Useful Digital Accessibility Resources

Accessibility Resource Sites

WebAIM: Our site offers the basics, WebAIM digs in deep.
A11y Project
Project Enable— Resources: A massive database of disability-support resources from this site oriented towards creating accessible and inclusive libraries.
Video introduction to Digital Accessibility: A great series of introductory videos created by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
Introduction to Web Accessibility from W3.org.
- This section also has a good video introduction to web accessibility.

W3C Accessibility Standards Overview: includes accessibility guidelines for web content, audio and video, and rich internet applications guidelines, and other advanced internet topics.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: Customizable quick reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 requirements (success criteria) and techniques. Check out the filter tab to filter the guidelines to your needs.
Techniques and Failures for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: Practical advice on fulfilling the guidelines.
Understanding and implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: Directly from the WCAG working group.

Writing for Web Accessibility: Tips for getting started from the W3.org.
Web Accessibility for Developers: An ebook from Toronto Metropolitan University with advanced resources for developers used to working with HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Made Easy: Ebook from Toronto Metropolitan University.
Eighteen Blind Library Users’ Experiences with Library Websites and Search Tools in U.S. Academic Libraries: A Qualitative Study: Article by Adina Mullikan from College & Research Libraries journal.

Introduction to Screen Readers: Tech overview from the American Foundation for the Blind.
Learn to Use Voiceover on your Mac: Built-in screen reader for Macs from Deque.
Getting Started Testing with NVDA: Free, open-source screen reader for Windows. Guide from Harvard University.
Morphic: Open source tool that can make accessibility features on public-access computers easier to use (Mac and PC versions available). People can save their custom accessibility settings to the cloud, thereafter each public computer using the Morphic tool will match those settings upon start up.

Axe Dev Tools: advanced tools for accessibility testing.
PDF Accessibility Checker: A free PDF accessibility checking tool, aligned to global standards, maintained by PAC since 2010.
Color Contrast Checker: Test web colors for contrast from WebAIM.
Color-reliant Link Contrast Checker: See if your link colors pass contrast tests from WebAIM.
A11y color blindness empathy tool: Chrome extension.