Web Overhauls: Tune-up your Web site

E-mail: WebOverhauls@gmail.com
Web: www.WebOverhauls.com

Web Overhauls is a Web development and hosting company, with expertise in Web accessibility, standards, and usability. The president, Dennis Lembree, is the author of the podcast and blog on Web accessibility, Web Axe (http://webaxe.blogspot.com).  Web Overhauls also developed Accessible Twitter (www.AccessibleTwitter.com).

Criterion: Section 508 Solutions
512 Prairie Place, Suite 100Johnston, IA  50131
Toll Free: 888.508.3973
Voice: 515.278.0694
E-mail: info@criterion508.com
Web: www.criterion508.com

Founded in 2001, Criterion 508 Solutions, Inc., provides federal agencies and vendors with comprehensive Section 508 compliance solutions.  Criterion offers technical and business expertise for the design, implementation, documentation, and management of Section 508 accessibility requirements, while creating IT career opportunities for people with disabilities.

Dive into Accessibility: 30 days to a more accessible website

Web: www.diveintoaccessibility.org Download the complete Dive into Accessibility guidebook in HTML or PDF format.

Mark Pilgrim created an electronic accessibility book, titled Dive Into Accessibility: 30 days to a more Accessible Web site.  Pilgrim presents character sketches of five people who have a combination of physical, mental, and cognitive disabilities, which make it difficult for them to use the Internet.  The book presents 25 tips to help make Web sites more accessible and gives examples of how these tips benefit persons with various disabilities.

Section 508: The Road to Accessibility
IT Accessibility and Workforce Division
Office of Governmentwide Policy
U.S. General Services Administration
1800 F Street, NW
Room 1234
Washington, D.C.  20405
Voice: 202.208.7420
Fax: 202.501.6269
E-mail: section.508@gsa.gov
Web: www.section508.gov

Section 508: The Road to Accessibility is the governmental Web site for Section 508, an amendment of the Rehabilitation Act, which requires federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to persons with disabilities.

Vischeck

E-mail: info@vischeck.com
Web: www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL

Vischeck is a Web-based application that demonstrates how a Web site would appear to someone who is color-blind.  Another application on the Vischeck Web site is Daltonize, which corrects images for color-blind viewers.  Vischeck is based on SCIELAB, from the Wandell Lab at Stanford University.

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
MIT/CSAIL, Building 32-G530
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA  02139
Voice: 617.253.2613
Web: www.w3.org/WAI/

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) presents guidelines, widely regarded as the international standard for Web accessibility, as well as support materials to aid the understanding and implementation of Web accessibility.

WebAIM: Web Accessibility in Mind
Center for Persons with Disabilities
Utah State University
6800 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT  84322-6800
Voice: 435.797.7024
TTY: 435.797.1981
Fax: 435.797.3944
Web: www.webaim.org

Founded in 1999, WebAIM is a nonprofit organization within the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University, which provides comprehensive Web accessibility solutions.  WebAIM’s mission is to expand the use of the Web for people with disabilities by providing education, training, and organizational leadership strategies that empower organizations to make their content accessible to people with disabilities.