Usability & Accessibility
Usability Voices:
Not always what the team wants to hear, but making life for users blissfully simple.
To keep things in perspective, it's also worth reading some advice for Jakob in Design Eye for the Usability Guy. A good place to start with Jakob himself is with the Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003 or his all-time list of web mistakes.
Accessibility Testing, Information and Articles:
Ensuring the web is easy to use for all users, regardless of how they access the web.
- 10 Accessibility blunders of the big players
- Disability Rights Commission
- RNIB (Web Access Centre)
Legal cases for accessibility are beginning to take shape, for example Maguire vs SOCOG (2000) and cases brought under the Disability Discimination Act (1999).
Tools:
Reports
I've reviewed usability and accessibility for a number of clients. Typically there's a lot to do:
- Accessibility - Rio Tinto (Zip file, 1.2MB - download)
- Accessibility - Coke (Word .doc, 1.65MB - new window)
- Accessibility - Mars Drinks (Word .doc, 2.54MB - new window)
- Accessibility - Virgin Mega (Word .doc, 1.49MB - new window)
Presentations
At View I presented a general overview on Accessibility and the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA):