Resources and links

This is an ongoing collection of links to sources of information about website accessibility and tools to help you develop accessible content.

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• Access Matters - Bob Easton's accessibility blog
• Accessible Net - Large collection of website accessibility resources
  
• Accessify.com - News, tutorials, tools and all sorts of useful stuff
  
• AccessifyForum - Discussion forum
• Building Accessible Websites - Joe Clark's book
  
• Dive Into Accessibility - Mark Pilgrim's book answers the questions "Why should I make my web site more accessible?" and "How can I make my web site more accessible?"
• W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - The guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities. Be warned that the text is very, very technical.
• WebAIM - News and information from Web Accessibility in Mind.

Tools and software that can help you to develop accessible content:

• A-Prompt - An application for Windows that examines web pages for barriers to accessibility, performs automatic repairs when possible, and assists the author in manual repairs when necessary. A bit more rigourous than Bobby.
  
• Fangs - An extension for Firefox that attempts to emulate screen readers.
• Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta - Microsoft's, ahem, version of the Firefox Web Developer extension, but IE only.
  
• Web Developer - An extension for Firefox that does lots of cool stuff, like swapping out images for alternative text, identifying images with missing or empty alt tags, validate your local XHTML, and much more.
  
• Web Accessibility Toolbar - A toolbar for Internet Explorer that does pretty much the same cool stuff as the Web Developer extension for Firefox.