Maine CITE

AARP -  Home Design
Information about designing & building home using Universal Design

Accessible Meetings
A resource page developed by Maine CITE which provides guidance for setting up accessible meetings.

Adaptive Environments - Institute for Human Centered Design
A non-profit organization founded in 1978 to address the environmental issues that confront people with disabilities and elderly people. Adaptive Environments promotes accessibility as well as universal design through education programs, technical assistance, training, consulting, publications and design advocacy. Its mission is to promote, facilitate, and advocate for international adoption of policies and designs that enable every individual, regardless of disability or age, to participate fully in all aspects of society.]

American Foundation for the Blind
Web Accessibility

Automatic Sync Technologies
Automatic Sync Technologies is a provider of automated captioning, audio synchronization, and audio/video search tools for webcasting, DVD, and broadcasting applications.  Automatic Sync Technologies provides clients with solutions for synchronized multimedia with quick turnaround and unsurpassed quality.

Captioning Key Guidelines
These guidelines, based on decades of experience by The Described and Captioned Media Program - DCMP (previously called Captioned Films and Videos Program), provide a review of captioning research, and examination of standards developed by various captioning vendors. The guidelines are also useful to media producers/distributors and others who are considering captioning their products or learning about captioning. Some background information and rationale are included for the novice.

Center for Universal Design
The Center for Universal Design is a national research, information, and technical assistance center that evaluates, develops, and promotes universal design in housing, public and commercial facilities, and related products.

The Center for an Accessible Society
A communications clearinghouse providing journalists credible information and quotable sources on national disability policy and independent living issues.

Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP)
The DCMP's mission is to promote and provide equal access to communication and learning through described and captioned educational media. The ultimate goal of the DCMP is for accessible media to be an integral tool in the teaching and learning process for all stakeholders in the educational community, including students, educators and other school personnel, parents, service providers, businesses, and agencies.

Getting Started with Practical Web Accessibility
This is an on-line primer for web designers interested in learning about accessibility.

Guild of Accessible Web Designers
The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) is a worldwide association of professional organisations, web designers and developers working together to promote the use and preservation of accessible design standards.

Indiana University: Adaptive Technology and Accessibility Centers
Universal Design and Web Accessibility Resources

jebsblog
Comments about universal and accessible web design

Joe Dolson
Accessible Web Design blog

Maine CITE Accessible Web Design
Articles, links and resources

TRACE Center
Designing More Usable Web Sites

UniversalDesign.com
Website of life long advocate for accessibility and promoter of universal design, Harold Kiewel, AIA, CSI, CCA, who has made it his mission to educate architects about the greater implications of designing spaces that are not accessible to all users.

UD in Education - Universal Design in Maine
An educational blog supporting Universal Design in Learning in Maine Schools. Blogger - Cynthia Curry.

UD Network
The Universal Design Network is the homepage of the Global Universal Design Educator’s Network and the Monthly Online News. The Network is a loose coalition of people committed to universal design education.

Universal Usability
The Universal Usability site houses an unabridged, online version of Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers, by Sarah Horton, published in 2005 by New Riders Press.

University of Chicago
Tools: Accessible and Universal Design

University of North Carolina
Making the Web Truly Accessible

Usability First
Principles of Accessible and Universal Design

Kansas State University
Kansas State University is playing an active role in the adoption-diffusion process for the Universal Design concept. The College of Human Ecology's Interior Design and Housing faculty revitalized a former household equipment laboratory to become the Universal Design Demonstration and Research Facility (UDF). Its overall goal is to better prepare students and practicing designers to become change agents who routinely create environments that are usable by everyone.

WebAIM
Universal Design and Disability Access to the Web