Web+Accessibility

[|W3.org] World Wide Web Consortium develops guidelines, tools, and software to guide the development of web pages

[|W3Schools.com] is a free service that provides web-building tools to create websites from basic to advanced commands.

[|Webxact] is a site that evaluates the quality and accessibility of web pages.

http://ncam.wgbh.org/index.html National center for accessible media. Has resources for close captioning etc.

JAWS is made by Freedom Scientific and can be found on their website http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/JAWS_HQ.asp Here you can find out about the latest updates and technical information for JAWS 8.0

Jaws has several personal [|notetakers] found here, some examples include: mimic, graph it, Book-Em, and V-term.

The [|Pac Mate] is found on this Jaws webpage. This is the notetaker that Liz showed us in the Udel library

WebAIM ( web accessibility in mind) is an initiative of Utah State University and provides good resources and discussions on web accesibility http://www.webaim.org/

http://www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/OfficeOfThePresident/PIO/Publications/accessibility.htm This website portrays an example of a college which is making efforts for the special needs students to have access to the web by applying the web accessibility initiative ( WAT). The web shows the type of services offered and eligibility.

http://www.skill.org.uk/shared/accessibility.asp This website argues that most websites in the internet are inaccessible to blind people. The writer suggests that for the internet websites to be screened and read by the screen reader, the internet services need to follow the initiatives of WAI. But many sites do not follow the guideline hence denying of information and services to millions of people. http://www.phschool.com/about_ph/web_access.html This web talks about how students with disabilities can access the web by using the features in the computer.