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| accessibility guide intro | legislation | standards | studies |
This part of the Accessibility guide looks at writing about accessibility problems, standards and issues. Jakob Nielsen's Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity (Indianapolis, New Riders 99) and online Alertbox newsletter are strongly recommended. He's recently drawn together many of the issues in an article on Disabled Accessibility: The Pragmatic Approach. Nielsen's Usability Engineering (New York, Academic Press 93) is somewhat more demanding but draws on extensive empirical studies in discussing principles and practice. Ben Schneiderman's Designing The User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (Reading, Addison-Wesley 98) is excellent. There's a companion site. The second edition of Yale University's masterful Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites (New Haven, Yale Uni Press 99) by Patrick Lynch & Sarah Horton is now available. It complements Nielsen and has a practical approach to the use of Cascading Style Sheets (an emerging web standard). There's an online version. Our Design guide points to other works, such as Cooper's classic About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design and Raskin's recent The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems. Other sources worthy of investigation are Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide by J Spool, T DeAngelo & others (New York, Academic Press 98), the Usable Web site and the resources on the Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) site. US disability engineering expert Jon Gunderson has explored World Wide Web Browser Access Recommendations as part of his work on MOSAIC and has a paper on World Wide Web Accessibility to People with Diabilitities: A Usability Perspective.
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