Universal Design
Principles of Universal Design
This is the Center for Universal Design at North Carolina
State University. The authors, a working group of architects,
product designers, engineers and environmental design researchers,
collaborated to establish the following Principles of Universal
Design to guide a wide range of design disciplines including
environments, products, and communications.This page gives an
overview and explanation of the seven principles of universal design.
Images of Universal Design
This site includes five examples of the 38 projects selected as
winners of the first Search for Excellence in Universal Design
contest supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the
National Building Museum. These examples show how the seven
principles of universal design can be applied to many disciplines,
from architecture to industrial design to interior design.
Webmonkey’s Designing for Different Resolutions
This article illustrates how different screen resolutions affects
the display of your web pages.
Watchfire WebXACT web page test
WebXACT is a free online service that lets you test single pages of
web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.
Markup Validation Service
This is the W3C Markup Validation Service, a free service that
checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance
to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
Introduction to Web Accessibility
From the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative,
this page briefly introduces Web accessibility and links to
additional resources.