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Summary
- Videos (15)
- Websites (10)
- Multimedia (12)
- Electronic records (8)
- Accessibility studies (9)
- Studies "Seniors and the Web" (9)
- Assistive Devices (1)
This page is part of portal ideos Resources-Accessibility . It lists 64 links to videos and online guides on Accessibility (Web sites, electronic documents, studies ...).
Notes:
- Last Updated: Saturday, November 28, 2009.
- If you know of an online resource on digital accessibility that is not listed here, thank you for submitting your proposal .
- This resource portal was designed by our service Business Intelligence and Foresight , which can offer specific studies on demand.
Videos
en français) DAISY Makes Reading Easier (video on YouTube in French)
" Save as Daisy " (gratuit). In this video, visually impaired people are asked about the possibility of 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 persons with disabilities demonstrate the importance of assistive technology and web access in their work everyday. |
) Accessibility videos (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) University of Wisconsin-Madison offers on its Web site several videos on web accessibility for people with visual impairments.
Here is the list of these very educational videos: |
) Accessibility: For everyone's Benefit (YouTube video)
This video features examples from different European countries where accessibility has been taken into account (school, street, bank ...), which has a positive impact on people with disabilities but for all. |
Experiences of Students with Disabilities
The U.S. site WebAIM publishes a video showing a series of stories about students with disabilities on web accessibility issues they face. |
) Importance of HTML Headings for Accessibility (YouTube video)
This video explains why structure 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 list of titles of the web page and creates a table of contents.
This allows the blind person to understand the structure of the information and use of title by title rather than having to read the entire web page. |
Keeping Web Accessibility in Mind
The American website published a video on WebAIM Web Accessibility quite educational: information and demonstrations by disabled people. |
Refreshable Braille & 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 enabling 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 presents non-technical way the various benefits available to make a website.
The economic aspect is dealt with the question of ROI. |
Captioned Media Why? (Video, wmv format, 27.2 MB)
This video features a deaf student from
George Brown College (Toronto, Canada) which explains why his institution has voted in December 2006 the requirement for any video to be accessible and educational for any book to have a digitized text.
The video is subtitled and audio-described.
A verbatim transcript is available online. |
Black screen (video real player, 30 min 40 s, 78 MB)
This video shows how a blind person uses a computer and surfs the Web. |
The computer for the blind (YouTube video)
A blind person uses a computer using a screen reader Jaws.
Demonstrations of navigation in a Windows environment and on the web. |
Calling a right for all (video France5)
Power at any time of day or night to join the correspondent's choice has changed the lives of thousands of the deaf in the United States.
Video relay services have been developed following the passing of the 1990 law, known as Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), recognizing, among other things, the right of deaf people equal access to telecommunications for hearing. |
Video Tutorials
Portal Access-Key has a series of short videos featuring state of users with disabilities.
The various difficulties encountered and accessibility solutions are well illustrated by several videos. |
Videos disability awareness
The site handi.tv offers videos on disability following different perspectives: society, sports, politics, culture ...
In particular there are videos of disability awareness.
For example, a video shows the induction loop that facilitates communication with people with hearing disabilities. |
Websites
HTML Best Practices (ICIT)
The online guide to HTML Best Practices of the ICIT has been designed to give developers Web coding techniques to make their content accessible to people with disabilities. |
Choosing year 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 for making 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 to understanding the accessibility needs for different types of visual impairment (blind, visually impaired, color blind people).
For each type of disability, a summary table explains how to develop to make available a particular Web object to visually impaired people. |
Making Your Web Site Senior Friendly (PDF 1.15 MB)
Recommendations for your website is also searchable by older people. |
Toolbox for CLF 2.0
This online guide to Canadian government offers several examples of accessible web design with publication of source code (CSS, JavaScript, forms, tables ...). |
AccessiWeb Guide
AccessiWeb Guide aims to help participants to apply the web repository AccessiWeb on their websites. |
Dive into Accessibility (30 days to make a more accessible website)
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 the Web Accessibility
This document presents a list of links to online resources on English web accessibility. |
Multimedia
ICIT WAI-ARIA Examples
The ICIT offers several online examples of implementation of rules WAI-ARIA that explain how to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities (those rules are then used to 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 Markup Accessibility
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 slide show (each slide is explained by a voice-over) how to develop a Flash application as recommended by international accessibility WCAG 2.0 . |
Accessible Implementation of Video and Audio on Websites
The accessibility of videos is approached from different aspects in this online document: standards, software ... |
Adobe Flash accessibility design guidelines
Adobe has an online guide (in English) to develop Flash movies accessible. |
Adobe InDesign CS4 accessibility
Adobe InDesign CS4 accessibility supports accessibility guidelines and to export InDesign documents available in PDF, XHTML and XML.
Users can add elements of structure and text alternatives to InDesign documents.
. Used with Adobe Acrobat ® for PDF and Adobe Dreamweaver for XHTML and XML, 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 the Flash animations developed with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.
The accessibility needs are discussed according to different disabilities (visual, auditory and motor).
Another interesting point: the Flash used in this tutorial provides buttons for subtitling, audio description and keyboard shortcuts. |
Web Captioning Overview
This article presents the key points of accessibility of a video on the Web: verbatim transcript subtitling and audio description.
Links are also provided to papers online explaining how to make accessible the major video formats on the Web. |
Terms of audio description (pdf, 86.6 kb)
Many professionals, keen to ensure the quality benefits audio description, have developed a charter which has been officially released in December 2008 (France). |
Google AxsJAX
The framework is a AxsJAX Javascript library that allows to inject accessibility features into Web Services using AJAX.
With Firefox plugin side client as GreaseMonkey, it is possible to correct the accessibility of such services. |
History of subtitling for television and color codes (pdf, 1MB)
This file ( source file subtitles ) describes in detail the history of captioning for television to its legal obligation in France as defined by Article 74 of Law No 2005-102 of 11 February 2005 ( all the major television networks must caption all of their programs by 2010).
The technical sub-titling are also remembered as the color codes on page 5 of the file (for a white player on the screen, yellow for speaking off-camera, etc..). |
Correct practices applicable to Flash creations available (August 2005, PDF, 772 kb)
In its Resource Center on Accessibility , Adobe publishes online several documents including one on creating accessible Flash and the creation of accessible PDF. |
Electronic Documents
Creating Accessible PDF s with Adobe Acrobat 8 (2007, PDF, 859 kb)
It is possible to create accessible PDF documents by converting files created from word processing software (eg Microsoft Word) but also by creating them directly from Adobe Acrobat.
This paper presents different methods of creation. |
Facts and Opinions About PDF Accessibility
Contrary to popular belief, pdf documents can be accessible to persons with disabilities.
How (s) way (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 kind of screen reader JAWS. |
Ten Tips for Creating Usable and Accessible PDF s
This article has 10 information you need to create PDF documents accessible.
A list of online resources is also given. |
How to send emails available (November 2008, Word format, 21.4 kb)
This document was produced by AccessiWeb.
It aims to provide a few hints to people sending 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 developers of screen readers, the Adobe has introduced a series of techniques to make PDFs more accessible if they are well structured.
For its part, AccessiWeb has posted a study on the accessibility of PDF and how to implement to generate PDF documents accessible. |
Creating accessible documents using Microsoft Office Word 2007 (June 2008)
Electronic documents created using software for word processing 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 Word and Open Office Agency.
(version 2003 et 2007). To help users of Word to be accessible to persons with disabilities the electronic documents they generate, Microsoft has posted a guide on how to create accessible documents using Microsoft Office Word (version 2003 and 2007). |
Create accessible Adobe PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat (2005, PDF, 10.2 MB)
In its Resource Center on Accessibility , Adobe publishes online several documents including one on creating accessible Flash and on creating accessible PDF. |
Accessibility Studies
A Cognitive Basis for Web Design (Web-Savvy)
This online document (English) is interested in developing accessible Web cognitive impairment.
After describing 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 alternative web design guidelines
This page is a comparative study between the international recommendations for accessibility ( WCAG ) and guides offering advice to tailor a website to a particular community of users (elderly, blind ...).
It appears that these guides are important to ensure the usability of a site (and not only its technical accessibility) but very few Web developers have knowledge. |
Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers
This 2003 study lists 31 recommendations for designing Web sites from the study of 16 blind people browsing the Web with a screen reader software. |
Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA: alternatives to Visual Turing Tests on the Web
The W3C presents alternatives to make accessible CAPTCHAs to as many people as possible, including people with disabilities. |
Survey of Preferences Users of Screen Readers
From December 2008 to January 2009, WebAIM has conducted a study in the United States on the preferences of users of software "screen reader" especially in the design of Web sites.
More than 1,000 people, including 80% of blind people have 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 parts of the population in the United States 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 revenue faster.
Example: all images must have an equivalent textual description ...
and therefore he should not have a description for an image decoration (not very often there is an anyway). |
2007 Study on the accessibility of websites in Switzerland (pdf, 4.8 MB)
This study aims to take stock of the accessibility of websites of the Swiss public for the disabled and the elderly.
Besides the results of tests of accessibility, this study includes scholarly articles on accessibility without barriers.
In particular there is an article that describes how four people with disabilities carry out practical research on the Internet, the limitations they face and their demands. |
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 by seniors to see if taking 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 seniors.
It makes recommendations for design and ergonomics of Web sites. |
Making your Web Site Senior Friendly
This document created by
the National Institute on Aging offers a list of criteria to check to improve the 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 is dated 1999.
It provides general tips 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 review on "Web and senior" and from tests conducted with older users, this document provides a comprehensive list of recommendations to develop a website tailored to the needs of seniors. |
, 16 mn 33 s ) Senior Web Surfer (video in English, real player format, 16 min 33 sec)
This video offers a series of interviews with senior citizens using the Web.
They answered questions about the difficulties they face. |
Web Usability for Older Users
This page presents the results of a comparative study of Web browsing by older and younger.
This study was conducted from usability tests on Web sites made by two groups of web users: a group of elderly (over 65) and a group of adults (under 40 years). |
Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review
This document has been produced by the body WAI , responsible for web accessibility standards worldwide.
It presents and analyzes the existing literature on the question of needs of seniors in terms of web accessibility.
He also compares these needs with those of people with disabilities. |
Assistive
Global Assistive Technology Encyclopedia (Gate)
This online encyclopedia is a wiki for everyone to share information on assistive technology (hardware and software) that allows disabled people to use a computer and surfing websites. |
