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These links will be organised into some kind of logical order one day, as it stands this is a set of links I have found useful on accessibility, useability and also aspects of web design and related areas.

Accessify provides accessibility news, advice and resources, accessify.com This site also includes the Accessify Forum an accessibility related discussion group.

A List Apart providing resources for website designers and coders.   a list apart/

The AIS Toolbar useful for checking certain accessibility issues. Ais toolbar

Colour Blindness Simulator

Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education resource for web authors Accessible Web Authoring Resources

CAST

The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) (who held the disability descrimination act origional bill) closed on 28 September 2007. Its responsibility for helping secure civil rights for disabled people has transferred to the new Equality and Human Rights Commission which opened for business in 1 October 2007.

From 1 October 2010, the majority of the Equality Act 2010 will be implemented and will replace major parts of the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and The Disability Descrimination Act 2005

dive into accessibility an online book discussing accessible design and techniques.

Juicy studio, a repository of useful articles on accessible techniques and practices and some useful tools juicy studio

Macromedia Accessibility Resource Centre - downloadable accessibility validation and reporting tool for Dreamweaver macromedia accessibility.

Outlaw.com, a popular 'Disabled access to websites under UK law' guide, with news articles relating to accessibility and the law.out-law

Useit.com provides advice on accessibility and usability useit

Ensuring the HTML is logical is the W3C Markup Validation Service and the Link Checker to ensure those links still work, and in order that its all neat we can keep things Tidy

10 Tips to a Great Web Page Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design

The web standards Project providing advice and information on implementing web standards, plus an educational FAQ at web standards FAQ

Contains many tutorials on learning HTML, CSS, XML, whilst not directly related to Accessibility, there is no accessibility if websites ignore basic correct HTML and webpage design. w3 schools

The W3Cs Web Accessibility Initiative excellent resources section, with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines for WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 1.0 full checklist and the Resources sections. Then of course we've the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

Disabled Accessibility: The Pragmatic Approach

Web Accessibility in Mind Project, with articles, discussion forum and various simulations webAim

The Web Design Group eliquently demystifying aspects of the W3C recommendations and terminology, providing tutorials on accessible implementations.

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