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)

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.

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)

Writing

Readability

• 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

User testing

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

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 is.

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