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- GAWDS find their WAI. GAWDS are now working with the W3C WAI Education and Outreach Group.
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- Brothercake.com voted Site of the Month, December 2004
- December saw the second in a new series of monthly awards designed to recognise websites in which accessibility and great design are brought together. Winner of the December Site of the Month is Brothercake.com.
- Creating accessible websites Hot Topic - London - 6th October 2005
- Creating Accessible Websites Hot Topics Seminar in London on 6th October 2005
- NLB Visionary Design Awards 2005
- Treasures of the Battye Library voted Site of the Month, January 2005
- GAWDS members have voted Treasures of the Battye Library the first Site of the Month for 2005. This attractive and well-presented website was designed by Australia-based Cadmium Design & Development.
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- Articles
- Design by Community? So what's new?
- designing by community, it's what we already do.
- PAS 78: Guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites
- PAS 78 launch overview.
- Website accessibility - the legal issues and PAS 78
- Content Management Documentation
- How do I change my password?
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- Developers Market
- Accessible Web Designers and Developers Market
- GAWDS Web Accessibility Award
- Little Blue Plane gains GAWDS Web Accessibility Award, First Quarter 2008
- GAWDS are pleased to announce that Little Blue Plane is the winner of the first quarterly GAWDS Web Accessibility Award. This superb site represents the online presence of GAWDS member Helena Boylen.
- Regelingenbank Stadskanaal gains GAWDS Web Accessibility Award, Second Quarter 2008
- GAWDS are pleased to announce that the Regelingenbank Stadskanaal site is the winner of the second quarterly GAWDS Web Accessibility Award.
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- Guru accessible web design articles and tips
- A beginners introduction to standard markup and accessibility
- What do we mean when we talk about standard markup - and how is it related to accessibility?
- Accessibility Testing and Reporting with TAW3
- Patrick H. Lauke gives a run-down of the free TAW3 tool to aid in accessibility testing of Web pages.
- Article: Accessible Web design: Colour
- Article: CSS accessibility problems: is markup dead?
- Article: Frames and accessibility
- Article: Making Data Tables Accessible
- Assistive Technology Resources
- Online assistive technology sites and resources
- Automated testing - How useful is it?
- A discussion about the value of automated testing and it's role within web accessibility auditing.
- CAPTCHA Resources
- Whilst automated user challenges can be effective in limiting abuse by automated systems, they also pose significant accessibility barriers for some user groups.
- Content Management Systems and Web Standards
- When CMS vendors are constantly repositioning their products to align them with the latest buzz-words and industry fashions, it's easy to be deflected from concentrating on the most basic, but important issues - like ensuring that the resulting web pages will work on the web browsers of visitors to your site.
- Don't use the statistics defence as a reason to exclude people from your content
- Arguments against the 'statistics defence' for excluding users from accessing content of a website, e.g., 'we don't worry if our content is not accessible to someone who uses Netscape 4 because there as so few Netscape 4 users these days'.
- Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox
- Patrick H. Lauke outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review.
- How disabled users access the Internet
- Different groups of people have unique needs when accessing websites. Find out what these are in this informative article.
- Is an Accessible Website Usable?
- This article briefly discusses web accessibility and web usability, explaining the benefits of usable accessibility in making a website both accessible and usable.
- Passion + talent + specialization = success
- Those who tap into their raw talents and passion get ahead further and faster in the ever-expanding Web world.
- SEO and Accessibility
- SEO and Accessibility can co-exist peacefully. One can be used as a catalyst for the other. With the changes in SEO techniques, and the real present need for standards and accessibility, consideration must be given by the web author for the marriage of the two, into one rich relationship.
So cast your vote for SEO and Accessibility!
- The captcha question
- The Captcha question - Looking at text and image captchas
- The Web, what's in a colour?
- The Web, what's in a colour? - Colour and it's importance on the Web
- Web accessibility and the law in the UK: Is Your Website Legal?
- Since 1999 websites have been required to be accessible to visually impaired and disabled Internet users under the Disability Discrimination Act. Find out what your legal obligations are.
- What is an accessible website?
- It is fairly easy to provides examples of the types of problems people with particular impairments have on the Web, and the techniques that can be used to make a site more accessible. But a simple definition; a sentence that sums up what an accessible website is, is not quite such an easy task.
- Writing good ALT text
- Your UK business website and the Disability Discrimination Act.
- A FAQ for UK Businesses about accessible web design and the Disability Discrimination Act.
- Guru Articles: Assistive Technology
- Accessible Information Technology - A case study: Part 1
- The first part of a case study involving an innovative and prize winning high accessibility IT project.
- Accessible Information Technology - A case study: Part 2
- The second part of a case study involving an innovative and prize winning high accessibility IT project.
- Assistive Technology: Alternative Pointing Devices
- Not everyone can use a standard mouse...
- Assistive Technology: Braille and Low Vision Aids
- Additional hardware and software that may be utilised by visually impaired users.
- Assistive Technology: Keyboards And Other Input Alternatives
- How can a normal keyboard be adapted? What keyboard alternatives are available?
- Assistive Technology: Other Aids
- Assistive technology extends well beyond screen readers and large keyboards.
- Technology for all of us
- Assistive technology is expensive, so should more features be available within standard operating systems?
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- On-line love is hard to find for disabled people this Valentine's says accessibility experts AbilityNet
- The top dating websites are inaccessible to disabled people seeking romance on-line says leading web accessibility experts, AbilityNet, in its latest e-Nation report.
- Welcome to the Guild of Accessible Web Designers
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- Meetings
- Getting local about web standards (in DC, MD, and VA)
- A local web designer / accessibility specialist near Washington, DC is trying to start a group of web folks who would like to get together once or twice a month to discuss web standards and accessibility.
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- Membership
- Information for new members
- Qualifying countries for lower membership fee
- Rules for posting to the GAWDS website
- Press releases
- GAWDS announce an exclusive partnership with Shaw Trust
- For release on 13th April 2005.
- Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) Cracks The Whip
- Released on Wednesday 26th May.
- Joe Clark Sharing the Secrets of Web Accessibility - one day workshop - 1 September 2005, London
- Joe Clark on "Sharing the Secrets of Web Accessibility"
Sep 1, 2005 - London - Only 40 seats!
Creating accessible web sites is no longer an option, it's a necessity.
During this one-day workshop, we'll teach you how to create accessible sites that work in the real world.
http://www.carsonworkshops.com
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- Resources
- Accessibility and the legal system
- Accessible Web Design Training Courses
- Favourite Resources and Contributors
- Print Resources
- A short bibliography of print resources for XHTML, CSS and accessible Web design.
- Running Persona Workshops
- The to do list
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- Tools and Utilities
- AIS Web Accessibility Toolbar for IE - V1.2 now available
- Free software for checking web site accessibility, primarily assisting the manual checks that have to be undertaken. Runs with IE on Windows; available in many languages.
- Browsealoud - speech enabled website content
- Texthelp Systems Ltd have introduced special reduced rates on their Browsealoud product for GAWDS members. The reduced rates are available on request by contacting Elaine Emerson directly.
- CannyBill - Invoicing, billing & web hosting automation.
- CannyBill is a web based invoicing and billing solution for businesses and web designers. Easily create, send and manage invoices and accept payments online via credit card. You can also sell your products and services using order forms which your customers can signup to and even link to live API's such as Plesk, Geotrust, Enom, Basecamp and many more.
- Colour Contrast Analyser
- The Colour Contrast Analyser has been updated to v2.2 to include the algorithm adopted by WCAG 2.0.
- MTBrowser - all in one testing tool
- Multiple versions of IE on one PC
- This is a link to a tutorial that will make browser testing a little easier.
It shows how to run different versions of Interent Explorer on one Windows System.
- QnECMS - the accessible Content Management System
- QnECMS (Quick and Easy Content Management System) is built with accessibility from the ground-up, making it the most standards compliant and accessible CMS on the market.
- Talklets
- Assitive web-based technology, that makes your sites more accessible to more people, in more places... FREE for GAWDS members sites (read on for further)
- Tradingeye v5 Shop and CMS - Accessible e-commerce solutions
- The new Tradingeye Shop v5 is one of the first accessible, web standard compliant shopping carts. It features a powerful online content management system which easily enables you to take full control of your shop.
- WDG HTML validator
- As well as offering you the opportunity to validate single web pages, the Web Design Group's online HTML validator has a number of other useful features.
- Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
- Short list of web accessibility evaluation online tools.
- Training Courses
- Accessibility in a Web2.0 World
- AbilityNet have a number of winter courses running in November at the British Computer Society (BCS) offices conveniently located off the Strand in central London.
- Advanced Web Training
- fourquarters, Manchester's Accessible Web Solutions specialists, are offering two special web training days for developers: Using CSS, and Web Accessibility.
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- Training: WCAG 1 Priority 1
- 1.1 Provide a text equivalent for every non-text element
- 1.2 Provide redundant text links for each active region of a server-side image map.
- 1.3 Until user agents can automatically read aloud the text equivalent of a visual track, provide auditory description of the important information
- 12.1 Title each frame to facilitate frame identification and navigation.
- 14.1 Use the clearest and simplest language appropriate for a site\'s content.
- 2.1 Ensure that all information conveyed with colour is also available without color, for example from context or markup.
- 4.1 Clearly identify changes in the natural language of a document's text and any text equivalents (e.g., captions).
- 5.1 For data tables, identify row and column headers.
- 6.1 Organise documents so that they may be read without style sheets.
- 6.2 Ensure that equivalents for dynamic content are updated when the dynamic content changes.
- 6.3 Ensure that pages are usable when scripts, applets, or other programmatic objects are turned off or not supported.
- 7.1. Until users agents allow users to control flickering, avoid causing the screen to flicker.
- 9.1: Provide client-side image maps instead of server side image maps where the region cannot be defined with an available geometric shape.
- Article: Accessibility issues with Javascript
- Article: CSS accessibility problems: is markup dead?
- Article: Frames and accessibility
- Article: How to make non-text elements accessible
- Article: Making Data Tables Accessible
- Exercise: Improve clarity and organisation of content
- Exercise: Add an alt attribute to the image based heading
- Exercise: Add text equivalent to applets and programmatic objects.
- Exercise: Adding a longdesc attribute to the Customer Satisfaction Survey Pie Chart
- Exercise: Adding an alt attribute to a client-side image map
- Exercise: alter the tutorial website so that access is not dependent on the use of colour
- Exercise: Compare graphic and text browser versions of tutorial site
- Exercise: Ensure links still work when Javascript is not supported or turned off
- Exercise: indicate a change in language
- Exercise: Making a websites that uses frames accessible
- Exercise: Making more complex tables accessible
- Exercise: Suggest how alternatives could be provided for dynamic content
- Exercise: Turn off style sheets and check accessiblity of the website
- Exercise: Use appropriate markup for tables
- Exercise: Use the noframes element on the tutorial website
- ExerciseView an example of accessible media
- Introduction to WCAG AA self-study training course
- Self-study Training Course: WCAG Priority 1 Checkpoints
- Training: WCAG 1 Priority 2
- 10.1 Until user agents allow users to turn off spawned windows, do not cause pop-ups or other windows to appear
- 11.1 Use W3C technologies when they are available and appropriate for a task and use the latest versions when supported
- 11.2 Avoid deprecated features of W3C technologies.
- 12.2 Describe the purpose of frames and how frames relate to each other if it is not obvious by frame titles alone
- 12.3 Divide large blocks of information into more manageable groups where natural and appropriate
- 13.1 Clearly identify the target of each link
- 13.2 Provide metadata to add semantic information to pages and sites
- 13.3 Provide information about the general layout of a site (e.g., a site map or table of contents)
- 2.2 Ensure that foreground and background color combinations provide sufficient contrast
- 3.1 When an appropriate markup language exists, use markup rather than images to convey information.
- 3.2 Create documents that validate to published formal grammars
- 3.3 Use style sheets to control layout and presentation.
- 3.4 Use relative rather than absolute units in markup language attribute values and style sheet property values
- 3.6 Mark up lists and list items properly.
- 3.7 Mark up quotations. Do not use quotation markup for formatting effects such as indentation
- 5.3 Do not use tables for layout unless the table makes sense when linearized
- 6.5 Ensure that dynamic content is accessible or provide an alternative presentation or page
- 7.2 Until user agents allow users to control blinking, avoid causing content to blink
- 7.4 and 7.5 Until user agents provide the ability to stop the refresh and redirect
- 8.1 Make programmatic elements such as scripts and applets directly accessible or compatible with assistive technologies
- 9.3 For scripts, specify logical event handlers rather than device-dependent event handlers
- Article: Accessibility issues with Javascript
- Article: Accessible Web design: Colour
- Article: Adding metadata to web pages
- Article: An introduction to standard HTML and accessibility
- Article: Creating accessible forms on the Web
- Article: Definitions: Document Content, Structure, and Presentation
- Article: deprecated (X)HTML features
- Article: HTML - looking down at it from a very great height
- Article: Javascript event handlers and accessibility
- Article: Making Dynamic Content Accessible
- Article: problems with opening new windows
- Article: Table Manners: Creating accessible layout tables
- Article: Use latest W3C technologies when appropriate
- Article: Use Valid Markup in your documents
- Article: Why not use images instead of text?
- Article; autodirecting or refreshing pages
- Exercise for Checkpoint 3.1
- Exercise: Check colour contrast
- Exercise: check link text in a text browser
- Exercise: Creating accessible forms
- Exercise: Mark up headings appropriately
- Exercise: use a relative unit to set font sizes
- Exercise: use a relative unit to set font sizes
- Exercise: use CSS to set text colour
- Exercise: Use the W3C valdiator to check that the validity of markup
- Exercise: view table in WAVE accessibility tool
- Exercise; markup a list on the tutorial website
- Notes: Allow user control of blinking
- Self-study Training Course: WCAG 1 Priority 2 Checkpoints
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- Accessible Web Design Books and Publications
- Hope page text
- Web Design Contest
- And the winner is...
- Blue Caffeine by Jake Carlson
- Blue Moon by Mel Pedley
- Concept Demo by Raymond Sonoff
- Cornflower by Jon Gibbins
- Fifth: Accessiblue by Jake Carlson
- Liquid Access by Sophia Kapterian
- Minimalistic by elfin
- Runner up: Suede Sofa by kevin Potts
- Third: Simplicity by Hussain
- Website design competition entries
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