|  | Links to Accessibility |
Resources, guidelines and standards for improving accessibilty to real and virtual services and collections. | |
| | AbilityNet | | A charity providing independent advice and information on all aspects making ICT accessible for people with a disability or limiting condition. |
| Betsie | | The filter program used by the BBC to create an automatic text-only version of its website. |
| Digital Media Access Group | | A consultancy and research group at the University of Dundee offering consultancy in accessible and usable design of digital media. |
| Disability Rights Commission | | An independent body established by Act of Parliament to stop discrimination and promote equality of opportunity for disabled people. |
| E-access bulletin | | A monthly e-mail newsletter on information technology issues for people with visual impairment and blindness.
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| Gateway | | Supports library staff to improve access to reading and information services by visually impaired people. |
| RADAR | | A national network of disability organisations and disabled people. Represents members' opinions and concerns to policy-makers and legislators in Westminster and Whitehall, and runs campaigns to promote equality for all disabled people. |
| RNIB campaign for good web design | | The campaign urges all companies to take the necessary steps to improve the design of their online services, and for web designers to take responsibility to ensure everyone, regardless of ability or disability, can read their designs. |
| RNIB Web Access Centre | | A source of information for web designers, developers, content authors and website managers, containing advice on how to plan, build and test accessible websites. |
| See it Right | | RNIB-sponsored mark awarded for websites assessed and judged to have achieved a reasonable standard of accessibility. Such sites can display the See it Right Accessible Website logo. |
| TechDis | | Aims to enhance provision for disabled students and staff in higher, further and specialist education and adult and community learning, through the use of technology. |
| Vischeck | | A simulator which enables web designers check their work for color blind visibility. |
| WAVE | | An online tool for evaluating the accessibility of web pages.
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| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) | | An activity of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which develops strategies, guidelines and resources to help make the web accessible to people with disabilities. |
| WebXACT | | A free online service that lets users test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues. |
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