Towards a Corpus of Validated Web Design Guidelines

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Towards a Corpus of Validated Web Design Guidelines
Jean Vanderdonckt
Institut d’Administration et de Gestion (IAG), Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Place des Doyens, 1 - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
Phone : +32-(0)10/47.85.25 - Fax : +32-(0)10/47.83.24
E-mail : vanderdonckt@qant.ucl.ac.be, vanderdoncktj@acm.org
URL : http://www.qant.ucl.ac.be/qant/membres/jv/jv.html
Abstract. Numerous guidelines are available to support designing accessible and usable web sites.
However, most of these guidelines come from multiple guidelines sources with various trust levels so
that their application does not guarantee any improvement of neither the accessibility nor the usability
of web sites. A corpus of validated web design guidelines is therefore expected to insure such an improvement.
To reach a corpus of guidelines designers can trust in, five steps were performed : firstly,
guidelines sources were categorised according to a source model ; secondly, the most representative and
interesting guidelines sources were selected on a basis of selection parameters ; thirdly, guidelines belonging
to these selected sources were categorised in turn according to a general purpose guideline
model and subsequently gathered to…