LibGuides: Disability Tools and Research Guide: From the Web: Resources and Accessibility Tools

4 Ways to Design a Disability-Friendly Future

This video is a TED Talk given by Megan Hussey about how to design a disability-friendly future. It has subtitles in a variety of languages a nning time of 9:04.

Disability Studies Resources from the Web

Library of Congress: Disability Studies Resources
Results from searching for disability studies using the Library of Congress catalog.
National Center on Disability and Journalism
According to the website, "Resources on this site include:

Disability style guide with suggestions on appropriate language and short descriptions of disability-related terms
Tip sheets with best practices on interviewing people with disabilities and brief guides to specific disability topics
Disability library with news stories about people with disabilities.
Disability resources, including disability-related organizations, experts, advocates and people with disabilities who are willing sources for journalists."
Society for Disability Studies
According to their website, "The Society for Disability Studies (SDS) is a scholarly organization dedicated to promoting disability studies. More than forty years of rich history has enabled the organization to cultivate a multinational membership base with expertise ranging from advocacy, activism, and scholarly perspectives on disability from a variety of disciplines."
Ted Talks on Disability
A playlist of Ted Talks given about issues surrounding disability.

Accessibility Tools for the Web

ARC Toolkit
A completely free chrome extension that allows you to scan a website page on-demand and get a comprehensive list of WCAG failures, including in-line remediation tips
BARD: Braille and Audio Reading Download
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled Downloadable Books and Magazines
NV Access
NVDA (Non Visual Desktop Access) is a free screen reader for use with computers running on Windows. He invited James, who had recently completed his IT degree, to develop the software with him.
Voice Over for Macs.
A link that demonstrates how to use the voice over tool for Mac computers.
WAVE: A Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
According to their website, "WAVE® is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content."
Web Accessible Virtual Electronic Scratch pad.
This application, released under GNU GPL v3, is intended to help anyone create well-formed MathML quickly using keyboard and mouse inputs.