Universal Usability Resources

Web Sites, Articles, and Tutorials

• Accessibility at Microsoft
• Accessibility Resource Center, Adobe
• Accessibility Resources, Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS), Association for Computing Machinery
• Apple Accessibility
• General Concepts, Universal Design Principles and Guidelines, Trace Research and Development Center, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Human Ability and Accessibility Center, IBM
• Interface Design Guidelines for Users of All Ages, Agelight
• Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design, Shawn Lawton Henry
• Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Research-Directed Website Design, Part 1 and Research-Directed Website Design, Part 2, Sarah Horton, Peachpit.com
• Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS), Springer
• Universal Design Principles, Center for Universal Design, College of Design, North Carolina State University
• UniversalUsability.org, Keith Instone (in particular, What is universal usability?)
• Universal Usability at UXmatters, Whitney Quesenbery
• Universal Usability (PDF), Ben Shneiderman, Communications of the ACM
• Universal Usability, SAP Design Guild
• Universal Usability in Practice: Principles and strategies for practitioners designing universally usable sites, University of Maryland
• Usability News, Software Usability Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Wichita State University
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Web Design References, University of Minnesota Duluth
• WebAIM: Web Accessibility in Mind, Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University

Organizations and Conferences

• International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)
• Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS), Association for Computing Machinery
• Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI), Association for Computing Machinery
• Technology and Persons with Disabilities Annual Conference (CSUN), Center on Disabilities, California State University, Northridge
• Usability Professionals’ Association
• User Interfaces for All (UI4ALL), ERCIM, The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics

Researchers and Practitioners

• Vicki Hanson, IBM
• Simon Harper, University of Manchester (UK)
• Sarah Horton, Dartmouth College
• Jonathan Lazar, Towson University
• Alan Newell, University of Dundee
• Whitney Quesenbery, Whitney Interactive Design
• Andrew Sears, UMBC
• Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
• Gregg C. Vanderheiden , University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Cynthia Waddell, International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI)