Disability Resources
This is a work in progress.
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Design Guidelines
- Making the Web Accessible for the Blind and Visually Impaired -- By Mike Paciello
- Making the WebAccessible for the Deaf -- by Mike Paciello
- Web Content accessability guidlines
- Various White Papers from Webability
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Developments and Specifications
- Draft Standards on Library Services for People with Disabilities - from the Australian Library and Information Association.
- World Wide Web Browser Access Recommendations -- By Dr. Jon Gunderson
- World Wide Web Accessibility to People with Disabilities: A Usability Perspective -- By Dr. Jon Gunderson
Resources
- Draft Standards on Library Services for People with Disabilities - from the Australian Library and Information Association.
- List of Disability resources - very good
- CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
- IBM Special Needs Solutions
- Science Access Project
- Sun Microsystem's Enabling Technologies Project
- Trace Research and Development Center
- WebABLE!
- Libraries and the Deaf
- Libraries without Walls
- Roads to Learning - the public libraries' learning disabilities initiative.
- Testlab Project - testing systems using telematics for library access for blind and visually handicapped readers.
Tools and Utilities
- Spectronics-Special Needs Technologies- Queensland company that imports a large number of useful items from all over the world including software.
- AsTeR
Synthetic Speech Application
AsTeR -- Audio System for Technical Readings -- a computing system for rendering technical documents. Developed by Dr. T.V. Raman. - Netphonic's Web-On-Call Voice
Browser
Voice browser using telephone interface - TU
Dresden International HTML to Braille Service Using ICADD Mechanism
HTML to Braille transformation service using the International Committee for Accessible Document Design (ICADD) mechanism.
- Australia - Queensland
- Qld. Health Promotion Council ( at Qld. Health) Enquiries were to
M.J.Ellis at (07)3234 1797
- Australian Multicultural Foundation
PO Box 538, Carlton South Vic. 3053 Tel(03)9347 622 Fax(03)93476917
- The Federation of Australian Historical Societies Inc.- they published
a funding database in 1995.