Web Site Standards for Usability and Design

[Nina Mchale]

UX has had its own day-long track at Computers in Libraries and Internet
Librarian for the past coupla years; might be worth checking out the
presentation archives for quick tips, case studies, and practical examples.
Amanda Etches-Johnson's 5-step UX process as presented last October at IL
was excellent.

Nina

Nina McHale

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Michael Schofield <mschofield at nova.edu>wrote:

> Hi Carolyn,
>
> There are the stock usability.gov standards, plus a lot of work done by
> Jakob Nielsen (http://www.useit.com) as well as the W3C Web Accessibility
> Initiative (http://www.w3.org/WAI). For HTML5 standards and debunking some
> element myths, I use http://html5doctor.com/ instead of the hard-to-read
> W3C
> HTML5 spec. There are also good code validators out there. You may want to
> familiarize yourself with ARIA Roles, which are useful for allowing screen
> readers to make sense of your website. Here's the doc
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles).
>
> I'm not sure what you follow or are familiar with, so here are some recent
> random resources:
>
> I just read the book "User Experience (UX) Design for Libraries" which,
> published this year, is relatively up to date. It's a good jumping-off
> point
> for a library redesign project. It's a quick read and it focuses on
> responsive design. Here's the GoodReads Link
> (
> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14905971-user-experience-ux-design-for-l
> ibraries).
>
> IMHO, for your library website to live without major subsequent redesigns
> for a couple years, your team should really focus on making it
> future-friendly and responsive - unless you have another strategy for
> serving-up optimized content to multiple devices (maybe you have an app or
> a
> separate mobile site, I don't know).
>
> Andrew Careaga last week posted a future-friendly Friday Five inspired by a
> presentation by Dave Olsen (his site, Mobile in Higher
> Ed--www.dmolsen.com--is full of resources) that I think is useful:
>
> 1. The future-friendly manifesto (http://futurefriend.ly) -> a new[ish],
> important design philosophy in the web community.
> 2. Future-Ready Content
> (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/future-ready-content)
> 3. Mobile web best practices (http://mobilewebbestpractices.com)
> 4. Mobilekarma.com (http://www.mobilekarma.com/)
> 5. Go Mobile at Texas A&M: their mobile strategy, WITH A LOT OF RESOURCES
> (http://gomobile.tamu.edu/)
>
> Matthew Riedsma posted his ALA Annual presentation on Responsive Web Design
> for Libraries here (http://matthew.reidsrow.com/articles/23) and he lists
> 18
> additional resources.
>
> Sorry for the scattered email O_o. Feel free to get in touch with me for,
> well, anything.
>
> Michael Schofield | mschofield at nova.edu
> Front-End Librarian at NSU
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Web Site Standards for Usability and Design
>
> As we move toward a web site redesign project, I'm looking to the community
> for advice on the most current web site standards, specifically those for
> public libraries. Do you have a favorite publication or web resource that
> you've recently used?
>
> I respect the information outlined at http://www.usability.gov/ and the
> related publication found there called "The Research-Based Web Design &
> Usability Guidelines, Enlarged/Expanded Edition", but it was issued by the
> U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services in August 2006 and it seems to me
> there could be something more recent.
>
> Looking forward to hearing what others are using!
>
> Carolyn Blatchley
> Training Services Coordinator
> Cumberland County Library System
> 1601 Ritner Highway, Suite 100
> Carlisle, PA 17013-9380
> 717.240.5379 | cblatchley at ccpa.net
> cumberlandcountylibraries.org
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