Note: W3C does not guarantee the stability of any of
the following references outside of its control. These references are included
for convenience. References to products are not endorsements of those products
by W3C.
- [ACCESSIBILITY-DEV-HOWTO]
- "How to
Develop Accessible Linux Applications," S. Snider, ed.
- [ACCESSIBILITY-HOWTO]
-
"Linux Accessibility HOWTO," M. de la Rue, S. Snider, eds.
- [APPLE-HI]
- Refer to the following guidelines from Apple:
- [ATK]
- The ATK
library provides a set of interfaces for accessibility in the GNOME
environment.
- [BHO]
-
Browser Helper Objects: The Browser the Way You Want It, D.
Esposito, January 1999. Refer also to
IEHelper-Attaching
to Internet Explorer 4.0 by Using a Browser Helper Object.
- [ED-DEPT]
-
"Requirements for Accessible Software Design," Version 2.0, US
Department of Education, February 1, 2001.
- [EITAAC]
-
"EITAAC Desktop Software standards," Electronic Information
Technology Access Advisory (EITAAC) Committee.
- [GECKO-API]
- The Mozilla developers offer a FAQ that explains
how
to communicate with Gecko, the rendering engine in the Windows
platform.
- [GNOME-ACCESS]
- The GNOME
Accessibility Project. See in particular
"[Draft]
How to make GNOME 2.0 Applications Accessible."
- [IBM-ACCESS]
- "Software
Accessibility," IBM Special Needs Systems.. Refer to the
IBM guidelines
for software accessibility,
IBM guidelines for
Java accessibility.
- [ICCCM]
- "The Inter-Client
communication conventions manual". A protocol for communication
between clients in the X Window system.
- [ICE-RAP]
- "An
ICE Rendezvous Mechanism for X Window System Clients," W. Walker. A
description of how to use the ICE and RAP protocols for X Window clients.
- [JAVA-ACCESS]
- "IBM Guidelines for
Writing Accessible Applications Using 100% Pure Java," R.
Schwerdtfeger, IBM Special Needs Systems.
- [JAVA-CHECKLIST]
- "Java
Accessibility Guidelines and Checklist.", IBM Special Needs
Systems.
- [JAVA-TUT]
- "The Java
Tutorial. Trail: Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing." An online tutorial
that describes how to use the Swing Java Foundation Class to build an
accessible user interface. Refer also to information on the
Java Foundation Classes.
- [JAVA13]
- Refer to information about
character encodings required by Java version 1.3.
- [JAVAAPI]
- Information on Java Accessibility API can be found at
Java
Accessibility Utilities.
- [MAC-ACCESS]
- Accessibility
features of the MacIntosh
- [MOTIF]
- The
OSF/Motif
Style Guide.
- [MS-ENABLE]
-
Software
accessibility guidelines for Windows applications. Refer also to
Built-in accessibility features.
- [MS-KEYBOARD]
- Information on
keyboard
assistance for Internet Explorer and MS Windows.
- [MS-SOFTWARE]
-
"The
Microsoft Windows Guidelines for Accessible Software Design."
Note: This page summarizes the guidelines and includes links
to the full guidelines in various formats (including plain text).
- [MSAA]
- Information on active accessibility can be found at the
Microsoft Active Accessibility home page.
- [NOTES-ACCESS]
- "Lotus Notes
Accessibility," IBM Special Needs Systems.
- [PHOTO-RDF]
-
"Describing
and retrieving photos using RDF and HTTP," Y. Lafon and B. Bos. The
3 May 2000 version of the W3C Note is
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-photo-rdf-20000503/.
- [SAMI]
- Information on
Synchronized
Accessible Multimedia Interchange (SAMI)
accessibility.
- [SUN-DESIGN]
- Articles, Talks, and
Papers from Sun Microsystems about accessibility.
- [SUN-HCI]
-
"Towards
Accessible Human-Computer Interaction," Eric Bergman, Earl Johnson,
Sun Microsytems 1995. A substantial paper, with a valuable print
bibliography.
- [TALKINGBOOKS]
- (USA) National Information Standards
Organization. One activity pursued by this organization concerns
Digital Talking Books. Refer to the
"Digital Talking Book
Features List" and
"Digital Talking
Book Standards Committee Document Navigation Features List" drafts
for more information.
- [TRACE-EZ]
- "EZ ACCESS(tm) for
electronic devices V 2.0 implementation guide," C. M. Law, G. C.
Vanderheiden, 23 February 2000. This guide, developed by the
Trace Research and Development Center,
describes a simple set of interface enhancements that can be applied to
electronic devices so that they can be used by people with disabilities, or
anyone who experiences difficulty using a device in the standard method of
operation.
- [TRACE-REF]
-
"Application
Software Design Guidelines," compiled by G. Vanderheiden. A thorough
reference work.
- [WHAT-IS]
- "What is Accessible Software," James W. Thatcher, Ph.D., IBM,
1997. This paper, available at the IBM
Accessibility Center, gives a short example-based introduction to the
difference between software that is accessible, and software that can be used
by some assistive technologies.
- [XGUIDELINES]
- Information on
accessibility
guidelines for Unix and X Window applications.
The Open Group has various guides that
explain the Motif and Common Desktop Environment (CDE) with
topics like how users interact with Motif/CDE applications and how to customize
these environments. Note: In X, the terms client and server
are used differently from their use when discussing the Web.
A list of alternative
Web browsers (assistive technologies and other user agents designed for
accessibility) is maintained at the WAI Web site.
- [ADOBE]
- access.adobe.com. Tools
and information about Adobe PDF and accessibility. In particular, see the
how
to access PDF documents through MSAA; this is a PDF document.
- [ALTIFIER]
- The Altifier Tool
generates
alt text intelligently.
- [AMAYA]
- Amaya is W3C's test-bed browser and
editor.
- [AWB]
- The Accessible Web Browser, senior project at the
University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
- [CSSVALIDATOR]
- W3C's CSS Validator
service.
- [DIRECTDOM]
- DirectDom technology, available from
alphaWorks, allows a Java
developer to manipulate the live Document Object Model of a browser or Scalable
Vector Graphics plug-in to build rich graphical user interfaces.
- [G2]
- The G2 player version 7 for Windows.
- [HELPDB]
- HelpDB is a test tool
for Web table navigation.
- [HPR]
- Home Page Reader.
- [IE-WIN]
- Internet Explorer 5.0 for
Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT. Refer also to
information on using COM
with IE. Refer also to
information
about monitoring HTML events in the IE document object
model.
- [JFW]
-
JAWS
for Windows.
- [LYNX]
- The Lynx Browser.
- [MOZILLA]
- The Mozilla browser.
- [NAVIGATOR]
- Netscape
Navigator.
- [ODP-DOM]
- Open
Directory Project information on the W3C DOM.
- [OPERA]
- The Opera Browser.
- [QUICKTIME]
- The QuickTime player.
- [TABLENAV]
- A
table navigation script from the Trace Research Center.
- [VALIDATOR]
- W3C's HTML/XML Validator
service.
- [VIAVOICE]
- ViaVoice voice
recognition software.
- [WINDOWEYES]
- Window-Eyes.
- [WINVISION]
- Winvision.
- [BRAILLEFORMATS]
- "Braille Formats: Principles of
Print to Braille Transcription 1997."
- [NBA]
- The (USA) National Braille
Association.
- [NBP]
- The (USA) National Braille Press.
- [RFBD]
- Recording for the Blind and
Dyslexic.
- [SAPI]
- Microsoft's Speech Application
Programming Interface.
- [SPEAK2WRITE]
- Speak to Write is a site about
using voice recognition to promote accessibility.
- [ISO639]
- "Codes for the representation of names of languages," ISO 639-1:2002. For
more information, search for 639-1:2002 at the
ISO Web site. Refer also to
Language
Identifiers in the Markup Context.