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Web Accessibility Guide (formerly Accessible Design) was created as part of the final project for Jen Rohrig's Master's degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Below is the abstract from the final write-up of the project.
This Capstone project shows that current web accessibly "how to" sites are not always sufficient to explain how to create accessible web sites to the individual web designer. For example, sites are either targeted to businesses and organizations or they focus on specific elements, such as the guidelines and standards without explaining how to implement them.
The Capstone follows a design process the creation of a design document, including a competitive review, the creation of the site itself, and then a heuristic evaluation and a comparative usability study. The final two steps compared the newly created site "Accessible Design" to an already established site, WebAIM.org. The comparative study showed that "Accessible Design" was indeed easier to navigate and use, in most cases.
Download the full write-up (PDF format)
The final site is now available for anyone to use. It is my hope that the Web Accessibility Guide will aid web designers in creating accessible web sites.