Access for Persons with Disabilities

Access for Persons with Disabilities

EDUCAUSE has identified links concerning Access for Persons with Disabilities that may be useful to the higher education community. Many of these links have been contributed by EDUCAUSE members. If you would like to include additional resources on this page, send the information to contribute@educause.edu

Federal Government Resources

Americans with Disabilities Act Home Page

This the U.S. Department of Justice's American with Disabilities (ADA) home page. Information on this site includes;

• A Guide to Disability Rights Laws
• ADA Standards for Accessible Design
• ADA Questions and Answers
• Enforcing the ADA: A Status Report from the Department of Justice
• An Overview of the ADA Mediation Program

Accessible Web Design

Bobby WorldWide Bobby WorldWide is a tool for Web page authors. It helps them identify changes to their pages so users with disabilities can more easily use their Web pages. For example, a blind user will be aided by adding a sound track to a movie, and a hard-of-hearing user will be aided by a written transcript of a sound file on a Web page. Bobby will recommend that these be added if they do not already exist.

Electronic Ramp to Success: Designing Campus Web Pages for Users with Disabilities /ir/library/pdf/EQM0226.pdf EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2002. As colleges and universities put resources and services online, access by users with disabilities becomes increasingly vital.

Web Accessibility Initiative WAI, in coordination with organizations around the world, pursues accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of work: technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and research and development.

WebAIM Section 508 Checklist This site provides a list of standards from Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, §1194.22. This site provides helpful guidelines to comply with Section 508.