1. Opening Day 2006 Presentation available at: http://ets.fhda.edu/508
Web Accessibility
Opening Day 2006
Presentation available at:

2. Universal Design
Universal Design General Concepts from TRACE Research and Development Center
Universal Design Concepts & Issues from the Center for Applied Special Technology.

3. User Accessibility Issues
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium has an excellent online document "How People with Disabilities Use the Web".
The section on Scenarios of People with Disabilities Using the Web explains how specific disabilities affect user access to the web.

4. User Accessibility Issues
The Microsoft accessibility site lists Guides by Impairment that describe the types of assistive technology solutions for each of 5 disability groups: Visual Impairments, Hearing Impairments, Mobility Impairments, Language Impairments, and Learning Impairments.

5. User Accessibility Issues
Browse to IBM’s site to learn about Interacting with people who are blind, Interacting with people with mobility impairments, and Interacting with people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
The Accessibility Color Wheel allows you to experience how three color insensitivities are perceived

6. Assistive Technology
The High Tech Center Training Unit (HTCTU) of the California Community Colleges trains faculty and staff who work with students with disabilities.
Assistive Technology
ZoomText
JAWS
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Kurzweil 3000

7. Accessibility Guidelines & Standards
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a subgroup of W3C, provides the guidelines for ensuring content created for the web is accessible to all users.

8. Accessibility Guidelines & Standards
Section 508 Standards
Guide to the Section 508 Standards for Electronic and Information Technology

9. Website Creation
WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) created an easy to use Section 508 Checklist that can be printed and used as a resource for people developing web content.
Web Accessibility for Section 508 Tutorial on Jim Thatcher’s Web site.

10. Evaluation & Repair Tools
Check out some of the evaluation tools listed on the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative site.

11. A-Prompt is an application available for Windows
A-Prompt is an application available for Windows. Download it from the A-Prompt download page and install it according to the directions there.
Follow the Quick Start Tutorial to learn how this easy to use program works.

12. Wave, now located at WebAIM, offers 4 different ways to evaluate your web page for accessibility:
Method 1: Submit the URI of a page
Method 2: Upload a page
Method 3: Install WAVE toolbar in browser
Method 4: Add WAVE bookmarklet to browser

13. Who to contact: De Anza
Willie Pritchard Academic Coordinator Distance Learning Center LCW
Mary Parke Instructional Designer Distance Learning Center LCW

14. Who to contact: De Anza
Wayne Chenoweth Instructor, Assistive Technology Computer Access Lab AT
Sean Keegan Training Specialist High Tech Center Training Unit

15. Who to Contact: Foothill
Judy Baker Director, FH Global Access Room
Steven Sum Alternate Media Specialist Room