Web Accessibility

Web Developer Training and Resources

Training Developed by State Agencies:

• Web Site Accessibility by Libby Peters
• Web Site Usability by Libby Peters
• Cascading Style Sheets, What are they, and how do you build one? by Libby Peters

Training Available by Kansas Universities:

• Nothing offered at this time.

World Wide Web Consortium at W3C.org includes information such as:

• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative(WAI) , Guidelines by Priority, history, ...
• Core information and online tutorials on Making A Website Accessible writing accessible HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML, HTML Validator
• Online tutorials on CSS and using CSS to create Accesible websites, CSS Validator
• Suggested reading about website accessibility

Additional No Cost Accessibility and Usability Training and Resources are available on:

• Designing Accessible Websites at Section508.gov
• Basic HTML, CSS, XHTML, etc at w3schools.com
• U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services at Usability.gov
• Usability expert Dr. Jacob Neilson at UseIT.com
• Introduction to Usability and Accessibility and Website Design at Usability First
• Usability and Accessibility Topics at Web Monkey
• CSS 1 and CSS2 Browser Compatibility Charts at Westciv.com
• Web Accessibility Course at ITTATC (for knowledgable html developers)
• Huge source of training tutorials , articles and listserv related to website development with Web Accessibility In Mind at WebAim.org

Web Accessibility Checking websites and software:

• A Prompt Basic - Free Accessibility Checker aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca
• w3c Accessibility Checking Software Search www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/