Web Accessibility services and resources for producing web sites accessible to people with special needs.

Resources for Enterprise Accessibility

General Introduction to Accessibility

A quick and dirty introduction to accessibility - Contents: General intro to Accessibility issues - including What accessibility is and is not, groups of disabilities, devices and software, four phases of accessibiity development, and quick ways to improve accessibility.
Dive Into Accessibility: Mark Pilgrim's classic on-line book on accessibility. It includes descriptions of 5 disabled users and 30 days of tips on accessibility techniques.

Developers

Accessibility HTML Quick Reference Guide (pdf): A one page printable page with samples of HTML solving common accessibility problems.
Advanced Table Quick Reference Guide (pdf): A one page reference guide with sample code for different techniques of coding tables for accessibility
Techniques: A listing of external articles for useful techniques for accessibility coding.

Quality Assurance Testers

508 Test Tracker: An MS Excel spreadsheet for QA testing projects with the 508 standards and basic testing metrics. Also download the tips for using 508 Test Tracker

What's New

Reviews of Accessibility Testing & Evaluation Tools
508 Test Tracker: An MS Excel spreadsheet for QA testing projects with the 508 standards and basic testing metrics. Also download the tips for using 508 Test Tracker

Recommended Books

Detailed coverage of the 508 requirements including programming examples of scripts and applets. A "must read" for serious web developers working for the U.S. market.

This book has more of a design orientation for creating accessible web sites. Good case studies. Excellent code examples.

Joe is THE expert in captioning.