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View Resource EBONI: Electronic Textbook Design Guidelines

A project of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), EBONI's Electronic Textbook Design Guidelines is a list of baseline standards for the design of hypertext books. Created by Ruth Wilson and Monica Landoni of the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Strathclyde, UK, the guidelines were established to encourage the use of styles and techniques that have been...

http://ebooks.cis.strath.ac.uk/eboni/guidelines/
View Resource Usability.gov

This resource is designed to help those who create and maintain Websites ensure that those sites are usable and stable. The site was put together by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), originally for use by NCI staff, but the Institute decided to make the site publicly accessible since many principles of good design and usability are generally applicable to most Websites. The resources here span...

https://www.usability.gov/
View Resource Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: W3C Recommendation 5 May 1999

On May 5, 1999 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) revised and released its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. Previously released as a working draft (see the February 6, 1998 Scout Report), the guidelines, which are available in numerous formats, explain how to make Web content more accessible specifically to people with disabilities and more generally to all users....

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/