10. Further resources

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Accessibility policy:

• Disability statement
  The University's disability statement.
• TechDis
  Advice and info on improving provision for disabled staff and students in HE through use of technology.

Web standards:

• W3C WAI
  The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.
• Jakob Nielsen / Alertbox
  Disabled Accessibility: The Pragmatic Approach - Jakob Nielsen examines the WCAG in his June 13 1999 AlertBox column.
• W3C / WAI checkpoints
  Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

Accessibility organisations:

• WebAim
  Web Accessibility organisation with articles, "how-to" tips, information on web accessibility tools etc.
• DRC
  Disability Rights Commission is an independant body working to eliminate discrimination against people with disabilities.
• Trace
  'Trace is a non-profit research center that focuses on making computer, telecommunications and information technologies more accessible to everyone'.
• Aware
  Accessible web authoring resources and education center.

Making your site accessible (LIFT for DW and coding):

• Download LIFT for Dreamweaver
  The University's downloads site has a copy of the LIFT extension file that you can save to your own computer and then install.
• Installing LIFT for Dreamweaver (MS Word, 142kB)
  Instructions for installing LIFT for Dreamweaver using the extension file.
• Using LIFT for Dreamweaver (MS Word, 402kB)
  Instructions on how to test your pages for compliance with the W3C WAI guidelines, using LIFT for Dreamweaver.
  The instructions refer you to a Bad Accessibility example site and a Better Accessibility example site.
• IS4004: Accessibility and the Web (pdf 446kB)
  IS document, created with SEDU, on recommended HTML techniques to achieve W3C WAI compliance to Level AA.
• 'Create tables that transform gracefully'
  WebAIM tutorial about tables.

Resource gateways:

• Google's web directory / accessibility
  List of accessibility resources.
• TechDIS accessibility database
  Info on products available to assist those with disabilities.