IT Accessibility at the University System of Maryland Overview Guidelines Guidelines for Web Accessibility Guidelines for Accessible Course Materials and Online Courses Guidelines for Captioning Materials Guidelines for Procuring Accessible Technology Guidelines for Accessible Information Resources Initiative Letter from the Chancellor Executive Summary Workgroup Resources for Developers and Content Providers IT Accessibility Resources for Developers and Content Providers Resources from around USM Institutions Accessibility Manual (University of Maryland, Baltimore) Creating Accesssible Content and Files (Salisbury University) Creating Accessible Documents (University of Maryland, Baltimore) Easy Accessibility Tips for Faculty (University of Baltimore) Improving Access: Best Practices for Developing Course Materials with an Online Component (Towson University) PDF download Instructions for PDFs (University of Maryland, Baltimore) Social Media Accessibility Best Practices (Towson University) Web Accessibility (University of Maryland, College Park) Webmaster Checklist (University of Maryland, College Park) Resources from The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview Introduction to Web Accessibility Essential Components of Web Accessibility How People with Disabilities Use the Web How to Meet WCAG 2 (Quick Reference) Resources from WebAIM (Web Accessibilty in Mind) Accessibility Evaluation Tools WebAIM's WCAG 2 Checklist Resources from the National Center on Disability and Access to Education Creating Accessible Electronic Content Identifying Web Accessibility Issues Captioning YouTube Videos Tools for PDF and Word Documents Converting Documents to PDF (WebAIM) Open Office Documents (WebAIM) Microsoft Word Documents (WebAIM) Create and verify PDF accessibility (Acrobat Pro) (Adobe) Acrobat X accessibility - Beyond the obvious (Adobeusers.com) Resources for Accessibility on Social Media Accessibility for People with Disabilities (Facebook) Web accessibility for the Twitter website application (EasyChirp) Accessible Social Media (University of Minnesota) Federal Social Media Accessibility Toolkit Hackpad) (Digital.gov) Testing Tools for Developers Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool WAVE Browser Extensions (WebAIM) Functional Accessibility Evaluator (FAE) (University of Illinois) Web Color Contract Checker (WebAIM) Web Accessibility Checker (AChecker) ChromeLens - Chrome DevTools extension to develop for the visually impaired(ChromeLens) Siteimprove Accessibility Checker - Chrome Extension (SiteImprove) aXe Browser Extensions (deque) Check the Accessibility of a PDF Document (eii.eu) The A11y Machine (github) Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List (W3C) Additional Resources Digital Accessibility Law and Regulation: Current Status and What to Do About It (Educause) Resources for Developers and Publishers (Google) Building Accessible Websites (Microsoft) Apple Accessibility (Apple)