This section of Designing a More Usable World is dedicated to cooperative efforts linked toward building a more usable Web for all.
College of Information Studies Room 4105 Hornbake Bldg, South Wing 4130 Campus Drive College Park, MD 20742 Voice: (301) 405-2043 Email: info@trace.wisc.edu
Website:
https://trace.umd.edu/
https://trace.umd.edu/
DO-IT serves to increase the success of individuals with disabilities in challenging academic programs and careers. It promotes the use of computer and networking technologies to increase independence, productivity, and participation in education and employment. * Promotes the application of universal design to physical spaces, information technology, instruction, and services.
* Distributes publications and videos to freely reproduce for presentations and exhibits.
* Provides resources for students and veterans with disabilities, K-12 educators, postsecondary faculty and administrators, librarians, employers, and parents and mentors.
DO-IT
University of Washington
Box 354842
Seattle, WA 98195-4842
Voice: (206) 685-DOIT (3648)
Toll free:(888) 972-DOIT (3648)
TTY: (509) 328-9331 voice/TTY Spokane
Fax: (206) 221-4171
Email: doit@uw.eduWebsite:
http://www.washington.edu/doit/
http://www.washington.edu/doit/
This course is designed for website developers who have an interest in incorporating accessible design features into their pages.
International Web Association
556 S. Fair Oaks Ave. #101-200
Pasadena, California 91103
Voice: (626) 449-3709
Fax: (626) 449-8308Website:
http://hwg.org/
http://hwg.org/
Purpose
Microsoft® Active Accessibility® 2.0 is a COM-based technology that improves the way accessibility aids work with applications running on Microsoft Windows®. It provides dynamic-link libraries that are incorporated into the operating system as well as a COM interface and application programming elements that provide reliable methods for exposing information about user interface elements.
Website:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms697707(VS.85).aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms697707(VS.85).aspx
NCAM's mission is to expand access to present and future media for people with disabilities; to explore how existing access technologies may benefit other populations; to represent its constituents in industry, policy and legislative circles; and to provide access to educational and media technologies for special needs students.
National Center for Accessible Media
One Guest Street
Boston, MA 02135
Voice: (617) 300-3400
TTY: (617) 300-2489
Fax: (617) 300-1035
Email: ncam@wgbh.orgWebsite:
http://ncam.wgbh.org
http://ncam.wgbh.org
The links on this page provide a starting point for locating information on government policies relating to Web accessibility in different countries around the world. Information linked from this page may include laws, regulations, policies, directives, government-related standards or guidelines, or implementation guidance which relates to Web accessibility, as well as government speeches, press releases, etc. Links are roughly grouped under the following categories: laws, responsible ministries, relevant documents, discussion, and additional information or comments. Since legal practices, and terminology regarding legal practices, vary from country to country, categorization of information on this page is approximate, not definitive.
Absence of links to policies in a given country does not indicate that that country does not have, or is not in the process of establishing, policies regarding Web accessibility.
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
MIT/CSAIL, Building 32-G530
32 Vassar St
Cambridge, MA 02139
Voice: (617) 253-2613
Fax: (617) 258-5999Website:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/
Digital security is an issue for everyone. This resource provides information for persons with vision loss, hearing loss or a disability on preventing cybercrime and identity theft
55 Washington Street, #322 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Voice: (866) 204-0310 Email: info@security.org
Website:
https://www.security.org/digital-safety/accessibility-guide/
https://www.security.org/digital-safety/accessibility-guide/
Our ultimate goal at Level Access is to create a world where digital systems can be made readily accessible to users with disabilities—enabling digital technology to become a profound empowering force in their lives.
1600 Spring Hill Road, Suite 400 Vienna, VA 22182 Voice: (415) 624-2710 Toll free:1-800-889-9659 Email: info@levelaccess.com
Website:
https://www.levelaccess.com/
https://www.levelaccess.com/
Usablenet Assistive (UA) is an end-to-end web accessibility platform designed to help a company immediately and comprehensively improve web accessibility, compliance, and support for people with disabilities including users of assistive technologies, for example, blind people using screen-reading devices.
Usablenet Assistive creates a dynamically generated, text-only, and accessible (compliant with standards such as ADA, Section 508, W3C, etc) view of a company’s entire web site and services. UA is not a ‘second’ site, but instead creates a dynamic accessible view of the main site that always reflects the most up-to-date content and services. As the main site changes constantly (in the way of enterprise web sites), each and every change is dynamically reflected in the accessible view created by the UA platform.
500 7th Ave, 8th floor
New York, NY 10018
Voice: (212)965-5388
Fax: (212)965-5391
Email: contact@usablenet.comWebsite:
http://usablenet.com/products/web-accessibility
http://usablenet.com/products/web-accessibility
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) works with organizations around the world to develop strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities.
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
MIT/CSAIL, Building 32-G530
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Voice: (617) 253-2613
Fax: (617) 258-5999Website:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) works with organizations around the world to develop strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities.
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
MIT/CSAIL, Building 32-G530
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Voice: (617) 253-2613
Fax: (617) 258-5999Website:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also often make your Web content more usable to users in general.
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
MIT/CSAIL, Building 32-G530
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Voice: (617) 253-2613
Fax: (617) 258-5999Website:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php#is
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php#is
The social value of the Web is that it enables human communication, commerce, and opportunities to share knowledge. One of W3C's primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
MIT/CSAIL, Building 32-G530
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Voice: (617) 253-2613
Fax: (617) 258-5999Website:
http://www.w3.org
http://www.w3.org
