http://www.mtsu.edu/~itres/help/Accessibility/index.html

Accessibility Issues in Web Design 
(Adaptive Technology)

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The Accessibility Issues in Web Design web site was designed to assist MTSU faculty in making their web sites more accessible to students who have visual and hearing impairments, physical impairments, speech impairments, and learning disabilities. 

Web Site Building Tips

• General Guidelines
• Impairments
  • Visual Impairments - screen (text) readers 
  • Hearing Impairments
  • Physical Impairment
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Speech Impairments
• Platform Issues
  • Mac
  • Windows
• Course Management Systems
  • Course Info (Blackboard) 
  • WebCT

• Tools
  • Online Tools
  • Software Tools
  • Programming Tools
• Glossary

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Accessibility Resources

• Funding Resources for Hardware and Software
• Web Access
• Platform Issues
  • Mac
  • Windows
• Office Software Suite
  • 2000 - PC
  • 1998 - Mac
  • 1997 - PC

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URLs

• OIT Instructional Technology: Accessibility Issues in Web Design
  http://www.mtsu.edu/~itres/help/Accessibility/
• MTSU Adaptive Technology Web Site (Phillip Voorhees): http://www.mtsu.edu/~adatech 
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Content Guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/ 
• NCAM (National Center for Accessible Media: http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/ 
• NCAM Accessibility Links: http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/accesslinks.html
• Trace Research & Development Center's list of Web sites devoted to "Designing an Accessible Web" http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/web/index.html 
• Web Guidelines for Accessible Web Pages: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/dev/web/guidelines.htm 

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http://www.mtsu.edu/~itres/help/Accessibility/index.html

The Office of Information Technology- Instructional Technology
Office of Information Technology -- Middle Tennessee State University
Telecommunications 214 -- Box 226
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
615-904-8189
FAX: 615-898-2018
dmc@mtsu.edu

Last Updated: 05/23/00