Accessible IT
Accessible IT Materials Available
The following is a list of publications addressing a variety of topics on accessible information technology that you can obtain copies of from the Great Lakes ADA and Accessible IT Center:
Are Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) Accessible?
Are Chat Rooms Accessible to People With Disabilities?
How Do Various Courseware Products Differ on Accessibility?
Michigan Virtual University: A Promising Practice in Developing Standards for Online Courses
Accessible Information Technology in Education and Related Terms
Web Accessibility and Individuals with Disabilities in Education: The Legal Issues
Individuals with Disabilities and Web Accessibility at Postsecondary Educational Institutions
What Is Accessible Electronic and Information Technology?
How Does Accessibility Differ Across Operating Systems?
Is Linux Accessible?
California Community Colleges: A Promising Practice for Alternate Media
Accessibility Guidelines
Information Technology Accessibility Policies in States and Higher Education Entities: An Annotated List
Oregon State University: A Promising Practice on Establishing Software Accessibility Guidelines
University of Wisconsin-Madison: A Promising Practice on Development, Articulation, and Support of a Web Accessibility Policy
Which Library Databases Are Accessible?
Are Touch Screens Accessible?
How Can I Tell Whether a Software Application is Accessible?
Is Java Accessible?
Is PDF Accessible?
What Is Rich Media and How Can I Learn More About Its Accessibility?
What Is the Difference Between Open and Closed Captioning?
How Do Cascading Style Sheets Affect Web Accessibility?
How Do I Make my Online PowerPoint Presentation Accessible?
Is Flash Content Accessible?
Is XML Accessible?
Where Can I Locate the Results of Studies that Test the Accessibility of Web Pages?
Additional Accessible IT Information Resource
The National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education, or AccessIT, is a project funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) of the U.S. Department of Education. AccessIT partners with the ten regional Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs) to provide tools, information and resources on accessible information technology to individuals, businesses, public entities, and educational organizations.
Online Course Available - Designing Universally Accessible Web Resources
The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign is offering an online course for web content developers to learn about access issues faced by people with disabilities when using the web. Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP, Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology will teach this course. Developers will learn how web resources can be designed to improve accessibility and how people with disabilities access information on the web using mainstream browsers and specialized assistive technologies like speech renderings. The course will cover the two main standards for web accessibility, the W3C Web Content Accessibility Standards and the Section 508 requirements for web materials. In addition the strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation and repair tools will be presented to help participants understand how to use the available tools to evaluate and repair their web resources.
