About Web Accessibility

• The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) website at W3C (international body, headquartered at MIT, that seta standards for the Web) is the most inclusive and thorough website on this topic. It has the latest news on accessibility standards, tutorials, and guidelines.
• On that site, the section on Introducing Web Accessibility is particularly useful to get a first idea of what is involved in making the web accessible.
• Accessibility and Blackboard. Where Blackboard stands, on-going work, some tutorials (the Bb7 accessibility tutorial is not yet there as of this writing). Blackboard 7 complies with 508 accessibility standards (standards public sites must follow by law)
• WebAim (Web Accessibility In Mind), an initiative of the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State, has an excellent site with resources and tutorials, a training CD . it also has a blog and discussion boards.
• The Access Board: a government agency concerned with many aspects of accessible design. It sets, updates, and presents the 508 accessibility standards for public websites.
• EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) has a page on e-learning accessibility with a number of links to various presentations and articles on the topic.