Free Online Books on Accessibility

Tweets were recently going around about free online/e-books relating to web accessibility. They point to the web page 6 free online books about web accessibility by Jitendra. I've repeated them here in a simple list and added a Microsoft book and an excerpted chapter by Shawn Lawton Henry from one of the books.

• Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance (Multiple authors, Friends of Ed, 2006)
• Understanding Web Accessibility (Shawn Lawton Henry, 2006) [Chapter 1 of book above]
• Engineering Software for Accessibility (Microsoft, 2009)
• Building Accessible Websites Serialization (Joe Clark, last updated 2007)
• Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design (Shawn Lawton Henry)
• Access by Design (Sarah Horton, 2005)
• Accessible Web Typography – an introduction for web designers (ScotConnect)
• Dive Into Accessibility (Mark Pilgrim, 2002)

Link Roundup - December 2010

Year In Review Links

• Podcast #87: Web Axe 2010 Year in Review
• WebAIM 2010 Year In Review
• W3C #Web #Accessibility Initiative (#WAI) Year in Review by @mediaaccessaus
• Review of top 3 blog posts by Peter Ganza (@pganza)

Main Links

• Top 10 misconceptions about web accessibility
• Don't Lose Your :focus from 24 Ways; how careless CSS can make a site inaccessible
• Typefaces for Dyslexia
• Accessible forms using jQuery’s Validation plug-in from @we_are_nomensa
• Accessibility & HTML5 Today (audio/video) by @johnfoliot
• 7 Tips & Techniques For Multilingual Website Accessibility from @we_are_nomensa
• Blind Students Barred from Online Courses - Penn State & Cornell universities taking heat for inaccessible online courseware
• Cognitive Accessibility Testing from Here's One Solution
• Web Accessibility - don't disable your site by @vavroom
• WebAIM screen reader survey - open through January 10, 2011
• Cognitive #Accessibility Online by Dawn Gregg on Yahoo Accessibility Blog
• Web accessibility presentation from @AquinasWI
• ARIA highlighting Opera extension from @brucel
• Making Your Website Senior Friendly from National Institute on Aging
• I Don't Want to Read More or Click Here from @kmdk
• Text alternatives for images: a decision tree from @Writing4Web
• Cognitive Disabilities and the Web: Where Accessibility and Usability Meet? from NCDAE.org
• Are your HTML emails accessible? - guidelines from RNIB
• JetBlue fined $600K for accessibility issues
• Tutorial on building accessible tabs with ARIA and YUI3 by @IanPouncey (YDN)
• Free online course: Video Captioning Essentials
• Make those links clickable, please! by @joedolson
• Five Accessibility Myths Demolished

Link Roundup - November 2010

• ARIA and Progressive Enhancement (A List Apart)
• Court orders Ottawa to make websites accessible to blind
• Content strategy and accessibility – a natural partnership by @kmdk
• Accessible Audio Player with HTML5 audio & Yahoo Media Player fallback (by @terrillthompson)
• Past Present and Future of Accessible Technology (Tech Doctor Podcast)
• Checklist for Better Forms
• About the European Union (EU) Accessibility Requirements (SSB Bart Group)
• Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality by Tim Berners-Lee
• I Don’t Want to Read More or Click Here - an accessibility rant by @kmdk
• Making Your Website Senior-Friendly
• Is Accessibility Being Overlooked in Favor of Sociability?
• WAI-ARIA States & Properties: Practical Examples
• Travel sites settle New York accessibility investigation (Out-Law)
• Best Free Onscreen Keyboard for both access & security purposes
• 5 top access technology podcasts (not web accessibility podcasts, LOL; see comment 4)
• Understanding Assistive Technology (YouTube video)
• Designing Accessible Technology radio show (with transcript)
• Single Switch Tutorial from the Yahoo accessibility lab
• NFB files complaint against Penn State University for accessibility problems (also NFB Files Complaint Against Penn State University)
• How to code accessible YouTube player controls (Vision Australia)
• Flash Web Accessibility Best Practices preso from Adobe MAX 2010 (video)
• WAI-ARIA: it's accessibility, but not as we know (Media Access Australia)
• Freedom Scientific releases JAWS 12 with contracted Braille support (INDATA)
• Using the HTML title attribute by @stevefaulkner
• Web Accessibility – Alt Text and Long Descriptions (embedded YouTube video)
• "Multilingual Web" a localization & web accessibility (web-based slide presentation)
• The Legal System, Accessibility, and the World Wide Web (US, Michigan)

Addendum (thanks Jennison!)

• The Ghosts of ARIA Present and Future (WebAIM)
• Quick Thoughts On Canadian Legal Ruling (Adobe, Andrew Kirkpatrick)

Link Roundup - October 2010

• Color Blindness Myths and Misunderstandings by @joedolson
• Web Design for Dyslexic Users
• British Standard 8878 on Web Accessibility
• Temple Gate: An Accessible HTML5 WordPress Theme
• Awesome freebie: Web #Accessibility Checklist (POUR) Desktop Wallpaper
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 to 2.0 Transition Cheat Sheet
• JAWS 12 screen reader is released
• What’s new in Acrobat X accessibility (Adobe)
• Accessibility is Not A Feature presentation slides by @uxprinciples from Accessibility Camp DC
• Do CAPTCHAs Block Spam or Your Readers?
• We Haven’t Forgotten About Accessibility, Have We?
• How to Increase Your (Podcast & Blog) Audience Through Accessibility - SlideShare presentation by @podfeet from BlogWorld 2010
• Meeting WCAG 2.0 with Flash
• Disabling JavaScript: Asking the wrong question
• JetBlue airline sued for lack of website and kiosk accessiblity. For updates follow @LFLegal
• All jQuery Mobile components are ARIA accessible
• ARIA Roles 101 - a good, brief introduction
• Top 10 Things CIOs Need to Know About Accessibility
• President Obama Signs Accessibility Act by @awkawk of Adobe
• Testing title attributes as form control labels with screen readers - from Accessible Culture
• Javascript Accessibility Guidelines
• WCAG 2.0 AAA - A Journey Not a Destination by @mgifford
• Aaron Gustafson's presentation Progressive Enhancement with ARIA (Slideshare)

Link Roundup - September 2010

• Bonus! An offer to the HTML5 team to save longdesc by Vlad Alexander at XStandard
• Landmark Technology Access Bill Heads to President Obama's Desk
• Accessibility testing tools (Steve Faulkner, The Paciello Group)
• Response to HTML5 editor on Canvas accessibility (by Rich Schwerdtfeger)
• Adobe’s Andrew Kirkpatrick interviewed on Accessibility in Government (video)
• Accessibility for web writers, part 1: Introduction
• Assistive Technologies for Online Learning
• Web Accessibility day course by RNIB in Edinburgh (Oct) & London (Nov)
• Should Sighted Developers Use Screenreaders To Test Accessibility? (great comments!)
• Using Accessible Twitter With JAWS Screen Reader
• HTML5 Canvas Accessibility in Internet Explorer 9 by@stevefaulkner
• 20 Sites Assessed For Cognitive Web Accessibility
• Top 4 Reasons Why You Need to Address Web Accessibility
• WebAIM Aids eBay Accessibility Efforts
• Blind woman sues Canadian feds over online access
• Very entertaining video explaining closed captions (YouTube)
• Does your website legally need to be accessible? (U.S.)
• Web Design Guidelines for Low Bandwidth
• Web #Accessibility, Structured Negotiations & DOJ Rulemaking
• 10 Tools for Evaluating Web Design Accessibility
• WCAG 2.0 for Usability Specialists presentation (W3C) (April 2010)
• Facebook patent for 'social CAPTCHA' fails on accessibility
• Accessibility and the Law: How good UX can keep you out of court (U.S.)
• Raakt - The Ruby Accessibility Analysis Kit

Link Roundup - August 2010

• HTML5 Issue: Longdesc Retention (W3C wiki)
• Raakt - The Ruby Accessibility Analysis Kit
• Accessible ARIA Tabs by @jkiss
• UStream videos from Montreal accessibility conference (#a11yMTL)
• Developing an Accessible Star Ratings Widget (YUI blog)
• Report Finds Five U.S. State Benefits' Websites Inaccessible (COAT)
• Ten tools to help test website accessibility
• Accessibility in Online Teaching - a great starting point
• How the Blind See the Internet (Gizmodo)
• Using NVDA screen reader to Evaluate Web Accessibility (WebAIM)
• Creating Your Own Accessible HTML5 Media Player by @terrillthompson
• Accessing Nav Drop-Downs
• Preparing InDesign Files for Accessibility (Adobe TV)
• Access Key Replacement (W3C wiki)
• CSSquirrel demos longdesc attribute in non-visual comic Alone In The Pitch Black Dark
• Accessibility Camp DC registration is open; event is October 9 at MLK Library
• YUI Theater: Accessibility on the Yahoo Homepage
• College Web Pages Are 'Widely Inaccessible' to People With Disabilities
• Web accessibility for cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties (Opera)
• Silverlight Accessibility Overview (Microsoft)
• Twitter and Web Accessibility presentation from INDATA Conference by @dennisl
• Caption any 5-minute YouTube video for $5
• Great list of free screen readers
• Video about Yahoo's Accessibility Lab featuring Alan Brightman

Link Roundup - June 2010

• Simple Free Online Caption Creator for YouTube Videos
• Australian Government releases Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy
• Open Web Camp 2010 at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, July 17 (Free)
• Assistive Technology Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 29-30 (Free)
• Online version of book Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design
• 50+ Reasons to Use VoiceOver (from Apple)
• AJAX and the Problem of Web Accessibility by @JoeDolson
• HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives (W3C)
• How NOT to use the HTML title attribute by @ianpouncey (from January)
• Forthcoming Updates on Federal Section 508 Rules by @JoeDolson
• Chrome explains its partial screen reader support
• Princeton University and learning disabled student settle suit
• Blind students sue four California law schools over inaccessible online applications
• What AT devices announce when encountering ARIA roles
• AViewer beta - new accessibility checker tool from The Paciello Group
• Making JavaScript Accessible slides presented by @dennisl at Bayjax meetup
• How to get started on Twitter with JAWS - CNIB blog by @mcourcel
• Examples of Inaccessible Web Design
• Sign petition for Google to make Chrome screen reader accessible
• Features of a Cognitively Accessible Web Site
• How to Use HTML, CSS and JavaScript in an Accessible Manner
• Web Accessibility and WAI-ARIA Primer by @emilylewis
• Writing text alternatives for maps
• Future Web Accessibility: SVG from WebAIM
• List of Twitter clients for persons with disabilities
• U.S. Departments of Justice and Education tell college/university presidents that required electronic book readers must be accessible

Link Roundup including CSUN - March 2010

Another set of great links on web accessibility for March 2010. In addition, see below for post-CSUN links, roundups and presentations!

• Be Kind to the Color Blind - ColourLovers
  
• Why Captioning? - Stanford University
  
• Stop Using JAWS for Web Accessibility Testing? - Clear Helper
  
• Making the mobile internet accessible for all - ComputerWeekly
  
• NCAA college basketball tournament bracket - Terrill Thompson
  
• Problems with CAPTCHA and audio CAPTCHA alternative - groups.drupal
  
• What Is A Braille Display And How It Is Used - Even Grounds
  
• Call for speaker proposals for "13th Annual Accessing Higher Ground" conference. First round due April 2.
• Why websites shouldn't accommodate disabled users - by Pete Love (e.g. use universal design)
• Accessibility Review: Target.com - by Joe Dolson (post lawsuit)
• Screen Readers And WAI-ARIA Landmark Roles - Léonie Watson
  
• Variations on Ginader's [Awesome] Accessible Tabs - Accessible Culture
  
• Accessibility of Links by Steve Grobschmidt
• Web Accessibility Preferences Are For Sissies? - WebAIM
  
• Boston Accessibility Unconference is May 15
• Web Accessibility Fears and Ways to Conquer Them - Even Grounds
  

CSUN Summaries

• CSUN Conference 2010 - great summary by Nicholas Zakas
  
• Insights into the 25th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference - The DAISY Planet
• CSUN 2010 recap - Marco of Mozilla
• More Audio Coverage of CSUN 2010 - Blind Bargains [no transcriptions]
• CSUN photos from Dennis - a dozen or show snapshots

CSUN Presentations

• Stanford Captioning System: A Workflow Model for Producing Captioned Media - includes link to PDF of presentation
  
• Download the Adaptech presentation on social media use & accessibility; view the entire survey, too.
• Importance of Accessibility for a Successful and Future-Proof Business - Artur Ortega of Yahoo
• Accessibility of Twitter - by and Joseph O'Connor and Dennis Lembree

Addendum

• Adobe Slides from CSUN 2010 Talks
• DAISY Consortium's Presentation at CSUN (captioned video)
• Point-and-Chat info and presentations (AAC application)
• Presentations from WebAIM - great stuff!