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Accessibility: it's not just the right thing to do; it's the law
Overview: Upcoming changes to the laws enforcing the Americans With
Disabilities Act accessibility requirements will impact our campus by
October 1999. These changes will affect web publications, software
development, and hardware & software procurement standards. This clinic will
review the law and provide information about technologies and programs
available on campus to help university staff comply with ADA requirements.
Guest Speaker: Yasmin Reyazuddin spoke on the issues she confronts as an individual with total vision loss, including frustrations created by html coding which does not interact well with adaptive technology. Also, she is in the process of searching for employment, having just graduated, and is unable to access the University site that lists open positions because that site is on a gopher server. Her reader softward is unable to handle gophers. And accessing the phone jobs line is not the solution since she needs to job number and the only place that is listed is on the gopher server.
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Web Clinic Handouts:
Quicktips for Accessibility
State of Maryland Nonvisual Access Clause
Writing Accessible HTML Documents
Making your Website Accessible
Section 508
Tapping Technology - House Bill 185
Tools
Bobby
A web-based tool that will analyze your web pages for their accessibility
Jaws for Windows 3.3 Reader Demo Download
Screen reader software for Windows 95/98 and NT
Window-Eyes Reader Demo Download
LYNX - Telnet to a UM server, type the following (without the quotes) "lynx url" (url is the web site you want to access)
Lynx Information
NCSA's Text-Only Maker (Tom)
Tom converts graphical web pags in to text-only pages or hybrid text and graphics pages
Important Information URLs on Accessibility:
Authoring Accessible Web Pages by the Public Service Commission of Canada
Campaign for a Non-Browser Specific WWW
Includes accessible web site design links
CITA, Center for Information Technology Accommodation
Office of Governmentwide Policy, Washington, D.C.
Designing WebPages for the Colorblind
Disability Support Services at the University of Maryland
Electronic Curbcuts
World Wide Web Access Pages on Disability Resources
Links to more information and resources
University Universal Design Pages
Maryland Technology Assistance Program: "Tapping Technology"
A monthly newsletter in accessibility issues including adaptive technology product reviews and internet issues
National Federation of the Blind
National Federation of the Blind Guidelines for Web Accessibility
National Federation of the Blind Information Technology Access State Model Bill
TRACE - Designing More Usable Web Sites
A research center at the University of Wisconsin focusing on accessibility issues
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