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These Guidelines for Accessible Distance Education categorize strategies into musts,
shoulds and mays for PDF, Excel, Flash, PowerPoint, Video and Word:
www.catea.org/grade/guides/introduction.php
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Link Collections
Some nice resource list collections include:
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A collection of accessibility papers and other articles written by consultant Roger
Hudson, along with and links to other sites and tools:
www.usability.com.au/resources
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An incredibly long list of websites on nearly all accessibility topics. This is
particularly good if you are looking for something particular and don’t know where to
start: www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/accessibility.html
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A nicely annotated list of “user experience design resources” about accessibility is at
www.deyalexander.com/resources/uxd/accessibility.html
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contextualizing discussion articles.
Online Courses and Tutorials
Online courses and tutorials covering web accessibility generally include:
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A Section 508 Web Accessibility Tutorial includes sections on text alternatives,
checking accessibility, navigation, image maps, audio and multimedia, color/flicker
use, forms, tables, scripts and applets, style sheets, and 508 provisions:
www.jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm
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The Access E-Learning tutorial, available via free registration, provides extensive
information and practice labs on disabilities, creating an accessibility plan,
PowerPoint, Video, Flash, Word, Excel, PDF, HTML and Scripts/Java:
www.accesselearning.net
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“Web Accessibility 101” course is organized by 508 guidelines, and also includes
information on evaluating for accessibility: www.doit.wisc.edu/accessibility/online-
course/start.htm
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The New York State Forum's IT Accessibility Committee created an “Accessibility
Curriculum” in 2005, also available online. It includes introductory information and
covers images, cascading style sheets, tables, forms, scripting, PDF, XML,
multimedia tools, usability and validation/evaluation. The curriculum includes useful
sample files to demonstrate each concept, and HTML and PowerPoint versions of
each curriculum topic: www.nysfirm.org/accessibility/resources/curriculum
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