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Accessibility References
W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.
Accessibility software and services
Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines.
HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited demo is available.
Lynx, a free text-only web browser.
Irish Resource Sites
http://www.nda.ie/, The National Disability Authority. There are numerous links here to Irish sites of interest.
http://www.ahead.ie/, The Association for Higher Education Access and Disability.