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Studies
This page 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.
Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide by J Spool, T DeAngelo
& others (New York, Academic Press 98) and Web Accessibility for
People With Disabilities (Lawrence, CMP 00) by Michael
Paciello are recommended.
Other sources worthy of investigation
are 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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