Handbook for quality in cultural Web sites
Improving quality for citizens
Bibliography and references
The most relevant references on accessibility and usability.
The last visit to each Internet resource goes back to the period
between August and October 2003.
ACCESSIBILITY
1. Guidelines and standards on accessibility
WAI – Web Accessibility Initiative. Authoring Tool Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0. W3C Recommendation 3 February 2000
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-ATAG10-20000203
For software developers, explains how to make a variety of authoring
tools support the production of accessible Web content, and also
how to make the software itself accessible.
WAI – Web Accessibility Initiative. Device Independence
Principles. W3C Working Draft 18 September 2001.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-di-princ-20010918/
On accessibility of wireless devices
WAI. – Web Accessibility Initiative. Policies Relating
to Web Accessibility. 18 June 2003
A listing of Web accessibility policies across the world.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/
WAI – Web Accessibility Initiative. Web content accessibility
guidelines. 1.0. W3C Recommendation 5-May-1999
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/
Explains in detail how to make a Web site accessible for people
with a variety of disabilities.
WAI – Web Accessibility Initiative. User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0. W3C Recommendation 17 December 2002
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-UAAG10-20021217/
For software developers, explains how to make accessible browsers,
multimedia players, and assistive technologies that interface
with these.
WAI – Web Accessibility Initiative. XML Accessibility Guidelines.
W3C Working Draft 3 October 2002
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xag-20021003
For developers of XML-based applications, explains how to ensure
that XML-based applications support accessibility.
Other sources
Apple Computer, Inc. Mac OS 8 Human Interface Guidelines. 29
July 1996
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-2.html
Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board. Electronic
and Information Technology Accessibility Standards [Published
in the Federal Register on December 21, 2000, 36 CFR Part 1194
- Docket No. 2000-01 - RIN 3014-AA25]
http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/508standards.htm
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Information Technology Division.
Web Accessibility Standards. Version 1.0. 1 May 2000.
http://www.state.ma.us/itd/spg/publications/standards/web-access-std.htm
EducAr. Propuesta de Educ.ar para el desarrollo de páginas
Web accesibles. In Spanish
http://www.educ.ar/educar/home/acces.jsp
IBM. Special Needs Systems Guidelines
http://www-3.ibm.com/able/guidelines/
IBM. Web accessibility guidelines. 2002
http://www-3.ibm.com/able/guidelines/web/accessweb.html
TechDis. Web Accessibility & Usability Resource. 26 October
2002.
http://www.techdis.ac.uk/seven/
The international center for disability resources on the internet.
City of San Jose
World Wide Web Page Disability Access Design Standards. 14 March
1997
http://www.icdri.org/CynthiaW/city_of_san_jose_world_wide_web_.htm
Microsoft. Microsoft Windows Guidelines for Accessible Software
Design http://www.microsoft.com/enable/dev/guidelines/software.htm
Trace Research & Development Center. Application Software
Design Guidelines.
http://www.trace.wisc.edu/docs/software_quidelines/toc.htm
The University of Arizona. Web accessibility, 2003
http://uaweb.arizona.edu/resources/accessibility.shtml
University of Toronto's. 10 HTML Commandments.
http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/rd/html/commandments.html
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Disability
Rights Section. Accessibility of State and local Government Websites
to people with disabilities, June 2003
http://www.ada.gov/websites2.htm
WGBH/NCAM. Making Educational Software Accessible. 2000
http://ncam.wgbh.org/cdrom/guideline
2. Web sites on accessibility
AccEase
Making on-line information accessible
http://www.accease.com/who-we-are.html
Aware
Central resource for Web authors for learning about Web accessibility
http://aware.hwg.org/
Accessibility.com.au - The disability information resource
Australian gateway on accessibility
http://www.accessibility.com.au/
Fundación Sidar - Acceso Universal - Seminario SIDAR
http://www.sidar.org/index.php
HCI BIB
Links to Internet Resources on Accessibility
http://www.hcibib.org/accessibility/
NCAM (National Center for Accessibile Media)
It is a research and development facility that works to make media
accessible to underserved populations such as disables persons,
minority language users, and people with low literacy skills
http://ncam.wgbh.org/
WAI - Web Accessibility Iniziative
Guidelines and resources by the international organization that
sets Web standards
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
INAIL gateway for accessibility (only in Italian)
http://www.superabile.it
Section 508
American Law for regulations of US Websites. Links, resources
and useful documents.
WebABLE
The authoritative Web site for disability-related internet resources
http://www.webable.com/
Webaccessibile.org
The Italian resource on accessibility according to WAI rules
http://www.webaccessibile.org/default.asp
WebAIM - Web Accessibility in Mind
Expanding the Webs potential for people with disabilities
http://www.webaim.org/
World Enable
An Internet accessibility initiative in support of the international
goals of equalizing opportunities for, by, and with persons with
disabilities
http://www.worldenable.net
3. National and international accessibility campaigns
Viewable with any browser
Campaign for a WWW independent from a specific browser
http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/index.shtml#translations
RNIB's Campaign for Good Web Design. 2003
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/ documents/publicwebsite/public_goodwebdesign.hcsp
Campagna per l'accessibilità delle biblioteche in rete:
progetto CABI
Italian campaign for accessibility of libraries online: CABI Project
http://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/CABI/index.html
4. Mailing Lists and forums
Alertbox, by Jacob Nielsen
Usability
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000820.html
BLIST The Comprehensive Index of Blindness-Related Emailing Lists
Instructions on how to join over two hundred blindness-related
emailing lists and blindness-related newsgroups, along with hypertext
links which allow you to subscribe to any of the lists. It also
contains an extensive listing of accessibility and pan-disability
lists, as well as a list of emailing lists that are not blindness-related,
but which are frequented by blind members, and a selective list
of emailing list-related resources
http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/blist.html
WAI Interest Group mailing list
http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/Overview.html#Uselist
WebAIB. Web Accessibility Forum Mailing List
http://www.webaim.org/discussion/
5. Newsgroups
alt.comp.accessibility
alt.education.disabled
alt.support.learning-disab
alt.internet.search-engines
alt.support.disabled.artists
comp.human-factors
fj.misc.handicap
it.comp.accessibilita
it.sociale.handicap
misc.handicap
ucb.students.disabled
uk.people.disability
6. E-serials
Dr Dobb’s journal
http://www.ddj.com/ddj/
E-access Bulletin
Newsletter on accessibility of informatics applications
http://www.e-accessibility.com/
JILT - Journal of information, law and technology
An established but innovative electronic law journal covering
a range of topics relating to IT law and applications. It contains
a diversity of materials including peer reviewed and non-refereed
articles, commentaries, work in progress articles, book and IT
reviews, and conference reports and papers, as well as information
papers, news and UK and global conferences
http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/
7. Web browsers
Browsers specifically designed for people with disabilities
Braillesurf
Speech, Braille, large text.
http://www.snv.jussieu.fr/inova/bs4/uk/index.htm
BrookesTalk
This browser under development by Oxford Brookes University focuses
on facilitating intelligent web-searching. Speech output, screen-magnification.
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/speech/
EIAD
A browser from Sarsfield Solutions which provides enhancements
specifically for people with special needs and learning difficulties.
Touch-screen, simplified language interface.
http://gippsnet.com.au/eiad/browser.htm
EMACSPEAK
The speech-enabled environment for EMACS, runs under UNIX or LINUX,
includes full Web browsing capabilities through W3.
Speech output, simple keyboard interface.
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/
HomePage Reader
The speech-based browser from IBM, using Internet Explorer as
its engine designed for blind and visually impaired. Speech output
and standard graphical user interface.
http://www.austin.ibm.com/sns/hpr.html
Marco Polo
A plug-in for Netscape Navigator from Sonicon with speech and
auditory icons. Speech output, audio icons, simple keyboard interface.
http://www.webpresence.com/sonicon/marcopolo/
MultiWeb
Disability-specific browser developed at Deakin University.
Speech output, screen magnification, scanning for switch devices.
http://mis.deakin.edu.au/mis/multiweb/
PwWebSpeak
Speech output, synchronised speech and screen magnification, simple
keyboard interface.
http://www.issound.com/pwWebspeak.htm
Sensus Internet Browser
A low-vision Internet browser from Sensus in Denmark. Speech output,
Braille support, special screen fonts.
http://www.sensus.dk/sib10uk.htm
Simply Web 2000
A talking interface using the Internet Explorer engine. Speech
output, simple keyboard interface.
http://www.econointl.com/sw/
8. Screen-readers
ASAW from Microtalk
Speech.
http://www.microtalk.com/
HAL from Dolphin
Speech and Braille
http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk/
JAWS For Windows from Freedom Scientific
Speech and Braille
http://www.hj.com/main.html
Lookout from Choice Technology
http://www.screenreader.co.uk/
OutSpoken from Alva:
Speech and Braille
http://www.aagi.com/
Screenreader/2 from IBM
Speech and Braille
http://www-3.ibm.com/able/snssrd2.html
Simply Talker from Econonet:
Speech
http://www.econointl.com/simply/
Slimware Window Bridge from Synthavoice
Speech and Braille
http://www.synthavoice.on.ca/
Virgo from Baum
http://www.baum.de/virgoservice.htm
Window-Eyes from GWMicro:
Speech and Braille
http://www.gwmicro.com/
Winkline from Speech Systems for the Blind
http://www.aasp.net/~speechfb/info.htm
WinVision from Artic:
Speech.
http://www.artictech.com/
9. Browsers with adaptive technology
AMAYA
The W3C's test-bed browser, implementing emerging Web technologies.
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
ARACHNE
Graphical browser for MS-DOS.
http://arachne.browser.org/
LYNX, and Mac OS version of LYNX
Popular text-based browser for UNIX, Windows 95/NT, MS-DOS, and
Mac OS allowing flexible and powerful text-based access from older
platforms.
http://lynx.browser.org/
http://www.lirmm.fr/~gutkneco/maclynx/download.html
Internet Explorer, accessibility features
Microsoft has included many features in Internet Explorer to enhance
accessibility.
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/Products/ie.aspx
Net-Tamer
This package runs under MS-DOS and includes both text-based and
graphical browsing capabilities.
http://www.nettamer.net/
Netscape Navigator
Navigator enables enlargement of fonts.
http://home.netscape.com/
Opera
This compact browser for Windows 95/98/ME offers enhanced keyboard
navigation and screen magnification.
http://www.operasoftware.com/index.html
10. Voice browsers
ConversaWeb
Voice-activated browser allowing spoken selection of links using
"saycons".
http://www.speechtechnology.com/otherspeech/conversaweb_n.html
webHearit
A telephone-based tool using the telephone keypad as an interface
to navigate suitably configured pages.
http://www.issound.com/technology/products-webhearit.htm
SpeecHTML
A subscription service from Vocalis, allowing a participating
site to provide telephone access using voice commands.
http://www.speechtml.com/
TelWeb
An experimental telephone-based browser allowing access to any
site using voice and dialled commands.
http://www.telweb.com/
11. Evaluation, repair, and transformation tools for Web content
accessibility
Evaluation Tools
1.General
AccessEnable™
An online Website evaluation and correction product line, able
to make site-wide automatic fixes as well as interactive fixes
to satisfy Federal and other Web accessibility standards. By RetroAccess.
http://www.retroaccess.com/
AccVerify™
It implements programmatic verification and reports all errors/non-compliance
with the standards, plus checklist for criteria that can't be
verified programmatically.
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/
AnyBrowser.com
Tools relevant for accessibility include viewing in various screen
sizes, view with images are replaced by ALT text. Also HTML and
link validation, search engine tools, and other browser compatibility
tests.
http://www.anybrowser.com/
Bobby
Developed by CAST, it helps authors to determine if their sites
are accessible, through automatic and manual checks, also analyzing
Web pages for compatibility with various browsers.
http://www.cast.org/bobby
Cynthia Says
Designed to identify errors related to Section 508 standards and
the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
http://www.cynthiasays.com/
Dr Watson
Hosted as a free service by Addy & Associates (2000). This
tool may also check link validity, download speed, search engine
compatibility, link popularity, word count, and spelling.
http://watson.addy.com/
Dreamweaver 508 Accessibility Suite
See Lift for Dreamweaver
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/#Lift
http://www.macromedia.com/exchange/dreamweaver
I-Checker
An entry level Web accessibility automated checking tool in Japanese
from IBM.
http://www.ibm.co.jp/accessibility/i-checker/index.html
InSight
SSB Technologies. Interactive evaluation tool designed to help
developers create accessible web pages.
http://www.ssbtechnologies.com/
Lift
Lift Online and Lift Site are both Developed by UsableNet, Inc.
LIFT Onsite allows Web designers and Web owners to test and repair
accessibility and usability issues, including site navigability,
download speed, graphic quality, accessibility, searchability,
etc.
http://www.usablenet.com/lift_onsite/lift_onsite.html
Lift for Dreamweaver, Lift for FrontPage, Lift NNg
Lift for Dreamweaver / FrontPage are extensions for those Authoring
tools. Lift allows customisation of accessibility tests and provides
continuously updated test results during editing as well as a
wizard-based repair tool that can be run in a context-sensitive
mode while editing.
http://www.usablenet.com/lift_dw/lift_dw.html,
http://www.usablenet.com/frontend/demoform.jsp?prod=lfp,
http://www.usablenet.com/products_services/lfd_nng/lfd_nng.html
PageScreamer
By Crunchy Technologies, it verifies and corrects non-compliant
Web content; provides a text equivalent for every non-text element;
provides the ability to identify rows and columns in HTML tables;
ensures identification of frames for navigation; identifies and
alerts the user to server side image maps.
http://www.crunchy.com/tools/PageScreamer.html
Page Valet
Page Valet combines formal validation with accessibility testing
based on the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Page Valet
generates XML, with a choice of report formats including HTML
versions for Web browsers.
http://valet.webthing.com/page/
RAMP™
From Deque Systems. Supports 508 and WCAG. Written in Java for
platform independence and claims to be accessible to people with
disabilities. Provides evaluation and repair.
http://www.section508ok.com/products/products.htm
RAMP™Lite
The RAMP™ analysis engine. It generates reports and documents.
Aimed at Project Managers and senior level executives who want
to monitor the accessibility of their projects.
http://www.section508ok.com/products/products.htm
Site Valet
Site Valet is a comprehensive Quality Assurance product for Web
and Intranet sites. Of particular interest to accessibility are
the Page Valet tool for markup analysis and a user feedback programme
for raising and dealing responsively with problem reports.
http://valet.webthing.com/
TAW
Developed by Fondo Formación Asturias in collaboration
with SIDAR, TAW tests accessibility of a page, marking automatically
detected errors with the priority level of the WCAG checkpoint.
It also marks manual tests that are required in the page.
http://www.tawdis.net/
Torquemada
Torquemada is an Italian-language tool designed to assess the
accessibility of Websites. The initial version is an online service,
but the tool is under development and a downloadable version is
promised soon.
http://www.webxtutti.it/testa.htm
The Web Page Accessibility Self-Evaluation Test
Created by the Public Service Commission of Canada. It is a 27
question, multiple choice survey available in English or French
that produces 5 accessibility ratings: 1) highly inaccessible;
2) much improvement required; 3) partially accessible; 4) fairly
accessible; 5) accessible. Feedback by e-mail address..
http://www.psc-cfp.gc.ca/eepmp-pmpee/access/testver1_e.htm
2. Focused
Clear Language and Effectiveness Tool (CLAD)
Developed by the Toronto East End Literacy Project, it asks a
series of questions, then using client-side scripting calculates
a reading level.
http://www.eastendliteracy.on.ca/clearlanguageanddesign/ readingeffectivenesstool/
Colorfield Insight
Allows designers to model and predict image legibility for color
deficient viewers. By Colorfield Digital Media.
http://www.colorfield.com/insight/index.html
Doctor HTML
By Thomas Tongue and Imagiware, Inc. (1997). It performs minimal
accessibility checking and also verifies links, spell checks and
performs some syntax checking.
http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/
NetMechanic
http://www.netmechanic.com/
NIST WebMetrics Tool Suite
A set of four tools used to test the usability and accessibility
of a site: WebSAT - The Web Static Analyzer Tool uses a subset
of usability guidelines to analyze a page for accessibility, form
use, performance, maintainability, navigation, and readability;
WebCAT - The Web Category Analysis Tool is a variation upon traditional
card sorting techniques. It allows a Web designer/usability engineer
to test a proposed or existing categorization scheme of a Web
site to determine how well the categories and items are understood
by users; WebVIP - The Web Visual Instrumenter Program is a tool
that can be used to conduct traditional user testing on a given
set of tasks but in a rapid, remote and automated fashion; WebVISVIP
- The WebVIP Visualization Tool is used to visualize the path
data generated by VIP in 3D graphics.
http://www.nist.gov/webmet/
Pehtoori
HTML validation service
http://t2r.uwasa.fi/pehtoori/index-en.html
Reading level calculator
Developed by Linda Wasmer Andrews and based on the SMOG readability
formula. This form relies on client-side scripting to calculate
the reading level.
http://www.linda-andrews.com/readability_tool.htm
The Schematron
An XML Structure Validation Language using Patterns in Trees -
WAI Content Guidelines. Compares the pattern of a file to the
patterns defined by WCAG schema.
http://www.ascc.net/xml/resource/schematron/WAI-example.html
Style and Diction
Diction identifies wordy and commonly misused phrases. Style analyses
surface characteristics of a document, including sentence length
and other readability measures.
Vischeck
Available as a downloadable application, a Photoshop plug-in,
or online, this tool simulates colorblind vision.
http://www.vischeck.com/
The Wave
A tool that helps people perform those tasks that require human
judgment. The Wave displays the ALT text of images and AREAS on
the page for comparison with the images, provides numbered arrows
to show the linearized reading order, and shows the HTML equivalent
(if any) provided for applets. The Wave performs automatic checks.
http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave
Webbot - the libwww Robot
From the W3C. It is a programmable robot that can report missing
"alt" attributes or other specific anomalies. Its primary
design goal was to test HTTP/1.1 pipelining features. It runs
locally on Unix or Windows.
http://www.w3.org/Robot
WDG HTML Validator
From the Web Design Group (WDG). It uses the same engine as the
W3C HTML Validator but produces easier to understand error messages.
It also supports a wider variety of character encodings than the
W3C validator. It is available online or can run locally.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
Weblint
By Neil Bowers (1997). It is a syntax and minimal style checker
for HTMLIt is available for download on Unix, Windows NT, Mac
or OS/2.
http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/~neilb/weblint
W3C CSS validator.
Validates the CSS used in documents. It may be run through the
interface on the W3C server or download it and run it at a Java
command line.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/README.html
W3C HTML validation service
HTML validation service based on an SGML parser. It checks HTML
documents for compliance with W3C HTML Recommendations and other
HTML standards. Service is available through the W3C Web site.
http://validator.w3.org/
3. Services
AccMonitor™ and AccessibilityWATCH™
AccMonitor™ by HiSoftware is designed for Web site Accessibility
Management. It monitors the accessibility status of an entire
Web site or a subdirectory of the site around the clock for WCAG
priorities 1 to 3 as well as section 508 requirements.
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/monitor.html
http://www.accessibilitywatch.com/
12. Repair Tools
A-Prompt
By the University of Toronto, freely available tool that may be
used to identify problems and help corrections.
http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/
AccRepair™
AccRepair ™ by HiSoftware provides for the verification
and correction of Accessibility policy and standards required
for Web sites.
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/repair.html
ALT repair kit
By Sonicon, allows ALT text to be added to page inline.
http://www.sonicon.com/wai/altsform.html
CSSize (HTML => HTML+CSS) and HTTPtool (HTTP ftp-alike using
GET/PUT) software
By Daniel Glazman
http://www.edf.fr/der/html/produits/publications /w3c/web.en.htm
Demoronizer
By Tom Christiansen. It removes vendor specific HTML conventions
and extensions.
http://language.perl.com/misc/div-www.html
Hi-Caption™
By HiSoftware, (http://www.hisoftware.com/),
it allows authors to edit SMIL or SAMI presentations to add caption
tracks providing a visual interface for users who don't want to
directly edit code as well as full source editing functions. Also
available in Spanish (Castellano)
http://www.hisoftware.com/hmcc/acc4mcc.html
InFocus
SSB Technologies. Interactive repair tool designed to help developers
create accessible Web pages.
http://www.ssbtechnologies.com/
Lift for Dreamweaver, Lift for FrontPage, Lift NNg
Lift for Dreamweaver / FrontPage are extensions for those Authoring
tools. Lift allows choosing which accessibility tests to apply
and provides continuously updated test results during editing
as well as a wizard-based repair tool that can be run in a context-sensitive
mode while editing.
http://www.usablenet.com/lift_dw/lift_dw.html,
http://www.usablenet.com/frontend/demoform.jsp?prod=lfp,
http://www.usablenet.com/products_services/lfd_nng/lfd_nng.html
MAGpie
By NCAM, it allows users to add captions to QuickTime, Windows
Media or SMIL, and to add audio descriptions to SMIL. Available
for Windows.
http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/
PageScreamer
By Crunchy Technologies, it verifies and corrects non-compliant
Web content; provides a text equivalent for every non-text element;
provides the ability to identify rows and columns in HTML tables;
ensures identification of frames for navigation; identifies and
alerts the user to server side image maps.
http://www.crunchy.com/tools/PageScreamer.html
Powerpoint Accessibility Wizard
By Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services, University
of Illinois. It simplify the task of converting PowerPoint presentations
to text pure accessibile HTML.
http://www.rehab.uiuc.edu/ppt/index.html
RAMP™
By Deque Systems. Provides evaluation and repair.
http://www.section508ok.com/products/products.htm
RAMP™ARC
RAMP™ARC can generate tagged PDF and accessible HTML from
your original source.
http://www.section508ok.com/products/products.htm
TOM
Text-Only Maker, by NCSA.
http://lunch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/tom
Tidy
By Dave Raggett. Repairs errors, improves style in HTML/XML. Converts
HTML to XHTML. Removes proprietary XML tags from HTML output.
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy
TOC Maker
An add-on for Mozilla composer by Daniel Glazman. It allows generation
of a table of contents for a page, and then add it to a page or
site index.
http://cascades.mozdev.org/installation.html
13. Filter and transformation tools
Accessibility Bookmarklets
Some javascript bookmarklets designed to perform various functions
to repair accessibility problems, by Jim Ley.
http://jibbering.com/accessibility/bookmarklets.html
Accessible Web Browser Project
At Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The project aims at creating
a Web browser using Internet Explorer as a COM object, to improve
accessibility for people with visual impairments.
http://slappy.cs.uiuc.edu/fall99/team5/
AYE
By Henrik Quintel, it is a Web page transformer
http://www.fh-worms.de/~quintel/Q/first.htm
BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer: BETSIE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/betsie/
"deGrade" browser simulator
http://www.cgu.edu/degrade/
by Kynn Bartlett
LaTeX2HTML
http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/latex2html.html
Lynx-me service.
By Gerald Oskoboiny. It shows a textual version of how a site
looks in Lynx.
http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gerald/lynx-me.cgi
Delorie Lynx viewer
Shows how a page will look in Lynx.
http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html
Internet Explorer Web Accessories
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/IE/WebAccess/default.asp
Muffin filtering proxy server
http://muffin.doit.org/
Navigation Power Toys for IE.
http://trace.wisc.edu/world/doc_access/index.htm#nav-tools
Developed at the Trace Center by Mark Novak
Microsoft Power Point WWW Publishing Accessibility Wizard
It simplifies the task of converting PowerPoint presentations
to text pure HTML.
http://cmos-eng.rehab.uiuc.edu/ppt/
Office 2000 HTML Filter
A tool, by Microsoft, that can be used to remove Office-specific
markup tags embedded in Office 2000 documents (e.g. Word) saved
as HTML.
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Msohtmf2.aspx
PDF to HTML Converter
Developed by Adobe.
ETH Zurich - Proxy helper project.
http://access.adobe.com/simple_form.html
The Proxomitron
A filter that gets rid of a variety of elements from a page or
replaces elements (such as blink with bold).
http://proxomitron.org/
RTFtoHTML
Converts RTF to HTML
http://www.sunpack.com/RTF/
rfc2html.pl
Special purpose filter that converts Internet Society Request
for Comments into HTML. Model of a converter for a special text
format for people who like to program in Perl.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2html.pl
Spyglass Prism
Server-based content conversion.
http://www.spyglass.com/solutions/technologies/prism/
Silas S. Brown's Web access gateway
For disabled users.
http://members.bigfoot.com/~silasbrown/access.html
{textualise;}
A proxy service that can adjust content delivered from the source
to provide a version more suited to people with visual impairments.
http://codix.net/textualise
Web Intermediaries (WBI) ("Webbie")
By IBM, it is an architecture and framework for creating intermediary
applications on the Web.
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/wbi/
Web page Purifier
Removes tags and/or attributes not explicitly allowed by the DTD.
http://www.delorie.com/web/purify.html/
WebCleaner
An Open-Source (GPL) filtering HTTP proxy.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/webcleaner/
USABILITY
1. Guidelines and standards on usability
WAI – Web Accessibility Initiative. WAI contents guidelines
for public Web sites in the EU, Final Progress Report. December
2002
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics /citizens/accessibility/web
/wai_2002/eaccess2002_report_final/a_documents/ ap2002-wai-rep3.pdf
IBM. Web design guidelines
http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/Publish/572
ISO 9241-11. Guidance on usability. 1998
http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/r_international.htm#9241-11
National Cancer Institute. Research based and usability guidelines
http://www.usability.gov/guidelines/index.html
2. Web sites on usability
Chickenskinners
Links and papers on usability.
http://www.chickenskinners.com/index.php/usa
Section 508
American Law for regulations of US Websites. Links, resources
and useful documents.
Usability Professionals' Association
http://www.upassoc.org/
Usableweb
More than 1000 links on usability.
http://usableweb.com/
Usability.gov
USA government site on usability, with many references on the
subject.
http://www.usability.gov/accessibility/index.html
Usability.net
http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/r_international.htm
Usabilityfirst
Provides information and resources for key issues related to usability
in Website and software design.
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/
useit.com, Jakob Nielsen's Website
http://www.useit.com/
3. Quality of contents and usability evaluation methods
Brussels quality framework / Cadre qualité Bruxelles
Workgroup aiming at the setting up of baselines for a shared vision
of criteria of quality for cultural Websites
http://www.cfwb.be/qualite-Bruxelles/pg001.asp
CIDOC Multimedia Working Group. Multimedia Evaluation Criteria.
Revised Draft. Nuremberg, Germany, September 8-10,1997.
http://www.archimuse.com/papers/cidoc/cidoc.mmwg.eval.crit.html
DESIRE Information Gateways Handbook. Guide to creating high
quality portals on the Internet.
http://www.desire.org/handbook/
Hom James. The Usability Methods Toolbox. 1998.
http://jthom.best.vwh.net/usability/
ICRA - Internet Content Rating Association
http://www.icra.org
Internet detective
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet.detective.html
Judging quality on the Web
http://library.ucla.edu/url/referenc/judging.htm
Quality Framework for UK government Website design Juliy 2002
http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/00/09/20/04000920.pdf
Quick: the Quality information checklist
http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm
QUIS. Questionnaire for user interaction satisfaction
http://www.lap.umd.edu/QUIS/index.html
SUMI
Standard evaluation questionnaire for assessing quality of use
of software by end users.
http://www.ucc.ie/hfrg/questionnaires/sumi/index.html
Tillman Hope N., Evaluating quality on the Net, March 2003
www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html
4. Universal design
The Center for Universal Design - Universal Design Manifesto
Principles of Universal Design
http://www.design.ncsu.edu:8120/cud/univ_design/princ_overview.htm
Dan's Web Tips
Extensive collection of helpful tips, links and resources for
creating effective and usable Web pages.
http://webtips.dan.info/
Designing More Usable Web Sites
Helpful index lists links to resources for creating accessible
Web sites, including software and Web-based services.
http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/web/index.html
Navigation and Usability Guide
Access this extensive collection of articles, columns and resources
from Web Review Magazine on accessibility and usability guidelines.
http://www.ddj.com/
General Concepts, Universal Design Principles and Guidelines
Here are many reasons, both practical and economic, for creating
a world we can all use. Here are a few papers which highlight
key reasons.
http://trace.wisc.edu/world/gen_ud.html
Web Usability OverSite
Index of articles and links from the University of Michigan highlights
how Web designers can test their Web sites for overall usability.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bing/oversite/webuse.html
Yet Another Style Guide
This style guide reflects lessons learnt about how to design a
good Website.
http://www.vorburger.ch/kissfp/styleguide/index.html
Designing Access to WWW Pages by the Alliance for Technology
Access http://www.ataccess.org/ATResourceLibrary/WWWAccess/default.html
Norman, Donald. The Design of Everyday Things. New York:
Basic Books, 1988.
5. Patterns
Alexandex C. et al. A Pattern Language – Towns, Buildings,
Construction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Alexander C.. The Timeless Way of Building. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1979.
Cunningham, Ward – Beck, Kent. Using Pattern Languages
for Object-Oriented Programs, presentet to the Conference
on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications
(OOPSLA), 1987.
Gamma Erich –Helm, Richard – Johnson, Ralph –Vlissides,
John – Wesley, Addison, Design Patterns – Elements
of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, 1995.
Tidwell, Jenifer, COMMON GROUND: A Pattern Language for Human-Computer
Interface Design, 1999.
http://www.mit.edu/~jtidwell/common_ground.html
Tidwell, Jenifer. UI Patterns and Techniques, 2002
http://time-tripper.com/uipatterns/
van Welie, Martin, Interaction Design Patterns, 2001
http://www.welie.com/patterns/index.html
Moreover a bibliography of collections of patterns for the Web
ca be found at
http://iawiki.net/WebsitePatterns
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