ICT and Government Services: Resources

Accessible ICT Overview

National Council on Disability, Design for Inclusion: Creating a New Marketplace, 2004, at http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/2004/online_newmarketplace.htm
National Council on Disability, Over the Horizon: Potential Impact of Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Technology on Disability Policy and Practice, 2006, http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/2006/emerging_trends.htm
National Task Force on Technology and Disability, Within our Reach: Findings and Recommendations of the National Task Force on Technology and Disability, 2004 at http://www.ntftd.org/report.htm
Waddell, Cynthia D. United Nations Expert Panel Presentation: Critical Issues from a Disability Perspective: Accessibility, Third Session of the Ad Hoc Committee to Develop a Comprehensive and Integral Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/panelcwaddell.htm
Waddell, Cynthia D. The Growing Digital Divide in Access for People with Disabilities: Overcoming Barriers to Participation; commissioned in 1999 by The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Commerce for the first national conference on the digital economy at http://www.icdri.org/CynthiaW/the_digital_divide.htm

United States- Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 29 U.S. C. §749(d) at http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/guide/act.htm

Canada- (Web Only) Common Look and Feel Standards for the Internet at http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/clf2-nsi2/index-eng.asp
Ireland- National Disability IT Accessibility Guidelines at http://accessit.nda.ie/it-accessibility-guidelines
United States -Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards, 36 CFR Part 1194 at http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/standards.htm
United States- National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standards (NIMAS) at http://nimas.cast.org/index.html
Global Mapping of Standards/Guidelines- JTC1 Special Working Group on Accessibility website at http://www.jtc1access.org

DAISY Consortium- DAISY/National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Specification for Digital Talking Book at http://www.daisy.org/z3986/ and http://www.daisy.org/about_us/default.asp
International Telecommunications Union- Total Conversation services with video, voice and text telephony at www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com16/accessibility/conversation.html

Canada- Accessible Procurement Toolkit, Industry Canada at http://www.apt.gc.ca/dListProdsE.asp?ld-1
United States- Buy Accessible Wizard (Section 508) at http://www.buyaccessible.gov/
United States- Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs), Information Technology Industry Council, www.access-star.org/ITI-VPAT-v1.2.html
eInclusion@EU Learning Examples: Accessible Procurement Toolkits Denmark, Canada and USA: Description and Synopsis, at http://www.einclusion-eu.org/ShowAnalysisReport.asp?IDFocusAnalysis1=17 ; a project website supporting Information Society policy-making in Europe by strengthening eInclusion and eAccessibility across Europe.

Burgstahler, Sheryl. Equal Access: Universal Design of Computer Labs DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology) University of Washington, Seattle at http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Technology/comp.access.html
Waddell, Cynthia D. Accessible Electronic and Information Technology: Legal Obligations of Higher Education and Section 508, Published 2007 in ATHEN E-Journal (Access Technologists Higher Education Network) at http://athenpro.org/node/54

European Union- WAB Cluster and Unified Web Evaluation Guidelines- http://www.wabcluster.org
United States- National Council for Disability, When the Americans with Disabilities Act Goes Online: When the Americans with Disabilities Act Goes Online: Application of the ADA to the Internet and the Worldwide Web, 2003, at http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/2003/adainternet.htm
Thatcher, Jim and Cynthia D. Waddell et al, Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance (Apress 2006)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative at http://www.w3.org/WAI

Asia and the Pacific- Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2002 Biwako Millennium Framework for Action Towards an Inclusive, Barrier-Free and Rights-Based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific, at http://www.worldenable.net/bangkok2003/biwako1.htm
European Commission-Information Society Thematic Portal for Inclusion at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/soccul/eincl/index_en.htm
Disaster Preparedness- Report of the International Conference on Tsunami Preparedness of Persons with Disabilities in Thailand, 2007 at www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/prompt/ws070112.html
Phuket Declaration on Tsunami Preparedness for Persons with Disabilities, 2007 at www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/prompt/ws070112_2.html