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Principles and strategies for practitioners designing universally usable sites
The goal of universal usability is to enable the widest range of users to benefit from web services. These links contains recommendations and information resources for web developers who wish to accommodate users with slow modems, small screens, text-only, and wireless devices. It deals with content design issues such as translation to other languages, plus access for novice, low educated and low motivated users, children and elders. The website also covers design guidance for blind, deaf, cognitively impaired, and physically disabled users. Each article has practical guidelines, web site examples, links to organizations, and a bibliography.
Users with Disabilities
- Blind and low vision users
- Color vision confusion
- Cognitively disabled
- Deaf & hearing impaired
- Mobility impaired
Special User Groups
- Children
- Elderly
- Users with low education, low motivation
- Users of other languages than English
- Users from other cultures than the US
- Cross language information retrieval
Technology
- Users with slow connections
- Users with screens less than 640 x 480
- Telephone based access to the web (WAP)
- Telephone based access to the web (speech recognition)
- Textual equivalents for audio/video representations of content
Tutorial methods
- Designs to help novice web users
- Online help design, email help methods and customer service guidelines
The information is a class project for Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (Computer Science 838S) ( Spring of 2001). It is a continuation of the UUGuide project started by graduate students in the Spring 2000 class. The courses were led by Prof. Ben Shneiderman Founding Director of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab.
