Technical Resources
Information about developer best practices, checklists, design, standards, testing strategies, and tools.
These resources can help you start developing content that is more accessible to people with disabilities.
Informational
- Accessibility Information for Developers: An overview of best practices and testing strategies. (via Google Docs)
- The A11y Project: A community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier.
- Allyphant: Practice web accessibility coding concepts.
- ARIA Authoring Practices Guide: Learn to use the accessibility semantics defined by ARIA to create accessible rich internet applications.
- Design and Develop: Guidance for writing, designing, and developing for accessibility. (W3C)
- Digital accessibility for mobile apps and the web (Microsoft Accessibility Fundamentals)
- Easy Checks: A First Review of Web Accessibility (W3C)
- LinkedIn Learning's Accessibility Online Courses: A selection of online training through the LinkedIn Learning platform.
- NYU Testing Standards: Our Testing Protocol which shares how to perform manual and automated testing.
- The Paciello Group (TPGi): Visit the TPGi blog. Of interest, their five-article series on the importance of user experience to digital accessibility strategy and practice.
- Stark Public Library: The largest, centralized accessibility resource on the Internet.
- Universal Design for Learning Guidelines
- Using Personas to understand digital accessibility needs (via LinkedIn)
- WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind): A wonderful resource for all things digital accessibility.
Tools
Our Testing Tools site offers various resources to get you started with color contrast tests, and page functionality. Here is a sample of the various tools:
- Accessibility Bookmarklets: JavaScript Bookmarklets that can run on any webpage to visualize headers, images, landmarks, and lists in the code.
- ARC ToolKit for Chrome: A set of accessibility tools to aid developers in identifying accessibility problems and features.
- Axe browser extension (Chrome, Firefox): An automated accessibility testing tool that alerts you to accessibility problems within a website.
- Colorblindly: A Chrome extension that simulates color blindness.
- Colour Contrast Analyser: Download this application to check your color combinations.
- HeadingsMap: A Chrome extension to help visualize the heading order of your content. (via Chrome Web Store)