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Summary
- Videos (15)
- Websites (11)
- Multimedia (12)
- Electronic Documents (10)
- Accessibility studies (9)
- Studies "Seniors and Web" (9)
- Assistive technology (1)
This page is part of Portal Ideose resources on digital accessibility . It lists 67 links to videos and online guides on e-accessibility (websites, electronic documents, studies ...).
Notes:
- Last update: Thursday, October 14, 2010.
- If you know an online resource on digital accessibility that is not listed here, thank you submit your proposal .
- This resource portal was designed by our service Strategic and Prospective who can offer specific studies on demand.
Videos
en français) DAISY Makes Reading Easier (YouTube video in French)
" Save as Daisy " (gratuit). In this video, visually impaired people are interviewed about the opportunity given by Microsoft Word to produce digital audio book (DTBook) using the plugin "Save as Daisy" (free). |
Access to Technology in the Workplace: In Our Own Words
In this video, four disabled people testify to the importance of assistive technology and accessible Web in their everyday work. |
) Accessibility videos (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Division of Information Technology (DoIT) University of Wisconsin-Madison offers on its Web site several videos on web accessibility for visually impaired people.
Here is the list of very educational videos: |
) Accessibility: For everyone's Benefit (YouTube video)
This video shows examples in different countries in Europe where accessibility was taken into account (school, sidewalk, bank ...), which has a positive impact on people with disabilities but for all. |
Experiences of Students with Disabilities
The U.S. site WebAIM publish a video with a series of testimonies of students with disabilities on web accessibility issues they face. |
) Importance of HTML Headings for Accessibility (YouTube video)
This video explains why structuring a web page using headings (h tag in html) is an essential rule of accessibility for blind people using screen reader software.
Indeed, this software allows you to publish the track list of the web page and creates a table of contents.
This allows the blind person to understand the structure of information and navigate as the title instead of having to read through the webpage. |
Keeping Web Accessibility in Mind
The U.S. site WebAIM publish a video on web accessibility very educational: information and demonstrations by people with disabilities. |
Refreshable Braille and the Web
This video is an awareness by a blind person using a braille display (also called Braille keyboard) connected to a computer.
This material is both a keyboard allowing it to read the letters with their fingers on the screen but also a true mobile computer equipped with an operating system. |
) Web Accessibility - A World Denied (YouTube video)
This video features non-technical manner the various advantages of making a website accessible.
The economic aspect is dealt with the question of ROI. |
Why Captioned Media? (Video, wmv, 27.2 MB)
This video features a deaf student of
George Brown College (Toronto, Canada) which is why its establishment in December 2006 voted the obligation of each video to be accessible and educational for any book to have a digital version text.
The video is subtitled and audio described.
A text transcript is available online. |
Black screen (real player video, 30 min 40 s, 78 MB)
This video shows how a blind person uses a computer and surfing the Web. |
The computer for the blind (YouTube video)
A blind person uses a computer using the screen reader Jaws.
Demonstrations of navigation in a Windows and Web. |
Call, a right for all (video France5)
Power at any time of day or night to join the correspondent of choice has changed the lives of thousands of deaf people in the United States.
Video relay services have been developed following the passing of the 1990 Act, known as Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), recognizing, among other things, the right of deaf people equal access to telecommunications for hearing. |
Video Tutorials
The Portal Access-Key presents a series of short videos featuring state of Internet users with disabilities.
The various difficulties and accessibility solutions are well illustrated by several videos. |
Videos of disability awareness
The site handi.tv offers videos on disability at different angles: society, sports, politics, culture ...
There are especially videos of disability awareness.
For example, a video shows the magnetic induction loop that facilitates communication with persons with hearing disabilities. |
Websites
HTML Best Practices (iCITA)
The online guide to HTML Best Practices of iCITA was designed to give Web developers coding techniques to make their content accessible to people with disabilities. |
Choosing an Accessible CMS
This online guide provides information in English to check the accessibility of a CMS. |
Examples and Techniques (Web-Savvy)
This online guide (English) offers several examples and techniques to make accessible Web objects (Flash, forms, navigation ...). |
Top 10 Accessible Web Authoring Practices (Web-Savvy)
This online guide (English) focuses on 10 key rules of web accessibility in explaining and giving solutions to implement them. |
Visual Disabilities
This online guide provides an understanding of accessibility needs for different types of visual impairment (blind, visually impaired, blind people).
For each type of disability, a summary table explains how to develop to make available a particular Web object visually impaired people. |
Making Your Web Site Senior Friendly (PDF, 1.15 MB)
Recommendations to ensure that your website is also searchable by senior people. |
Toolbox for CLF 2.0
This online guide government Canada has several examples of web designs available with source code release (CSS, JavaScript, forms, tables ...). |
Guide AccessiWeb
AccessiWeb Guide aims to help participants to apply the Web repository AccessiWeb on their websites. |
HTML5 Accessibility
Paper on web accessibility with HTML5. |
Dive into Accessibility (30 days to render a website more accessible)
This online guide to answer two questions.
The first question is "Why should I make my website more accessible?"
The second question is "How can I make my website more accessible?" |
English Resources on Web Accessibility
This document presents a list of links to online resources for English web accessibility. |
Multimedia
ICITA WAI-ARIA Examples
The ICITA offers several online examples of implementation rules WAI-ARIA that explain how to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities (especially those rules can make accessible dynamic content and advanced user-side interfaces developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript and all related technologies). |
AJAX test cases using the WAI-ARIA Accessibility Markup
This study provides examples of implementation of WAI-ARIA on AJAX Web applications to make them accessible, especially to screen readers used by blind people. |
WCAG 2.0 compliance with Flash
This audio slideshow (each slide is explained by a voice-over) presents how to develop a Flash application complying with international accessibility guidelines WCAG 2.0 . |
Accessible Implementation of Video and Audio on Websites
The accessibility of videos is approached from different aspects in this document online: standards, software ... |
Adobe Flash accessibility design guidelines
Adobe offers an online guide (in English) to develop Flash animations accessible. |
Adobe InDesign CS4 accessibility
Adobe InDesign CS4 supports accessibility accessibility rules and allows you to export InDesign documents available in PDF, XML and XHTML.
Users can add structural elements and text alternatives to InDesign documents.
. Used with Adobe Acrobat ® for PDF and Adobe Dreamweaver for XHTML and XML documents, users can create documents with a high level of accessibility with Adobe InDesign. |
Creating Accessible Sites in Flash
This Flash tutorial (in English) describes in educational accessibility features to meet in Flash animations developed in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.
Accessibility needs are discussed based on various disabilities (visual, auditory and motor).
Another interesting point: the Flash player used in this tutorial offers buttons for subtitling, audio description and keyboard shortcuts. |
Web Captioning Overview
This article presents the key points of accessibility of a Web video: verbatim transcript subtitles and audio description.
Links are also provided to online documents explaining how to make accessible the major video formats on the Web. |
Charter of audio description (pdf, 86.6 kb)
Many professionals, keen to ensure service quality audio description, have developed a charter, which has been officially launched in December 2008 (France). |
Google AxsJAX
The framework is a AxsJAX Javascript library which allows to inject accessibility features into Web services using AJAX.
With Firefox plugin like GreaseMonkey client side, it is thus possible to correct the accessibility of such services. |
History of captioning for television and color codes (pdf, 1MB)
This file ( source file subtitling ) describes in detail the history of subtitling for television up to its legal obligation in France defined by section 74 of Act No. 2005-102 of 11 February 2005 ( all the major television networks must caption all of their programs by 2010).
The techniques of subtitling are also remembered as the color codes on page 5 of the file (for a white player on the screen, yellow for a speaker-overs, etc..). |
Proper practices applicable to creations accessible Flash (August 2005 PDF, 772 kb)
In the Resource Center on Accessibility , Adobe publishes online several documents including one on creating accessible Flash and on creating accessible PDF. |
Electronic Documents
Creating Accessible PDF with Adobe Acrobat 8 s (2007, PDF, 859 kb)
It is possible to create accessible PDF documents by converting files made from word processing software (eg Microsoft Word) but also by creating them directly from Adobe Acrobat.
This document presents the different methods of creation. |
Facts and Opinions About PDF Accessibility
Contrary to popular belief, the pdf documents can be accessible to persons with disabilities.
In what (s) so (s)?
This article by Joe Clark (August 22, 2005) provides answers. |
Screen reader access to PDF: a users guide
This online guide describes how to access and read a PDF when you are a screen reader JAWS type. |
Ten Tips for Creating Usable and Accessible PDF s
This article presents 10 information to know to create accessible PDF documents.
A list of online resources is also given. |
Accessible Digital Office Document (ADOD)
List of guides describing how to produce electronic documents accessible using different software: - Word processors: OpenOffice Writer, Microsoft Word 2010, Corel WordPerfect X5, Google docs, iWork Pages, Techniques for Creating spreadsheet documents: - Spreadsheets: OpenOffice Calc, Microsoft Excel 2010, Corel Quattro Pro, Google docs, iWork Numbers - Presentations: Presentation OpenOffice, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Corel Presentations X5, Google docs, iWork Keynote |
How to send emails accessible (November 2008, word format, 21.4 kb)
This document was produced by AccessiWeb.
It aims to provide some clues to people wishing to send emails accessible to the greatest number.
It brings together a series of good practices from the experience. |
Create accessible PDF documents (March 5, 2009, word format, 215.0 KB)
Faced with growing public demand for the use of PDF, and in partnership with the developers of screen readers, the company Adobe has introduced a series of techniques to make PDF more accessible provided they are well structured.
For its part, AccessiWeb has posted a study on the accessibility of PDF and how to implement to produce accessible PDF documents. |
Create accessible documents with Microsoft Office Word 2007 (June 2008)
Electronic documents created using a word processing software are exchanged by email or posted online on the Web.
They are becoming more numerous on the websites of public, private and personal sites.
. The most used software to create them are Microsoft Office Word and Open Office.
(version 2003 et 2007). To help users of Word to make it handicap accessible electronic documents they create, Microsoft has posted a guide on how to create accessible documents with Microsoft Office Word (version 2003 and 2007). |
Create accessible Adobe PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat (2005, PDF, 10.2 MB)
In the Resource Center on Accessibility , Adobe publishes online several documents including one on creating accessible Flash and on creating accessible PDF. |
Make accessible PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat Pro
Guide for creating accessible PDF from Adobe Acrobat Pro. |
Studies accessibility
A Cognitive Basis for Web Design (Web-Savvy)
This online document (English) is interested in developing accessible Web cognitive impairment.
After detailing the concepts necessary for disabled users, the document lists the checkpoints of WCAG 1.0 that apply specifically to cognitive impairment.
A list of additional resources is also given. |
A Review of the Accessibility of Facebook
A study on the accessibility of the social network Facebook . |
Accessible Web designers and Web design alternative guidelines
This page is a comparison between the recommendations of international accessibility ( WCAG ) and guides offering advice to tailor a website to a particular community of users (seniors, blind ...).
It appears that these guides are important to the usability of a site (not just its technical accessibility) but very few are aware of Web developers. |
Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers
This 2003 study lists 31 recommendations for the design of websites from the study of 16 blind people surfing the Web with screen reader software. |
Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA: Alternatives to Visual Turing Tests on the Web
This W3C document presents the alternatives to make accessible CAPTCHA to as many people as possible, including people with disabilities. |
Survey of Preferences of Screen Readers Users
From December 2008 to January 2009, WebAIM conducted a study in the United States on the preferences of users of the software "screen reader" especially when designing websites.
More than 1000 people, 80% of blind people participated in this study. |
The Market for Accessible Technology: The Wide Range of Abilities and Its Impact on Computer Use
This study presents the results of a 2003 study commissioned by Microsoft to Forrester Research, Inc. on the parts of the population in the United States that are likely to benefit from accessible technology. |
Web Accessibility Gone Wild
This article presents examples of poor implementation of accessibility guidelines.
This can happen when a developer does not really studied the principles of accessibility, but merely quick fixes.
Example: All images must have an equivalent textual description ...
and therefore, it must not have a description for image decoration (not very often there is one anyway). |
2007 Study on the Swiss website accessibility (pdf, 4.8 MB)
This study aims to take stock of the accessibility of websites of Swiss public for the disabled and the elderly.
Besides the results of accessibility testing, this study includes scholarly articles on accessibility without barriers.
There is especially an article that describes how four disability specific conduct research on the Internet, the limitations they face and their requirements. |
Studies "Seniors and Web"
WAI - AGE |
Designing Web Sites for Older Adults: Heuristics
This document was created in 2004.
It proposes a methodology for studying a website for seniors to see if it takes into account their specific needs. |
Interface Design Guidelines for Users of All Ages (pdf, 90 kb)
This document was created in 2001 to promote the consideration by the creators of websites needs of the elderly.
It offers recommendations on design and usability of websites. |
Making your Web site senior friendly
This document created by
National Institute on Aging offers a list of criteria to be checked to improve consultation of a site by a senior (person over 60 years). |
Older Adults and the World Wide Web: a Guide for Web Site Creators (pdf, 333 kb)
This guide from 1999.
It provides general advice for web designers so that they take into account the specificities of seniors. |
Research-Derived Web Design Guidelines for Older People (pdf, 486 kb)
Based on the literature survey on "Web and senior" and from tests conducted with older users, this document provides a comprehensive list of recommendations for designing a web site tailored to the needs of seniors. |
, 16 mn 33 s ) Senior Web Surfing (video, real player format, 16 min 33 s)
This video offers a series of interviews with senior citizens using the web.
They answer questions about their difficulties. |
Usability for Older Web Users
This page presents the results of a comparative study of Web browsing by older and younger.
This study was conducted from user testing of websites made by two Internet user groups: a group of seniors (over 65) and a group of adults (under 40). |
Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review
This document was produced by the body WAI , responsible for web accessibility standards globally.
It presents and analyzes the existing literature on the issue of seniors' needs in terms of web accessibility.
It also compares these needs with those of people with disabilities. |
Technical aids
Global Assistive Technology Encyclopedia (Gate)
This online encyclopedia is a wiki allowing everyone to share information on assistive technology (hardware and software) that allow disabled people to use computers and surf the web. |
