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Web accessibility is making multimedia and web content accessible to people with disabilities. The following infographic gives a short summary (click to enlarge) Accessibility aims to address the following: Visual impairments including blindness, poor eyesight, colour blindness Motor/Mobility: difficulty or inability to use the hands, including tremors, muscle slowness, loss of fine muscle control Deafness or hearing impairments Seizures caused by visual strobe or flashing effects Designing for Accessibility The W3C (world wide web consortium) provides guidelines to help developers of web and multimedia to create accessible material.  www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#Guidelineswww.adobe.com/accessibility/ Accessibility Guidelines The following are 4 key guidelines that apply to multimedia design: 1. Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content Use the image ALT attribute Make pages that are screen reader friendly Give videos subtitles 2. Don't rely on colo...

Sound is important to multimedia and application development - however the era of sound in websites has thankfully passed (don't you just hate landing on a website to be greeted with a blast from your speakers!) Finding the right sound - and a sound that you can use commercially without infringing on copyright laws can be a challenge which is why I've put together a list of the best multimedia sound resources on the web. Here is a quick review of current online sound libraries: freesound.org Free sounds released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. Good for recorded environmental sounds. You need to have an account to download.  100,000+ sounds soundsnap.com Insane number of sound effects and music loops.  Used to be free - now it's  a pay-per-sound library.  You can still preview all sounds without logging in. This is the premier sound library on the internet (if you're willing to pay a few $$). 120,000 + sounds soundbible.com Free sound...