RESOUR> [NetGold] WEB SITE DESIGN AND PROMOTION: ACCESSABILITY DISABILITY: ISSUES: Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines

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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:40:36 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetGold <NetGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [NetGold] WEB SITE DESIGN AND PROMOTION: ACCESSABILITY DISABILITY:
    ISSUES: Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines

"In partnership with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of HHS'
National Institutes of Health, HHS today issued Research-Based Web Design
& Usability Guidelines, a resource that will help government, academic,
commercial and other groups involved in the creation of Web sites make
decisions based on user research, not personal opinions"

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
<http://usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html>

Contents:

View and Print Entire Guidelines Book (128 pages, 39.2 MB)

or

View and Print Guidelines Book by Section

Introduction and Background
Guidelines by Chapter
Sources/Bibliographies
Glossary, Indices, and Appendices

Introduction and Background

Forewords (3 pages, 276 K)
Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
Introduction (2 pages, 40 K)
Background and Methodology (2 pages, 48 K)
Includes detailed Strength of Evidence scale
How to Use the Guidelines (2 pages, 44 K)
Includes important considerations for using the Guidelines
Contributors (2 pages, 40 K)

Guidelines by Chapter

Chapter 1  Design Process and Evaluation (6 pages, 880 K)
Chapter 2  Optimizing the User Experience (6 pages, 5.3 MB)
Chapter 3  Accessibility (4 pages, 856 K)
Chapter 4  Hardware and Software (3 pages, 880 K)
Chapter 5  The Homepage (5 pages, 4.7 MB)
Chapter 6  Page Layout (6 pages, 4.6 MB)
Chapter 7  Navigation (6 pages, 2.7 MB)
Chapter 8  Scrolling and Paging (3 pages, 508 K)
Chapter 9  Headings, Titles, and Labels (5 pages, 1.8 MB)
Chapter 10  Links (8 pages, 3.9 MB)
Chapter 11  Text Appearance (4 pages, 952 K)
Chapter 12  Lists (4 pages, 428 K)
Chapter 13  Screen-based Controls (Widgets) (10 pages, 2.1 MB)
Chapter 14  Graphics, Images, and Multimedia (7 pages, 972 K)
Chapter 15  Writing Web Content (5 pages, 2.4 MB)
Chapter 16  Content Organization (5 pages, 788 K)
Chapter 17  Search (4 pages, 380 K)

Sources/Bibliographies

Complete bibliography (13 pages, 144 K)

Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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