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Making Educational Software and Web Sites Accessible
Design Guidelines Including Math and Science Solutions


Educational Issues for Students with Disabilities
Benefits of Accessible Software
Policy Issues
Disabilities, Functional Limitations and Accessibility Tips
Tools for Access: Types of Assistive Technologies
Access Issues for Selected Development Environments
Guideline 1: Images
Guideline 2: Multimedia
Guideline 3: Forms
Guideline 4: Tables
Guideline 5: Textbooks
Guideline 6: Interactivity
Guideline 7: Graphs
Guideline 8: Math
Appendices
Acknowledgements
Expanded Table of Contents
 Combined version to print
 ZIP archive to download
WGBHNational Science FoundationMitsubishi Electric America Foundation

Geoff Freed, Madeleine Rothberg and Tom Wlodkowski
The Access to PIVoT Project
January 2003
The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
WGBH Educational Foundation
125 Western Avenue
Boston, MA 02134
(617) 300-3400 voice
(617) 300-2489 TTY
access@wgbh.org
http://access.wgbh.org

To order printed copies of these guidelines, please contact Mary_Watkins@wgbh.org

Funding provided by the National Science Foundation, award number HRD-9906159, through the Program for Persons with Disabilities. Additional funding provided by Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation (MEAF), dedicated to helping young people with disabilities, through technology, to maximize their potential and fully participate in society. Principal Investigator: Geoff Freed.

The original version of this document, Making Educational Software Accessible: Design Guidelines Including Math and Science Solutions, was published in 2000 with funding from the National Science Foundation, award number HRD-9623958.

Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation.

Copyright 2003, WGBH Educational Foundation