Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

3 results found tagged web design guidelines.

Research-Derived Web Design Guidelines for Older People

Sri Kurniawan, Panayiotis Zaphiris (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

This paper develops and validates a set of research-derived, ageing-centred web design guidelines through a rigorous multi-stage process. The authors began with an extensive literature review of HCI and ageing research, producing an initial set of 52…
Web Accessibility for Older Adults: Effects of Line Spacing and Text Justification on Reading Web Pages

Helen Petrie, Sorachai Kamollimsakul, Christopher Power (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

This poster paper empirically tests two common web accessibility recommendations for older adults: increased line spacing and left-only text justification. The authors note that at least 10 sets of guidelines for making websites accessible to older p…
Cross-Cultural Web Design Guidelines

Rukshan Alexander, David Murray, Nik Thompson (2017) — Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

This paper develops evidence-based cross-cultural web design guidelines that go beyond simple language translation to address culturally specific design preferences in layout, navigation, links, multimedia, visual representation, colour, and text. Th…