The Physically Challenged Irish and American Youth Team is committed to increasing opportunities for disabled children. To that end, we have designed our web site to conform to the "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" as promulgated by the World Wide Web Consortium.

We encourage web designers and their clients to educate themselves on how to avoid creating needless barriers to full access to the web. We also encourage web surfers with various disabilities to take advantage of options they have to help them gain full access to the power of the World Wide Web.

Web Accessibility Links:

• "Introduction to Web Accessibility", a concise look at the problem of web inaccessibility, and how to address it.
• "Web Accessibility Initiative", home page for the World Wide Web Consortium's accessibility project.
• "Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", useful to web designers for a quick overview of how to make their pages fully accessible.
• "Products and Tools", a very useful page with many links to accessibility tools such as validators (for web designers), a colorblindness simulator, and various assistive technologies such as screen readers for users with visual impairments.
• "HiSoftware.Com Online Content Accessibility and Quality Tester", a page for testing the accessibility of a web page.
• "An Equal-Opportunity Web For Workers With Handicaps", a New York Times article on how disabled workers are making use of the web to enhance their career opportunities. (Note: registration required.)