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Tools for Change - Accessibility

We promised to post the resources that we explored together on Day 2 of the NetSquared conference.  Thanks to all of you who stopped by to share your questions and thoughts about disability access to new tools!  Sorry that it has taken so long, but here is the overview with more detail available as needed.  And please keep in mind as you work through these issues what Angela Glover Blackwell said on Day 1:  As we provide access and solve problems for the most vulnerable among us we will solve unanaticipated problems for all.

Here are general resources about the issues and challenges:

And tools to meet those challenges:

The following standards are used in the US and globally to determine if web sites are designed to be accessible to everyone - including people with disabilities:

  • US federal government standards: Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
  • Global standards, new version is in last call status, your comments are welcome: WCAG 2.0

And more about accessibility specific to Web 2.0, AJAX and Flash

Please let me know if this is useful, if you have questions and any other resources that we can point to.  Thanks!

Comments

great resources

thanks for posting this, Sharron!

Web 2.0 and 508

Sharon and others...

What web 2.0 tools have folks found that are 508 compliant?

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