the Internet, Web andffff Windows

• Accessible Web Design
• LYNX Web Browser
• Unix Access
• Windows Access
• Java Access
• Access Resources
  
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Accessible Web Design

• Accessible Web Page Design Links from the disABILITY website
• Accessibility Home Page: at Microsoft
• Designing an Accessible Web: Trace Center Site
• Quick Tips to Make Accessible Web Sites: W3C
• National Center for Accessible Media: CPB/WGBH
• Resources on Web Access
  from The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre of University of Toronto
• Web Access Centre - RNIB
• Web Accessibility: UCLA Academic Technology Services
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LYNX Web Browser
Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client

• Lynx.browser.org
• Lynx Friendly?
• LYNX: Sources and Resources
• Blynx: Lynx Support Files Tailored for Blind and Visually Handicapped Users
• Blind + Linux = BLINUX
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Unix Access

• DACX The Disability Action Committee for X (DACX) is a volunteer effort whose goal is to develop accessibility features for workstations running the X Window System.
• UNIX/X Window System Software Toolkit at the Trace Center
• Emacspeak
  • The Emacspeak home page Emacspeak is the first full-fledged speech output system that will allow someone who cannot see to work directly on a UNIX system.
  • Emacspeak --A Speech Interface
    Pick up emacspeak via anonymous ftp(ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/raman/emacspeak/)
  • Subscribe to the emacspeak mailing list: priestdo@cs.vassar.edu (list owner "Greg E. Priest-Dorman)
• UnWindows is a collection of programs written for the X Window System designed to assist visually-impaired users who are not blind in working with a window-based workstation interface.
  • UnWindows , for people using Unix/X-Windows systems (FTP site)

Windows Access

• Accessing the Internet: What you need to know to get started and the tools you need to find what you are searching for (AFB Article)
• Adult Books--Computers & Technology at National Braille Press
• JAWS for Windows may be authorized for Windows NT, Windows 2000 Professional or Windows 95/98/ME.
• How to write application programs that Screen Access programs can read!: for product developers and custom programmers
• IBM's Special Needs Web Page
• Project ASSIST With Windows: Tutorials for Windows-based applications used along with screen reading software. (Iowa Department for the Blind)
• Access at Adobe: Helping people with visual disabilities access electronic information.
• Microsoft's Accessibility Support Page features what Microsoft has made available for the Windows 3.1, Windows NT Workstation and MS-DOS operatings systems.
• The Trace Center has an excellent collection of links to access software for Windows
• Windows XP Explained: A Guide for Blind and Visually Impaired Users.
  by Dr. Sarah Morley, with Anna Dresner
• WinGuide web site, dedicated to Dr. Sarah Morley's Windows books & training materials for blind and visually impaired users and their trainers.
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Java Accessibility

Specs and Info at Sun Microsystems

• Sun Microsystems Accessibility Program

• Java Accessibility Utilities (Sun)
  

• IBM
• IBM Accessibility Center: Java Accessibility
• Accessibility Center
  
  Other Resources on Java and Access
• Java Accessibility Program: Trace Center
• Designing an Accessible World
• The Empowerment Zone: Java
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Access Resources

• The U.S. Access Board, is also known as the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.
• EASI Street To Science Engineering and Math
• Texas School for the Blind: Mathematics - Some excellent material on Nemeth code and teaching mathematics to blind students.
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last revised Oct. 2006
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