Capacity building resources for IT

  1. Section 508 Guidelines

  2. University of Minnesota Accessibility of Information Technology page
    Read this for an exemplary policy that mentions digital documents as well as all campus IT (hardware and software)

  3. University of Minnesota Hardware Guidelines
  4. University of Minnesota Software Guidelines
  5. Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
    There are many evaluation tools that can help you evaluate your site for accessibility. Hopefully this list can help you figure out which one is right for you or your organization.
  6. Web Accessibility for All’s School of Aquatic Arts—Learn by Example
    In order to illustrate the best practices for accessible web page design, we have created a website that contains both Inaccessible & Accessible pages. These examples should provide solutions to the most common accessibility issues currently facing web content managers.
  7. Using the Web Developer extension for Firefox or Mozilla
    Web Developer is a plug-in available with Firefox. It is extremely useful to all Web developers as it allows you to manually check pages for Web accessibility very easily.
  8. Web Accessibility for All’s “How to Use Opera to Evaluate Accessibiltiy”
    This article describes how to use the web browser called Opera to check whether your site contains certain accessibility features.
  9. Web Accessibility for All’s “Manual checks for Web Accessibility”
    This describes a series of questions you should ask yourself when checking your web page's accessibility.
  10. Seybold Seminars’ “Why tables for layout is stupid”
  11. The CSS Zen Garden Website
    This site create by David Shea is dedicated to showing how using Web Standards and the latest Cascading Style Sheets techniques can generate amazing looking sites.
  12. DAISY/NIMAS article
    The article discusses the various formats and their relationship to XML
  13. The NIMAS Technical Standards

    CDs/videos:

  14. Web Accessibility for All’s Website CD
  15. Dan Frommelt Presentation on Web standards on CD or at this link
    Web Standards are the latest techniques in making Web pages. A great way to learn about them is by viewing Dan Frommelt's presention. The video is 48 minutes long and was filmed in the summer of 2004.
  16. Making Office Documents Accessible Webcast
    This video is from a Webcast that the Web Accessibility For All group gave on making office documents accessible. It also contains a screen reader demo. The video is 1 hour and 12 minutes long Get Windows Media Player
  17. PDF Accessibility Webcast
    This video is a Web Cast that the Web Accessibility for All group gave on PDFs and accessibility. The video is 54 minutes long. Get Windows Media Player