Accessibility Tips and How To's

You don't have to be a computer programmer or a full-time Web developer guru to create more accessible online documents. Here are some tips to make your own site more disability friendly.

• WebAIM non-profit organization within the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University -- still the best place to get information about creating accessible online documents
• Evaluate your site for accessibility
• Making Your Blackboard Site More Accessible for students with disabilities
• Basic ideas for making your online documents more accessible: by Bill Straub, College of the Redwoods High Tech Center
• Making online math more accessible
• accesselearning 10 free online modules to help make distance education more accessible for individuals with disabilities
• Download a free Microsoft FrontPage 2003 accessible template or Microsoft FrontPage 2000/2002 accessible template to automatically include a DOCTYPE in your HTML documents
• Adobe PDF documents -- providing access
• BLOGs -- How to Make Your Blog Accessible to Blind Readers
• Include a DOCTYPE as the first line of every web page
• Creating More Accessible Tables -- including a simple example of how to do it
• Creating Accessible Tables from webaim.org
• Creating Accessible Forms from webaim.org
• Better Accessible Forms from accessify.com
• Creating accessible pop-up windows from accessify.com
• Accessible Design "How-To´s" Examples from the University of Toronto 
• Using Cascading Style Sheets for rollover buttons 
• Introduction: WAI Web Content Accessibility Curriculum
• Accessible Web Design from the High Tech Center Training Unit
• Design Guidelines for making  math and science web sites accessible
• Making Your Site Accessible from University of Arizona
• http://www.webable.com/
• Test your pages with Lynx, a text-based web browser simulation
• Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to create more accessible Web pages
• Universal Web Accessibility from Santa Monica College
• Microsoft Word and accessibility issues
• MIT Web accessibility guidelines
• Web page accessibility standards at CR

Multimedia:

• Captioning of online videos
• Podcasts -- creating accessible
• Microsoft Power Point WWW Publishing Accessibility Wizard -- accessibility tool for PowerPoint and Microsoft Office
• MAGpie -- download the free "Media Access Generator" software for captioning online videos
• How to use MAGpie 2.01 (in PDF format) -- you will need the free Adobe Reader software to access this file)
• Subtitle Workshop freeware subtitle editing tool
• Adobe PDF documents -- providing access
• Adobe Flash -- accessibility issues
• PowerPoint presentations and accessibility issues