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| "The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect." -- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web |
| Accessibility With FrontPage | This White Paper offers specific design suggestions for creating accessible FrontPage-based Web sites as well as places to go for more information. |
| Accessible Web Construction | More links for accessibility design and information. |
| Accessible Web Design | Lots of links for more information in making your site accessible for all. |
| Adaptive Technology Resource Centre | Advancing technology to meet challenges faced by people with disabilities. |
| Alternative Web Browsing | From the W3C |
| AOL Settles Accessibility Suit | Read the story..from July, 2000 |
| A-Prompt | A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt) is a software tool designed to improve the usability of HTML documents by evaluating Web pages for accessibility barriers and then providing developers with a fast and easy way to make the necessary repairs. Best of all, it's free! |
| AWARE Center | AWARE stands for Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education, and our mission is to serve as a central resource for web authors for learning about web accessibility. |
| Cast eReader | One of the more affordable of the screen readers. It also reads documents. |
| Check Your Site for Accessibility! | Put your page address in and run it through this free accessibility checker on the MHRIC site. |
| Color Blind Web Page Filter | Check your page for different variations and levels of color blindness |
| Color Tester | See what text/background cominations may look like |
| Color Tester | See what they see! (Safe Colours home page: more.btexact.com/people/rigdence/colours/index.htm) |
| EASI | Equal Access To Software & Information. Students and professionals with disabilities have the same right to access information technology as anyone else. Partially funded by the National Science Foundation. |
| IT Technical Assistance and Training Center | The IT Technical Assistance and Training Center, funded by the Education Departments National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, has reorganized its Web site and added a search function that automatically returns links from its site and four others. |
| Here are some lawsuits filed because of INaccessibility | |
| Macromedia | Lots of information at the Macromedia Accessibility Center |
| MagPie | Build captioned streaming video for all players. |
| Michael G. Paciello | Michael G. Paciello explains the law, the requirements of people with disabilities and the processes of site evaluation and implementation for Web site developers and administrators. Real Player is needed for this audio Webcast. |
| NYS Technology Policy P04-002 | This is the actual policy, including compliance schedule and definitions. This replaces 99-3. |
| NYS Mandatory Technology Standard S04-001 | Accessibility of State Agency Web-Based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications |
| Section 508 Summarized | This site is an excellent summary, with examples, of what the US Federal government is requiring as far as accessibility guidelines. |
| Section 508 | Section 508 requires that Federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. |
| Technology & Persons with Disabilites Conference | From California State University. Also links to past conferences |
| Using the Web | A white paper dealing with how people with disabilities use the web. |
| Vischeck | Vischeck is a way of showing you what things look like to someone who is color blind. You can try Vischeck online- either run Vischeck on your own image files or run Vischeck on a web page. You can also download programs to let you run it on your own computer. |
| W3C | Complete guidelines and checklist for web accessibility. |
| Web Accessibility Resource Center | Lots of articles from Netmechanic |
| CSS (from 'HTML: The Complete Reference') | Great chapter from a great book. |
| CSS Article | Another article on CSS basics |
| CSS Directory | Lots of links to information about CSS |
| CSS Introduction | From Community MX |
| CSS Properties | Chart for CSS 1 and CSS 2 |
| CSS Tutorial | Excellent tutorials |
| CSS ZenGarden | Learn through example. You should be familiar with CSS before you tackle this site though. |
| Fonts: HTML and CSS | Why use CSS for fonts? |
| Full CSS Property Compatibility Chart | Fantastic resource in color and easy to read! |
| Guide to Cascading Style Sheets | Lots of information here (and in several languages!) |
| MaKo 4 | Tutorial on CSS |
| the CSS playground | Lots of sample code! Great site. |
| Validate Your CSS | Run your css file through this site to make sure it's ok! |
| Willmaster | Lots of articles on CSS, Javascript, etc. |
| Working with CSS | Excellent articles from Apple |
| Articles for Website Designers, Etc. | Lots of valuable information here! |
| Copyright on the Internet | Some copyright basics for web writers. |
| Copyright/Copyleft | Very good links and interesting information |
| Cyberspace Law Center | If it isn't here, it isn't anywhere! |
| Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998 | Everyone needs to read this as it made some very important changes. |
| Internet Law | Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia |
| Legal Information on the Web | Lots and lots of links! |
| Online Copyright Resources | More links. Well done site! |
| The Copyright Website | Copyright information for all. |
| The Eleventh Commandment | Simply said! |
| What Every Webmaster Needs to Know About Copyright Law | Excellent information and links. |
| More resources can be found in this section: Copyright Issues | |
| Extreme Tracker | Lots of stats included |
| EasyCounter | Designed to help you easily track hits on a single web page or multiple web pages. |
| The Counter | Great looking box type counter |
| StatCounter | A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. I |
| Dreamweaver Extensions | Set aside a good bit of time to browse this site. Unlock the power of Dreamweaver by adding extensions to the program. |
| Dreamweaver FAQ | DreamweaverFAQ.com offers a variety of tutorials, answers to frequently asked questions, and is dedicated to serving the Dreamweaver Community. |
| Dreamweaver Fever | If you want to stay up-to-the-minute on the latest developments in the world of Dreamweaver developers, this is the place to start! |
| Dreamweaver Support Group | Great place to go for help or just browsing (from real users of the product). |
| Dreamweaver Tech Notes | Go right to the source for help! |
| Dreamweaver Tips | Visit the MHRIC Software FAQ. Have a question? You can submit it at this site for a personalized answer from one of our application training specialists! Other software tips are here as well. |
| Color Blender | You pick one color, then a second color and you then pick a blend point and you are shown seven blends of the colors chosen. It is really a different site for picking colors! |
| Dan's Web Tips | Lots of articles for the web writer, no matter what your level! |
| Design Glossary | A reference guide and resource for design students, researchers and creative professionals wishing to check up on unfamiliar terms. |
| Fonts | A list of the fonts that come pre-installed on Mac's and PC's |
| Free Flash Buttons | Create your own Flash Button Menus here for free (not accessible!) |
| Free Programming Resources | Directory of links to free programmer resources and free webmaster resources for experienced developers and those learning |
| Free Search Engine Submission | Fast, free submission service. |
| Free Site Search Engine | This one, from Google, is the one I use on our site. |
| Free Site Search Engine | Free and Paid versions |
| Free Site Tools | Lots of freebies (some require advertising on your site) |
| FrontPage Articles | Articles mainly for FrontPage users |
| How Do They Do That? | Lots of secrets here! |
| HTML Basics | Codes, how-to's, tricks, tips, etc. |
| HTML Goodies | Tutorials, etc. |
| htmlGEAR | Add-on tools that will spice up your page |
| Interactive Color Picker | See how the color combinations look. |
| MediaBuilder | Lots & lots of freebies for websites. |
| Mycomputer.com | Lots of free resources for your web sites. |
| Net Mechanic | Really great articles on webmaster topics! You can subscribe to their newsletter. |
| NetPals | Create free mailing lists for educators |
| NYS Privacy Policy For Agency Web Sites | The Internet Security and Privacy Act (State Technology Law, Article II) requires each state agency that maintains a website to adopt and post an Internet privacy policy. |
| Pallette Man | Stuck with color combination decisions? This site will solve that for you! |
| Periwinkle Links | Links to all sorts of information. |
| QuickTime Alternative | Doesn't take over your computer like Quicktime does. You can even play QT files in Windows Media Player. |
| Tips and Techniques | Interesting articles |
| ToolZone | More free resources for your web sites. |
| Usability | The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability (Great grticles!) |
| VisiBone | Webmaster's interactive color library |
| Web Page Analyzer | This is a free online tool that will analyze a Web page and show you the file size for different components of the page and the page download time at different connection speeds and gives some recommendations about modifying the page so it will load faster. |
| Web Page Design for Designers | The title of the site says it all... |
| Web Source | Your guide to professional web site design and development |
| WebAlley | Web publishing made easy (so they say) |
| Web-Developer's Handbook | Links to EVERYTHING!!! |
| Writing Well on the Web | This article says it all. Great suggestions for we page writing which differs from writing for the printed page. |
| Free Clipart for web and print | |
| About.com | School & School Related web clip art |
| Animation Factory | Lots of animated gifs |
| ARS Image Gallery | Complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff. |
| Background Collections | Links to LOTS of sites (not updated) |
| Barry's ClipArt | A useful place to start if you are looking for something to perk up an internet or graphics project. |
| ColorPicker | Pick your colors and see immediately how they look. |
| Discovery ClipArt | Free clipart from the Discovery Channel |
| Free Art Zone | Graphics and backgrounds. Author requests link back to site. |
| Free Backgrounds | Very interesting site with lots of seamless backgrounds. |
| GifsNow | Free animated GIFs, backgrounds, bars, lines, clipart, and cartoons. |
| Free Photos | Free photos and images. Please share yours! |
| JPEG Wizard | Shrink and/or edit your jpg's. They must be already up on the web. |
| Kelly's School Clipart Links | Clipart collected and organized by a student teacher |
| Kids Domain | Lots of nice clipart here |
| Snowkitty | Wonderful graphics. Author requests link back to site. |
| Yotophoto | Yotophoto is the first and only internet search engine for finding free-to-use stock photographs and images |
(If you know of any sites that offer free web hosting, please let us know so we can add to this list!)
| 012webpages.com | Probably ad-supported |
| 50 megs.com | Ad-supported |
| BraveNet | Ad-supported |
| Doteasy | Bannerless free web hosting |
| FortuneCity | Ads on your site |
| GeoCities | Ad-supported |
| Maxipoint | Free if you order your domain name through them. |
| Tripod | Ad-supported |
| YourHomework.com | Free basic services for teachers:
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| Free Applets | Free java applets and links to more. |
| Freeware Java | Free java applets for downloading. |
| Java Sun | The home of Java |
| Jars.com | Java reviews and downloads |
| Java Shareware | Lots of downloadable applets and javabeans |
| JavaScript Source | Many scripts to cut and paste |
| JavaScript Templates and Tricks | Several templates to help non-programmers do their own JavaScripts |
| April's A1 Javascripts | Lots of JS and DHTML scripts to configure |
| Javascripts | Some unusual ones here |
| JavaScripts Galore | Lots of scripts |
| Dynamic Drive | Javascripts and dynamic HTML |
| Website Abstraction | Cut and paste scripts (java, too) |
| JavaScript Search | A search engine for javascripts |
| JavaScript 2 | Another javascript search engine. According to its front page, it searches over 8,000 javascripts from over a dozen javascript sites. |
| NetMechanic | Check your links, HTML, page load time, spelling, and more! Free and paid subscriptions. |
| LinkAlarm | LinkAlarm is an online web service that checks every link on every page of your site. Free trial. |
| Nodeworks | Now LinkHorizon™, from NODEWORKS, can protect your Website from "link rot." Free trial. |
(Not guaranteed to be copyright-safe!)
| Midi Explorer | A search engine for midi files |
| MidiWorld | A good site for Classical Music and Jazz. |
| Classical Midi Connection | Lots and lots of files |
| Sound Clips | Links to lots of sites |
| Wavs | Multimedia sound files |
| The Wav Site | Mostly sound clips from movies. |
| A1 Free Sounds | Many sound clips arranged by category |
| dmoz | Lots of links here to theme songs |
| Pat's PowerPoint Resources | Sounds, music, etc. |
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