NewMozilla
New browser that has added zooming
capabilities helpful to many visually impaired patients.
Mozilla is an open-source web browser, designed for
standards compliance, performance and portability.
How can the Visually
Handicapped access web servers There are two categories of visual impairment;
Those that are partially blind, and those that are totally blind. For those that are
partially blind, they may make use of computer systems by means of screen magnification
devices, as well as through special software that display text on the CRT through the use
of extra large fonts. For those that are totally blind, they will be unable to use their
sight as a means of input and will have to rely on other senses. This could be in the form
of braille output devices, which converts text that is displayed on the screen into
braille characters on a 'touch-pad'.
Designing an Accessible Web
This section of the D A A W is dedicated to cooperative efforts linked toward
building a more accessible Web. At the present time, there are a number of interlocking
and inter-related efforts. These include:
CAST
Bobby Bobby is a free web-based service that will help you make web pages
accessible to people with disabilities. It will also find HTML compatibility problems that
prevent pages from displaying correctly on different web browsers. Fill in the form below
by typing in the Location (URL) of a web page that you want Bobby to examine. Select a
browser that you want the web page to be compatible with, and press the Submit button.
WAI - Web Accessibility Initiative
The WAI
(pronounced 'way') is a W3C activity whose purpose is to make the Web formats and
protocols (HTML, XML. CSS, HTTP, etc) more accessible to people with disability (permanent
or not).
Access for Blind & Visually
Impaired Computer Users 'WAB: W3-Access for Blind and Visually
Impaired Computer Users' is intended to make web-surfing easier for blind and visually
impaired computer users. Structure information in HTML documents is transformed on the fly
into a form, that can be read easier by visually handicapped.
WEB Server for the Visually Handicapped This
WEB server is dedicated to the Visually Handicapped not only in Singapore, but to those
around the world. Although the Visually Handicapped may not be able to access these WEB
pages directly, this WEB server hopes to provide information to those that are keen to
help out the Visually Handicapped. Hearing-Impaired users may also find this site
informative and enriching.
Unified Web Site
Accessibility Guidelines This document focuses on what can be done when creating
HTML pages which would fall under source material. There are some comments in the document
regarding the other components but the focus here is on the pages themselves. These
guidelines look at what can be done today, and also occasionally comment on emerging
technologies and the strategies that might be possible in the future
HTML HyperText Mark-up Language
Accessibility Guide This document examines many of the problem areas and
suggests both present and future ways in which HTML authors can increase the accessibility
of their sites.
Center on Information Technology
Accommodation The Center for Information Technology Accommodation is a technical
demonstration and resource center assisting Federal agencies to achieve successful
investments in IT architecture and public service applications. A critical success measure
of public IT service investments today, is maximum utility by many Americans whose
contributions to society reflect broad life-experience differences (disability, language,
aging, location culture, income, etc.).
Web Accessibility Issues
Accessible Web page design enables people with disabilities to use the Internet--and helps
everyone to use the Internet better. InfoUse and other key national sources have developed
materials on principles of accessible design, along with some specific guidelines.
Java Accessibility Program
The objective is to operate in a triage mode and accomplish as much as possible toward
ensuring that applications created using Java tools will be accessible to people with
disabilities. In particular, the objective is to define those things that need to be done
early in the process.
W3C Accessibility Developments As with
any new interface, challenges sometimes barriers, are presented to people with
disabilities. This site is devoted by the W3C to focus on the developments and issues as
they relate to implementing accessibility to the Web for people with disabilities.
Designing an Accessible Web
This section of the D A A W is dedicated to cooperative efforts linked toward building a
more accessible Web. At the present time, there are a number of interlocking and
inter-related efforts. These include:
W3C Accessibility Developments This site
is devoted by the W3C to focus on the developments and issues as they relate to
implementing accessibility to the Web for people with disabilities. The emergence of the
World Wide Web has made it possible for individuals with appropriate computer and
telecommunications equipment to interact as never before.
Java Accessibility Program
Java Accessibility Development
