University of Cambridge Home Computing Service

More about accessibility: commonly encountered problems and resources to help you

November 2004

This course follows on from (and in some places duplicates) talks given in 2002 to the Web Liaison group (see http://web-support.csx.cam.ac.uk/access/ for more help).

  1. What does accessibility mean?
  2. Why do we have to be concerned with it?
  3. University Web Accessibility Policy
  4. How is accessibility measured?
  5. Evaluating your whole site: 1
  6. Evaluating your whole site: 2
  7. Achieving accessibility with pre-existing pages: blanket assessments
  8. Achieving accessibility with individual pages
  9. Pre-test objectives
  10. Testing your pages
  11. Example test 1
  12. How to try and achieve accessibility with new pages
  13. Design of pages
  14. Design of information
  15. Local Guidelines
  16. Common problems
  17. Difficult problems
  18. Future development of sites
  19. E-learning materials and accessibility
  20. JAWS screen reader
  21. Further information, tools and help