Accessibility resources
W3C and W3Schools
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has resources and tutorials to help you make your website accessible. Read the W3C accessibility standards. Want to learn even more? W3schools.com offers free tutorials in many common web languages and techniques.
Consequences for inaccessible environments and content
Over the past few years, several universities have been accused of discrimination, because many of their information technology applications could not accommodate people with disabilities. The University of Washington offers a review of some of those cases.
Web accessibility basics
- Getting started with web accessibility
- Tips to make an accessible website
- Web accessibility guidelines
- Accessible web site design
- Web accessibility guidelines checklist
- Writing good link text
- How people with disabilities use the web
- Chat and e-mail accessibility
- The Accessibility Project
Content accessibility basics
- Create usable and accessible PDF documents from Microsoft Word
- 10 tips for creating accessible documents
- Create accessible PDF documents (and other items) using Adobe products (Important concept: PDF Accessibility Starts with the Author)
- Microsoft mini-course in creating accessible Word documents
- Creating accessible PowerPoint presentations
- Creating accessible Excel workbooks
- Creating accessible forms in InfoPath
Questions?
Contact the Equity and Access Office or NAU Accessibility Analyst, to learn more about accessibility on campus.