Web Accessibility - How to overcome the Digital Divide

Tutorial contents

• Concept of Accessible Web Design (AWD);
• People with disabilities & Assistive Technology;
• Guidelines and legislation for AWD;
• Techniques for AWD;
• Evaluation methods and tools for AWD.

Support tools

These tools help us to:

• better understand accessibility problems,
• understand multi-modal content issues,
• verify the robustness of the source,
• see the results of a technique in action.

Please install all or at least some of the following software programs on youf computer:

Web Accessibility Toolbar

A toolbar for MS Internet Explorer.
Download Web Accessibility Toolbar

Web Developer Toolbar

A toolbar for Firefox. Beneath other development assistance it offers also accessibility support.
Download Web Developer Toolbar

WebFormator

A free, purely textual browser (plug-in for MS Internet Explorer).
Download WebFormator

Screen Reader JAWS

The world's most popular screen reader 'JAWS'. The demo version runs for 40 minutes without restrictions. After this period of time, a restart of the computer is required in order to use JAWS again.
Download JAWS

Tutorial Slides

Here you can access the complete set of Tutorial slides.