Articles and Papers

• Accessibility and the Gaming Industry
  Thomas Westin
  International Game Developers Association
• Accessibility from the Ground up: A Primer for the Web Designer
  January 2005, Digital Web Magazine
• Accessibility Humanized: A User-Centered Approach to Web Accessibility
  January 2004, The Interaction Designer’s Coffee Break
• Accessibility to Technology
  Andy Walker
  Cyberwalker
• Accessible Digital Media: Design Guidelines for Electronic Publications, Multimedia and the Web
  July 2006, WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
• Championing True Equal Access
  September 2006, Peter Coffee, eWEEK.com
• How People with Disabilities Use the Web
  8 July 2004, W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium)
• Practical Accessibility: Core Concepts
  Dartmouth College
• Special Report on Accessible Technologies
  August 2004, eSchool News and The Consortium of School Networks
• Technology in Schools: Suggestions, Tools, and Guidelines for Assessing Technology in Elementary and Secondary Education
  November 2002, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
• The Wide Range of Abilities and Its Impact on Computer Technology
  2003, Microsoft Corporation and Forrester Research, Inc.
• Understanding the Disability Market (NSBA White Paper)
  July 2006, John Kemp

Web Sites

• Access E-Learning is a ten-module tutorial that is a resource for those seeking to make their distance education accessible for individuals with disabilities. AEL offers information on the most common needs in distance education, and provides instruction in techniques that will enhance the usability of online materials for all students.
• Accessible Education-based Information Technology offers answers to frequently asked questions on distance learning accessibility for individuals and businesses.  The web pages, hosted by the Rocky Mountain ADA/IT Center, also provide links for IT training, software tools, and related publications on accessibility. 
• Accessible Webpage Design: Resources promotes awareness about the need for accessible web design through its lists of public policy issues, workshops, design tips, major organizations, and good and bad examples.  The site is supported by the University of Wisconsin.
• Bobby is a free service that allows users to test web pages and helps expose and repair barriers to accessibility.  The comprehensive online web accessibility software tool encourages compliance with existing accessibility guidelines, including the U.S. Government's Section 508.
• National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility dedicated to the issues of media and information technology for people with disabilities.  NCAM explores how existing access technologies may benefit other populations and provides access to educational and media technologies for special needs students.
• Speech-to-Speech provides information on its free communication assistant services for people with speech disabilitites.
• W3C Recommendation for Web content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 contains specifications, software, and tools to lead the Web to its full potential.  Developed by the W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium), guidelines are accompanied by a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding of interoperable technologies.
• Web Accessibility Initiative by Trace Research and Development Center is a product of the Designing a More Usable World project, which is dedicated to cooperative efforts linked toward building a more usable Web for all.  The Web Accessibility Initiative contains accessible web site guidelines, web access tools, and updates on governmental efforts.