% CSci 487: Senior Project \
  Accessibility Resources
% **H. Conrad Cunningham**
% **4 February 2019**

# Accessibility Resources

## What is Accessibility

To comply with legal expectations such as the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and other
laws and court rulings, we must make our electronic documents,
websites, software applications (mobile, desktop, web, etc.), video,
audio, and hardware accessible to persons with a wide range of
abilities and disabilities.

As examples, consider users who have
	
-   visual impairments (blindness, low vision, color blindness, etc.) 

-   hearing impairments (deafness, hard of hearing, etc.)
	
-   fine motor impairments (inability to use some input devices such
    as mice, etc.; use assistive technologies such as speech input
    head pointers, etc.)

-   learning challenges (dyslexia, auditory processing disorder, etc.) 

-   limited English fluency

-   mobile devices rather than full-size monitors

-   limited experience using computing devices

It is usually better to treat accessibility as a *design concern* from
the beginning rather than an *add-on feature* at the end of development.


## Online Resources

-   [University of Washington, Getting Started with Accessibility
    ](<https://www.washington.edu/accessibility/start/>)

	Subpages on creating accessible documents, websites, and videos
	
-   [World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
	](<https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/quickref/>)
	
-   [Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM) ](<https://webaim.org/>)

    +   [WebAIM's Resources page
	    ](<https://webaim.org/resources/>)

    +   [Introduction to Web Accessibility 
	    ](<https://webaim.org/intro/>)
		
	+   [WebAIM's WCAG 2 Checklist 
	    ](<https://webaim.org/standards/wcag/checklist>)

    +   [WebAIM Wave tool ](<http://wave.webaim.org/>)