📖 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).

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.