Jon Gunderson
ABSTRACT
For web developers to create functionally accessible web resources they need more than general guidelines and tools that provide them with lists of manual accessibility checks. Web developers need specific web accessibility techniques and tools that help them verify they have correctly implemented the techniques. The techniques also need to support the wider concepts of the web of interoperability and device independence. The CITES/DRES Functional Web Accessibility Best Practices provide developers with specific techniques and requirements to implement Section 508 and W3C WCAG 1.0 requirements. The use of the Functional Web Accessibility Evaluation (FAE) Tool and the Mozilla/Firefox accessibility extension provide free and open source tools to allow developers to verify they have used the best practices.
- Section 508 Information Technology Accessibility Standards http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/standards.htmGoogle Scholar
- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAGGoogle Scholar
- DRES/CITES Web Accessibility Best Practices http://html.cita.uiuc.eduGoogle Scholar
- Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/Google Scholar
- Functional Accessibility Evaluator http://fae.cita.uiuc.eduGoogle Scholar
- Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension http://firefox.cita.uiuc.eduGoogle Scholar
- W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG/Google Scholar
- W3C DHTML Accessibility Roadmap http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/roadmapGoogle Scholar
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- Functional web accessibility techniques and tools from the university of Illinois
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