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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">This 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 <em>Restricted Access</em>.</span><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 </a>- published by the World Wide Web Consortium in 1999</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0</a> - published by the World Wide Web Con</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">sortium in 2008</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">WCAG Supplementary documents - <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/people-use-web/principles">explanation of principles</a>; <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/">techniques</a> for meeting WCAG 2.0; <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/translations.html">translations</a> into other languages.</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php">Web Accessibility Initiative, Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA) </a>- accessibility measures for dynamic web content and advanced user interface controls. </span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://gpii.net/">Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure</a> - an international coalition dedicated to ensuring that "</span>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."</li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">U.S. Federal Accessibility Policies</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://section508.gov">Section 508 </a>- a site that centralizes the standards used to enforce Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973</span></li><li><a href="http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-ict-refresh">Section 508 Refresh</a> - the update to Section 508 standards is ongoing, and the process is described here.</li><li><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/guides/21st-century-communications-and-video-accessibility-act-2010">21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act</a></li><li><a href="http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-telecommunications-act-guidelines">Telecommunications Act of 1996</a> - Standards for implementation of Section 255.</li><li><a href="http://www.ada.gov/">Americans with Disabilities Act</a> - The ADA is believed to apply to websites, but standards remain in development.</li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Accessibility Initiatives and Resources</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.fixtheweb.net">Fix the Web</a> - a UK-based initiative that attempts to collect web accessibility errors and work with website owners to address them.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/accessibility%20?_feature=google&_category=ext/22-accessibility">​Google Accessibility</a> - several Google Chrome extensions designed to provide accessibility features for users (including keyboard navigation and color adjustments) as well as developer tools.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="https://accessgarage.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/458/">No Coffee</a> - a low-vision simulator, available as a Google Chrome extension.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://webaim.org">Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM)</a> - a consulting and resourcing group with the mission of empowering or<span style="line-height: 1.6;">ganizations to make their web content accessible to people with disabilities.</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 1.6;"><a href="http://wave.webaim.org/">WebAIM WAVE</a> - a web accessibility evaluation tool that highlights possible accessibility errors on a given webpage. See explanation in <a href="overview-of-web-accessibility-practices">Web Accessibility Overview.</a></span></span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Social Media Accessibility</span></h3><ul><li><a href="http://blogaccessibility.com/">Blog Accessibility</a> - Glenda Watson Hyatt's site, applying WCAG 2.0 principles to specific blogging contexts</li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.dreamwidth.org">Dreamwidth</a> - a blogging and journaling platform with a commitment to inclusion, including accessibility</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://easychirp.com">EasyChirp</a> - an adaptation of Twitter for users using screenreaders or in otherwise limited situations</span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Streaming Media Accessibility Resources</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://amara.org">Amara</a> - 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.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">YouTube Captioning - YouTube's captioning tools are explained in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZ-cxfxzvk">video</a> and in a <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796">help document</a>. If no captions are provided, YouTube's <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3038280?hl=en">automatic captioning</a> feature may attempt to generate them from audio.</span></li><li>YouTube Video Description - A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCuwclkbZRc">video</a> explaining YouTube's integration of video description.</li><li><a href="http://youdescribe.org">YouDescribe</a> - a free accessibility tool for adding audio description to YouTube videos</li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Video Game Accessibility </span></h3><ul><li><a href="http://ablegamers.com">AbleGamers</a> - a nonprofit group that advocates for game accessibility, hosts trials of assistive technology, and reviews games</li><li><a href="http://includification.com">Includification</a> - a set of guidelines for the development of accessible video games, published by AbleGamers</li></ul><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">This 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 <em>Restricted Access</em>.</span><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 </a>- published by the World Wide Web Consortium in 1999</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0</a> - published by the World Wide Web Con</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">sortium in 2008</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">WCAG Supplementary documents - <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/people-use-web/principles">explanation of principles</a>; <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/">techniques</a> for meeting WCAG 2.0; <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/translations.html">translations</a> into other languages.</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php">Web Accessibility Initiative, Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA) </a>- accessibility measures for dynamic web content and advanced user interface controls. </span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://gpii.net/">Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure</a> - an international coalition dedicated to ensuring that "</span>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."</li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">U.S. Federal Accessibility Policies</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://section508.gov">Section 508 </a>- a site that centralizes the standards used to enforce Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973</span></li><li><a href="http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-ict-refresh">Section 508 Refresh</a> - the update to Section 508 standards is ongoing, and the process is described here.</li><li><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/guides/21st-century-communications-and-video-accessibility-act-2010">21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act</a></li><li><a href="http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-telecommunications-act-guidelines">Telecommunications Act of 1996</a> - Standards for implementation of Section 255.</li><li><a href="http://www.ada.gov/">Americans with Disabilities Act</a> - The ADA is believed to apply to websites, but standards remain in development.</li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Accessibility Initiatives and Resources</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.fixtheweb.net">Fix the Web</a> - a UK-based initiative that attempts to collect web accessibility errors and work with website owners to address them.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://webaim.org">Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM)</a> - a consulting and resourcing group with the mission of empowering or<span style="line-height: 1.6;">ganizations to make their web content accessible to people with disabilities.</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 1.6;"><a href="http://wave.webaim.org/">WebAIM WAVE</a> - a web accessibility evaluation tool that highlights possible accessibility errors on a given webpage. See explanation in <a href="overview-of-web-accessibility-practices">Web Accessibility Overview.</a></span></span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Social Media Accessibility</span></h3><ul><li><a href="http://blogaccessibility.com/">Blog Accessibility</a> - Glenda Watson Hyatt's site, applying WCAG 2.0 principles to specific blogging contexts</li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.dreamwidth.org">Dreamwidth</a> - a blogging and journaling platform with a commitment to inclusion, including accessibility</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://easychirp.com">EasyChirp</a> - an adaptation of Twitter for users using screenreaders or in otherwise limited situations</span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Streaming Media Accessibility Resources</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://amara.org">Amara</a> - 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.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">YouTube Captioning - YouTube's captioning tools are explained in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZ-cxfxzvk">video</a> and in a <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796">help document</a>. If no captions are provided, YouTube's <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3038280?hl=en">automatic captioning</a> feature may attempt to generate them from audio.</span></li><li>YouTube Video Description - A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCuwclkbZRc">video</a> explaining YouTube's integration of video description.</li><li><a href="http://youdescribe.org">YouDescribe</a> - a free accessibility tool for adding audio description to YouTube videos</li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Video Game Accessibility </span></h3><ul><li><a href="http://ablegamers.com">AbleGamers</a> - a nonprofit group that advocates for game accessibility, hosts trials of assistive technology, and reviews games</li><li><a href="http://includification.com">Includification</a> - a set of guidelines for the development of accessible video games, published by AbleGamers</li></ul><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">This 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 <em>Restricted Access</em>.</span><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - published by the World Wide Web Consortium in 1999</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - published by the World Wide Web Con</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">sortium in 2008</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">WCAG Supplementary documents - <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/people-use-web/principles">explanation of principles</a>; <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/">techniques</a> for meeting WCAG 2.0; <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/translations.html">translations</a> into other languages.</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php">Web Accessibility Initiative, Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA) </a>- accessibility measures for dynamic web content and advanced user interface controls. </span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://gpii.net/">Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure</a> - an international coalition dedicated to ensuring that "</span>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."</li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">U.S. Federal Accessibility Policies</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://section508.gov">Section 508 </a>- a site that centralizes the standards used to enforce Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973</span></li><li><a href="http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-ict-refresh">Section 508 Refresh</a> - the update to Section 508 standards is ongoing, and the process is described here.</li><li>21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act</li><li><a href="http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-telecommunications-act-guidelines">Telecommunications Act of 1996</a> - Standards for implementation of Section 255.</li><li><a href="http://www.ada.gov/">Americans with Disabilities Act</a> - The ADA is believed to apply to websites, but standards remain in development.</li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Accessibility Initiatives and Resources</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.fixtheweb.net">Fix the Web</a> - a UK-based initiative that attempts to collect web accessibility errors and work with website owners to address them.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://webaim.org">Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM)</a> - a consulting and resourcing group with the mission of empowering or<span style="line-height: 1.6;">ganizations to make their web content accessible to people with disabilities.</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 1.6;"><a href="http://wave.webaim.org/">WebAIM WAVE</a> - a web accessibility evaluation tool that highlights possible accessibility errors on a given webpage. See explanation in <a href="overview-of-web-accessibility-practices">Web Accessibility Overview.</a></span></span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Social Media Accessibility</span></h3><ul><li><a href="http://blogaccessibility.com/">Blog Accessibility</a> - Glenda Watson Hyatt's site, applying WCAG 2.0 principles to specific blogging contexts</li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.dreamwidth.org">Dreamwidth</a> - a blogging and journaling platform with a commitment to inclusion, including accessibility</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://easychirp.com">EasyChirp</a> - an adaptation of Twitter for users using screenreaders or in otherwise limited situations</span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Streaming Media Accessibility Resources</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://amara.org">Amara</a> - 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.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">YouTube Captioning - YouTube's captioning tools are explained in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZ-cxfxzvk">video</a> and in a <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796">help document</a>. If no captions are provided, YouTube's <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3038280?hl=en">automatic captioning</a> feature may attempt to generate them from audio.</span></li><li>YouTube Video Description - A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCuwclkbZRc">video</a> explaining YouTube's integration of video description.</li><li><a href="http://youdescribe.org">YouDescribe</a> - a free accessibility tool for adding audio description to YouTube videos</li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Video Game Accessibility </span></h3><ul><li><a href="http://ablegamers.com">AbleGamers</a> - a nonprofit group that advocates for game accessibility, hosts trials of assistive technology, and reviews games</li><li><a href="http://includification.com">Includification</a> - a set of guidelines for the development of accessible video games, published by AbleGamers</li></ul><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">This 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 <em>Restricted Access</em>.</span><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - published by the World Wide Web Consortium in 1999</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - published by the World Wide Web Con</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">sortium in 2008</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">WCAG Supplementary documents - <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/people-use-web/principles">explanation of principles</a>; <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/">techniques</a> for meeting WCAG 2.0; <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/translations.html">translations</a> into other languages.</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php">Web Accessibility Initiative, Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA) </a>- accessibility measures for dynamic web content and advanced user interface controls. </span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://gpii.net/">Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure</a> - an international coalition dedicated to ensuring that "</span>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."</li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">U.S. Federal Accessibility Policies</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://section508.gov">Section 508 </a>- a site that centralizes the standards used to enforce Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973</span></li><li><a href="http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-ict-refresh">Section 508 Refresh</a> - the update to Section 508 standards is ongoing, and the process is described here.</li><li>21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act</li><li><a href="http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-telecommunications-act-guidelines">Telecommunications Act of 1996</a> - Standards for implementation of Section 255.</li><li><a href="http://www.ada.gov/">Americans with Disabilities Act</a> - The ADA is believed to apply to websites, but standards remain in development.</li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Accessibility Initiatives and Resources</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.fixtheweb.net">Fix the Web</a> - a UK-based initiative that attempts to collect web accessibility errors and work with website owners to address them.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://webaim.org">Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM)</a> - a consulting and resourcing group with the mission of empowering or<span style="line-height: 1.6;">ganizations to make their web content accessible to people with disabilities.</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 1.6;"><a href="http://wave.webaim.org/">WebAIM WAVE</a> - a web accessibility evaluation tool that highlights possible accessibility errors on a given webpage. See explanation in <a href="overview-of-web-accessibility-practices">Web Accessibility Overview.</a></span></span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Social Media Accessibility</span></h3><ul><li><a href="http://blogaccessibility.com/">Blog Accessibility</a> - Glenda Watson Hyatt's site, applying WCAG 2.0 principles to specific blogging contexts</li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.dreamwidth.org">Dreamwidth</a> - a blogging and journaling platform with a commitment to inclusion, including accessibility</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://easychirp.com">EasyChirp</a> - an adaptation of Twitter for users using screenreaders or in otherwise limited situations</span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Streaming Media Accessibility Resources</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://amara.org">Amara</a> - 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.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">YouTube Captioning - YouTube's captioning tools are explained in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZ-cxfxzvk">video</a> and in a <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796">help document</a>. If no captions are provided, YouTube's <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3038280?hl=en">automatic captioning</a> feature may attempt to generate them from audio.</span></li><li>YouTube Video Description - A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCuwclkbZRc">video</a> explaining YouTube's integration of video description.</li><li><a href="http://youdescribe.org">YouDescribe</a> - a free accessibility tool for adding audio description to YouTube videos</li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Video Game Accessibility </span></h3><ul><li><a href="http://ablegamers.com">AbleGamers</a> - a nonprofit group that advocates for game accessibility, hosts trials of assistive technology, and reviews games</li><li><a href="http://includification.com">Includification</a> - a set of guidelines for the development of accessible video games, published by AbleGamers</li></ul><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">This 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 <em>Restricted Access</em>.</span><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - published by the World Wide Web Consortium in 1999</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - published by the World Wide Web Con</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">sortium in 2008</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">EXPLANATORY DOCS</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">GPII stuff</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Shadi?</span></span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">U.S. Federal Accessibility Policies</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://section508.gov">Section 508 </a>- a site that centralizes the standards used to enforce Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Refresh site</span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Accessibility Initiatives and Resources</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.fixtheweb.net">Fix the Web</a> - a UK-based initiative that attempts to collect web accessibility errors and work with website owners to address them.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://webaim.org">Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM)</a> - a consulting and resourcing group with the mission of empowering or<span style="line-height: 1.6;">ganizations to make their web content accessible to people with disabilities.</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 1.6;"><a href="http://wave.webaim.org/">WebAIM WAVE</a> - a web accessibility evaluation tool that highlights possible accessibility errors on a given webpage. See explanation in <a href="overview-of-web-accessibility-practices">Web Accessibility Overview.</a></span></span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Social Media Accessibility</span></h3><ul><li><a href="http://blogaccessibility.com/">Blog Accessibility</a> - Glenda Watson Hyatt's site, applying WCAG 2.0 principles to specific blogging contexts</li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.dreamwidth.org">Dreamwidth</a> - a blogging and journaling platform with a commitment to inclusion, including accessibility</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://easychirp.com">EasyChirp</a> - an adaptation of Twitter for users using screenreaders or in otherwise limited situations</span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Streaming Media Accessibility Resources</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://amara.org">Amara</a> - 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.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">YouTube Captioning - YouTube's captioning tools are explained in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZ-cxfxzvk">video</a> and in a <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796">help document</a>. If no captions are provided, YouTube's <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3038280?hl=en">automatic captioning</a> feature may attempt to generate them from audio.</span></li><li>YouTube Video Description - A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCuwclkbZRc">video</a> explaining YouTube's integration of video description.</li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Video Game Accessibility </span></h3><ul><li><a href="http://ablegamers.com">AbleGamers</a> - a nonprofit group that advocates for game accessibility, hosts trials of assistive technology, and reviews games</li><li><a href="http://includification.com">Includification</a> - a set of guidelines for the development of accessible video games, published by AbleGamers</li></ul><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">This 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 <em>Restricted Access</em>.</span><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - published by the World Wide Web Consortium in 1999</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - published by the World Wide Web Con</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">sortium in 2008</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">EXPLANATORY DOCS</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">GPII stuff</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Shadi?</span></span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">U.S. Federal Accessibility Policies</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://section508.gov">Section 508 </a>- a site that centralizes the standards used to enforce Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Refresh site</span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Accessibility Initiatives and Resources</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.fixtheweb.net">Fix the Web</a> - a UK-based initiative that attempts to collect web accessibility errors and work with website owners to address them.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://webaim.org">Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM)</a> - a consulting and resourcing group with the mission of empowering or<span style="line-height: 1.6;">ganizations to make their web content accessible to people with disabilities.</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 1.6;"><a href="http://wave.webaim.org/">WebAIM WAVE</a> - a web accessibility evaluation tool that highlights possible accessibility errors on a given webpage. See explanation in <a href="overview-of-web-accessibility-practices">Web Accessibility Overview.</a></span></span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Social Media Accessibility</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.dreamwidth.org">Dreamwidth</a> - a blogging and journaling platform with a commitment to inclusion, including accessibility</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://easychirp.com">EasyChirp</a> - an adaptation of Twitter for users using screenreaders or in otherwise limited situations</span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Online Closed Captioning Resources</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://amara.org">Amara</a> - 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.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">YouTube</span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Video Game Accessibility </span></h3><ul><li><a href="http://ablegamers.com">AbleGamers</a> - a nonprofit group that advocates for game accessibility, hosts trials of assistive technology, and reviews games</li><li><a href="http://includification.com">Includification</a> - a set of guidelines for the development of accessible video games, published by AbleGamers</li></ul><br />
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Accessibility Resources
<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">This 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 <em>Restricted Access</em>.</span><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - published by the World Wide Web Consortium in 1999</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - published by the World Wide Web Con</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">sortium in 2008</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">EXPLANATORY DOCS</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">GPII stuff</span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Shadi?</span></span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">U.S. Federal Accessibility Policies</span></h3><ul><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://section508.gov">Section 508 </a>- a site that centralizes the standards used to enforce Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Refresh site</span></li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Accessibility Initiatives and Resources</span></h3><ul><li> </li></ul><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Social Media Accessibility</span></h3><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Online Closed Captioning Resources</span></h3><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Video Game Accessibility </span></h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Amara—https://amara.org<br />Dreamwidth—http://www.dreamwidth.org</span><br style="line-height: 20.8px;" /><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">EasyChirp—http://www.easychirp.com<br />Fix the Web—http://www.fixtheweb.net</span><br />
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Accessibility Resources
<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">This page offers a listing of resources that may helpful to individuals attempting to learn more about digital media accessibility, implement it, or better understand some of the documents and projects referenced in the text of <em>Restricted Access</em>.</span><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Web Content Accessibility</span></h3><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">U.S. Federal Accessibility Policies</span></h3><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Accessibility Initiatives and Resources</span></h3><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Social Media Accessibility</span></h3><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Online Closed Captioning Resources</span></h3><h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Video Game Accessibility </span></h3><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Amara—https://amara.org<br />Dreamwidth—http://www.dreamwidth.org</span><br style="line-height: 20.8px;" /><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">EasyChirp—http://www.easychirp.com<br />Fix the Web—http://www.fixtheweb.net</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Amara—https://amara.org<br />Dreamwidth—http://www.dreamwidth.org</span><br style="line-height: 20.8px;" /><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">EasyChirp—http://www.easychirp.com<br />Fix the Web—http://www.fixtheweb.net</span><br />
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