General Articles

• Cognitive Disabilities and the Web -- Part 1: We still know too little, and we do even less and Part 2: Conceptualizing design considerations
• A comparison of the Section 508 and WCAG Web Accessibility standards
• Do Accessible Web Sites have to be boring? WebAIM article on non-boring accessible sites and Sitepoint article on attractive accessible sites

Evaluation Resources

• View your page as it would be rendered in Lynx
• How to set your desktop & browser up for checking accessibility with large fonts, reversed text, and so on.
• WebAim's simulation tools

Related Classes

• Jim Thatcher's Section 508 tutorial
• Dive Into Accessibility's tutorial on Web Accessibility
• Illinois Center for Instructional Technology Accessibility REHAB 711NC (Designing Universally Accessible WWW Resources)
• "The Blind Civil Rights Movement in the United States (1940-present):Ý Through Lives, Literature, and Legacies" Political Science 98 (CCN:Ý 72138) & 198 (CCN: 72936),Ý 1 - 3 units Time & Location: Wed 5-7:30PM, Location:Ý 22Ý WARREN. Mariyam Cementwala (Mac8aries@aol.com). Lectures
• CS 160 (focus on disability)
• Anthropology #189: Anthropology and Disability. Devva Kasnitz and Russell Shuttleworth.Ý
• Disability Studies at Cal
  

Press Articles

• A (partisan) site describing Terri Schiavo's case.
• Legal tide has turned against the disabled (Chicago Tribune, November 25, 2001)
• Expression Recognition to help identify squinting
• Talking ATMs in the area
• Top Disability Rights stories of 2001
• Blindekuh: the Blind Cow Restaurant (Wall Street Journal, Nov 28th, 2000)
• Assistive Technology should Empower, Not "Help" Disabled People (Laura Hershey)
  
• On A Roll - Talk Radio on Life & Disability Sundays 6-8 PM ET on 39 Radio Stations and the Internet. On A Roll is now a part of the community at iCan.com
• Slashdot thread on accessibility of unix
• "I am sam" movie review Ý
• Art, Technology and Disability: Interviews with Three Artists (Disability World)
• Cellphones are innaccessible to those with hearing aids (CNET tech news)
• Wired article on Autism in Silicon Valley (Contentious, many experts don't agree with this)
  
• Information on the Video Descriptive Service conflict
• http://www.ucpa.org/ucp_channeldoc.cfm/1/15/65/65-65/1715
• http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-05-23-descriptive-tv.htm
• http://www.wnyc.org/new/talk/onthemedia/transcripts_012701_blind.html
• http://www.nfb.org/BM/BM01/BM0105/bm010508.htm
• http://www.fcc.gov/cib/dro/comments/99339/5006314136.pdf
• Conflict between the National Federation for the Blind and AOL
• http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,13632,00.asp
• http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg579.htm
• THE GIMP STORE is designed by disabled people for disabled people who
  can see humor and sarcasm in being different. We have T-shirts, stickers and more to tell 'em how it is!
• Article about cochlear implants , and how it helped restore hearing for one individual.
• Business Week also has occasional articles about assistive technologies, the archive has 40+ articles going back to January 2001Ý
• Interesting article about a deaf family from the Washington Post.
• The sit-in that led to section 504 (NPR)
• Benefits of assistive tech go beyond the disabled ( government report on their experiences )
• Wired article on use of wearable computers by autistic kids
  

ADA & other legal/policy information

• WebAim's ADA cases
• ADA Questions and Answers
• ADA Overview
• Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center
• ADA Regulations and Technical Assistance Materials
• Section 508 rules
• Web Accessibility Initiative
  

Conferences

• a tool for supporting AAC
• An assistive tech conference
• CSUN 2001
• CSUN 2002
  
• ASSETS
• BOALT Disability Law Symposium
  

Research Articles

• UTOPIA project (elders and technology). Also hosted a workshop on HCI and the Older Population.
• Usability testing with screen reading
• Participatory Research: Involving people with disabilities in disability research
• Human Values and the Design of Computer Technology p. 65-89 Disability, Inability & Cyberspace
• Disability and Rehabilitation special article on Assistive Tech Ý
• Adaptech project (computer technologies for post secondary students with disabilities)
• Discussion of Augmentative and Alternative Communication and Autism (originally held on Thursday, April 18 2002 12-1:30)

Data and Research Centers on Disability

• The Interdisciplinary Research in Assistive Technology program at CMU/University of Pittsburgh
• The National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research has a list of Disability Statistics Web Pages
• InfoUse has lots of info about Disability Data , including a list of Disability Data Organizations
• The Social Security Administration 's Office of Policy has information about the Social Security disability program
• The National Business and Disability Council
• The Disability Statistics Center
• The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center Ý
• Two Articles on Jacobus tenBroek, founder of the National Federation for the Blind (one) (two) Ý
• British Stats from the " Labour Force Survey "
  
• Les Turner ALS foundation
  

Other clearinghouses for information

• Assistive Technology Evaluation or Information Resources
• The Trace Center
• WebAim is a great and very comprehensive resource
• Illinois Center for Instructional Technology Accessibility