The following is a handout from a workshop I attended at the recent conference on the world wide web. It is primarily a compilation of web site addresses that offer accessibility resources. ---------- Designing Accessible Web Pages The goal of universal Web design is to create Web sites which serve everyone regardless of individual needs and abilities and the technology they use to access the Web. The explosion of the World Wide Web has created exciting new ways for doing many things: e.g., to locate and store information, to perform daily living tasks such as ordering groceries or meals, to communicate with others, to read books online, to deliver and receive education. For persons with disabilities, assistive technologies can provide access to these new opportunities provided by the Web, but some aspects of Web design limit the accessibility of a site for a person with a disability. The purpose of this tutorial is to provide a basic understanding of the capabilities of assistive technologies as they relate to Web accessibility; a contextual understanding of access issues in various Web environments; demonstrations of how access issues arise from Web design; information about existing resources for accessible Web design; and, a discussion of developments affecting the future of Web accessibility. The Presenters: Carl Brown Director, High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges, Cupertino. Topic: Speech Recognition: Technology for the Web That Really Works Jerry Kuns HumanWare, Loomis, CA. Topic: Screenreaders, Browsers and the Web: Issues Larry Goldberg Director, CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM), Boston. Topic: Accessible Media for the World Wide Web Crystal Waters Author: Web Concept & Design, San Francisco. Topic: Universal Design is for Everyone Jutta Treviranus Manager, Adaptive Technology Resource Center, University of Toronto. Topic: Accessibility and the Future of the Web Resources General Web Access: Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto: http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/ Trace Research and Development Centre, University of Wisconsin http://trace.wisc.edu/world/web/index.html The Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation: WebABLE http://www.yuri.org/webable/index.html W3C Disabilities Developments http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Disabilities/ Starling Access Services http://www.starlingweb.com National Centre for Accessible Media http://www.boston .com/wgbh/ncam pwWebSpeak: User Interface Design of an Accessible Web Browser http://www.prodworks.com/webpaper.htm Web Video Captioning: Making Moving Clips Accessible http://trace.wisc.edu/text/ext_docs/wgbh/wap/wap.html Captioning and Audio Description on the Web http://www.boston.com/wgbh/pages/ncam/captionedmovies.html Captioning QuickTime Movie Clips on the Macintosh http://www.boston.com/wgbh/pages/ncam/qtcaptionhowto.html VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) Access: Accessibility and VRML http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/rd/vrml/main.html An initial Survey of Reality Modeling Language Access Issues (Draft 1b) http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/rd/vrml/intech001.html#ii The 1st European Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies '96 http://cyber.reading.ac.uk/cyb/ecdvrat96/ Virtual Reality (VR) and Disabilities. http://www.gu.edu.au/aeres/ats/articl15.html Haptic and Tactile Displays: Haptics Community Web Page http://haptic.mech.nwu.edu:80/intro/tactile/ The ASEL Haptic Page http://www.asel.udel.edu/sem/research/haptics/ Tactile-Based Direct Manipulation in GUIs for Blind Users http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi95/Electronic/documnts/videos/hp_bd y.htm The Videotact Exploiting Tactile Perception http://www.execpc.com:80/~unitech/videotac.html Sonification: Soundscapes from "The vOICe"' Seeing with your Ears? http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Peter_Meijer/voice.htm Investigation Into Auditory Displays http://multimedia.pnl.gov:2080/staff/elopresti/ad/ PC Access Project http://www.citi.doc.ca/Citi-Mosaic/Citihome/Programs/TECSOE/Proj ects/ProjectsTECSO.html#pc Java Accessibility: Java Accessibility Project http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/java/java.htm Java Accessibility Questions and Answers http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/java/javaQA.htm Intelligent Agents: IBM Intelligent Agents Home Page http://www.networking.ibm.com/iag/iaghome.html Microsoft Agent: ActiveX Technology for Interactive Software Agents http://www.microsoft.com/workshoop/prog/agent/overview.htm The Java Intelligent Agent Library http://www.bitpix.com/business/main/ialib/ialib.html The Merging of Browser and Desktop: Explorer 4.0: New for '97 http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/fea1196/feature1/wsub2.html Cyberdog and OpenDoc http://cyberdog.apple.com/ Other: Adobe Acrobat/ PDF Accessibility http://access.adobe.com/ Microsoft ActiveX Accessibility http://www.microsoft.com/windows/enable/activex.htm Access to the National Information Infrastructure (NII) http://www.gsa.gov/coca/nii.htm Disability-Related Information: EASI -- Access to Information for Persons With Disabilities http://www.isc.rit.edu/~easi/ Computers and People With Disabilities http://www.isc.rit.edu/~easi/easi/heath.html NCSA Mosaic Access Page: a resource for people with disabilities http://bucky.aa.uic.edu/index.html Blindness Resources: American Foundation for the Blind http://www.igc.apc.org/afb/ National Federation of the Blind http://www.nfb.org/ Welcome to The Canadian National Institute for the Blind http://www.cnib.org/ Deafness Resources: Gallaudet Research Institute (GRI) http://gri.gallaudet.edu/ Closed Captioning Web http://www.erols.com/berke/ Vendor Support: Microsoft Accessibility http://www.microsoft.com/enable/ Apple's Disability Solutions http://www2.apple.com/disability/default.html Education, Research and Development: The DO-IT Program http://weber.u.washington.edu/~doit/ Archimedes Project http://www-csli.stanford.edu/arch/front97.html High Tech Center Training Unit http://www.htctu.fhda.edu/ Western Blind Rehabilitation Center http://www-csli.stanford.edu/arch/GUI/wbrc.html Center On Disabilities http://www.csun.edu/cod/center.html National Center to Improve Practice (NCIP) http://www.edc.org/FSC/NCIP/