Background in Policy and Law
Updated: September 1, 2010
Microsoft® PowerPoint Presentation
- "Accessible Web Design: Background"
- Braillable text description of PowerPoint slide show.
References and Resources
- New York State's Official Policy
New York State Policy, NYS-P08-005: "Accessibility of Web Based Information and Applications" - Section 508
The Federal law requiring that Federal web sites be accessible and that accessibility be a consideration in all E&IT acquisitions.
http://www.section508.gov - Northeast ADA and IT Center at Cornell University
Provides training, technical assistance and materials on the Americans with Disabilities Act and Accessible Information Technology throughout New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
http://www.northeastada.org - AccessIT (National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education)
http://www.washington.edu/accessit - EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information)
http://people.rit.edu/easi/ - NCAM (National Center for Accessible Media), WGBH
http://ncam.wgbh.org/ - WebAIM
- Creating Web Sites from the User's Perspective (Microsoft® Word
Document)
Creating_Web_Sites_From_Users_Perspective.doc - Low Vision Simulation
http://www.webaim.org/simulations/lowvis.html - PowerPoint Accessibility Techniques Tutorial
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/powerpoint/ - Section 508 Checklist for HTML Documents (Adobe® PDF
Document)
Section_508_Checklist.pdf - WAVE
http://www.wave.webaim.org/index.js
- Creating Web Sites from the User's Perspective (Microsoft® Word
Document)