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Resources for Developing an Accessible Web Site

Guidelines and Standards

W3C - Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - In coordination with other organizations, the WAI is pursuing accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of work: technology, guidelines, tools, educati on, outreach, research & development.
     URL: http://www.w3.org/WAI/

DO-IT World Wide Web Access - Guidelines for General Page Design.
     URL: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~doit/Brochures/Technology/universal.design.html

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design: Written by Jakob Nielsen, this article outlines 10 common sense mistakes made in web design.
     URL: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

All Things Web: Accommodating Imperfection. Design issues for persons with disabilities.
     URL: http://pantos.org/atw/

Make Your Web Page Accessible: General Services Administration
     URL: http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/cita/wpa.htm

Trace Center: Designing Accessible Web Sites
     URL: http://trace.wisc.edu/world/web

Validation Tools

BOBBY v3.0 - Let Bobby, Center for Applied Special Technology program review your pages. This application will test local files or an entire website to help you make web pages accessible to those with disabilities.
     URL: http://www.cast.org/bobby/

Accessible Symbols

The National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) promotes the use of a Web Access symbol and provides model examples of accessible pages.
     URL: http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/webaccess/index.html

Campaign for a Non-Browser Specific WWW - Has information and graphics related to design elements, testing and accessible design tools.
     URL: http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/

Search Engines

Yahoo: A Search Directory that is organized by subject. Most sites in it are suggested by users and placed in categories by Yahoo staff who visit and evaluate a site and decide where the site best belongs.
     URL: http://www.yahoo.com

AltaVista: Digital Equipment Corporation developed the AltaVista search service in 1995 in its Palo Alto research labs. You can search through AltaVista's entire Web index -- aproximately 200 Gigabytes of data -- in less than a second. With the help of sophisticated software, robust Internet connections, and state-of-the-art Digital Equipment Corporation Alpha technology, your search can take less time than it takes you to find a file on your personal computer.
     URL: http://www.altavista.com

InfoSeek: Infoseek offers Internet Search Services worldwide. InfoSeek has indexed over 500,000 of the best pages on the Web.
     URL: http://www.infoseek.com

WebCrawler: One of the most popular search and directory services on the Internet, WebCrawler was the first full-text search services available on the Web, introduced in April 1994.
     URL: http://www.webcrawler.com

Excite: Excite's patented ICE search technology gives you access to more than 50 million Web pages, 140,000 pre-selected Web site listings, and thousands of Usenet postings. Excite searches the entire Web for documents containing related concepts, not just the keywords you entered.
     URL: http://www.excite.com

MonkeySweat: Monkeysweat.com: A new search engine
     URL: http://www.MonkeySweat.com

MultiCrawl: Parallel Search Engine.
     URL: http://www.multicrawl.com

Lycos: Visitors will search the largest web catalog in the world. Lycos has a newly re-launched Lycos Top 5% which was recognized by Internet World as the best web site review service in the web. Lycos ju st purchased HotBot Search Engine.
     URL: http://www.lycos.com

Ask Jeeves: A natural language search service with a massive knowledgebase of 6 million answers to the most popular questions asked online. Jeeves provides a metasearch option that delivers answers from five other search engines.
     URL: http://www.aj.com

Marketing Tools

RankThis: A free service to asist you in finding out where your Web stie actually shows up when someone types in a Keyword in relationship to your Web site.
     URL: http://www.rankthis.com

PromoteOne: A guide will teach you everything you need to know about each of the major seven search engines, and take you through the process of indexing or re-indexing your web site with each one so t hat people can find your site easily.
     URL: http://www.promoteone.com

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