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Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of ParticipationMain MenuInterrogating and Integrating AccessIntroductionRegulating Digital Media Accessibility: #CaptionTHISChapter 1You Already Know How to Use It: Technology, Disability, and ParticipationChapter 2Transformers: Accessibility, Style, and AdaptationChapter 3Content Warnings: Struggles over Meaning, Rights, and EqualityChapter 4The Net Experience: Intersectional Identities and Cultural AccessibilityChapter 5Conclusion: Collaborative FuturesConclusionAdditional ResourcesDisability Blogs, Overview of Accessibility Practices, and Accessibility ResourcesElizabeth Ellcessor071854df67577061fe7d8846d7d22971fd2a5491NYU Press
Accessibility Resources
12015-10-02T17:59:52-07:00Elizabeth Ellcessor071854df67577061fe7d8846d7d22971fd2a5491509210plain2015-10-09T19:39:04-07:00Elizabeth Ellcessor071854df67577061fe7d8846d7d22971fd2a5491Interrogating and Integrating AccessIntroductionThis page offers a listing of resources that may helpful to individuals attempting to learn more about digital media accessibility and how to implement it, or those looking to better understand some of the primary documents and projects referenced in the text of Restricted Access.
Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure - an international coalition dedicated to ensuring that "that everyone who faces accessibility barriers due to disability, literacy, digital literacy, or aging, regardless of economic resources, can access and use the Internet and all its information, communities, and services for education, employment, daily living, civic participation, health, and safety."
U.S. Federal Accessibility Policies
Section 508 - a site that centralizes the standards used to enforce Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Section 508 Refresh - the update to Section 508 standards is ongoing, and the process is described here.
Fix the Web - a UK-based initiative that attempts to collect web accessibility errors and work with website owners to address them.
​Google Accessibility - several Google Chrome extensions designed to provide accessibility features for users (including keyboard navigation and color adjustments) as well as developer tools.
No Coffee - a low-vision simulator, available as a Google Chrome extension.
Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM) - a consulting and resourcing group with the mission of empowering organizations to make their web content accessible to people with disabilities.
WebAIM WAVE - a web accessibility evaluation tool that highlights possible accessibility errors on a given webpage. See explanation in Web Accessibility Overview.
Social Media Accessibility
Blog Accessibility - Glenda Watson Hyatt's site, applying WCAG 2.0 principles to specific blogging contexts
Dreamwidth - a blogging and journaling platform with a commitment to inclusion, including accessibility
EasyChirp - an adaptation of Twitter for users using screenreaders or in otherwise limited situations
Streaming Media Accessibility Resources
Amara - part of the Participatory Culture Foundation, Amara allows people to create their own captions for existing videos, and uses crowd-sourcing to produce captions for client organizations.
YouTube Captioning - YouTube's captioning tools are explained in a video and in a help document. If no captions are provided, YouTube's automatic captioning feature may attempt to generate them from audio.
YouTube Video Description - A video explaining YouTube's integration of video description.
YouDescribe - a free accessibility tool for adding audio description to YouTube videos
Video Game Accessibility
AbleGamers - a nonprofit group that advocates for game accessibility, hosts trials of assistive technology, and reviews games
Includification - a set of guidelines for the development of accessible video games, published by AbleGamers
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