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Accessibility Fundamentals Overview

The following resources provide information for getting started with accessibility:

Introduction to Web Accessibility
Introduces web accessibility and links to additional resources.

  • Video Introduction to Web Accessibility and W3C Standards 4-minute video.

Essential Components of Web Accessibility
Shows how web accessibility depends on several components of web development and interaction working together and shows the relationship between the WAI guidelines: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG), and User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG).
Accessibility Principles
Helps developers, designers, and others to understand the principles for creating accessible websites, web applications, browsers, and other web tools. Provides references to the international standards from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and to stories of web users.
Web Accessibility Perspectives Videos: Explore the Impact and Benefits for Everyone
Videos that demonstrate that web accessibility is essential for people with disabilities and useful for all. Learn about the impact of accessibility and the benefits for everyone in a variety of situations. Each video is about 1 minute, and the compilation is 7:37. Pages include supporting information.
How People with Disabilities Use the Web
Introduces how people with disabilities use the web. Describes tools and approaches that people with different kinds of disabilities use to browse the web and the [...]

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