity of Explorer, the browser developed by Microsoft, is growing.

Mosaic
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/
Mosaic is one of the first Internet information browsers and WWW clients, and it continues to be used and updated.

Netscape Navigator
http://home.netscape.com/browsers/
Netscape Navigator is currently the most popular browser.

pwWebHear-it
http://www.tsbvi.edu/technology/pwweb.htm
pwWebSpeak was designed and developed by The Productivity Works, Inc. in conjunction with De Witt and Associates, who act as accessibility consultants to the project, and Thomas Edison State College. pwWebSpeak is a trademark of The Productivity Works, Inc. Copyright ©1996, 1997 The Productivity Works, Inc.

Search Engines.

Add an Engine
http://www.internetworld.com/print/monthly/1996/05/engine.html
Eric Richardson describes how to add a search engine to a site and provides links to a number of free and commercial search engines. Internet World (1996, May)

Webcrawler
http://webcrawler.com/

Yahoo (directory)
http://www.yahoo.com/

Search Engine Showdown
http://www.internetworld.com/print/monthly/1996/05/showdown.html
Gus Venditto's article from Internet World tests seven Internet search tools (1996, May).

Increasing Awareness of Web Sites.

Found It On the Net
http://www.internetworld.com/print/monthly/1996/01/found.html
Linda Engelman's column in the Internet World discusses how to attract visitors to your Web site. Make your presence known; promote without offending (1996, January).

How <comp.infosystems.www.announce> works (FAQ)
http://boutell.com/~grant/charter.html
This moderated newsgroup exists so people can publicize non-commercial Web-based resources (December 1997).

Submit It!
http://www.submit-it.com/
A popular free or paid service for sending URLs to search engines and directories.

NIDRR Grantee Resources.

This section highlights a sampling of NIDRR grantees with information available on the WWW focusing on aspects of computer communication accessibility.

Access to Disability Data (InfoUse)
http://www.infouse.com/disabilitydata/
InfoUse specializes in the development of health, disability and rehabilitation information using computer technology.

Accessibility Issues, Access to Disability Data
http://www.infouse.com/disabilitydata/addaccess.html
InfoUse and other key national sources have developed materials on principles of accessible design, along with some specific guidelines.

RESNA Technical Assistance (TA) Project and
Assurance of Quality in Assistive Technology Delivery
http://www.resna.org/taproject/index.html
RESNA Technical Assistance Project activities are aimed at facilitating efforts of the nationwide assistive technology programs to reduce barriers to the acquisition of assistive technology devices and services by individuals with disabilities. The Assurance of Quality Project develops quidelines of measurements and standards to determine the most appropriate technology for an individual user and to evaluate the effectiveness of specific applications of technology.

ADA Technical Assistance Coordinator (ADA-TAC)
http://www.adata.org
This contract addresses the needs of businesses, the disability community, and state and local governments in implementing the ADA by utilizing state-of-the-art electronic communication media as well as traditional media outreach.

Center for Universal Design
http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/
The Center for Universal Design, part of the School of Design at North Carolina State University, is a national research, information, and technical assistance center that evaluates, develops, and promotes accessible and universal design in housing, buildings, and related products.

CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/
NCAM develops strategies and technologies to make media accessible to millions of Americans, including people with disabilities, minority language users, and those with low literacy skills.

Trace Center, University of Wisconsin
http://www.tracecenter.org/
The Trace Center is an interdisciplinary research, development and resource center on technology and disability. It is part of the Waisman Center and the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Transforming Inventions Into Products for Persons with Disabilities, AZtech
http://cosmos.ot.buffalo.edu/aztech.html
AZtech is operated by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology Evaluation and Transfer (RERC-TET). Three organizations direct the RERC-TET: The Center for Assistive Technology (CAT) at the University at Buffalo, The Independent Living Center (ILC) of Western New York, Inc., and The Western New York Technology Development Center (TDC), Inc.

West Virginia RRTC: Management of Information and Information Systems in State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies
http://www.icdi.wvu.edu/
WVRRTC activities are seen as a set of challenges to improve rehabilitation services by improving the management of rehabilitation and disability information.

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