COAP:COAP-2170/week6
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COAP 2170 Week 6 program
Topic: Accessibility
Monday
- Introduction (videos)
- Keeping Web Accessibility in Mind (11.5 min. Flash)
- Experiences of students with Disabilities: Quicktime Windows Media from webaim
- Principles
- WCAG 2.0 at a glance
- WCAG "quick" ref (official)
- WebAIM's WCAG 2.0 Checklist (A PDF version) .... this is more understandable
- Categories of users
- visual, motor, auditory, seizures, cognitive
- Online accessbility testing
- TAW3 online checks WCAG 2.0 compliance at all levels. E.g. our friendly university home page has 431 problems and 93 warnings .....
- WebAim On-line service
- Deque Systems on-line service
- UITest.com. This is an all-in-one service for accessibility, validity and miscellaneous. Enter a URL and the do checking using various other services.
See Accessibility Evaluation Tools at WebAIM for a larger list.
- Designers web browser extensions (some are alternatives to online tools)
- Fangs Screen Reader Emulator, Firefox 2.0 -4.0 extension.
- Assistive technology for browsers
- See web accessibility (no need to install assistive technology for this lesson)