IT Accessibility Best Practices

The IT Best Practices are designed to provide support to developers, purchasing agents and administrators in improving the accessibility of the IT resources they develop, manage or help in purchasing. The best practices are designed to support the requirements of the following accessibility guidelines and standards to make information technology resources and services accessible and usable by people with disabilities:

• American with Disability Act
• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act
• Section 508 Information Technology Accessibility Standards
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0

Basic Principles of Best Practices

• Benefits to people with disabilities
• Benefits to everybody
• Benefits to web developers
• Support for automated testing