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Accessibility and Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/microsoft/default.aspx
This site gives Microsoft's accessibility policies and strategies, recent relevant advances in technology, and involvement in the disability community.

Accessible Acrobat Reader download page

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
This site allows you to download Adobe products.

Ai Squared: Leaders in Low-Vision Software

http://www.aisquared.com
There is information and a download of Zoomtext from Ai Squared, a text/graphics enlargement software package in this site.

Alva

http://www.optelec.nl/?id=1441
This site provides information on Alva electronic Braille displays.

Anti-Discrimination Act 1977

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/aa1977204/
An electronic copy of the NSW legislation is available here.

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: W3C Recommendation 3 February 2000

http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-AUTOOLS/
This specification provides guidelines for web authoring tool developers. Its purpose is twofold: to assist developers in designing authoring tools that produce accessible web content and to assist developers in creating an accessible authoring interface.

Australian Caption Centre

http://www.auscap.com.au.
The site provides information on captions in Australia.

Blazie

http://www.freedomscientific.com/
The site provides information on the manufacture of Power Braille – an electronic Braille Display.

Blind/Low Vision Group

http://www.hj.com
There is information and a download of Magic from Henter Joyce– a text/graphics enlargement software package, and JAWS from Henter Joyce – a screen reader, on this site.

Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html
This provides a list of all checkpoints from the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

Closed Captions for Web Mulitmedia

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/library/en-us/dnacc/html/atg_samiarticle.asp
This site has information about Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI).

Colour contrast analyser tools

http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=628

A Downloadable Colour Contrast Analyser (for Windows only) is available from Vision Australia.

http://juicystudio.com/services/colourcontrast.php

An online Colour Contrast Analyser from Juicy Studio.

Disability Discrimination Act 1992

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/dda1992264/
An electronic copy of the Australian commonwealth legislation is available here.

Disability Policy Framework guidelines

http://www.dadhc.nsw.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/
898B1EC7-FFED-4F87-83F0-E7C25D504C61/279/dpf_guidelines.pdf
An electronic copy of the policy guidelines (PDF 229KB) is available here.

Disability Services Act 1993

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/dsa1993213/
An electronic copy of the NSW legislation.

Don Johnston

http://www.donjohnston.com
Information about the Discover Screen from Don Johnston – a replacement for a keyboard is available from this site.

Disability Standards for Education 2005

http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/school_education/programmes_funding/
forms_guidelines/disability_standards_for_education.htm
An electronic copy of the Commonwealth government policy is available here.

Dragon Naturally speaking

http://www.scansoft.com/naturallyspeaking/
Information on Dragon Naturally Speaking speech recognition software can be found here.

Emacspeak

http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net

A free open source screen reader for Linux from Emacspeak Inc.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

https://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/humanresources/eeo/index.htm
An electronic copy of the policy is available here.

Fonix Corporation

http://www.fonix.com/fonix/index.php
This is the home page for Fonix who produce DECtalk speech synthesisers.

Forms

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/
#forms-graphical-buttons
This links to the W3C's guide to using graphic buttons in forms.

GW Micro

http://gwmicro.com
Information and a trial version of Window-Eyes 5.5 - a screen reader from GW Micro – can be found here. GW Micro is the distributor of DECtalk speech synthesisers.

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/
hraeoca1986512
An electronic copy of the Australian commonwealth legislation is available here.

IBM Homepage

http://www.ibm.com
Information about the products IBM Viavoice – speech prediction software, and IBM Home Page Reader - for speech output on web pages can be found here.

Intellitools

http://www.intellitools.com
Information about Intellikeys, an alternative keyboard, is available here.

Lynx

http://lynx.browser.org/
Lynx is a text browser for the World Wide Web, and its features are briefly described here.

Macromedia Director and Shockwave Player

http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/
accessibility/features/director.html
This site describes the features of Director and Shockwave that increase the accessibility of websites.

Macromedia Dreamweaver

http://www.macromedia.com/resources/accessibility/dw8/
This site describes the features of Dreamweaver that increase the accessibility of websites.

Macromedia Fireworks

http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/mx/fw/
accessibility/features/fireworks.html
This site describes the features of Fireworks that increase the accessibility of websites.

Macromedia Flash

http://www.macromedia.com/resources/accessibility/flash8/
This site describes the features of Flash that increase the accessibility of websites.

Math ML

http://www.dessci.com/en/support/tutorials/mathml/default.htm
This site has a gentle introduction to MathML.

http://www.w3.org/Math/
See W3C guidelines on mathematics.

Media Access Generator (MAGpie)

http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/
This has the description, a download and instructions for MAGpie.

Microsoft Accessibility: Developing Technology

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?

url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/accessibility.asp
Information on Microsoft Active Accessibility – MSAA - is available here.

Microsoft Products and Aids

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/microsoft.aspx
This site describes the accessibility features of different versions of Microsoft products.

Novitatech regency park

http://regencyrehab.cca.org.au
This site describes the operations and products of Regency Park Rehabilitation Engineering, including alternative keyboards, replacements for keyboards, mouse emulators, joysticks, word prediction software and switches.

Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ohasa2000273/index.html
An electronic copy of the NSW legislation is available here.

Optek Systems

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~terryk/
This shows the Australian supplier of Delphi Multimedia from Alva – an electronic Braille Display - and Maltron Single Handed Keyboard from Maltron.

Overview of Acrobat products and accessibility

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_overview.html
This provides more information about Adobe® PDF, Adobe Acrobat® software and accessibility.

Policy of Reasonable Adjustment

http://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/gazette/Archive95to99/1997/gzr9717s.htm
An electronic copy of the policy can be found in this document.

Prentke Romich Company

http://www.prentrom.com
Information about WiVik 2 - a replacement for a keyboard, about HeadMaster Plus – a mouse emulation device, and about switches is available here.

Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/
papipa1998464/index.html
An electronic copy of the NSW legislation is available here.

Pulse Data International (now Humanware)

http://www.humanware.com/
This site contains information on Keynote Gold from Humanware – a speech synthesiser.

Quantum Technology

http://www.quantech.com.au
Here is information on the Australian suppliers of Window-Eyes – a screen reader, and Power Braille - an electronic Braille Display, and Read & Write reading assistance software.

Spectronics

http://www.spectronicsinoz.com
This site provides information on the Australian supplier of TASH Mini Keyboard (Passive), Big Keys from Greystone Digital, Intellikeys from Intellitools, Discover:Screen from Don Johnston Inc, WiVik 2 from Prentke Romich, HeadMaster Plus, Penfriend Word Prediction Software and switches.

Tables

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#h-11.4
W3C guidelines site.

http://www.webaim.org/techniques/tables/

http://www.macromedia.com/resources/accessibility/dw8/tables.html
Tutorials on accessible table mark-up can be found here.

TAW

http://www.tawdis.net/taw3/cms/en

TAW (Web Accessibility Test) is a tool for the automatic analysis of Web sites, based on the W3C - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Technability

http://www.technability.com.au/

The sales division of the Spastic Centre, who provide a diverse range of adaptive technology devices, including switches.

VoiceOver

A screen reader supplied as part of Apple OS X Tiger (www.apple.com)

W3C Evaluation Tools

http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/existingtools.html#Evaluation
This provides information on a range of tools than can be used by web content developers to evaluate the accessibility features of their site.

W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Conformance Logos

http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1-Conformance
This site provides information about W3C Conformance logos, which can be used on sites to indicate a claim of conformance to a specified conformance level of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

Web accessibility toolbar for Internet Explorer (Windows)

http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/toolbar/1.2/versions/en/documentation/index.html

Web Accessibility Toolbar for Internet Explorer from Vision Australia allows checking for valid content, enabling/disabling CSS, viewing alt attributes for images and more.

Web developer extension for Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60

Web Developer Extension for Firefox allows checking for valid content, enabling/disabling CSS, viewing alt attributes for images and more.

What's wrong with the <FONT> element?

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/font.html
This gives an explanation of why not to use the <FONT> element.

Web Accessibility Validation and Repair: Which Tool and Why?

http://snow.utoronto.ca/access/evaltoolreview/validation.html

Canadian review of accessibility validation software, updated September 2003.

World Wide Web Access: Discrimination Act Advisory Notes (Version 3.2 August 2002)

http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/
standards/www_3/www_3.html#1