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Accessibility Resources

Abilityhub - Disability and Disabilities Computer Assistive
Technology
http://www.abilityhub.com/

ABLEDATA, Your Source for Assistive Technology Information
http://www.abledata.com/

Academic Network of European Disability Experts (ANED)
http://www.disability-europe.net/

Accessibility Testing and Reporting with TAW3 by Patrick H. Lauke
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/lauke/

Accessible Electronic Content
http://www.unc.edu/webaccess/

Accessible Webpage Design: Resources
http://library.uwsp.edu/aschmetz/Accessible/pub_resources.htm

Accessify.com - The Latest Accessibility News
http://www.accessify.com/

Accessites.org - The Art of Accessibility
http://accessites.org/

Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/

Ai Squared - Magnification and Reading Software for the Vision Impaired
http://www.aisquared.com/index.cfm

Alliance for Technology Access
http://www.ataccess.org/

Americam Sign Language Browser
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/

AnyBrowser.com - Your Source for Browser Compatibility Verification
http://www.anybrowser.com/

Assistive Technologies by Macintosh
http://guide.apple.com/uscategories/assisttech.lasso

AT&T Research Labs - Text To Speech
http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

AudioLiterate - Streaming and Downloadable Free Audiobooks
http://audioliterate.com/

Augmentative Communication and Disabilities
http://www.words-plus.com/

BBC Education Betsie Site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/betsie/

BrowserCam - Screen capture and Remote Access Service for Cross Platform Compatibility Testing
http://www.browsercam.com/

CIC - The Power to Sign Online
http://www.cic.com/

cRANKy - The First Age-Relevant Search Engine
http://www.cranky.com/

Designing More Usable Web Sites
http://trace.wisc.edu/world/web/

Disability Archive UK
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/index.html

DisabilityInfo.gov
http://www.DisabilityInfo.gov/

disABILITY Information and Resources
http://www.makoa.org/index.htm

Disaboom.com - Conecting Millions Touched with Disability
http://www.disaboom.com/

Dive Into Accessibility
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/

DO-IT: Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology
http://www.washington.edu/doit/

DynaVox Technologies - Provider of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Products and Services
http://www.dynavoxtech.com/

E-access Bulletin
http://www.headstar.com/eab/

EASI Access - Equal Access To Software and Information
http://people.rit.edu/easi/

EnableMart - Assistive Technology
http://www.enablemart.com/

Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue44/lauke/

findability.org ambient findability + the design of findable objects a blog by Peter Morville
http://findability.org/

Five Second Test - Simple Usability Tests
http://fivesecondtest.com/

Florida Reading and Vision Technology
http://www.floridareading.com/

Google Accessible Search
http://labs.google.com/accessible/

Herdict Web - Documenting Web Site Accessibility
http://www.herdict.org/web/

Human-Computer Interaction - HCI - Andrew Sears
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~asears/

HumanWare
http://www.humanware.com/

IBM Accessibility Center
http://www-306.ibm.com/able/

IE NetRenderer - Website Rendering Checker
http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php

iSpeech - Listen To Anything That You Used To Read
http://www.ispeech.org/

Learning Disabilities Online
http://www.ldonline.org/

LoudLit.org - Literature for Your Eyes and Ears
http://www.loudlit.org/

Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/index.html

Microsoft Accessibility
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/

Mid Illinois Talking Book Center
http://www.mitbc.org/

National Center on Disability & Journalism (NCDJ)
http://ncdj.org/

Navflow - Quick and Easy Navigation Testing for Your Mocks and Wireframes
http://www.navflow.com/

NextUp.com - The Power of Spoken Audio - Text To Speech Software
http://www.NextUp.com/

NVDA - Free and Open Source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows OPerating System
http://www.nvda-project.org/

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
http://usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html

Resources for Accessible Web Development
http://knowbility.org/air-interactive/?content=resources

Robots.Txt Checker - Validator for Robots.txt Files
http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml

SERI - Special Education Resources on the Internet
http://www.seriweb.com/

SIGCHI - ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/

Skill: National Bureau for Students With Disabilities
http://www.skill.org.uk/

The Center for an Accessible Society
http://www.accessiblesociety.org/

The Deaf Resource Library
http://www.deaflibrary.org/

The Rowan Organization - Supporting Independence Through Choice
http://www.therowan.org/

The Web Standards Project
http://www.webstandards.org/

TechDis
http://www.techdis.ac.uk/

Text-to-Speech Synthesis
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/

UPDATE - Scotland's National Disability Information Service
http://www.update.org.uk/

UsabilityNet
http://www.usabilitynet.org/

Usable Web
http://www.usableweb.com/

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Usability
http://usability.gov/index.html

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design
http://www.useit.com/

Vcom3D - Sign Language and Training Software
http://www.vcom3d.com/

Viewport Resizer - Browser Based Tool to Test Any Website's Responsiveness
http://lab.maltewassermann.com/viewport-resizer/

Vischeck - Color Blindness Simulator
http://www.vischeck.com/

Vision Technology Freedom Machine - The Everything Video Magnifier
http://www.visiontechnology.com/

WAVE 3.5 Accessibility Tool (development version)
http://dev.wave.webaim.org/index.jsp

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Web Accessibility Tools Consortium [WAT-C]
http://www.wat-c.org/

Web Accessibility Verifier - A-Prompt Project
http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/

WebAIM - Web Accessibility in Mind
http://www.webaim.org/

WebABLE
http://www.webable.com/

Web Page Accessibility Questionnaire for Component Web Contacts - Section 508 Self-Evaluation
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/508/web.htm

Web Site Accessibility and Accessible Format
http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/links/WebpgAccess.htm

Web Style Guide - 2nd Edition
http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html

WebWord - Usability and Human Factors for the Internet
http://www.webword.com/

WordTalk - Free Text-To_Speech Plugin for Microsoft Word
http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/




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Finding People
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Genealogy Resources
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Green Files
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Grid, Distributed and Cloud Computing Resources
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Healthcare Resources
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Information Futures Markets
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Information Quality Resources
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International Trade Resources
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Internet Alerts
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Internet Demographics
http://www.internetdemographics.info/

Internet Experts
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Internet Hoaxes
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Intrapreneurial Resources
http://www.IntrapreneurialResources.info/

Journalism Resources
http://www.JournalismResources.info/

Knowledge Discovery
http://www.knowledgediscovery.info/

Military Resources
http://www.MilitaryResources.info/

New Economy Analytics, Resources and Alerts
http://www.NewEconomyAnalytics.com/

Outsourcing/Offshoring Information and Resources
http://www.OutsourcingOffshore.us/

Privacy Resources
http://www.PrivacyResources.info/

Reference Resources
http://www.ReferenceResources.info/

Research Resources
http://www.researchresources.info/

RestStress™
http://www.RestStress.com/

Script Resources
http://www.ScriptResources.info/

ShoppingBots
http://www.ShoppingBots.info/

Social Informatics
http://www.SocialInformatics.net/

Statistics Resources and Big Data
http://www.statisticsresources.info/

Student Research
http://www.studentresearch.info/

Theology Resources
http://www.TheologyResources.info/

Tutorial Resources
http://www.TutorialResources.info/

World Wide Web Reference
http://www.WWWReference.info/

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