Resources

• WebAIM - A non-profit organization dedicated to improving accessibility to online learning materials.
• WebAIM's WCAG 2.0 Checklist - Accessibility Checklist for HTML documents
• Section 508 Checklist - Checklist for 508 web content. (Applications, Websites, Web Forms, ect...)

• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - Created by W3C in an effort to improve web accessibility. WAI develops guidelines and other technical reports for developers to increase accessibility within complex web-applications.
• Accessibility - W3C - a short introduction to Web accessibility
• Web Accessibility Perspectives: Explore the Impact and Benefits for Everyone - Overview of common disabilities that effect how user's interacts with a computer. Explains how web accessibility can benefit more then user's with a disability.

SiteImprove is a company who specializes in website governance. Salisbury University has partnered with SiteImprove as a way to govern content added to the University’s website to ensure it complies with 508 requirements and responsibilities.

SiteImprove can be accessed three ways. All three ways require an active account. (If you do not have an account, please reach out to the web office so we can create one.) The following three ways are ways to utilize SiteImprove.

1. Go directly to SiteImprove website. Signing in will allow you to view ADA information about the SU site.
2. Download the SiteImprove Chrome Extension - Allows real time checking of web pages.
3. With our latest CMS update we now include a SiteImprove tool directly inside the CMS. For information on how to use the plugin the following word document explains how to use the SiteImprove plugin with Cascade CMS.

WAVE is an Internet tool that is used identify accessibility errors on your web pages. It was developed and is distributed for free by WebAIM. The National Center on Disability and Access to Education offers a tutorial on using the tool. The tool can be accessed in two of the following ways.

1. Go directly to WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool and enter the url of the page you wish to check.
2. Down load the WAVE Chrome extension found here - WAVE Chrome Extension.

Web Accessibility Checklist

The SU web office has created the following checklist to assist in creating accessible Microsoft Word documents

The SU Helpdesk maintains a page for accessibility resources.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS.gov) Section 508 Accessibility checklists.

The National Center on Disability and Access to Education (www.ncdae.org) makes "cheatsheets" available to the public aid in the creation of accessible Microsoft Office and Adobe documents. Currently, there are cheatsheets available for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel and for Adobe's Acrobat and InDesign software products.

Go to NCDAE Cheatsheets page to download and use free of charge.