IT Accessibility: An Online Resource Guide

These Web sites include information on assistive technology products and guidelines on and on how to make your information systems more accessible to the disabled.

By Gary Anthes

March 25, 2005 12:00 PM ET

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The Federal IT Accessibility Initiative. Click on "508 E & IT Requirements" for a checklist of accessibility features in electronic and IT software and hardware.

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The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative. The site includes Web accessibility guidelines and news about the W3C WAI.

The Trace Research & Development Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Information about Trace's research in accessible IT.

Microsoft Corp.'s accessibility home page includes product accessibility features and guidelines.

The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physically Handicapped.

Download Bobby, freeware that will audit your Web site and tell you where accessibility difficulties lie.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Information Access Division home page contains information about NIST's work, products and tools to make IT accessible to the disabled.

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