📖 Link collection on accessibility

General

Standards

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 (12 December 2024)
  • Introduction to Web Accessibility
  • Tips for Getting Started with accessibility
  • WCAG 2 at a glance
  • How to meet WCAG 2
• Harmonised European Standard, Accessibility requirements for ICT products and services (PDF)

Trainings

• (Free) online trainings on digital accessibility, curated by the Bundesfachstelle Barrierefreiheit (in German)
• Free online course for diverse and inclusive PR and outreach by Sozialheld*innen e.V. (in German) - based on their experience with building the photo database Gesellschaftsbilder (see Design).

Conferences

• Inclusive Design 24, a free 24-hour online event celebrating inclusive design and sharing knowledge and ideas.
  • You can find recordings of previous events on their Youtube channel.
• Axe-con, a virtual conference onAccelerating digital accessibility. All sessions are free, recorded, and available on demand following the conference.
  • There are also session archives of previous events on their website.

Software & Design

Design

• Notes from the human rights centred design call on Assistive Technology (text to speech devices) (February 2022)
• W3C, Designing for Web Accessibility
• UK Home Office, Designing accessible services - General guidance on how to design more accessible services in these areas: low vision, D/deaf and hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers. 
• Gesellschaftsbilder, a photo database with contemporary and cliché-free images on disability and diversity (German).

Tools

• WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools - a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities.

User testing

• List of tone indicators - when you're user testing with neurodiverse people, tone indicators can be helpful for typed feedback. 

Writing

Readability

• Leserlich.info - a website informing about communication design for people with and without visual impairment (in German).
• hurraki - Wörterbuch für Leichte Sprache - a German language dictionary for finding synonyms and explanations for complex terms.
• UK Home Office, Readability of written content
  
• UK Government Digital Service, Writing content for everyone - “Simple language doesn’t mean dumbing down – short, clear sentences are easier to understand for everyone.”

Inlclusive Language 

•  Leidmedien, Begriffe über Behinderung von A bis Z - Tips for speaking about disability without falling into clichees in German.
• UK Home Office, Inclusive language in written content

Project management

• Code repository for AutSPACEs: the Autistica/Turing citizen science platform - A good project to follow regarding how neurotypical and neurodiverse folks work and research together.

Planning Events

Virtual

• Deutscher Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband, Barrierencheck für Konferenzplattformen - Checklist for testing if your video conference is accessible.
• Allerlay Wonesky Media, Wie gestaltest du virtuelle Events barrierefrei? - a guide on how to make your virtual events accessible.

In Person

• Ramp-Up.me - planning accessible events. Gives you tips on how to make your event location more accessible, how to bring diversity into your program and how to communicate in order to reach more people (in English and German).
• Wheelmap by Sozialheld*innen - a community map for finding wheelchair accessible places with over 3 million marked places worldwide, available in 33 languages.