Accessible Digital Media Guidelines

• Introduction
• Educational Issues for Student with Disabilities
• Educational Policies and Standards
• Disabilities, Functional Limitations and Accessibility Tips
• Tools for Access: Types of Assistive Technologies
• Access Issues for Selected Development Environments
• Guideline A: Images
• Guideline B: Forms
• Guideline C: Tables
• Guideline D: Digital Publications
• Guideline E: Interactivity
• Guideline F: Graphs
• Guideline G: Math
• Guideline H: Multimedia
• Guideline I: Multimedia in E-books
• Guideline J: Multimedia in DTBs
• Appendices
• Acknowledgments
• Expanded Table of Contents

Geoff Freed and Madeleine Rothberg
The Beyond the Text Project
April, 2006
The WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
© 2006 WGBH Educational Foundation

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The Beyond the Text Project was funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), U.S. Department of Education, under grant number H133G020091. However, the conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the federal government. Principal Investigator: Geoff Freed.

The original version of this document, Making Educational Software Accessible: Design Guidelines Including Math and Science Solutions, was published in 2000 with funding from the National Science Foundation, award #HRD-9623958. Version 2, Making Educational Software and Web Sites Accessible: Design Guidelines Including Math and Science Solutions, was published in 2003 with funding provided by the National Science Foundation, award #HRD-9906159, through the Program for Persons with Disabilities. Additional funding was provided by Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation (MEAF), dedicated to helping young people with disabilities, through technology, to maximize their potential and fully participate in society.