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
• Social Security and Disability Resource Center. The Social Security and Disability Resource Center website (SSDRC.com) provides a detailed overview of how the federal disability system works (social security disability and SSI) and also provides answers to many questions that applicants typically have, but often have trouble finding answers to. The site is based on the author's personal experience as a former disability-medicaid caseworker, and also as a former disability examiner for the social security administration.
• Deaf Linx provides a great deal of information about ASL, hearing ads, and other issues relating to hearing impairments.
• An online deaf web directory