For the latest version of any W3C specification please consult
the list of W3C Technical Reports at
http://www.w3.org/TR/.
- [ACCESS-AWARE]
- "The Three-tions of Accessibility-Aware HTML Authoring Tools," J.
Richards.
- [AMAYA]
- Amaya, developed at W3C, is both an authoring tool and browser with a
WYSIWYG-style user
interface. Amaya serves as a testbed for W3C specifications. Source
code, binaries, and further information are available at http://www.w3.org/Amaya/. The
techniques in this document are based on Amaya version 2.4.
- [AMAYA-HELP-IMG]
- "Images and
Client-side Image Maps," Amaya's Help page for images and image
maps.
- [AMAYA-SAMPLE]
- "Amaya
- Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 sample
implementation" Describes how Amaya, W3C's WYSIWYG
browser/authoring tool, satisfies the guidelines.
- [APPLE-HI]
- "Macintosh
Human Interface Guidelines," Apple Computer Inc.
- [APROMPT]
- The A-prompt tool allows authors to check many accessibility features
in HTML pages, and incorporates an "Alternative Information Management
Mechanism" (AIMM)) to manage equivalent alternative
information for known resources. The tool is built in such a way that
the functions can be incorporated into an authoring tool. A-prompt tool
is a freely available example tool developed by the Adaptive Technology
Resource Center at the University of Toronto, and the TRACE center at
the University of Wisconsin. The source code for the tool is also
available at http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca.
- [ATAG10]
- "Authoring Tool Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0," J. Treviranus, C. McCathieNevile, I. Jacobs, and
J. Richards, eds. The latest
version is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG10/.
- [AUTO-TOOL]
- "Techniques For Evaluation
And Implementation Of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines," C.
Ridpath.
- [CSS1]
- "CSS, level 1
Recommendation," B. Bos and H. Wium Lie, eds., 17 December 1996,
revised 11 January 1999. This CSS1 Recommendation is
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-CSS1-19990111. The latest version of CSS1 is
available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1. Note: CSS1
has been superseded by CSS2. Tools should implement the CSS2
cascade.
- [CSS2]
- "CSS, level 2
Recommendation," B. Bos, H. Wium Lie, C. Lilley, and I. Jacobs,
eds., 12 May 1998. This CSS2 Recommendation is
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/. The latest version of CSS2 is
available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/.
- [CSS2-ACCESS]
- "Accessibility
Features of CSS," I. Jacobs and J. Brewer, eds., 4 August 1999.
This W3C Note is http://www.w3.org/1999/08/NOTE-CSS-access-19990804.
The latest version of
Accessibility Features of CSS is available at
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS-access.
- [ED-DEPT]
- "Requirements
for Accessible Software Design," US Department of Education,
version 1.1 March 6, 1997.
- [EITAAC]
- "EITACC
Desktop Software standards," Electronic Information Technology
Access Advisory (EITACC) Committee.
- [HTML-XML-VALIDATOR]
- The W3C HTML Validation
Service validates HTML and XHTML markup.
- [HTML4]
- "HTML 4.01
Recommendation," D. Raggett, A. Le Hors, and I. Jacobs, eds., 24
December 1999. This HTML 4.01 Recommendation is
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/. The latest version of HTML 4 is
available at http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/.
- [HTML4-ACCESS]
- "WAI
Resources: HTML 4.0 Accessibility Improvements," I. Jacobs, J.
Brewer, and D. Dardailler, eds. This document describes accessibility
features in HTML 4.0.
- [IBM-ACCESS]
- "Software
Accessibility," IBM Special Needs Systems.
- [ICCCM]
- "The Inter-Client communication conventions manual." A protocol for
communication between clients in the X Window system.
- [ICE-RAP]
- "An
ICE Rendezvous Mechanism for X Window System Clients," W. Walker. A
description of how to use the ICE and RAP protocols for X Window
clients.
- [JAVA-ACCESS]
- "IBM Guidelines for
Writing Accessible Applications Using 100% Pure Java," R.
Schwerdtfeger, IBM Special Needs Systems.
- [JAVA-CHECKLIST]
- "Java
Accessibility Guidelines and Checklist," IBM Special Needs
Systems.
- [JAVA-TUT]
- "The Java
Tutorial. Trail: Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing." An online tutorial
that describes how to use the Swing Java Foundation Class to build an
accessible User Interface.
- [MATHML]
- "Mathematical
Markup Language," P. Ion and R. Miner, eds., 7 April 1998, revised
7 July 1999. This MathML 1.0 Recommendation is
http://www.w3.org/1999/07/REC-MathML-19990707/. The latest version of MathML 1.0
is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-MathML/.
- "[MCFARLANE]
- "Coordinating the Interruption of People in Human-Computer Interaction," McFarlane, Daniel C. (1999), Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT '99, pp. 295-303.
- [MS-ENABLE]
- "Accessibility
for Applications Designers," Microsoft Corporation.
- [MS-SOFTWARE]
- "The
Microsoft Windows Guidelines for Accessible Software Design."
Warning! This is a "self-extracting archive", an
application that will probably only run on MS-Windows systems.
- [MSAA]
- "Information for
Developers About Microsoft Active Accessibility," Microsoft
Corporation.
- [NOTES-ACCESS]
- "Lotus Notes Accessibility Guidelines," IBM Special Needs Systems.
- [RDF10]
- "Resource
Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification," O.
Lassila, R. Swick, eds. The 22 February 1999 Recommendation is
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/. The latest version of RDF
1.0 is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/.
- [RUBY]
- "Ruby
Annotation," M. Sawicki, M. Suignard, M. Ishikawa, and M. Dürst,
eds. The 17 December 1999 Working Draft is
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-ruby-19991217/. The latest version is
available at http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/.
- [SEARCHABLE]
- "A Comparison of Schemas for Dublin Core-based Video Metadata
Representation," J Hunter.
- [SMIL-ACCESS]
- "Accessibility
Features of SMIL," M.-R. Koivunen and I. Jacobs, eds. This W3C Note
is http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/NOTE-SMIL-access-19990921/. The latest version of Accessibility
Features of SMIL is available at available at
http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL-access/.
- [SUN-DESIGN]
- "Designing for Accessibility," Eric Bergman and Earl Johnson. This
paper discusses specific disabilities including those related to
hearing, vision, and cognitive function.
- [SUN-HCI]
- "Towards Accessible Human-Computer Interaction," Eric Bergman, Earl
Johnson, Sun Microsystems 1995. A substantial paper, with a valuable
print bibliography.
- [SVG]
- "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
1.0 Specification (Working Draft)," J. Ferraiolo, ed. The latest
version of the SVG specification is available at
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/.
- [SVG-ACCESS]
- "Accessibility of Scalable
Vector Graphics (Working Draft)," C. McCathieNevile, M.-R.
Koivunen, eds. The latest version is available at
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access/.
- [TRACE-REF]
- "Application
Software Design Guidelines," compiled by G. Vanderheiden. A
thorough reference work.
- [UAAG10]
- "User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines," J. Gunderson and I. Jacobs, eds. The latest version of
the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines is available at
http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10/.
- [UAAG10-TECHS]
- "Techniques for User
Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0," J. Gunderson, and I. Jacobs,
eds. The latest version of
Techniques for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 is available
at http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10-TECHS/.
- [WAI-ER]
- The Web Accessibility Initiative
Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group tracks and develops tools
that can help repair accessibility errors.
- [WCAG10]
- "Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0," W. Chisholm, G.
Vanderheiden, and I. Jacobs, eds., 5 May 1999. This Recommendation is
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/. The latest version
of the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0" is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/.
- [WCAG10-TECHS]
- "Techniques for Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0," W. Chisholm, G.
Vanderheiden, and I. Jacobs, eds. The latest version of Techniques
for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 is available at
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/.
- [WHAT-IS]
- "What is Accessible Software," James W. Thatcher, Ph.D., IBM, 1997.
This paper gives a short example-based introduction to the difference
between software that is accessible, and software that can be used by
some assistive technologies.
- [XHTML10]
- "XHTML(TM) 1.0: The
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Working Draft)," S. Pemberton
et al. The latest version of
XHTML 1.0 is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/.
- [XML]
- "The Extensible
Markup Language (XML) 1.0," T. Bray, J. Paoli, C. M.
Sperberg-McQueen, eds., 10 February 1998. This XML 1.0 Recommendation
is http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210. The latest version of the XML
specification is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.
- [XMLGL]
- "XML Accessibility
Guidelines (Note)," D. Dardailler, ed. Draft notes for
producing accessible XML document types. The latest version of the XML
Accessibility Guidelines is available at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xag.html.
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