Guide 71: Guide for addressing accessibility in standards
A guide to including accessibility to people with disabilities, children and older people in the development of technical standards including ICT standards Continue reading
Civic Design Bibliography | guidelines
Review of 169 Connecticut Municipal Websites
The Connecticut Citizen Election Audit conducted an extensive website review of all 169 municipalities’ election web sites to identify areas of needed improvement, and provide recommendations for enhancing the municipal sites. Continue reading
BBC Mobile Accessibility Standards and Guidelines v1.0
The BBC Mobile Accessibility Standards and Guidelines provide users with a comprehensive list of usability and accessibility best practices for designing mobile content. Continue reading
Sidelined or mainstreamed? political participation and attitudes of people with disabilities in the united start sidelined or mainstream?
Explored how disabilities were related to attitudes towards political participation. Continue reading
Designing for cognitive limitations
Emphasized the importance of appropriately-designed technology to help overcome these limitations. Continue reading
Effective designs for the administration of federal elections
Outlined the guidelines created by the United States Election Assistance Commission for the design of ballots and polling place materials. Continue reading
Making ballot language understandable to voters
Discussed and offered examples of best practices in giving instructions and also found that most ballots in the United States violated these best practices. Continue reading
Can the web be made accessible for people with intellectual disabilities?
Aimed to contribute to the social inclusion and best practices for building websites accessible for people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Continue reading
Design approaches for developing user-interfaces accessible to illiterate users
Examined both technological literacy and written language literacy while providing some guidelines. Continue reading
Evaluating websites for older adults: adherence to ‘senior-friendly’ guidelines and end-user performance
Evaluated websites designed for older adults in terms of how well they adhere to ‘senior-friendly’ guidelines and overall ease of use and satisfaction. Continue reading
Web accessibility design recommendations for people with cognitive disabilities
A review of current web accessibility guidelines concerning design for users with cognitive disabilities. Continue reading
Web usability for senior citizens – design guidelines based on usability studies with people age 65 and older
Since websites are significantly harder to use for seniors versus younger users, the authors provided design guidelines and illustrations to make websites easier and engaging. Continue reading
New heuristics for understanding older adults as web users
Evaluated how well websites work for older users and developed a new set of 20 heuristic and guidelines. Continue reading
Better Ballots
An analysis of elections with unexpectedly high error rates for ballot design or instructions errors, and guidelines for preventing errors. Continue reading
Style guide for voting system documentation: Why user-centered documentation matters to voting security
The effects of usability for poll workers on the security of the voting process and eight categories of guidelines for developing voting system documentation Continue reading
ADA checklist for Polling Places
A checklist for evaluating the physical accessibility of polling places for individuals with mobility and visual impairments from the Department of Justice. Continue reading
Technology for improving cognitive function
Report and guidelines from a workshop at the U.S. Interagency Committee on Disability Research (ICDR) Continue reading