On Tuesday, June 19, I presented a webinar (sponsored by Adobe) called “Making Sense of Accessibility”. I included several quotes and lots of links in this session, and I thought it might be easier if you could reference them all in one place. (I’ve also added some other links that I thought you might be interested in.)
“People with disabilities constitute the nation’s largest minority group, and the only group any of us can become a member of at any time.”
Disability Funders Network – Disability Stats and Facts
“The rule of thumb in many usability-aware organizations is that the cost-benefit ratio for usability is $1:$10-$100. Once a system is in development, correcting a problem costs 10 times as much as fixing the same problem in design. If the system has been released, it costs 100 times as much relative to fixing in design.”
“Web accessibility is not a legal issue. It’s an equal opportunity issue.”
Rakesh Babu, quoted in To The Blind, The Internet Isn’t Always So User-Friendly
“For people without disabilities, technology makes things convenient. For people with disabilities, it makes things possible.”
Judith Heumann, U.S. Department of Education’s Assistant Secretary of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (quoted in Why Web Accessibility Matters)
- “10 Excellent Tools for Testing Your Site on Mobile Devices”
- “A Positive Strategy for Expanding Market Share”, United States Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy
- “Accessibility: Are You Serving All Your Users?” by Tim Bray
- “Accessibility in Your Life” (Tilgaengelighed i dit liv) by Karen Mardahl for Ignite Denmark (See also the corresponding blog post for notes and transcripts.)
- Disability – a global picture, Table 2.2: Estimated prevalence of moderate and severe disability, by region, sex, and age, Global Burden of Disease estimates for 2004
- Disability in America Infographic
- Disability or Disabled – Which Term is Right?
- Disabled World
- Game Accessibility Special Interest Group of the International Game Developers Association
- “How to Ensure You Pay More for Web Accessibility Than You Should” by Derek Featherstone
- In The Pit (Xbox)
- iOS Accessibility
- Laws:
- “Not Just Taking Up Space: Almost-Infinite Job Possibilities at NASA”, by Deborah Kendrick.
- Sina Bahram
- Stem Stumper (iTunes and Android
- The AbleGamers Foundation (http://ablegamers.org/
- “The Cost of Accessibility” by Sean Yo
- The Curb Ramps of Kalamazoo: Discovering Our Unrecorded History
- The iPad as an Affordable Communicator: Initial Review
- The Paciello Group Blog
- The ROI of Usability (Usability Professionals Association (H/T Whitney Quesenbery)
- The ten point business case for web accessibility
- UK Net Guide, “Disability market ‘worth £80 billion’ annually”
- United Nations: Disability and Employment
- United States Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy
- WAI (World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Accessibility Initiative)
- Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (WAVE)
- WebAIM – Web Accessibility in Mind
- WGBH Access Services
In addition, search for the Twitter hashtag: #a11y (and #accessibility). And look at my Twitter favorites and my Delicious bookmarks.
(Disclaimer: I have not received anything from any company for posting these links. I used the links listed here as resources for my webinar.)