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Resources for Writing for Web Accessibility

Post author By Dennis
Post date May 3, 2011
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UPDATED MARCH 2017

A large part of web accessibility is creating content which can be easily understood, and writing is often times an overlooked factor. Like coding a website, writing must account for a variety of user conditions and abilities. It’s tricky! Here are some great articles to help.

From 4 syllables

Some great advice from @Writing4Web. This was originally a 7-part series; the articles were restructured since.

More great resources

Tips on Writing for Web Accessibility by W3C WAI
Writing Clearly and Simply by WebAIM
Writing for Global Audiences – Web Standards Sherpa
Web Writing Guidelines for Content Contributors – Meet Content
I Don’t Want to Read More or Click Here – by Karen Mardahl
WCAG 2.0 for writers – SlideShare
Sidestepping Ableist Language – web slides by Ashley Bischoff

Techniques from WCAG 2.0

conference csun roundup

Post-CSUN Resources

My last podcast previewed CSUN (The 26th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference), which happened last week. It was a great success. Fortunately a few folks have written great summaries of the event, listed below. Also, I’ve posted some CSUN11 photos on Flickr.

Here are two excellent resources for session presentations and more:

The Great Big List from the 2011 CSUN Conference by Curb Cut.
CSUN 2011 Web highlights by Leonie Watson.

Some notable blog posts:

My March Madness – John Foliot.
CSUN 2011, jour 1 : compte-rendu des conférences (English translation) – Denis Boudreau.
Notes on #csun11 – Joshue O Connor
Lightening Talk on Accessible Twitter updates at CSUN Tweetup – Dennis Lembree.

Suggested presentations relating to web accessibility are:

Accessibility of HTML5 and Rich Internet Applications (WebAIM and The Paciello Group): ARIA Morning Session | ARIA Afternoon Session
Accessible HTML5 media players, captions, audio description and search (PDF) – Terrill Thompson.
Making rich internet applications accessible through jQuery (PDF) – Chris Blouch (AOL) and Hans Hillen (TPG)
Using the barcamp/unconference format – Jennison Asuncion, James Timony and John F Croston.
Improving Web Accessibility for the Elderly – Roger Hudson.
DISTCHA: an attempt to kill CAPTCHA – Vincent François & Samuel Sirois.

Any more to add? Please comment!

Additions

Successfully Integrating Accessibility in your Organization’s Web Development Lifecycle – Denis Boudreau.
Role of engineering best practices to create an inclusive web – Srinivasu Chakravarthula.
CSUN: A recap from the week in San Diego – Technology for the Blind.
CSUN 26th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, San Diego – Virtual Imaginings.
IBM CSUN 2011 presentations

book roundup

Free Online Books on Accessibility

Post author By Dennis
Post date January 13, 2011
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Tweets were recently going around about free online/e-books relating to web accessibility. They point to the web page 6 free online books about web accessibility by Jitendra. I’ve repeated them here in a simple list and added a Microsoft book and an excerpted chapter by Shawn Lawton Henry from one of the books.