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Up one levelA listing of content on the site related to accessibility and similiar topics.
- Accessibility & Assistive Technology
- EQUITY e-newsletter: April 2004
- Web Site Accessibility
- EQUITY e-newsletter: May 2006
- Telework: Home-based Asset Building
- World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative
- HUD Property Improvement Loan Insurance- Title 1
- HUD Rehabilitation Mortgage Insurance- 203(k)
- HUD Indian Home Loan Guarantee Program- Sect. 184
- HUD Emergency Repair Grants (PDF only)
- Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Home Renovation & Repair Program
- National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
- Do-It
- Disabilities, Opportunities, Internet working and Technology.
- Center for Accessible Technology
- Based in Berkeley, CA.
- AbleData
- Alliance for Technology Access Hub
- Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID)
- RehabTool.com
- Adaptive and assistive technology resource; lots of links.
- TRACE
- Research and Development Center on Technology and Disability.
- Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
- Educational nonprofit that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people.
- Bobby
- A web based tool for analyzing webpages for accessibility.
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium.
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- Web Accessibility Initiative of the W3C. Check here often for the latest in recommended Web accessibility guidelines.
- WheelchairNet
- "A virtual community for wheelchair-minded people", sponsored by the RERC on Wheeled Mobility, NIDRR and University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
- Computer Accommodations Program of the US Department of Defense (DOD)
- The Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP) provides assistive technology accommodations and services to persons with disabilities at the Department of Defense (DOD), at no cost to individual activities.
- Center for Universal Design
- Center for Universal Design at North Carolina State University.
- National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions - Advocacy
- ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings & Facilities (ADAAG)
- The Center for Universal Design
- Inclusive Home Design Act of 2005 (HR 1441)
- Concrete Change
- American Council of the Blind Press Release, 4/24/08
- Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
- Oregon Advocacy Center
- Heller Ehrman LLP
- New publication! How to Create Disability Access to Technology: Best Practices in Electronic and Information Technology Companies
- This manual explains how today's technology companies are largely ignoring a huge, untapped global market of millions of people with disabilities. In the US alone, there over 54 million people with disabilitiesa market that is expected to nearly double in the next 15 years. Five easy-to-read "How To" chapters cover how technology industry experts created accessibility in their companies, how AOL's strategic commitment to accessibility averted a costly Americans with Disabilities Act verdict, and how to use the included extensive resources to understand the disability market and how it will be changing.
- Technology and Disability: a global glimpse of the future
- WID commissioned several specialists to prepare overviews of key technology topics with a view towards the future. Some of the reports have already appeared in DisabilityWorld, while others are printed here for the first time. The topics selected for an international perspective are: universal design, advocacy and the information society, accessible information technology in the European Union, wheelchair provision trends in developing countries and information technology developments benefiting blind and print disabled users.