Mistakes and oversights are not uncommon, so we wanted to share some useful resources to help make more nonprofit content accesible via the Internet, and therefore useful to as wide a range of participants as possible. The Alliance for Technology Access is a national network of technology resource centers and technology vendors that help children and adults with disabilities, parents, teachers, employers, and others to explore computer systems, adaptive devices and software. These standards will then be implemented starting August 7, 2000. While the standards cover a tremendously wide range of access issues, it DOES NOT set forth rules or federal law regarding the content and design of ALL websites in existence. In addition, the report strongly encourages all entities involved in design, production and procurement processes of all the electronic and information technology to go beyond the standards laid out in order to increase access and usability of the products developed to all users.
Users submit the URL of individual web pages whose compatibility is in doubt.
A local-use version is also available for download. In addition, CAST, has a number of good design guides. Past issues of NCDR's quarterly newsletter, The Research Exchange, are available online, and cover topics ranging from promoting websites to disabled users to evaluating the effectiveness of Internet activity. WAI has been developing and refining its guidelines for Web page authoring that address the needs of people with disabilities. The most popular set of guidelines, it is also the most comprehensive, as it incorporates findings from over 40 international web accessibility projects and programs.