Articles on Accessibility Issues
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Web-Development Issues
Web blind spots
The disabled community is potentially a big market. So why is it ignored?
http://learn.roguecc.edu/iweb/accessibility/articles/blindspots.htm
Opening Sites to the Visually Impaired Will Benefit Everyone
http://learn.roguecc.edu/iweb/accessibility/articles/vimpaired.htm
Building better site accessibility
http://learn.roguecc.edu/iweb/accessibility/articles/tips.htm
W3C seeks accessible tools
Latest guidelines address the elimination of barriers to
Web site authoring
http://learn.roguecc.edu/iweb/accessibility/articles/accesstools.htm
Making the Web navigable to the disabled
http://learn.roguecc.edu/iweb/accessibility/articles/Howto.htm
Courts clamping down on
disabled-unfriendly sites
http://learn.roguecc.edu/iweb/accessibility/articles/clampingdown.htm
CREN audio archive on web accessibility
http://campustechnology.com/techtalks/
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Legal Issues
Accessibility Primer Page
http://www.icdri.org/accprim.htm
Section 508
http://learn.roguecc.edu/iweb/accessibility/articles/section508.htm
Section 508 and Assistive Technology Act Briefing Sheet
http://learn.roguecc.edu/iweb/accessibility/articles/osu_508_brief.htm
"Information Technology and People with Disabilities:
The Current State of Federal Accessibility"
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/508/report/content.htm
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Misc.
ADEC: American Distance Education
Consortium: Accessibility Issues
http://www.adec.edu/access-issues.html
United States Access Board (ADA) Web Site
http://www.access-board.gov/
Applying the ADA to the Internet: A Web
Accessibility Standard by Cynthia
D. Waddell, JD ADA Coordinator, City of San Jose, CA USA
http://www.consumerlawpage.com/article/ada.shtml
Designing an Accessible World
http://trace.wisc.edu/world
Explore the research by Roadmaps and Rampways on students with disabilities who have successfully
pursued science or engineering degrees.
http://ehrweb.aaas.org/entrypoint/rr/assistive.html