Useful Links and Tools

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• Introduction to Web Accessibility

• Tips for Getting Started Writing for Web Accessibility

• Quick reference for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: customizable quick reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 requirements (success criteria) and techniques. Check out the filter tab to filter the guidelines to your needs.

• Official W3C Accessibility Standards Overview: includes accessibility guidelines for web content, audio and video, and rich internet applications guidelines, and other advanced internet topics.

• Evaluation tools overview

• Project Enable Resources

• A11y Project: Extensive resource list

• World Wide Access: Accessible Web Design

• Section 508 and Accessibility

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines—for People Who Haven't Read ThemA nice plain English guide

• Techniques and Failures for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0Guide from the W3C working group on accessibility that created the WCAG 2.0 guidelines

• Video Introduction to Web Accessibility and W3C Standards

• Understanding and implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: Directly from the WCAG working group

• Techniques and guidelines for rich internet applications: WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 (Feb 2019).

Accessibility Testing

• Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility: An in-depth accessibility review checklist. As you learn the basics, circle back to this checklist.

• Accessibility Evaluation Tools - An Overview

Articles and e-books

• Web Accessibility for Developers: A more advanced resource for developers used to working with HTML, CSS, and Javascript. (ebook)

• Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Made Easy (ebook)

Screen readers

• ChromeVox screen reader (Chrome extension)

  • Help file: Keyboard shortcuts

• NVDA screen reader for Windows

• How to use Voice Over screen reader for Mac