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Towards Accessibility for Cognitive, Language and Learning Disabilities

This QuickSheet provides a summary of key documents that can aid in gaining a better understanding of accessibility strategies for Cognitive, Language and Learning Disabilities

Open Accessibility Personalisation Extension

The Open Accessibility Personalisation Extension (OpenAPE) is a web service to exchange context information in order to personalize all kind of electronic devices and services. It also provides a service to up- and download reusable user interface components. Furthermore, it provides a recommendation service for personalized user settings. OpenAPE is the reference implementation of ISO/IEC 24752-8.

The demo service is available at:

http://openape.gpii.eu   

Getting Started with Web Accessibility in Vue

Short article presenting some accessibility concepts, fixes and implementations using Vue, plus some useful resources for those who are interested.

Web Resources

This is a collection of resources for web accessibility, including key places which provide a large number of such resources.

Social Media Accessibility

This is an introduction to social media accessibility, including identification of common accessibility issues and features offered by each social media platform to make your posts more accessible.

Making Images Accessible (Alt text and more)

Using images in web sites automatically introduces accessibility issues for some people, who are unable to see them, but at the same it could be an accessibility facilitator for others. Read more about how to use images in web sites at their best potential, and how to make sure that they are accessible for all.

Overview of Web Accessibility

This is a short overview of web accessibility, including a discussion about the potential benefits for all web users.

Digital Outcasts: Moving Technology Forward without Leaving People Behind

The book addresses key trends in technology and their relevance to forgotten populations. Example case studies include: iPad apps for cognitive therapy, increased utility of virtual worlds, the use of video games to improve patient adherence, support programs through mobile platforms, the rise of Web accessibility, and the impact of federal regulations on the digital marketplace.

Accessibility for Everyone

You make the web more inclusive for everyone, everywhere, when you design with accessibility in mind. Let Laura Kalbag guide you through the accessibility landscape: understand disability and impairment challenges; get a handle on important laws and guidelines; and learn how to plan for, evaluate, and test accessible design. Leverage tools and techniques like clear copywriting, well-structured IA, meaningful HTML, and thoughtful design, to create a solid set of best practices.

Strategic IT Accessibility: Enabling the Organization

This is the first book on IT accessibility that approaches the subject from the business side. It deals with the enablement of an organization rather than the technical enablement at a coding level. Unlike the typical piecemeal approach used by many organizations today, this book provides those in both the private and public sector with a strategic view of IT accessibility through an understanding of the diversity of moving parts and what is needed to enable and maintain them from program initialization and over the long term.

Apps For All: Coding Accessible Web Applications

Accessibility is not just about addressing specific disabilities, but making sure as many people as possible have access to the same information. There’s rarely a good reason to lock people out when openness is a foundational principle of the web.

A Web for Everyone - Designing Accessible User Experiences

If you are in charge of the user experience, development, or strategy for a web site, A Web for Everyone will help you make your site accessible without sacrificing design or innovation. Rooted in universal design principles, this book provides solutions: practical advice and examples of how to create sites that everyone can use.

Readability

Learn more about readability, formulas and tools used to measure written text readability.

Keyboard Accessibility

Find out how to be sure your website or web application works with the keyboard alone.

Introduction to Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)

The Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) specification defines roles, states, and properties that should be used to provide semantics in languages where they may not be available. Assistive technologies, such as screen readers, use what ARIA offers in order to communicate with browsers to present information about the status of interactions, and the like. As a result, WAI-ARIA is especially important to consider when creating dynamic content.

Web Accessibility Standards

There are a number of standards that can be considered, depending on whether you are creating a static or dynamic web site, an authoring tool, or perhaps even a PDF document.

Accessibility for everyone

You make the web more inclusive for everyone, everywhere, when you design with accessibility in mind. Let Laura Kalbag guide you through the accessibility landscape: understand disability and impairment challenges; get a handle on important laws and guidelines; and learn how to plan for, evaluate, and test accessible design. Leverage tools and techniques like clear copywriting, well-structured IA, meaningful HTML, and thoughtful design, to create a solid set of best practices.

Semantics and Web Accessibility

Find out why making correct use of semantic markup is important for web accessibility.

Focus Management

Find out how to manage focus on a webpage or in a web application.

HTML Document Organization

This is a quick overview of the main concepts guiding the development of well organized html documents.