Planning and Implementing Web Accessibility
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Policy Resources
- Developing Organizational Policies on Web Accessibility
- Describes considerations when making simple or comprehensive policies for organizations.
- Why Standards Harmonization is Essential to Web Accessibility
- Explains the key role that harmonization of standards plays in increasing the accessibility of the Web for people with disabilities.
- International Policies Relating to Web Accessibility
- Links to information on government policies relating to Web accessibility in different countries around the world.
Managing Accessibility
- Implementation Plan for Web Accessibility
- Outlines considerations for planning a process for implementing accessibility.
- Improving the Accessibility of Your Web Site
- Provides approaches and tips for fixing accessibility barriers in existing Web sites; in other words, repairing accessibility problems, or retrofitting a site to improve accessibility.
- Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility
- Describes how project managers, designers, and developers can better understand accessibility issues and implement more effective accessibility solutions in their websites and web applications; browsers, media players, and assistive technologies; authoring tools such as content management systems (CMS), blog software, and WYSIWYG editors; standards and policies on accessibility; web technologies and technical specifications.
- Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility
- Provides information to help find authoring tools that support accessibility and work around the gaps in existing authoring tools.
See also:
- WAI Guidelines and Techniques - list of web accessibility standards and guidelines, which are introduced in Essential Components of Web Accessibility.
- Web Accessibility and Older People: Meeting the Needs of Ageing Web Users.
- Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices.