- STC Usability SIG Topics in Usability: Accessibility
- STC Usability SIG articles on "Accessibility, Ergonomics, and Special Audiences" at http://www.stcsig.org/usability/topics/
- Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability Bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen, principal, Nielsen Norman Group
- Futures Laboratory The Argonne Futures Lab performs basic and applied research in advanced communications, collaboration, and visualization technologies (for example, teleimmersion) to enable the development of wide-area collaborative computational science. Their focus is on the development and evaluation of high-end technologies and systems that extend and complement commercially available tools and resources.
- Glossary of terms provided by Usability by Design [UK]
- HCI Bibliography: Human-Computer Interaction Resources
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Bibliography: HCI Webliography Links: Accessibility Resources
- Help Adobe design products to fit your needs. If you’d like to see them improve, you can sign up to participate in a usability test! More information and the sign-up form is at Adobe product usability research
- Human Factors International A Bit of History—How the Problem of Accessibility Arose
- Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces [Austria]
- Online FAA Human Factors Training Anyone may go through the training. Only FAA employees get to take the final exam for a certificate of completion.
- Scientific Workspaces of the Future (SWOF) (.pdf) 2003 status report. This is a grid-based visualization and collaboration services being developed by the Mathematics and Computer Science Division (MCS) at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).
- Topics in Usability: Web usability and design guidelines for working with older adults, children, and babies
- This is Broken is a forum where consumers can air their gripes about everything from hidden hotel costs to baffling error messages to bad road signs. The site hopes to make businesses and other organizations more aware of their customers when they design products or provide services.
- TRACE Center at the University of Wisconsin. The Trace Research & Development Center is a part of the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Trace Center is currently working on ways to make standard information technologies and telecommunications systems more accessible and usable by people with disabilities.
- Universal Design / Disability Access Program is a program at the Trace Research & Development Center that is part of the National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Alliance is involved in the development of supercomputing systems and applications (including future Internet applications) and it is Trace’s role to help ensure that they are built in a manner that makes them more accessible for people with disabilities.
- Universal Usability Guide by Susan Horten
- Usability.gov
- Accessibility Resources (.pdf)
- Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines provided by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the U.S. General Services Administration.
- Usable Web list of usability resources
- Web site usability for seniors: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020428.html
- World Wide Web Usability International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) (1997) 47(1) 1-222 [United Kingdom]
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