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From: Marc Tierney
Date: Thu, Nov 18 2004 8:54AM
Subject: Web Accessibiity workshop
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HI

 

I’m going to be putting on a workshop for
voluntary organisations on the issues surrounding website accessibility. I’m
interested to hear about any online resources that might be available. I’ve
found the RNIB site which allows you to experience navigation as if you had usability
problems. Are there any others available? I’d be grateful for any help!!

 

Thanks

 

Marc

From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Thu, Nov 18 2004 9:25AM
Subject: Re: Web Accessibiity workshop
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The
AIS toolbar for IE has some simulations built in. Not fantastic and foolproof,
but they can give a really rough idea.
<<A
href="http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/toolbar/index.html">http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/toolbar/index.html>;
 
IBM
aDesigner can simulate visual impairments (colour deficiency low vision, etc)
quite effectively as well.
 
<<A
href="http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/adesigner">http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/adesigner>;
(be aware of the alphaWorks licensing scheme though)
 
Patrick

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Date: Thu, Nov 18 2004 9:32AM
Subject: Re: Web Accessibiity workshop
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:50:43 -0000, marc.tierney
wrote:

> I'm going to be putting on a workshop for voluntary organisations on the
> issues surrounding website accessibility. I'm interested to hear about any
> online resources that might be available. I've found the RNIB site which
> allows you to experience navigation as if you had usability problems. Are
> there any others available? I'd be grateful for any help!!

Vischeck can give you an idea of how your site appears to the
color-blind. Not perfect, but another useful tool.

http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php

--
Bryce Fields, Web Developer
Where I Work: Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education
Where I Play: www.royalrodent.com

"Do or do not! There is no try!" -- Yoda

From: Glenda
Date: Thu, Nov 18 2004 9:54AM
Subject: Re: Web Accessibiity workshop
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Hi
Marc, 
Webaim has a screen reader simulation.  Taken from my course:

Low Vision Simulation - <A
href="http://www.webaim.org/simulations/lowvision">http://www.webaim.org/simulations/lowvision<;FONT
face=Arial>. 
This simulation requires Shockwave, which automatically asks you if wish to download before launching the
simulation.  The download and
install is fairly quick.  The
simulation is worth the effort. 

 
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href="http://www.webaim.org/simulations/screenreader">http://www.webaim..org/simulations/screenreader<;FONT
color=#000000>.  Again this requires
Shockwave.  And this simulation may
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And then
there's surfing without a mouse -- that freaks out people, and surfing with
images turned off.  Good luck.  Cheers,

Glenda

From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Mon, Nov 22 2004 8:36AM
Subject: Re: Web Accessibiity workshop
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I have some students working on a realtime visual impairment
simulator for Windows 2000/XP. There is a very good beta
version available at:

http://slappy.cs.uiuc.edu/cs492/Group2/vis/index.php

We are looking for feedback on the quality of the simulations
and new features.

Please give it a try and let us know what you think.

Jon

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:17:59 -0000
>From: "p.h.lauke"
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Web Accessibiity workshop
>To: "WebAIM Discussion List"
>
> Link: File-List
> The AIS toolbar for IE has some simulations built
> in. Not fantastic and foolproof, but they can give a
> really rough idea.
>

>
> IBM aDesigner can simulate visual impairments
> (colour deficiency low vision, etc) quite
> effectively as well.
>
> (be
> aware of the alphaWorks licensing scheme though)
>
> Patrick
>
> ________________________________
> Patrick H. Lauke
> Webmaster / University of Salford
> http://www.salford.ac.uk
>
>