Web accessibility

Monash University is obliged, under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, to ensure that all its online materials are accessible to people with disabilities. The Monash Web Style Guide provides basic advice on how to make Monash web pages accessible.

Introductory articles

• Introduction to web accessibility
• Introduction to web accessibility and the types of disabilities that affect people's use of the web
• How people with disabilities use the web
• Benefits of accessible web design

Legal issues and standards

• Disability Discrimination Act 1992, Section 24
• Disability Standards for Education 2005
• Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: Web Accessibility Advisory Notes
• W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
• W3C's Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Accessibility tutorials

• W3C: Curriculum for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
• WebAIM accessibility tutorials
• Creating accessible page layouts
• Understanding accessible table markup
• How to create accessible forms
• How to create accessible frames
• Lecture on creating accessible tables and forms - part 1
• Lecture on creating accessible tables and forms - part 2
• Designing universally accessible WWW resources for people with disabilities
• How to make accessible content using Frontpage 2000
• How to make accessible content using Dreamweaver 3 and 4
• Captioning for accessible multimedia presentations

Simulation tools

• Screen reader simulation: simulates how many blind users interact with web content
• Low vision simulation
• Colour blindness simulation
• Cognitive disability simulator
• Lynx viewer: simulates a text browser
• Backward compatibility viewer: shows how pages look in older browsers

Conducting accessibility evaluations

• Evaluating website accessibility: a seven step process
• Evaluating web sites for accessibility
• Getting started with accessibility assessments

Accessibility evaluation and repair tools

• The Wave: a visual evaluation tool that is highly recommended
• CynthiaSays: a new evaluation tool in the style of Bobby
• Evaluation and repair tools: descriptions and links to over 30 different kinds of tools that can help with improving the accessibility of web content

Accessibility resource collections on other sites

• Aware Centre: news and resources on web accessibility from the HTML Writers Guild
• IBM Accessibility Centre: products and resources
• WebAIM: resources, tutorials, products and services
• Web design references on accessibility: an extensive collection of links from the University of Minnesota

Monash Web Workshop presentations on web accessibility topics

• Using free online tools to check web pages for accessibility
• How should we provide text equivalents for non-text elements on the web?
• How accessible are University web sites?
• PDF documents are still not accessible