Oberlin
College is committed to the principles of the Americans
with Disabilities Act and one of its outgrowths, the Rehabilitation
Act Amendments of 1998, Section 508. These federal laws
require government agencies to make documents--including
those on the World Wide Web--work for all users, including
the blind and those without the latest browser software.
Many
guides have been created to help web content developers
(that's probably you if you are reading this) make their
pages accessible to as many people as possible. All have
at their core a leading principle of good journalism: Create
with your audience in mind. To this principle it is
important to add recognition that one in five U.S. citizens--your
audience--has a physical disability.
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Here are 10 ways to make your site
accessible.
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Here are some tools
to help you make your site accessible.
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If you want to see what corporations and other organizations
are developing to increase web Accessibility, here are some
sites
to start with.
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If you need persuading--or you know someone who needs persuading--that
accessibility is the way to go with web design, here are
two articles that make compelling arguments:
