Misc. Resources for Faculty
Emergency Planning Resources
Inservice Presentations
- Faculty Access Guide to Web-based Courses presentation. HTML notes and associated five-question Quiz (RTF, Text)
- Students with Disabilities Transition Guide. HTML notes.
- What You Absolutely Need to Know About Services for Students With Disabilities presentation. About: slide notes and online quiz.
- Universal Design of Instruction (slides). UD slide notes. UD online quiz
Resources
Legal considerations in Higher Education
- Nondiscrimination in Higher Education: What's the Law?
- Auxiliary Aids and Services re: Postsecondary Students with Disabilities (Dept. of Ed, OCR)
- Equally effective communication as defined by the U.S. Dept of Justice Technical Assistance Manual for Title II, Section II-7.0000 COMMUNICATIONS
- Making Accommodations: The Legal World of Students with Disabilities
- NETAC ADA Tipsheet (PDF, 47KB)
- Tennessee.gov Accessibility Guidelines
- Guide to Disability Law
Web usability and accessibility links
- Faculty & Administrator Modules in Higher Education (FAME)
- Sample syllabus statement
- WebAIM Web Accessibility In Mind
- DO-IT Faculty Room
- Faculty handbook (Blue Ridge CC)
- Best Practices for MS Word, Powerpoint
- Web Standards Checklist
- WebCT Good Practice Guide
- accesselearning - A ten-module tutorial that offers instructional techniques on how to create accessible Web content using various applications and technologies.
- NCDAE National Center on Disability and Access to Education.
- Facultyware UDI at UCONN
- OSU Fast Facts for Faculty
- Top 10 Errors in Web Design
- W3C Quality Tips
- Fact Sheets for Making Accessible Distance Education
- University of Minnesota Duluth: Web Design References
- CAST: Universal Design for Learning
- ITTATC Web Accessibility Course (Free registration)
- Penn State: Creating Accessible Web Sites
- Web Accessibility Initiative Resources (W3C WAI)
- "Making Educational Software and Web Sites Accessible"
- Web Content Accessibility Curriculum - Examples of accessible markup
- SALT Specifications for Accessible Learning Technologies
- Dive into Accessibilty
- Alertbox - Current issues in Web accessibility
- Designing More Usable Web Sites
- Web Accessibility for All, UW-Madison
- Jim Thatcher accessibility resources
- Usability.gov
- WebCredible
- Accessibility in Distance Education (ADE)
- Accessify.com
- Joe Clark: "Building Accessible Websites" (online book)
- Apple Accessibility
Tools
Validation
- W3C HTML Validator
- W3C CSS Validator
- Functional Accessibility Evaluator (UIUC)
- Wave accessibility tool
- Hermish
- Cynthia Says
- T.A.W. Web Accessibility Test
- WebXACT checks content for accessibility, privacy, and quality
Browser Extensions & Add-ins
- Web Accessibility Toolbar (WAT, AIS, Internet Explorer)
- WAT for Opera 9 (Opera, The Paciello Group)
- Web Developer Extension (Chris Pederick, Firefox)
- User Agent Switcher (Chris Pederick, Firefox)
- Accessibility Extension (UIUC, Firefox)
- Fire Vox talking browser (CLC)
- HTML Validator (Firefox)
- View Source Chart (Jennifer Madden, Firefox)
- Window Resizer (Firefox)
- Fangs screen reader emulator (Firefox)
- foXpose - view all open tabs in one window (Firefox)
- ColorZilla (Firefox)
- Color Contrast Analyzer (Gez Lemon, Firefox)
Miscellaneous
- W3C Link Checker
- Lynx Browser (Text-based) viewer
- Vischeck color simulation
- Vischeck Photoshop Plug-in
- Flicker rate test for animated GIF images
- HTML to Text
- Lorem Ipsum (dummy text) generator