Site Creation Resources

The UC Accessibility in the Electronic Environment initiative includes a web site, Design Accessible Web Sites to help web developers understand how to make their sites accessible. It includes information about Section 508 (the recommended web standard), design tips, technical tools, and resources.

• Creating Accessible PDFs (WebAIM)
• Web Captioning (WebAIM)
• Wave  Web Accessibility Testing
• World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative: This site has a vast amount of useful information, in a well-organized manner 
• Accessible Drop Down Menu: highly-customizable and very accessible Javascript based menu system that can but dropped into almost any framework.
• Adobe's Accessibility Resource Center contains tutorials for creating accessible Flash sites, PDFs  and InDesign documents.
• Section 508 Electronic & Information Technology homepage contains the latest version of the current federal web site standards.
• reCAPTCHA:  This is an alternative to visual CAPTCHAs that does a reasonably good job of producing an audio option.  It is not difficult to implement in a variety of scripting languages.
• Results of the latest Screen Reader User Survey can be found here: https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey7/

Other topics of interest:

• Checking web sites for accessibility:  short list of steps to take to ensure your web content is accessible.
• Screen Readers: listing the most commonly-used screenreaders has been compiled by Len Burns, a local UCSC alum who uses a screenreader.

This list was compiled with the help of Len Burns.