Accessibility Tutorials

Web Accessibility Course

Accessibility Course by Jim Thatcher

Work your way through this course applying as much as you can to your web pages.

The Online Resource section of Jim's course is excellent.


Online Books

Dive Into Accessibility Mark Pilgrim's Accessibility book.

Creating an Accessible Website by Angela Brannon is another excellent resource.

Building Accessible Websites Joe Clark's excellent book.

Available online. For a no-nonsense, practical guide to Acessibility read this book, then go out and buy it and read it again.

Tutorial on Accessibility

Below is a list of mainly Australian resources, many of which relate to website accessibility.
You should work your way through the tutorial mentioned below then apply as much as possible to your website.

Accessibility Tutorial Australian Tutorial.


Australian Guidelines and Checklists

There are a series of downloadable word documents covering Guidelines and Checklists available on the topics listed below.

Australian Guidelines and Checklists - http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/accessequity/guidelines/guidelines.htm

Guidelines

Criteria for Developing an Enabling Course for Access to Information and Communications Technologies

Everyone Online: Access and Equity in e-Learning tutorial (web site)

Guides to Universal Design of e-Learning for Managers and Practitioners

e-Learning Guidelines for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Learners

Student Tips for Online Learning

Tips For Web Developers Meeting The Priority 1 W3C Guidelines

Website Accessibility: Overview and Guidelines

Checklists

Checklist for developing Indigenous e-Learning resources

Check Sheet For Managers

Everyone Online Check Sheet

IT Induction Check Sheet

Online Student Services Check Sheet

Accessibility Demonstration

1. Accessibility Demo A demonstration put together by the WCAG people.

Examines an accessible and inaccessible version of the same site.
It includes an Accessiblity Evaluation Report which could be used as the basis for your own Accessibility Report.


Exercise

1. Select a website and produce an Accessibility Evaluation Report.