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Usability guidelines available online after all

In an earlier entry about Usability.gov’s Research based Web Design & Usability Guidelines I criticised them heavily for not providing an HTML alternative to the huge PDF file containing the guidelines. It has since been pointed out that the guidelines are in fact also available as HTML. I’d like to apologise to the authors of the site, although I would also like to suggest that they add a link to the HTML version from the PDF page. Thanks go to Adam Bramwell for alerting me to my mistake.

Posted 6th November 2003 at 2:47 am

This is Usability guidelines available online after all by Simon Willison, posted on 6th November 2003.

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  1. At least they should have applied their "Provide Alternative Formats" ( http://usability.gov/guidelines/accessibility.html #three) and "Provide Printing Options" ( http://usability.gov/guidelines/content.html#three ) guideline to themselves on the HTML versions and on the page linking to the PDF. I may be picky but it sounds like: "Do what we say, not what we do". ^__^

    P01 - 6th November 2003 13:34 - #

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