Resources

Dive into Accessibility: 30 days to a More Accessible website. This site provides sketches of five fictitious people; all have a combination of physical, mental, and technological disabilities.
Know Your Users: Web Accessibility from the User’s Prospective. A 27-minute video featuring computer users with disabilities discussing and demonstrating the tools they use to access the Web. California State University, Fresno.
Misunderstood Minds. This companion website to the PBS documentary provides interactive activities designed to give site visitors a sense of what it may be like for a person struggling with a cognitive disability.
Web Accessibility Access for All. A 10-minute video featuring insights from people with disabilities using the Web. California State University, Fresno.

ADA Accessibility Checklist for Existing Facilities is useful if you are bringing people with disabilities to your site.
Communicating With and About People with Disabilities contains tips for interacting with people with visual, hearing, mobility, cognitive, and speech impairments.
Guidelines for Reporting and Writing about People with Disabilities were developed with input from over 100 national disability organizations. This is a good source for preferred terminology and suggestions for appropriate ways to describe people with disabilities.

Alternative Web Browsing provides a comprehensive list of specialized browsers and screen readers. Introductory material provides a general understanding of how and when alternative web browsing is used.
Assistivetech.net is a resource for assistive technology information and provides links to AT and disability-related information.
Low Vision Disability Simulation from WebAIM. Various low vision situations from Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM).

Conducting an Accessibility Evaluation. Georgia Tech Research Institute Human Factor Division, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Evaluating websites for Accessibility, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group.
Evaluation and Repair Tools. Links to free tools, online tools and commercial Web accessibility evaluation products. Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM).
How to Conduct Usability Evaluations for Accessibility. Methodology Guidelines for Testing Websites and Intranets With Users Who Use Assistive Technology. Nielsen Norman Group Report.

Dive into Accessibility: 30 days to a More Accessible website. This site provides sketches of five fictitious people; all have a combination of physical, mental, and technological disabilities.
How People with Disabilities Use the Web. W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) provides eight examples that show people with a variety of disabilities using various assistive technologies or adaptive strategies to access the Web.
Web Accessibility Access for All. 10-minute video featuring insights from people with disabilities using the Web. California State University, Fresno.