For a museum-related web accessibility website, see access.museophile.net. A free online web accessibility service is available to museums, based on the Betsie tool. An accessible version of the "index.museum" list of museums registered under the ".museum" domain is also available.

There is a new ISO standard emerging from ISO JTC1 SC 36 that helps match users to resources so that when resources are not 'universally accessible' they may still be useful for a particular person. The details are available in a number of places but perhaps start with Dublin Core Accessibility Working Group. The new approach is known as the Access For All approach and depends on technology that does matching and sometimes finds substitutes or supplements where there is inaccessible content or inaccessible components.

Need hands-on training in how to make your web content accessible? Then come to Austin, Texas May 11-12 for Access U, the only training conference solely focused on accessibility and web standards. Sessions include: Does Accessibility Matter? JavaScript & Accessibility Macromedia Flash Effective Writing for the Web Accessibility in the K-12 Classroom And More! Class Schedule for May 11 Class Schedule for May 12

Target is being sued by the National Federation for the Blind for an inaccessible website. This is a very important case and I predict that Target will have to make their site accessible!

Read more at
Taking Aim at Target as well as the court case at
NFB v Target

I wanted to share a recent article I wrote on practical accessibility testing.

I've added the links from our presentation to a news story here: http://conference.archimuse.com/node/29 Please add feedback / ideas to this thread or feel free to edit the story itself. There was quite a conversation going on regarding this topic at the Birds of a Feather. Shall we keep it going here? Just thought I'd add an extra link- here's a copy of the paper that we based some of our list of quick usability heuristics upon: http://www.rit.edu/~easi/itd/itdv09n2/thompson.htm