Accessibility Case Studies

Glenbow Museum

The Glenbow Museum sought to revitalize their web presence and invite the broader community to engage with the institution, without restriction.

The Kansas Information Consortium

KIC uses Macromedia Studio MX to deliver accessible, standards-compliant government services to the citizens of Kansas.

Lighthouse International

Lighthouse International saves time, manpower, and over $30,000 in training costs by creating Flash-based distance learning.

AIR Interactive

Knowbility is a non-profit organization that provides accessible design tools and training to help designers learn the ropes of accessibility. Knowbility also produces the Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR) at the SxSW Interactive Media Festival. Now in it’s fourth year, AIR showcases ways in which rich media and highly interactive web sites can be made accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. For the AIR competition, teams are matched to an artist, musician or arts organization to develop interactive, media-rich sites that are fully accessible. Completed sites are judged and awards presented during the SxSW conference.

Featured here are the award-winning developers that received the highest marks for accessibility. All have used Macromedia products (including Flash MX 2004, Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Fireworks MX 2004) to develop the winning sites.

• Team SuperGlue - People's Choice 2004 - Sara Hickman
• Go9 Media / VoxGroup - Second Place 2005 - First Night Austin
  - Third Place 2005 - Aaron Hambre Band
• Coefficient Design - First Place 2005 - John Pointer

digNubia

Using Macromedia Flash, Education Development Center and Missing Pixel created the digNubia website, an interactive, engaging, and accessible e-learning experience that invites students to explore the world of archaeology.

Sinclair Community College

Sinclair Community College used Studio MX 2004 and Macromedia ColdFusion MX 6.1 to develop web-based degrees to retrain many of Ohio’s displaced and at-risk workers.

University of Wisconsin

The University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Technical College System joined together to sponsor and host the Academic ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning) Co-Lab in Madison, Wisconsin. The Academic ADL uses Flash and Dreamweaver for creating interactive learning content captured in sharable content objects.

WGBH Boston

WGBH creates accessible web content with Macromedia Flash MX, and in the process, saves developer time and costs, increases developer productivity, and improves user experience across different platforms, regardless of connection speed.