Creating Accessible Forms

Andrew Stevens
Indiana University-Bloomington

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Two Good Accessibility Books

Clark, J. (2002).  Building Accessible Websites.  Indianapolis: New Riders.

Thatcher, J., et al. (2003). Constructing Accessible Websites.  Berkeley, CA: APress.

Accessibility URLs

Building Accessible Forms

WebAIM: Creating accessible forms
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/forms/

Build Accessible Online Forms
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/accessible-online-forms

Dive Into Accessibility: Day 28: Labeling form elements
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_28_labeling_form_elements.html

IBM Accessibility Center: Form guidlines
http://www-306.ibm.com/able/guidelines/web/webforms.html

Creating Accessible Forms Using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/mx/dw/forms.html

Accessify.com - Accessible form builder
http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessible-form-builder.asp

QuirksMode Tableless Forms
http://www.quirksmode.org/index.html?/css/forms.html

Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks, & Techniques: A List Apart
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss/

Fitts' Law -- At a glance
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~cs5724/g1/glance.html

AskTog: A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts
http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html

Defining web accessibility/Accessibility basics

What is web accessibility?
http://www.doit.wisc.edu/accessibility/online-course/defined.htm

Web Accessibility 101
http://www.doit.wisc.edu/accessibility/online-course/

Why Make Web Sites Universally Accessible
http://www.mardiros.net/univ-accessible.html

Accessible Web design - a definition
http://www.starlingweb.com/webac.htm

Building a Barrier-Free Web
http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2450/na1202c/

Understanding Accessibility
http://www-306.ibm.com/able/access_ibm/disability.html

Optimizing Your Chances with Accessibility:Effectively increasing search engine ranking with W3C Accessibility guidelines and Section 508
http://www.digital-web.com/features/optimizing_accessibility.shtml

Tools and techniques for making web content accessible

Tablin: an HTML Table Linearizer
http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Tablin/

Accessibility-checking favelets
http://accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessibility-checking-favelets.asp

Watchfire's Bobby Online
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp

UsableNet's LIFT Online
http://www.usablenet.com/

WebAIM's WAVE
http://www.wave.webaim.org/index.jsp

Vischeck
http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php

JAWS® for Windows Features & Enhancements Pages
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jawsfeatures.asp

The features and technology support for various versions of the Popular JAWS browser. Releases of not include:
JAWS 4.02 New Features and Enhancements
First release to support the HTML Legend element
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws402newfea.asp
JAWS 5.10 Features and Enhancements
The latest release as of October 2004
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws510fea.asp

Accessibility testing on a budget
http://accessify.com/articles/accessibility-testing-on-a-budget_intro.asp

Usability.gov Accessibility Guidelines
http://usability.gov/accessibility/

Tips for managing Section 508 testing
http://builder.com.com/5100-6315-5031866.html

How to Save Web Accessibility from Itself
http://alistapart.com/articles/saveaccessibility/

Accessibility-related organizations and legislation
Accessibility guidelines

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
http://www.access-board.gov/508.htm

Section 508 web site
http://www.section508.gov/

WebAIM Section 508 Checklist
http://www.webaim.org/standards/508/checklist

Thatcher, J. (2002). 1. Web Accessibility for Section 508. Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center. Georgia Institute of Technology.
http://www.jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm

Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/full-checklist.html

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/

Comparison WCAG and Section 508
http://www.jimthatcher.com/sidebyside.htm

State Accessibility Laws
http://www.ittatc.org/laws/stateLawAtGlance.cfm

Web Accessibility and UK Law: Telling It Like It Is
http://alistapart.com/articles/accessuk/

Accountability of Accessibility and Usability
http://www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2002-11.shtml

Web authoring tools' accessibility features

access.adobe.com
http://access.adobe.com/

Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Techniques
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/acrobat/

FrontPage 2003 Accessibility
http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/accessibility/default.mspx

Using FrontPage 2000 to Create Accessible Content
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/frontpage/

Macromedia Accessibility
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/

How to Make Accessible Web Content Using Dreamweaver
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/dreamweaver/