Hugh Sasse's World Wide Web info page.

Most of my HTML work is done with an editor (Vim), but then I use that for programming anyway. Other people will want to avoid dealing with HTML directly. For them I've added this section of links to lists of authoring tools.

Google Directory's Web Authoring page.
HTML editors from Yahoo directory.
Web Authoring software from PC World.
W3C's HTML tools page no longer maintained.: See also Amaya, which is now no longer maintained.

Courses

An HTMLCourse: from Phil Adams of De Montfort University's Library.
Forms Tutorial.

Accessibility.

W3C Activity: The Web and People with Disabilities.

now redirects to WAI. Also W3C Disabilities Developments is marked out of date and points people to The Web Accessibility Initiative.

The W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

The W3C's References on Web Accessibility.

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

WEBAIM Web Accessibility In Mind.

An excellent site with books, demos, software... about accessibility.

ACM's SIGCAPH's Links to Accessibility Resources.

Dive Into Accessibility.

EASI's Web Accessibility links.

The Web Design Group's home page.

They aim to promote the design of interesting accessible pages.

Writing Accessible HTML Documents.

Universal Information Access on the WWW.

The Best Viewed With Any Browser campaign.

dyslexia.com's accessibility page.

tota11y.

An accessibility checker found on [HN:9797197].

Bobby (as in policeman) -- a tool to test accessibility of WWW pages.

This tool has improved considerably since I first visited the site. It is a very helpful service to have available.

WebXACT

Not sure how well this works, it choked on my home page.

VisCheck a colourblindess simulator

Designing for the Color Blind.

The WAVE.

Another general accessibility checker.

Designing More Usable Web Sites.

WWW Access for Blind and Visually Impaired Computer Users.

RNIB's WWW design guidelines for visually impaired users.

Multimedia Enabling Technology Group at the Open University

is researching accessible documents, and has other disability information

The GNU Accessibility Statement includes web accessibility links

At the time of writing, (June 2013) these include The ARIA Standard and the FANGS project for Firefox, which displays textually what is heard when using a screen reader to access a web page.

PDF Access and the Visually Impaired.

Various services to translate PDF files to HTML to make them accessible to any browser.

BrookesTalk

a speech based browser for blind people

IBM's Home Page Reader.

P W Webspeak

a speech based browser for blind people from Productivity Works.

The W3C's Voice Browser Activity.

NCSA WWW site.

Makers of Mosaic. This site is no longer dedidicated to Mosaic.

NCSA ftp site.
NCSA Mosaic Access Page.
How to write Blindness Friendly Programs
: Not really about Web access, but applicable to those writing browsers

HTML Style.

This was originally intended to mean good practice, rather than style sheets.

Yale Caim HTML Style manual.
A Guide to Good Practices for WWW Authors.
Top 10 Mistakes of WWW design.
The WDVL: VL-WWW: Style Page.
Proposed Standards for DMU departmental pages.
Web Interoperability Pledge.
Making Web Pages Usable by Charles Poynton.
HTML Tidy.
The CSS home page.

Browsers

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 W3C Recommendation 17 December 2002.
Browser News.
Browserwatch: A list of WWW browsers. Seems to have stopped serving browser related news (26-APR-2002).
A comprehensive list of web brwosers.
A Very comprehensive list of browsers with descriptions
A list of Linux Browsers with the most recent ones listed first.
Agora: is a WWW by Email service originally provided by w3.org. It is based on a Perl program that uses the linemode browser to obtain and format the documents.
Amaya.
Arena which now lives at yggdrasil.com.
Armadillo (formerly known as Gzilla) Seems to have gone (30-JAN-2002)
Bobcat, a cut down DOS lynx: which can be had by ftp from ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux/lynx/bobcat/.
BrookesTalk: a speech based browser for blind people
BrowseX.: A browser based on C and Tcl/Tk, with a Windows port.
Chimera.
Dillo.: An Open Source browser based on GTk+.
Elinks.: A small links-like browser, GPL'd.
Firebird (Mozilla Firebird).
GETWEB, designed as a successor to Agora by Rolf Nelson.
IBM's Home Page Reader.
Links.sourceforge.net.: A text mode browser.
Lynx -- a text based browser: See also Extremely Lynx", DosLynx, and Bobcat above.
MMM: Does not work with Objective Caml, and is no longer being developed or supported.
mMosaic.
Mnemonic (http://www.mnemonic.org/): a GPL'ed www browser for Unix. Actually the full URL is http://www.mnemonic.org//mnemonic/documentation/doc/www/index.html, but the short one seems to link to this, and is less unwieldy.
Mozilla.: The opensource browser originating from Netscape.
Mozilla Firebird.: A smaller (browser only) Mozilla).
NetMath.
Netrik.: A text mode browser in its early stages (02-OCT-2001).
Opera.: Includes a page about its accessibility, with other useful links on it. It is being ported to BeOS, MacOS, Linux, and Solaris. It is already available for Winodows
Phoenix (Mozilla Firebird).
P W Webspeak: a speech based browser for blind people from Productivity Works
Telnet: A few web browsers can be accessed by telnet. There is a list at http://www.boutell.com/faq/telnet.htm but it is probably out of date.
w3m: Another text mode browser, from Japan. It has a -dump option like Lynx. Featured in Brave GNU World Issue 16.

Robots

The Web Robots Pages.: Links to the pages within this have moved around, so I've removed them, so this is less brittle.

Tools.

txt2html.
Perl CGI module (docs): which should be used in preference to cgi-lib.pl (homepage), according to: Why not to use cgi-lib.pl. Failing that, there is this cgi-utils.pl (docs) which is for Perl4 systems.

VRML.

What is VRML?.: from UK copy of the WWW FAQ.
comp.lang.vrml FAQ.: from comp.lang.vrml newsgroup
NCSA VRML page.
List of VRML Browsers from the VRML repository.
DIVE.
Liquid Reality: a Java based browser
AC3D - 3D graphics Modeller.
Ra-vec.: Converts line drawings such as architects plans into prototype 3D models suitable for input to AC3D, etc

Wikis.

Wiki Wiki Web Faq.
The c2.com WikiWikiWeb.
A list of WikiWikiClones from c2.com.
TWiki.: There is a Support web. There is developer documentation at CodevDocumentationProject.
Tiki Project.: A Ruby Wiki, referenced from c2.com.

XML.

Cetus Links - XML page.
O'Reilly XML.com.
XML for the Absolute Beginner from Javaworld.
ZVON XML Tutorials.
Getting Started With XML.: from Infomotions. My copy of the PDF article is available, which complies with The GNU General Public License.
Rocketaware XML page.: This has many links on it.
XSD Schema Validator from gotdotnet.com.
Decisionsoft's XML Schema Validator.
Free XML Tools from www.garshol.priv.no.

Search Engines.

There is news about search engines at http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/. Many search engines are listed at http://www.beaucoup.com/, and many are reviewed at: Search Engine Showdown's Reviews. Search Engine Watch hase more information.

Maths Search page: Includes various search engines. For other mathematics related information see The Maths Archive. S. Baum has a good list of symbolic maths packages as well as other info on the same site.
Nexor Archie: Now at http://archie.emnet.co.uk/.
FTPsearch.
BSTC Free Software Catalogue.
VSL - the Virtual Software Library mirror at Imperial College.
VSL - the Virtual Software Library original site at C|NET.: These were the SHASE sites but they have undergone changes.
freecode.com.
Sourceforge.net.
download.cnet.com.
AEIWI.
Aliweb.
Alta Vista.
Bitpipe.: Searches IT reports and white papers.
CiteSeer.
: Search Engine for Scientific Papers.
Direct Hit.
Dogpile.co.uk.: A metasearch engine which searches the UK by default
dmoz the Open Directory
DuckDuckGo.
Excite.
Fast Search (www.alltheweb.com)
Gigablast.
Google, Google UK, Google's Accessible Web search.: Note facilities such as "...", +, -, site:, related:, link:, spell:, define:, stocks:, maps:, phone:, cache:, info:, filetype:, daterange:, allinurl:, inurl:, daterange:, allintitle:, intitle:, allintext:, intext:, bphonebook:, phonebook:, rphonebook:. See http://www.cyberwyre.com/data-mining-using-google/ found in http://blog.curthibbs.us/articles/2006/01/20/data-mining-using-google Also see The companion site to the book "Google Power" by Chris Sherman.
Go.
Goto.
Grub.org.: Not really a search engine, this is a crawler
Hotbot from HotWired
Inference Find.
IO.
ilor.
InfoHighway.
Infoseek is now called "Go".
Inktomi search Engine.
The Internet Sleuth.: Probably a good idea to Delay Image Loading for this
Links.
LookSmart.
Lycos home page (another search engine).
McKinley search engine.
Metacrawler search engine.
Mirago.: A UK search Engine.
NBCi.
Netscape's Net Search.
Northern Light Search.
SavvySearch.
Scirus, the science search engine.
Scrub the Web.
Search UK.: More UK search engines can be found listed at Search Engine Watch's page.
Snap is now called NBCi.
The Software Sharing Resource Library World-Wide Catalog of Software Websites
SurfWax.
Swiss Search [search.ch]: Only searches *.ch but turns up some stuff not seen elsewhere.
Switchboard -- The Internet Directory: various search engines (business, people, web...) here
WebCrawler.
Web Wombat.
WISDOM literary search.
Yahoo Search.

Last Modified 02-JUL-2015 by Hugh Sasse

Created well before then. Added to RCS on 30-OCT-2000
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