The State of South Carolina is committed to providing accessibility to state government Internet based resources. South Carolina state government web sites shall be designed to be accessible, so that people with disabilities have access to on-line information, data and services comparable to that accorded individuals who do not have disabilities. To this end, the state of South Carolina has issued a web accessibility Policy and Transition plan which is located at: www.cio.sc.gov/SCEA/Web-Accessibility-Policy.pdf

A Web Accessibility Standard is available at: www.cio.sc.gov/SCEA/Web-Accessibility.pdf

South Carolina Web Accessibility provides information on upcoming training, tutorials, and accessibility information at www.access-sc.org

Websites

WebAIM - Web Accessibility in Mind - http://www.webaim.org
This site contains a wealth of accessibility information including tutorials, simulations of various disabilities, legal information, checklists, discussion group, and much more.

South Carolina Web Accessibility Training Resources
This site contains accessibility standards, training and resources.
http://www.access-sc.org

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - http://www.w3.org/

 •Web Accessibility Initiative - http://www.w3.org/WAI/

 •Web Content Accessibility Guidelines -
  http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/wai-pageauth.html#Guidelines

 •Getting Started - http://www.w3.org/WAI/gettingstarted

 •Accessibility Features of Cascading Style Sheets -
  http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS-access

 •Tables in Accessible HTML Documents -
  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#h-11.4

 •Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility -   http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/existingtools#Evaluation

 •SMIL - http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL-access/

 •Alternative Web Browsing - http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Browsing#1

Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI) - http://www.rit.edu/~easi/

Aware - HTML Writer's Guild - http://aware.hwg.org/

The International Center for Disability Resources - http://www.icdri.org/

WebABLE - http://webable.com

Usability.gov - http://www.usability.gov/accessibility/

Section 508

Section508.gov - http://www.section508.gov/ - Official government site

Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center http://www.ittatc.org/laws/508/index.cfm

Free Online Tutorials

W3C - Curriculum for Web Content Accessibility
http://www.w3.org/WAI/wcag-curric/

WebAIM - http://www.webaim.org/howto/

NOAA - the National Weather Service Tutorial - http://www.nws.noaa.gov/sec508/

ITTATC Web Accessibility Course - http://www.ittatc.org/training/webcourse/

Tools

Bobby - http://www.cast.org/bobby/ - With the online version you submit a URL and a detailed report is given to help web page authors identify accessibility problems. The software can be purchased to download to your computer to test entire sites.

Lynx-me - http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gerald/lynx-me.cgi - Submit your URL to this site and this software shows you how your site appears in a text browser such as Lynx.

Vischeck - http://vischeck.com/index.php3 - Software that simulates colorblind vision.

AnyBrowser.com - http://www.anybrowser.com/ - Provides several tools that allow you to validate your HTML, check your links, see how your site displays in various browsers and screen sizes and much more.

A-Prompt Repair Tool - http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/
This free tool performs a thorough examination of your site and recommends changes. No knowledge of accessibility is needed.

Deja vu - http://www.dejavu.org/ - Online older browser emulator.

Software Support

Adobe - http://access.adobe.com/ - This web site provides tools and information to help make Adobe PDF files accessible to users with visual disabilities.

Microsoft FrontPage 2000 - http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/content/articles/accessibility.html - Information on making FrontPage 2000 pages accessibility

Apple Easy Access - http://www.apple.com/disability/

IBM Special Needs System - http://www-3.ibm.com/able/

Macromedia - http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/

Captioning of Audio and Video Files

Authoring tool provided by Real Networks - http://www.smilgen.org/index.html

MAGpie - http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/

Article on SMIL - http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1998/09/bouthillier/

Microsoft's Sami

Discussion Groups

Content to come.

Cognitive Disabilities

Clear Language and Design Reading Effectiveness Tool - http://www.eastendliteracy.on.ca/clearlanguage
anddesign/readingeffectivenesstool/

Fry's Readability graph - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/fry/fry.html

Fog index - http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~comm300/mary/fogindex.html

Books

http://www.access-sc.org/resources.shtml

 

 

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