Below you will find links to several papers and presentations about evaluating Web sites for their accessibility for students with disabilities:
Papers:
Evaluating the Accessibility
of Web-Based Instruction for Students with Disabilities, presented
at the 1999 annual meeting of the Association
for Educational Communications and Technology. (HTML
format; PDF format)
The Impact of Visual
Information in Web-Based Instruction on Students with Disabilities,
presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the International
Visual Literacy Association. (HTML format;
PDF format)
Access Issues in
Web Page Design: Easy Steps to Improved Design, currently in press
for TechTrends
(HTML format)
Evaluating the Accessibility
of Web-Based Instruction: Lessons from the Field, presentation at the
1999 annual meeting of the Association for
Educational Communications and Technology (Graphics-based
presentation; Text-based
presentation)
Designing Web-Based
Instruction for Visually Impaired Learners: New Necessities for Faculty
Development, presentation at the 1999 annual meeting of the Association
for Educational Communications and Technology with Barbara Lockee,
co-presenter (Graphics-based
presentation; Text-based
presentation)
Access Issues from
Three Different Perspectives, presentation at the 1998 Asynchronous
Learning Networks conference with Cheryl Bullock, co-presenter (Graphics-based
presentation; Text-based
presentation)
Evaluating Access
Issues for Web-Based Instruction Faced by Students with Disabilities: Maximizing
Evaluation Utility, presentation at the 1998 annual meeting of the
American Evaluation Association (Graphics-based
presentation; Text-based presentation)
The Impact of Graphical
Information in Web-Based Instruction on Students with Disabilities,
presentation at the 1998 annual meeting of the International
Visual Literacy Association (Graphics-based
presentation; Text-based presentation)