Useful Links for Web Site Quality Assurance

Please note that many of these links all point to pages outside this site. Thanks for visiting!

Accessibility

Webable.com

An excellent resource for information about accessibility issues and tools for testing and improving web site accessibility, this site also has links for some of the common special-needs browsers.

Commerce Issues

For general essays, please refer to Other Commerce-Related Articles.

For cannonical lists of state, country, and Canadian province abbreviations (from webdesign-l list):

U.S. States

countries

Metaphors

Please refer to

Metaphors & Schemas in Design

ecommerce | Schemas & Concept Mapping

Search Issues

Please refer to Useful Search Links and References.

Testing Web Sites

Article: User Testing: How to find out what users want

An article written by Jennifer Fleming for ahref.com.

Usability and Human-Computer Interaction

AskTog.com

Bruce Tognazzini's collection of usability essays and commentary.

Usableweb.com

Keith Instone's great collection of usability-related links.

Useit.com

Jakob Nielsen's collection of usability essays and commentary.

Information & Design

An interesting Australian usability and documentation company with some very cool tools: usability toolkit, paper prototyping kit, and the program "Classified" that makes card sorting easier.