The pages in the web accessibility section discuss how to make websites accessible to as many people as possible, including users with disablities. The web usability sections have links to information on how to avoid causing difficulties for users and how to make websites easier for everyone to use.
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Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) |
News, about, participation, and resources |
How people with disabilities use the web, quick tips, FAQ, guidelines, checklists, techniques, and more |
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Accessify.com |
Web accessibility resources and tools |
The latest accessibility news, links, articles, tutorials, reviews, acessibility tools, and a forum |
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NetMechanic Accessibility Resource Center |
Links to articles about making web pages accessible |
Article categories: Section 508 policy, articles on Section 508, accessibility tools, calendar of accessibility events, accessibility dictionary |
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Building Accessible Websites |
An online book in HTML about why and how to create websites that are accessible to disabled people |
Why bother, how disabled people use computers, the importance of valid structured HTML, navigation, forms and interaction, and more |
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Dive Into Accessibility |
An online book in HTML (also downloadable as HTML or PDF) about why and how to make a website more accessible |
Tips by disability, design principle, web browser, publishing tool, and more |
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Accessible Information Solutions - Web Accessibility Toolbar |
"The Web Accessibility Toolbar has been developed to aid manual examination of web pages for a variety of aspects of accessibility." |
A downloadable toolbar with functions that "identify components of a web page, facilitate the use of 3rd party online applications, simulate user experiences, [and] provide links to references and additional resources." |
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Why Search Engine Marketing Has A Passion for Web Site Usability |
An article explaining why user-centred web designers "...lie awake at night worrying about putting form fields in the proper order and placing links or call to action buttons in places where they'll help someone with a task." |
"Practicing SEM [search engine marketing] without addressing usability issues is like buying ad space during the Super Bowl and then turning the lights off. It's hard to do business when your customers can't find what you're selling." |
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Usability News |
Articles published in the latest free online newsletter and in previous issues |
"The SURL team [publisher of this newsletter] specializes in software/website user interface design research, human-computer interaction research, and usability testing and research." |
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User Interface Engineering: Articles |
Articles and free newsletter about usability research |
Usability testing, user and task analysis, design strategies, user behaviour, and more |
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Design and Evaluation with the Old and Young |
Working with older adults and working with children |
Creating senior-friendly sites, usability for senior citizens, making sites more accessible for children, what children want |
