Other Accessibility Related Sites and Resources

Inclusion of links to non-governmental servers does not constitute an endorsement by the National Weather Service or the U.S. Government of any services or products. 

• NOAA/NWS Sites
  http://www.nws.noaa.gov/cio/accessibility/accessibility.htm
  Links focus on disability, accessibility, and Section 508 compliance issues. Most links are either US Federal Government Web sites addressing accessibility, or non-Governmental sites supporting the same issues. 

• National Center for Accessible Media (MAGpie)
  http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/
  Using Magpie, authors can add captions to three multimedia formats: Apple's QuickTime, the World Wide Web Consortium's Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) and Microsoft's Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI) format. Magpie can also integrate audio descriptions into SMIL presentations.

• MovCaptioner version 2.0
  http://www.synchrimedia.com
  MovCaptioner makes QuickTime movies and podcasts accessible. The tool imports captions that you type into your movie. In addition, the tool allows you to create a transcript of the movie or podcast with the click of a button.

• Center for IT Accommodation Homepage
  http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/cita/

• NOAA Central Information Resource Service Home Page
  http://www.cio.noaa.gov/itmanagement/

• Section 508 Homepage
  http://www.section508.gov/

• U.S. Department of Justice Section 508 Home Page
  http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/508/

• disAbility.gov Home Page
  http://www.disAbility.gov/CSS/Default.asp

• Web Accessibility Made Easy
  http://www.hq.nasa.gov/webmaster/accessibility/

• Access Board Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards (current status)
  http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/status.htm

• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/
  Home page of the World Wide Web Consortium's accessibility project; extensive set of links to accessibility tools and resources, including the W3C's authoring checklist (http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/ ).

• Examples from the WAI Web Content Accessibility Curriculum
  http://www.starlingweb.com/wai/wcag/oversam.html
  Examples showing how to implement image maps, scripts, frames, multimedia, and other common web design features in accessible ways

• Design/Accessibility
  http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/filters/0,9429,2133228,00.html
  A collection of developer resources from ZDNet.

• WebABLE Home Page
  http://www.webable.com/

• WebAIM Tutorial
  http://www.webaim.org/tutorials/

• Designing More Usable Web Sites
  http://trace.wisc.edu/world/web/

• About Color Blindness
  http://www.delamare.unr.edu/cb/

• Vischeck Color blindness Simulator
  http://www.vischeck.com/index.shtml

• Image J
  http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/
  Color blindness image viewer/simulator 

• HTML Help by The Web Design Group
  http://www.htmlhelp.com/

• Center for Instructional Technology Accessibility
  http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/

• Jim Thatcher Accessibility Consulting
  http://jimthatcher.com/index.htm
  Provides a good overview of the requirements of Section 508 and gives examples of how to make forms, tables, scripts and applets, and style sheets (and other examples) 508 compliant.

• Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center
  http://www.ittatc.org/508/508Info.cfm
  Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center
  Section 508 Resources site.