Accessibility Resources

Included below are a number of links to Accessibility references, software and services and resource sites.

Accessibility References

• http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
  W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline. 
• http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/
  W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline. 
• http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/full-checklist.html
  W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility. 
• http://www.section508.gov/
  U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.

Accessibility Software and Services 

• http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp
  Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines.
• http://validator.w3.org/
  HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
• http://www.delorie.com/web/wpbcv.html
  Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features. 
• http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws.asp
  JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited demo is available. 
• http://lynx.browser.org/
  Lynx, a free text-only web browser.

Irish Resource Sites

• http://accessit.nda.ie/technologyindex_1.html
  Irish National Disability Authority IT Accessibility Guidelines Version 1.1 
• http://www.ahead.ie/
  The Association for Higher Education Access and Disability.