APPENDIX D

Resources

Trace Center
http://trace.wisc.edu

This is the primary American web site concerning access to public terminals by people with disabilities.

Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) Scientific Research Unit
http://www.rnib.org.uk/wedo/research/sru/

This unit is concerned with influencing the design of equipment and systems for the general public, so that they are accessible by visually disabled persons, and influencing the development of relevant standards.

Bobby
http://www.Cast.org/bobby/

Bobby is a graphical web-based program designed to help web site designers and graphic artists make their web pages accessible by the largest number of people. It will help find design problems, which prevent a web page from being displayed correctly on different web browsers without having to individually adjust for each web browser. Bobby performs a series of tests to determine the ways in which a web site is inaccessible to those with disabilities such as blindness, deafness, or physical disabilities.

Access to Telecommunications Equipment and Customer Premises Equipment by Individuals with Disabilities
http://www.access-board.gov/telecomm/html/telfinal.htm

This contains the final report from the Telecommunications Access Advisory Committee (TAAC).

Easter Seals Project ACTION
http://www.projectaction.org

Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center
http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/Kinder/

The Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center contains the ADA statute, regulations, ADAAG (Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines) federally reviewed technical sheets, and other assistance documents.

World Information on Disabilities
www.sd.soft.iwate-pu.ac.ip/sensui/index-e.html

A useful starting point for a web search on disabilities

National Center for Accessible Media
http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/webaccess/symbolwinner.html

A web access symbol, which may be used by webmasters to denote that their site contains accessibility features to accommodate the needs of disabled users. There is no charge to use this symbol; simply copy it from this page and paste it into your document.

WebABLE
http://www.webable.com/

The WebABLE site goal is to stimulate education, research, and development of technologies that will ensure accessibility for people with disabilities to advanced information systems and emerging technologies.

Additional Resources

American National Standards Institute
http://web.ansi.org/default_js.htm

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
http://www.asha.org/

Center for Applied Special Technology
http://www.cast.org/

Inclusion of Disabled and Elderly People in Telematics (INCLUDE)
http://beatles.cselt.it/cfrs/include/info/

U.S. Department of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov

U.S. Department of Transportation
http://www.dot.gov