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Good Web Design,
Usability and
Web Accessibility
Ed Garay
UIC Instructional Technology Lab
http://www.accc.uic.edu/itl
Academic Computing and Communications Center
University of Illinois at Chicago
Session Outline
Session logistics
 Panelists’ presentations

• Ed Garay, ITL
• Tom Moher, Computer Science
• Allyson Meyer, The Field Museum
• Joy Hyzny, Disability Services

Panel discussion and Q&A
ITL Conference 2002
March 18-19, 2002
Good Web design
Meet Website and audience
objectives
 Provide concise and meaningful
content
 Offer clean and intuitive design
 Provide consistent user interface
 Use effective navigation tools
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ITL Conference 2002
March 18-19, 2002
Good Web design
Design for the screen and exploit the
Web
 Create browser-independent and
platform-independent hypermedia
 Write short scannable text elements
 Use consistent color schemes and
color hyperlinks
 Ensure fast downloads (40KB/page)

ITL Conference 2002
March 18-19, 2002
Good Web design
Design easy-to-maintain hypermedia
 Consider providing a site map
 Provide a text-only version
 Provide alternate formats
 Design for an 800x600 SVGA screen
 Include ALT tags on all your images
 Use background with good contrast
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ITL Conference 2002
March 18-19, 2002
Examples of good Web design
www.amazon.com
 UIC: MHPE Online
 http://www.hillmancurtis.com

http://www.adobe.com
 http://www.macromedia.com
 The Discovery Channel
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ITL Conference 2002
March 18-19, 2002
Examples of good Web design
http://www.sony.com
 Lynda Weinman’s Website
 Jacob Nielsen’s Website

http://www.exploratorium.edu
 http://www.w3.org
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ITL Conference 2002
March 18-19, 2002
Web accessibility
Making Web pages accessible is not
hard — try it, and make a habit of it
 New software and system versions
are more compliant and make the
job easier: Blackboard, Macromedia,
Adobe
 Provide alternate formats as often as
necessary
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ITL Conference 2002
March 18-19, 2002
Web accessibility

Consider using SMIL to provide
multiple concurrent format
experiences
• Narrated PowerPoint presentations
• Audio and text transcript description of
animation, imagery or video content
• Closed caption via RealText
• Narrated hypermedia
ITL Conference 2002
March 18-19, 2002
Related links

ITL Web Design Seminar
www.accc.uci.edu/seminars/webdesign

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
www.w3.org/WAI
Bobby – www.cast.org/bobby
 Illinois Web Accessibility Standards

www100.state.il.us/tech/technology/accessibility

Macromedia Accessibility
www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility
ITL Conference 2002
March 18-19, 2002
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