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Designing for People with Disabilities

• articles discussing designing Web documents for impaired individuals,
• organizations specializing in providing technology to impaired individuals, and
• sites of organizations for individuals with disabilities.

Articles

• DO-IT: Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking & Technology. 1996. DO-IT HTML Guidelines. [Online] Available: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~doit/Resources/design.html
  
  

Fontaine, P. 1995. Writing Accessible HTML Documents. [Online] Available: http://www.yuri.org/webable htmlcode.html



Gunderson, J. World Wide Web Accessibility to People with Disabilities: A Usability Perspective. [Online]. Available: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund/access-overview.html



National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM). Captioning and Audio description on the Web. [Online] Available: http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/captioncenter/



Nielson, J. 1996. Accessible Design for Users with Disabilities. [Online] Available: http://www.eu.sun.com/columns/alertbox/9610.html



Paciello, M., Rubinsky, Y. 1997. People with Disabilities Can't Access the Web. [Online] Available: http://www.yuri.org/webable/mp-pwdca.html



Paciello, M., Rubinsky, Y. Making the Web Accessible for the Blind and Visually Impaired. [Online] Available: http://www.yuri.org/webable/mp-blnax.html



Rice, Judith Cossel. Designing Web Pages for Special Populations. [Online] Available: http://www.byu.edu/ipt/rice/spec_pop/



TRACE. Designing Universal/Accessible Web Sites. [Online] Available: http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/web/index.html



TRACE. Designing a more usable world. [Online] Available: http://trace.wisc.edu/world/



Vanderheiden, G. Chisholm, W. A., Ewers, N. 1996. Design of HTML Pages to Increase Their Accessibility To Users With Disabilities. [Online] Available: http://www.trace.wisc.edu/text/guidelns/htmlgide/htmlgide.html

Organizations for Technology Development

• Center for Applied Special Technology (Cast)
• CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
• DO-IT: Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking & Technology
• Trace Research & Development Center: Making information technology more usable for everyone
• World Health Organization (WHO): Programme for the Prevention of Blindness and Deafness (PBD)
• World Wide Web Consortium: Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

Organizations for Individuals with Disabilities

• American Council of the Blind
• American Foundation for the Blind, Inc
• The Arc (formerly Association for Retarded Citizens of the United States)
• Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (Ch.A.D.D.)
• Disabled Peoples' International
• National Alliance of The DisAbled
• National Attention Deficit Disorder Association (NADDA)
• National Federation of the Blind (NFB)
• United Cerebral Palsy Association
• World Association of Physically Disabled
• World Institute on Disability (WID)

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