Digital Accessibility Laws Around the Globe, a resource developed by the law office of Lainey Feingold, lists laws, regulations, and treaties worldwide that pertain to digital accessibility, including those that relate to disability rights, website accessibility, IT procurement, and more. The list is organized by country.
Learn what to consider when creating a video that it is accessible to all viewers, from pre-production techniques to the provision of captioning and audio description.
Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D., Director of Accessible Technology Services and founder of DO-IT, offers a lecture to faculty in which she offers 20 tips for how faculty can make their courses more accessible to students with disabilities.
These web accessibility tips can be used by web designers, developers, or content authors to guide them in creating or deploying web-based resources that are fully accessible to all users. This list is not intended to replace or map to formal standards such as the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C’s) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Have suggestions for how this list can be improved? Please send your ideas to accesscomp@uw.edu.
The Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports projects that integrate the capabilities of emerging technologies with advances in what is known about how people learn. These projects advance innovation, the understanding of how people learn in technology-rich environments, and broad use and transferability of new genres.
Regardless of whether documents are created in Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, or another format, there are right and wrong ways to create documents in order to ensure people with disabilities can access them.
This CBI brought together cyberlearning researchers, technology developers, and instructors to share ideas and expertise regarding the creation of online learning tools and experiences that are welcoming to, accessible to, and usable by everyone, including those with disabilities.
| Assistive Technology | Therefore |
|---|---|
| Emulates the keyboard, but may not emulate the mouse | Design websites, tools, and software to operate with keyboard alone |
| Cannot read content presented in images | Provide alternative text |
| Can tab from link to link |