ADA & WCAG Web Accessibility Resources
WEB ACCESSIBILITY BLOGS & NEWS
WebAxe - blog and podcast on web accessibility
WebAIM Blog - WebAIM, makers of WAVE tester
Seyfeth & Shaw - ADA Title III legal blog
Hunt Huey - AccessDefense legal blog
Understanding the ADA - William Goren, legal consultant blog
A11y Slack Channel - Great source for news, resources and community
ADA WCAG 2.0 BACKGROUND & GUIDELINES
ADA.gov
- Title III “Highlights” (no specifics related to websites)
W3C WCAG 2.1
W3C WCAG 2.2
This next update has long been dragging out. It was expected in 2021 but still no final release.
WebAIM : very complete WCAG checklist
WEB ACCESSIBILITY AUDITING & TESTING TOOLS FOR DESIGNERS & DEVELOPERS
Full website auditing tools - indexing the entire site
Accessibility Management Platform (AMP) by Level Access
- Enterprise level
- Very thorough and used by remediation experts
- Very expensive
SortSite Accessibility Validator by Power Mapper
- They offer two versions: Desktop ($149-$849/user) and Cloud ($49/mo/user)
- Checks an entire site and provides Excel and Word reports
- WCAG 2.0 117 tests at A, AA, and AAA levels
Individual Page WCAG Web Accessibility Testing Tools & Plugins
axe DevTools by Deque (pronounced D-Q)
- From free to Enterprise level toolsets
ARC Toolkit by TPGi
- New and free individual page Tester
Wave : Accessibility Compliance Validator - Free
- Page by page - not an "auditing tool".
- Issues are overlaid on page
- Good for non technical people (good for showing the boss for buy-in)
Color and Contrast Testing Tools for Designers
Colour Contrast Analyser (yes, its spelled that way) by The Paciello Group
PC and Mac versions allow designers to test for proper contrast and color blindness.
LEARNING ABOUT DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY
Giving A Damn About Accessibilty by Sheri Byrne-Haber
Accessible Social Guidebook - guide for content developers
University of Minnesota Duluth - exhustive resource for web accessibility design and development
W3C Tutorials - excellent accessibility tutorials for designers and developers
University of Massachusetts Global - Extensive resource list for people with disabilities.