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Resources, Validators and Testers

Web Accessibility Subcommittee (WAS)
- Main WAS Resource Page
- HTML Resources
- CSS Resources
- General Usability Resources

Lynx Viewer - This service allows web authors to see what their pages will look like (sort of) when viewed with Lynx, a text-mode web browser.

CSS Validator - W3C CSS Validation Service.

MarkUp Validation Service - A free service that checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.

Kansas Resources

Web Accessibility Subcommittee (WAS)
- Go to the WAS Homepage

Information Technology Advisory Board (ITAB)
- Go to the ITAB Homepage

Information Technology Executive Council (ITEC)
- Go to the ITEC Homepage

Web At Large

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Go to the W3C Homepage

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- Go to the WAI Homepage

Web developers may satisfy this item. These guidelines represent accessibility features that offer the broadest level of accessibility to web pages.

Priority 3 Item 1
Identify the primary natural language of a document.

Priority 3 Item 2
Provide keyboard shortcuts to important links (including those in client-side image maps), form controls, and groups of form controls.

Priority 3 Item 3
Until user agents (including assistive technologies) render adjacent links distinctly, include non-link, printable characters (surrounded by spaces) between adjacent links.

Priority 3 Item 4
Provide information so that users may receive documents according to their preferences (e.g., language, content type, etc.)

Priority 3 Item 5
Provide a group of navigation links to highlight and give access to the navigation mechanism.

Priority 3 Item 6
If search functions are provided, enable different types of searches for different skill levels and preferences.

Priority 3 Item 7
Place distinguishing information at the beginning of headings, paragraphs, lists, etc.

Priority 3 Item 8
Provide information about document collections (i.e., documents comprising multiple pages.).

Priority 3 Item 9
If ASCII art cannot be avoided, provide a means to skip over multi-line ASCII art.

Priority 3 Item 10
Provide terse substitutes for header labels with the abbr attribute on th. These will be particularly useful for future speaking technologies that can read row and column labels for each cell. Abbreviations cut down on repetition and reading time.

Priority 3 Item 11
Supplement text with graphic or auditory presentations where they will facilitate comprehension of the page.