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People with Disabilities Using the Web
For people who use the web
- Better Web Browsing: Tips for Customizing Your Computer
- Provides references to help you customize your particular web browser and computer setup, including links to detailed documentation and step-by-step guides.
- Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites
- Encourages telling organizations about accessibility barriers on their website. Provides guidance on identifying key contacts, describing the problem, and following up as needed. Includes tips and sample e-mails.
About how people use the web
- Introduction to "How People with Disabilities Use the Web"
- Introduces detailed examples of people with different disabilities using Web sites, applications, browsers, and authoring tools. [[when done, more detailed description]]
- Web Accessibility and Older People: Meeting the Needs of Ageing Web Users
- Introduces how the accessibility needs of older people with age-related impairments are similar to the accessibility needs of people with disabilities, and how existing international guidelines address them. Links to resources for developers, managers, researchers, advocates, and others, such as:
- Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices
- Introduces the significant overlap between making a website accessible for a mobile device and for people with disabilities. Links to:
See also:
- Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility that describes how project managers, designers, and developers can better understand accessibility issues and implement more effective accessibility solutions in their websites and web applications; browsers, media players, and assistive technologies; authoring tools such as content management systems (CMS), blog software, and WYSIWYG editors; standards and policies on accessibility; web technologies and technical specifications.
- Involving Users in Evaluating Web Accessibility for guidance on including people with disabilities ("users") in accessibility evaluation throughout Web development.