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1. Getting Started
2. Designing for Inclusion
3. Guidelines & Techniques
4. Planning & Implementing
5. Evaluating Accessibility
6. Presentations & Tutorials
7. Getting Involved with WAI

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See also: annotated list of primary WAI Resources.

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1. Finding Your WAI ("way") to New Web Accessibility Resources
2. WAI Site Map
3. Help with WAI Site
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Getting Started with Web Accessibility

Accessibility Basics

1. Accessibility - W3C
2. Introduction to Web Accessibility
3. Essential Components of Web Accessibility
4. Web Accessibility Perspectives: Explore the Impact and Benefits for Everyone
5. Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization: Overview
   • Social Factors
   • Technical Factors
   • Financial Factors
   • Legal & Policy Factors
   • Resources for Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization
     • Case Study of Accessibility Benefits: Legal & General Group (L&G)
     • Case Study of Accessibility Benefits: Tesco
     • A Cautionary Tale of Inaccessibility: Target Corporation
     • A Cautionary Tale of Inaccessibility: Sydney Olympics Website

Accessibility Tips

1. Tips for Getting Started with Web Accessibility
   • Designing for Web Accessibility
   • Writing for Web Accessibility
   • Developing for Web Accessibility

For People who Use the Web

1. Better Web Browsing: Tips for Customizing Your Computer
2. Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites

Designing for Inclusion

1. How People with Disabilities Use the Web
   • Stories of Web Users
   • Diversity of Web Users
   • Web Browsing Innovations
   • Accessibility Principles
2. Web Accessibility and Older People: Meeting the Needs of Ageing Web Users
   1. Developing Websites for Older People: How Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Applies
   2. Overview of "Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review"
3. Mobile Accessibility
4. Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices
   1. Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities
   2. Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

Guidelines & Techniques

1. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview
   • WCAG 2.0 technical documents
     1. How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference
     2. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
     3. Understanding WCAG 2.0
     4. Techniques for WCAG 2.0
     5. W3C WCAG 2.0 Conformance Logos
     6. WCAG 2.0 Translations
   • WCAG 2.0 educational documents
     1. The WCAG 2.0 Documents
     2. WCAG 2.0 at a Glance
     3. WCAG 2 FAQ
     4. WCAG 2.0 Presentations
   • WCAG 2.0 transition documents
     1. How WCAG 2.0 Differs from WCAG 1.0
     2. Comparison of WCAG 1.0 Checkpoints to WCAG 2.0
     3. How to Update Your Web Site from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0
   • WCAG 2.0 Submission forms
     1. Techniques for WCAG 2.0 submission form
     2. Instructions for Commenting on WCAG 2.0 Documents
   • More WCAG 2.0 documents
   • WCAG 1.0 technical documents
     1. Checklist of Checkpoints for WCAG 1.0
     2. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
     3. Errata in WCAG 1.0
     4. Techniques for WCAG 1.0
     5. Core Techniques for WCAG 1.0
     6. HTML Techniques for WCAG 1.0
     7. CSS Techniques for WCAG 1.0
   • WCAG 1.0 educational documents
     1. Navigating WCAG 1.0 Guidelines and Techniques Documents
     2. Quick Tips to Make Accessible Web Sites
     3. Fact Sheet for "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0"
     4. Curriculum for WCAG 1.0
     5. W3C WCAG 1.0 Conformance Logos
2. Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Overview
   • ATAG 1.0 technical documents
     1. Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
     2. List of Checkpoints for ATAG 1.0
     3. Errata in ATAG
     4. Techniques for ATAG 1.0
   • ATAG 1.0 educational documents
     1. Fact Sheet for "ATAG 1.0"
     2. Conformance Icons for ATAG 1.0
     3. Authoring Tool Conformance Evaluations
   • ATAG 2.0 technical documents
     1. Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
     2. Implementation Techniques for ATAG 2.0
   • ATAG 2.0 educational documents
     1. ATAG at a Glance
3. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) Overview
   • UAAG 1.0 technical documents
     1. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
     2. Table of Checkpoints for UAAG 1.0
     3. Errata in UAAG
     4. Techniques for UAAG 1.0
   • UAAG 1.0 educational documents
     1. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the UAAG 1.0
     2. Press Release: World Wide Web Consortium Issues UAAG 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation
     3. Testimonials for UAAG 1.0 Recommendation
   • UAAG 2.0 technical documents
     1. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
     2. Requirements for UAAG 2.0
4. Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) Overview
   • EARL technical documents
     1. Requirements for the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0
     2. Evaluation And Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema
     3. HTTP Vocabulary in RDF
     4. Representing Content in RDF
     5. Pointer Methods in RDF
     6. Evaluation And Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Guide
   • EARL educational documents
     1. EARL Resources
5. WAI-ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) Suite Overview
   • WAI-ARIA technical documents
     1. Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Version 1.0
     2. WAI-ARIA Primer
     3. WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices
     4. WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide
     5. Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA Roadmap)
   • WAI-ARIA educational documents
     1. WAI-ARIA FAQ
6. Specific Technologies
   • XML Accessibility Guidelines
   • Accessibility Features of CSS
   • Accessibility Features of SMIL
   • Accessibility Features of SVG
   • HTML 4.0 Accessibility Improvements
7. Referencing and Linking to WAI Guidelines and Technical Documents
8. How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute

Planning & Implementing Web Accessibility

Policy Resources

1. Why Standards Harmonization is Essential to Web Accessibility
2. International Policies Relating to Web Accessibility
3. Developing Organizational Policies on Web Accessibility

Managing Web Accessibility

• Planning and Managing Web Accessibility
  1. Initiate
  2. Plan
  3. Implement
  4. Sustain
• Improving the Accessibility of Your Website
• Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility
• Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility

Evaluating Web Accessibility Overview

1. Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility
2. WCAG-EM Overview: Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology
3. WCAG-EM Report Tool: Website Accessibility Evaluation Report Generator
4. Involving Users in Web Accessibility Evaluation
5. Evaluation Approaches for Specific Contexts
6. Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List
7. Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
8. Using Combined Expertise to Evaluate Web Accessibility
9. Template for Accessibility Evaluation Reports

Web Accessibility Tutorials and Presentations

1. Web Accessibility Tutorials
2. Before and After Demonstration (BAD)
3. How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All
4. Developing Web Accessibility Presentations and Training
   • Accessibility Topics
   • Presentation Outlines
   • Workshop Outline
5. Web Accessibility Presentations
   1. Overview of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Slides
   2. Components of Web Accessibility
   3. Benefits of WCAG 2
   4. Using WCAG 2
   5. Web Accessibility for Older Users, WAI-AGE Report
   6. Web Accessibility is Smart Business
6. Handouts

Getting Involved with WAI

1. Participating in WAI
2. About WAI
   1. Translating WAI Documents
   2. Contacting WAI
   3. Sponsoring WAI
   4. WAI Projects
      1. WAI-DEV Project Reference
      2. WAI-ACT Project Reference
      3. WAI-AGE Project Reference
      4. WAI-TIES Project Reference
      5. WAI-DA (IST 13470) Project Reference Guide
      6. WAI-DE / WAI-TIDE Final report
3. Using WAI Material
4. Getting WAI Announcements
   1. WAI Press Releases and Document Release Notices
   2. WAI Events
   3. About RSS
   4. WAI Highlights
5. WAI Groups
   1. Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG)
   2. Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group (APA)
   3. Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group (ARIA)
   4. Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)
   5. Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG)
   6. Research and Development Working Group (RDWG)
   7. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG)
   8. WAI Interest Group (WAI IG)
   9. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG)
6. Group Task Forces
   1. Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force (Cognitive A11Y TF) under the Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) and WCAG Working Group
   2. Eval Task Force under the WCAG Working Group and ERT Working Group
   3. HTML Accessibility Task Force under the Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) and the HTML Working Group (HTML WG)
   4. IndieUI Task Force under the IndieUI Working Group and Web Events Working Group
   5. Mobile Accessibility Task Force under WCAG Working Group and the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG)
   6. Low Vision Accessibility Task Force under WCAG Working Group

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Status: Updated 18 May 2016