Useful Links

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Tools

Web Accessibility Toolbar Toolbar – an excellent tool to help check the accessibility of websites.
http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html

Adobe Dreamweaver Extensions provides a downloadable accessibility validation and reporting tool for Dreamweaver and up. The Accessibility checker will check pages for conformance to the Web Accessibility Initiative's "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Checklist" on all three Priority levels.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=195842.

Vischeck
Colour blindness simulator.
http://www.vischeck.com/

General Websites

BBC Accesibility
http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility

Equality Act 2010– UK Equality legislation.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents

Outlaw.com – contains the popular 'Disabled access to websites under UK law' guide, and news articles relating to accessiblity and the law.
http://www.out-law.com/

Centre for Excellence in Universal Design - Provides a plain English interpretation of the W3C guidelines together with the reasons behind why each checkpoint is important.
http://www.universaldesign.ie/useandapply/ict/itaccessibilityguidelines/web/guidelinesforwebaccessibility

The Web Standards Project – The Web Standards Project website provides advice and information on the implementation of web standards and runs a campaign to encourage browser developers to ensure they adhere to W3C standards for code compliance. For an introduction to the rational behind standards they have an excellent educational FAQ at http://archive.webstandards.org/edu_faq.html.
http://www.webstandards.org

Useit.com – Useit.com provides advice on both accessibility and usability featuring articles and news links.
http://www.useit.com

Web Accessibility Initiative – The W3Cs Web Accessibility Initiative is a good place to start when learning about web accessibility. It offers an excellent resources section, together with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Checklists.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/ - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/ - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 quick reference.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/ – Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html – Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Checklist 1.0
http://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources – The resources section is a good place to start learning.

WebAim – WebAim, the Web Accessibility in Mind Project provides a number of articles, a discussion forum and a number of simulations which is useful for testing websites.
http://www.webaim.org

The Web Design Group are excellent at demystifying the W3C recommendations and providing tutorials on accessible implementations.
http://www.htmlhelp.com

For Developers

A List Apart – resources for people who make websites.
http://www.alistapart.com/

Accessify – Accessify provides up to date accessibility news, advice and resources. It also hosts the Accessify Forum which is an accessibility related discussion group.
http://www.accessify.com
http://www.accessifyforum.com

AskTog – AskTOG by Bruce Tognazzini is perhaps the best place to start learning about human computer interaction (HCI).
http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html

Dive Into Accessibility – Dive Into Accessibility is an online book which discusses accessible design issues and techniques.
http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org

Juicy Studio – Juicy studio provides a repository of useful articles on accessible techniques and practices together with some useful tools to assist developers in creating accessible content.
http://juicystudio.com

W3C Schools – Whilst not specifically about web accessibility this website includes many tutorials on learning HTML, CSS, XML and much more.
http://www.w3schools.com

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