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Web Accessibility: Resources

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Tools

SiteImprove is an automated web accessibility testing tool maintained by Purdue Marketing & Communications and ITAP. The tool scans your website for web accessibility errors, misspellings and broken links. It also offers suggestions on how to make your website more searchable.

The College of Science and its department websites are currently in SiteImprove. To get access to the tool, please contact Purdue Marketing and Communications.

Learning about web accessibility

Websites

About accessibility:

Other University Guidelines:

More about accessibility:

Blog posts:

Books:

  • Don’t Make Me Think, by Steve Krug (2014, 3rd edition)
  • 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, by Susan M. Weinschenk, Ph.D. (2011)
  • Accessibility for Everyone, by Laura Kalbag (2017)

 

Topic: Text

Articles

 

Topic: Controls

Articles

Resources

 

Topic: Color

Articles:

Tools:

 

Topic: Images

Articles:

 

Topic: Documents

Microsoft Word:

Microsoft PowerPoint:

Adobe PDF:

Paid PDF Remediation Tools:

 

Topic: Videos

Purdue resources:

Articles:

 

Other resources

 

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