Accessibility-HTML-CSS
Accessibility Overview
- W3C Consortium
- Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
- TAC 206 – State Web Sites (Texas Administrative Code)
- TAC 213 – Electronic & Information Resources Accessibility Standards (Texas Administrative Code)
- Accessibility Checklist – IBM
- A List Apart – General discussion of CSS and other web design issues
- Jeffrey Zeldman
- Designing for Accessibility – presentation by Marla Erwin
- Accessibility for Section 508 – tutorial by Jim Thatcher
- HTML Best Practices – Illinois Center for Information Technology Accessibility
- Marla Erwin’s delicious links
HTML & CSS Overview
- What beautiful HTML Looks Like
- CSS Property Index A reference guide for CSS development
- XHTML 1.0 Specification
- Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) Reference
- Eric Meyer (CSS Expert)
- The Web Standards Project
JavaScript
- Creating accessible javascript – WebAIM
- boxofchocolates – Derek Featherstone
Code Editors
Browser Compatibility
- When good browsers go bad… (Computerworld)
- Multiple IEs
- Virtual PC
Forms & Tables
- Accessible Tables – presentation by Jim Allen
- Accessible Forms – presentation by Marla Erwin & Jim Allen
- Luke Wroblewski – Forms
Adobe Acrobat
Validating your Code
- Web Developer Tool Bar for FireFox Best testing tool available.
- WebAIM: Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with the Firefox Web Developer
Toolbar - Accessibility Toolbar for IE Useful testing tool for IE browser
- WAVE Accessibility Checker
- Firebug Awesome tool for inspecting HTML, CSS, and especially JavaScript
- CSS Validator Service from the W3C
- HTML Validator service from the W3C
Skip to Main Content
- Headings help users skip navigation
- Skip links pros and cons
- BiteSize Standards
- Molly.com: http://www.molly.com
- WaSP: http://www.webstandards.org
Layout
- Quirks Mode Excellent reference on CSS and DOM
- Fixed vs Fluid Width? Elastic!
- Elastic Design
- Jello Mold
- Creating Liquid Faux Columns
- Elastic Lawn
- Liquid Design Gallery
- Layout Gala
- CSS Liquid Layouts
- Ruthsarian Layouts
- Open Web Design
- WebDev
User Options
- Working With Alternate Style Sheets
- Build A Simple Style Switcher in CSS
- Stop Design
- Tech.nologi.c
- TomStardust
Color Palettes
Color Blindness Simulators
Color Contrast Analyzers
- VisCheck
- JuicyStudio Colour Contrast Analyser
- JuicyStudio Colour Contrast Plugin for Firefox
- Snook Colour Contrast Check
- WAT-C Colour Contrast Analyser
- Really Shiny Colour Tools Script for PHP